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 cannot fry either.  An LCD panel has a computer that will take a
specified
range of vert and horz sync frequencies.  As I already mentioned these
sync
frequencies are meaningless with an LCD, since the display chip merely
converts
them to what the LCDs in the panel actually need.  It is more expensive to
make a display chip that takes extremely high frequencies and since they
aren't needed for LCD that is why the display chips in the panels do not
accept as high frequencies as a really high quality crt will.



Alright, I'll take your word for it. Thanks to everybody who contributed!

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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 card:
snip
cardbus0: Expecting link target, got 0xe0
cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=1
cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=14, size=1
cardbus0: network, ethernet at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
snip

With the ndis-generated driver loaded, I get the following:
snip
ndis0: Belkin N1 Wireless Notebook Card mem 
0x8800-0x8800,0x8801-0x8801 irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0
NDIS: open file /compat/ndis/cb8350.bin failed: 2
ndis0: Ethernet address: my MAC addy
snip

So the error is there, but ifconfig shows the card:

# ifconfig ndis0
ndis0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
ether my MAC addy
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
status: no carrier
ssid  channel 1
authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 bmiss 7 protmode CTS

But when I,

# ifconfig ndis0 up scan
ifconfig: unable to get scan results

even though the lights on the card light up.


If anyone has resolved this (or knows what I'm doing wrong), please confer.

WizLayer
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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 setting for this that went missing for me.
Could someone be kind enough to direct me here?
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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
 
 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/?
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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 telling me you're using PHP or some 
other heavy apache module. If so, you can switch to using PHP as FastCGI 
responder via mod_fcgid. The benefits are that you'll get only a few 
number of large php-cgi processes (configurable, usually around 10), and 
the rest will be lighter httpd processes for serving static content.


BUT, if something else changed when you switched to the new apache (e.g. 
PHP version, your web applications), it may not be apache's fault.




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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-
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Envoyé : jeudi 3 mai 2007 15:09
À : ALEXANDRE David (Ext)
Cc : freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Objet : Re: FreeBSD 6.2 And ASUS P5B Deluxe

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:44:51PM +0200, ALEXANDRE David (Ext) wrote:
 Hi,
  
 I have a Motherboard ASUS P5B Deluxe With two Network LAN Marvell 
 Onboard.
 My problem is: Only one appear on FreeBSD 6.2 ifconfig.
  
 I check the bios and it enable.
  
 Someone can help me to fix this problem or tell me what can i do ?

My first guess would be that there are two *different* LAN controllers - one 
connected to the PCI bus and the other via PCI-E most likely.

The one that appears in ifconfig is probably the PCI one, while the PCI-E 
connected one is likely a newer chip which is not supported by 6.2.


Checking the documentation for the motherboard verifies this guess. Your MB has 
a Marvell 88E001 (connected via PCI) which is supported by FreeBSD 6.2 using 
the sk(4) driver.  It also has a Marvell 88E056 PCI-E chip which is not 
supported by 6.2.

The good news is that 7-CURRENT and 6-stable should both support the 88E056 NIC 
using the msk(4) driver.




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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  
mod_fcgid. The benefits are that you'll get only a few number of
 large php-cgi processes (configurable, usually around 10), and the  
rest will be lighter httpd processes for serving static

 content.

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 case with FastCGI?


BUT, if something else changed when you switched to the new apache  
(e.g. PHP version, your web applications), it may not be

apache's fault.

The PHP version got upgraded from 4.4.0 to 4.4.6 too, but none of the  
actual application scripts changed.


BTW: At times what one sees happening is that 2 of the httpd daemons  
quickly go up to (each, or in turn) about 50% (or 70% if it can grab  
that much), then stays quite a while at that, and then goes back to a  
more reasonable amount.
At other times, there are around 10+ httpd processes that each  
consume around 5% of the CPU, with a lot more of them using around  
0-1% of the CPU (perhaps defunct already?). Dunno. Apache + PHP is  
lightning fast, but... at the expense of the CPU being pulled close  
to 100% all to easily...


Then, regarding Dan's sendmail configuration suggestion: tnx! I just  
put that in place and will monitor sendmail's behaviour today, to see  
how it performs during heavy server load.


I'll let you guys know how I get on with this...

Meanwhile: I'm still open for suggestions as to how to best make  
Apache behave less selfishly.


Cheers!
Olafo
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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 case with 
FastCGI?


Yes, in case of critical / setup errors (i.e. ones that happen between 
apache and php) you'll get that kind of message. Normal PHP and Apache 
error messages and warnings are not affected.


 BUT, if something else changed when you switched to the new apache 
(e.g. PHP version, your web applications), it may not be

 apache's fault.

The PHP version got upgraded from 4.4.0 to 4.4.6 too, but none of the 
actual application scripts changed.


BTW: At times what one sees happening is that 2 of the httpd daemons 
quickly go up to (each, or in turn) about 50% (or 70% if it can grab 
that much), then stays quite a while at that, and then goes back to a 
more reasonable amount.


You'll have to correlate this with HTTP requests apache receives - maybe 
there's a PHP script that's unusually CPU intensive.



Meanwhile: I'm still open for suggestions as to how to best make Apache 
behave less selfishly.


You may try playing with login.conf(5) (see resource limits), but do 
it on a spare machine first :)


Also, you may try scaling down the number of processes Apache is allowed 
to create (at the possible expense that some clients get an error 
message instead of a page).


Still, if the performance was OK before you switched to Apache2, my bet 
would be that something changed in PHP or your scripts, not in Apache.




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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 servername sm-msp-queue[96724]: runqueue: Skipping  
queue run -- load average too high


Can anyone tell me in which sendmail configuration file or option  
this should be changed (if possible)?


Note: perhaps this can be achieved by the sm-queue daemon options. In  
rc.conf, I have the following settings for sendmail:


mta_start_script=/etc/rc.sendmail # Script to start your chosen  
MTA, called by /etc/rc.

# Settings for /etc/rc.sendmail:
#sendmail_enable=NO   # Run the sendmail inbound  
daemon (YES/NO).
sendmail_enable=YES   # Run the sendmail inbound  
daemon (YES/NO). - (OJG: CHANGED 18-12-2004)
sendmail_flags=-L sm-mta -bd -q30m# Flags to sendmail (as a  
server)

sendmail_rx_enable=YES# Start the RX daemon
sendmail_rx_flags=-C/etc/mail/sendmail-rx.cf -L sm-mta-rx -bd -qp #  
Flags to sendmail (RX part - OJG)

sendmail_tx_enable=YES# Start the TX daemon
sendmail_tx_flags=-L sm-mta-tx -bd -q15m # Flags to sendmail (TX  
part - OJG)
#sendmail_submit_enable=YES   # Start a localhost-only MTA  
for mail submission
sendmail_submit_enable=NO # Start a localhost-only MTA  
for mail submission - (OJG: CHANGED 18-12-2004)
sendmail_submit_flags=-L sm-mta -bd -q30m - 
ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost # Flags for localhost-only MTA

sendmail_outbound_enable=YES  # Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO).
#sendmail_outbound_enable=NO  # Dequeue stuck mail  
(YES/NO). - (OJG: CHANGED 18-12-2004)
sendmail_outbound_flags=-L sm-queue -q30m # Flags to sendmail  
(outbound only)
sendmail_msp_queue_enable=YES # Dequeue stuck clientmqueue  
mail (YES/NO).

#sendmail_msp_queue_flags=-L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m
sendmail_msp_queue_flags=-Ac -L sm-msp-queue -q10m  # Flags for  
sendmail_msp_queue daemon.


Any ideas, anyone?

Cheers!
Olafo

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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 instances?
Of course I can take a look at the httpd-access log file, but at  
present it doesn't log the PIDs (which can perhaps be changed by  
changing the log format), but is there an easier way to  
inspect (from the prompt) what a specific httpd instance is doing/ 
serving?


Cheers!
Olafo

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 receives very heavy load. I wonder if this can perhaps be  
some DOS attack, and hence I'd like to see what each of the stressed  
daemon instances is doing exactly...

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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
 receives very heavy load. I wonder if this can perhaps be some DOS
 attack, and hence I'd like to see what each of the stressed daemon
 instances is doing exactly...

It might as well be a search engine spider.
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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 HTTP/1.0 200 3209 - Mozilla/ 
5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/ 
slurp)

[...]
66.249.66.176 - - [04/May/2007:13:15:46 +0200] GET /olympus/tope/ 
tope_show_entry.php?pic=22event=7 HTTP/1.1 200 3792 - Mozilla/ 
5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
65.55.210.7 - - [04/May/2007:13:15:52 +0200] GET /clomid HTTP/1.0  
404 345 - msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)


So, there ya go: it looks like Yahoo!, Google AND MSNsearch are  
battering my server pretty much all at once (though I don't see too  
many traces of either of them, so perhaps they're not all too hard on  
the machine)...

Hmmm, perhaps time for a robots.txt file.

Then, doing just some more tailing on the access log shows that the  
actual load is spread over several sites, with about 4 of the top  
sites being called from a variety of browsers from all sorts of IP  
addresses. Another assumption then becomes that perhaps as soon as  
the USA wakes up, the sites simply get a lot of real visitors too,  
hence causing a (legit) high load...


Still, this is precisely why I'd like to see which scripts are  
causing heavy load, such that I can perhaps better tune them.


Cheers,
Olafo


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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 locked up.

In the security run, for May 1 and May 3 I am seeing the SCSI errors below.

FreeBSD 4.7 (yes we are going to upgrade soon (migrating to a newly setup 
machine)),
Apache 1.3.26
We do have complete dumps (From may1),
The machine is a vintage 2003 Dell SC1400 
HD = 1 Fujitsu SCSI that has never had problems before.

Questions:

Do the errors below TRUELY indicate pending doom?

Can camcontrol be used to squash the errors?

Should FSCK be used to fix?

Are these errors (the text below), formatted from the FreeBSD kernel or are 
they shown as reported by the HD subsystem? i.e. where can I go to read what 
the errors actually mean?

THanks all,

-Grant

May 3:

May  3 03:59:13 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 4 21 
7a df 0 0 80 0
May  3 03:59:13 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:4217b55 
asc:11,1
May  3 03:59:14 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): Read retries exhausted 
sks:80,3f
May  3 03:59:16 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 4 21 
7a ef 0 0 70 0
May  3 03:59:18 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:4217b55 
asc:11,1
May  3 03:59:18 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): Read retries exhausted 
sks:80,3f
May  3 03:59:20 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 4 21 
7a ff 0 0 60 0
May  3 03:59:21 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:4217b55 
asc:11,1
May  3 03:59:22 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): Read retries exhausted 
sks:80,3f
May  3 03:59:24 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 4 21 
7b f 0 0 50 0
May  3 03:59:27 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:4217b55 
asc:11,1
May  3 03:59:28 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): Read retries exhausted 
sks:80,3f
May  3 03:59:29 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 4 21 
7b 1f 0 0 40 0
May  3 03:59:29 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:4217b55 
asc:11,1
May  3 03:59:29 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): Read retries exhausted 
sks:80,3f
May  3 03:59:32 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 4 21 
7b 2f 0 0 30 0
May  3 03:59:33 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:4217b55 
asc:11,1
May  3 03:59:35 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): Read retries exhausted 
sks:80,3f
May  3 03:59:36 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 4 21 
7b 3f 0 0 20 0
May  3 03:59:36 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:4217b55 
asc:11,1
May  3 03:59:36 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): Read retries exhausted 
sks:80,3f
May  3 03:59:42 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 4 21 
7b 4f 0 0 10 0
May  3 03:59:42 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:4217b55 
asc:11,1
May  3 03:59:43 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): Read retries exhausted 
sks:80,3f
May  3 03:59:45 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 4 21 
7b 4f 0 0 10 0
May  3 03:59:47 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:4217b55 
asc:11,1
May  3 03:59:48 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): Read retries exhausted 
sks:80,3f
May  3 03:59:49 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 4 21 
7b 4f 0 0 10 0
May  3 03:59:49 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:4217b55 
asc:11,1
May  3 03:59:49 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): Read retries exhausted 
sks:80,3f

May 1:

May  1 03:29:28 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 3 ab 
d5 c1 0 0 e 0
May  1 03:29:31 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:3abd5c1 
asc:11,1
May  1 03:29:31 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): Read retries exhausted 
sks:80,3f
May  1 03:29:32 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 3 ab 
d5 c1 0 0 1 0
May  1 03:29:32 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:3abd5c1 
asc:11,1
May  1 03:29:32 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): Read retries exhausted 
sks:80,3f

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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 resulting
status url. It will show you something quite like:

   Srv PID Acc M CPU SS Req Conn Child Slot Host VHost Request  
   0-17 18003 0/542/16066 _ 18.38 5 0 0.0 5.44 174.47 87.249.97.178 
   idefix.net GET /server-status HTTP/1.0   
   1-17 19911 0/492/16087 _ 18.95 193 0 0.0 4.38 182.34 137.242.1.50
   www.camp-wireless.org GET /images/tile.jpg HTTP/1.1  

which will help you correlate PID with vhost and url being visited.

   Koos

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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 at the same time)
Regards,
Georgi Tyuliev (FreeBSD user)

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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 and it appears to all work very well.

My problem is creating an rc.d script to start and run it as a daemon.
To start Jboss Web there is an sh script called run.sh which after a
bit of config runs the JVM and the relevant JARS. I created a simple
rc.d script to run this.

My problem is running the script does not run Jboss Web as a daemon
instead it runs it as if running ./run.sh from the terminal and halts
the rc.d process. The Jboss Web server is actually working, its just
not ideal. I have included the current script below.


#!/bin/sh

. /etc/rc.subr

name=JbossWeb
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
command=/etc/JbossWeb/bin/run.sh
command_interpreter=/bin/sh


load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command $1


How can I change the script to run  run.sh in the background and
continue the rc.d system.

Charlie
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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 print/gsfonts. When I did make fetch in it's directory, it 
throwed out an error immediately (even not tried connecting to those servers), 
as following:


===  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
= ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in 
/usr/ports/distfiles/ghostscript.
ftp://ftp.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ghostscript/  
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/fonts/ 
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/TeX/CTAN/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
ftp://ctan.unsw.edu.au/tex-archive/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/CTAN/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
http://ring.sakura.ad.jp/archives/text/CTAN/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
http://ring.riken.jp/archives/text/CTAN/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/TeX/CTAN/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
ftp://mirror.macomnet.net/pub/CTAN/support/ghostscript/fonts/
   ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ghostscript/: not found
*** Error code 127

Stop in /usr/ports/print/gsfonts.


It shouldn't be this port's issue, should it? Because 1) several other ports 
went wrong as well, such as, print/ghostscript-gnu, print/ghostscript-gpl, 
multimedia/gstreamer-plugins-core, audio/gstreamer-plugins-mad, 
chinses/CJKUnifonts, etc. and 2) I searched google and mailing lists for so 
long time but never got a solution even a hint.

Thank you for any constructive reply.

BTW. I use FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE

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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 anyone),
then my second level ports (Those that depend on others, but aren't
depended on), etc.

Is there a way to get a report per port what files were ACTUALLY
installed and where? (Or do I just do a find -newer) ?


Thanks, Tuc

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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 /compat/linux/lib/pam_securid.so.  When I add the
appropriate configuration line to /etc/pam.d/sshd and attempt to log in
I get the following:

May  3 09:43:01 ad-mon01 sshd[30508]: in openpam_load_module(): no
/compat/linux/lib/pam_securid.so found
May  3 09:43:01 ad-mon01 sshd[30508]: fatal: PAM: initialisation failed

Of course, the file actually does exist.

-rwxr-xr-x  1 1047  900  895304 May  2 11:13
/compat/linux/lib/pam_securid.so

Has anyone had any success getting this .so to work under FreeBSD,
specifically 6.2 Release?


Hi Michael,

We're also running some RSA SecurID Appliances. Since we need the
support from RSA and that FreeBSD is not listed in their supported OS
matrix, we decided to use RedHat for the front-end HTTP servers to run
their module. All the rest of our business application that requires
RSA authentication is running under FreeBSD.

IMHO you should only use an RSA supported OS to run their module.
Because otherwise you won't receive any help from them if they know
you're running this under FreeBSD. Sad, but unfortunately true.

Good luck,

David
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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 this in conjunction with specific PIDs  
 of stressed httpd instances?
 Of course I can take a look at the httpd-access log file, but at  
 present it doesn't log the PIDs (which can perhaps be changed by  
 changing the log format), but is there an easier way to  
 inspect (from the prompt) what a specific httpd instance is doing/ 
 serving?

Investigate the Apache server-status handler (assuming its still there in
2.2).  If you also enable the ExtendedStatus output from server-status,
it includes a table that shows the daemon PID, number of accesses for that
PID, current state, CPU usage, time to process the current request, 
client IP, virtual host and the first line of the HTTP request which
shows GET/POST and file.  Assuming thats still the same in Apache 2.2,
that should help you identify whats hammering your server. (I only have
Apache 2.0 to play around with here)
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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 machine as it was,
  for all purposes locked up.
 
 In the security run, for May 1 and May 3 I am seeing the SCSI errors below.
 
 FreeBSD 4.7 (yes we are going to upgrade soon (migrating to a newly setup 
 machine)),
 Apache 1.3.26
 We do have complete dumps (From may1),
 The machine is a vintage 2003 Dell SC1400 
 HD = 1 Fujitsu SCSI that has never had problems before.
 
 Questions:
 
 Do the errors below TRUELY indicate pending doom?
 
 Can camcontrol be used to squash the errors?
 
 Should FSCK be used to fix?
 
 Are these errors (the text below), formatted from the FreeBSD kernel
 or are they shown as reported by the HD subsystem? i.e. where can I
 go to read what the errors actually mean?

Those are errors reported by the drive:
 
 May  3 03:59:13 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 4 21 
 7a df 0 0 80 0
 May  3 03:59:13 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR 
 info:4217b55 asc:11,1
 May  3 03:59:14 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): Read retries exhausted 
 sks:80,3f

 May  1 03:29:28 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 3 ab 
 d5 c1 0 0 e 0
 May  1 03:29:31 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR 
 info:3abd5c1 asc:11,1
 May  1 03:29:31 excelsior /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): Read retries exhausted 
 sks:80,3f

The drive has tried to read the indicated block number (0x4217b55 and
0x3abd5c1), and couldn't, even after multiple retries.  If it was able
to recover the data after retrying, it would have reallocated the block
to a spare sector.

There isn't an easy way to map a raw block number to a filename, but if
you can determine that the files belonging to the blocks were old, your
drive is probably still okay, and you happened to trip over some weak
spots on the disk that lost their data over time.  If they were
recently-generated files, then I'd start worrying about getting that
new system up as soon as possible.

One thing to try would be dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=64k, and see
how many more errors get generated.  Installing smartmontools and
comparing the output of smartctl -a /dev/da0 before and after will
also tell you how many ECC recoveries and rereads were done.

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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

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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
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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-fetching it 
 via csup. Still no love. :-(
 
 Say, the port print/gsfonts. When I did make fetch in it's directory, it 
 throwed out an error immediately (even not tried connecting to those 
 servers), as following:
 
 
 ===  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
 = ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in 
 /usr/ports/distfiles/ghostscript.
 ftp://ftp.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ghostscript/  
 ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/fonts/ 
 ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/TeX/CTAN/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
 ftp://ctan.unsw.edu.au/tex-archive/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
 ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
 ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/CTAN/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
 ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
 ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
 http://ring.sakura.ad.jp/archives/text/CTAN/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
 http://ring.riken.jp/archives/text/CTAN/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
 ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/TeX/CTAN/support/ghostscript/fonts/ 
 ftp://mirror.macomnet.net/pub/CTAN/support/ghostscript/fonts/
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ghostscript/: not found
 *** Error code 127

That indicates something is very wrong on your system :) Look for
configuration variables you may have changed, e.g. in /etc/make.conf.

Kris
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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
 are (Those that don't depend on anyone, and aren't depended by anyone),
 then my second level ports (Those that depend on others, but aren't
 depended on), etc.

The command 'portmaster -L' using the ports-mgmt/portmaster port will
give you that.

   Is there a way to get a report per port what files were ACTUALLY
 installed and where? (Or do I just do a find -newer) ?

The following (sh) commands should do the trick:

cd /var/db/pkg
rm -f $HOME/portfiles.list
for p in *; do
echo $p $HOME/portfiles.list
cat $p/+CONTENTS |awk '/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ {print /usr/local/$0}' \
$HOME/portfiles.list
done

Provided that you haven't changed the default $PREFIX.

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link exchange Request Unix-help.com

2007-05-04 Thread Jerome

hi,

my website is http://www.unix-help.com
,link exchange Request

cheers
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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.
  
  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 anyone),
  then my second level ports (Those that depend on others, but aren't
  depended on), etc.
 
 The command 'portmaster -L' using the ports-mgmt/portmaster port will
 give you that.
 
  Is there a way to get a report per port what files were ACTUALLY
  installed and where? (Or do I just do a find -newer) ?
 
 The following (sh) commands should do the trick:
 
 cd /var/db/pkg
 rm -f $HOME/portfiles.list
 for p in *; do
 echo $p $HOME/portfiles.list
 cat $p/+CONTENTS |awk '/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ {print /usr/local/$0}' \
 $HOME/portfiles.list
 done
 
 Provided that you haven't changed the default $PREFIX.

pkg_info -L

Kris
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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  
culprit, being one of the (PHP) scripts I use on one of my  
photography sites.
I don't know exactly what is going on yet (i.e. when I call the  
script, on some of the pictures it works fine, and on some others it  
seems to be blocking forever, and doesn't seem to serve anything, but  
rather it seems to get stuck)...

I suspect the picture resizing code may be at fault...

O.k., I'll check this out, and will let you guys know how I get along  
with it, and if indeed the script is at fault, or whether it is due  
to some PHP/Apache issue.


Cheers!
Olafo
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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 versions - I am using FreeBSD 4.9, and the man
page states that where is belongs - note line after SYNOPSIS;

$ man rc.subr

RC.SUBR(8)  FreeBSD System Manager's Manual RC.SUBR(8)

NAME
 rc.subr -- functions used by system shell scripts

SYNOPSIS
 . /usr/local/etc/rc.subr

 backup_file action file current backup
 checkyesno var
 check_pidfile pidfile procname [interpreter]
 check_process procname [interpreter]
 debug message
 err exitval message

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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 overridden by ntpdate. The
drift is a systematic error that ntpd allows for. I would
have thought that the only significant issue, is whether the system
loses timer interrupts under load.
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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 on different versions - I am using FreeBSD 4.9, and the man
 page states that where is belongs - note line after SYNOPSIS;
 ...

Well, 4.x is not supported by ports anymore. If there is no rc.subr in /etc, 
you can simply put a Symlink there as a workaround.
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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 decompression on the fly and are thus vulnerable.

I'm not running it via ftp.  

 This http://www.gzip.org/gzip-1.2.4b.patchpatch to gzip 1.2.4
 fixes the problem. The beta version
 http://www.gzip.org/gzip-1.3.3.tar.gz1.3.3 already includes a
 sufficient patch; use this version if you have to handle files
 larger than 2 GB. 

Tried that version, but still I have the same problem.

A new official version of gzip will be released
 soon.Also, check if you have compiled gzip with 64bit I/O.
 Check this gzip FAQ http://www.gzip.org/#faq10 too.HTH  

I used their suggestion for unzip; 

gunzip  file.gz  file
 
which actually completes (siting a crc error), 
but gives a file size 2 bites greater than the original when unzipped.
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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 into their systems.  Greylisting really, and truly, isn't
a problem for spammers, unless it's coupled with use of blacklists.



Just because the spammers have stolen their distribution network doesn't 
mean that it has no value to them. The distribution network has a very 
low cost but that's not the same thing as having a very low value. Most 
spam is delivered overnight and on the weekend. I think that there are 
two reasons for this. The older reason is to keep the bots off of the 
RBLs. But I think that the bigger reason to deliver spam off hours is to 
protect the botnet from detection. I think that this makes the spammers 
very sensitive to the duration of a spam run. I don't think that many 
people are grey listing right now but I think that it's increasing 
rapidly. On an internet where most people grey list I think that the 
spammers must see grey listing as a major problem because of what it 
does the duration of a spam run.


-- Chris


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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 at least one of the following things was wrong with your
message:

- You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate.
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If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you
will get more than one copy of this message from different people.
Read on, and your next message will be more successful.

This document is also available on the web at
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=

Contents:

I:Introduction
II:   How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions
III:  Should I ask -questions or -hackers?
IV:   How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions
V:How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions

I: Introduction
===

This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from
FreeBSD-questions (the newcomers), and also those who answer the
questions (the hackers).

   Note that the term hacker has nothing to do with breaking
   into other people's computers.  The correct term for the latter
   activity is cracker, but the popular press hasn't found out
   yet.  The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking
   security, and have nothing to do with it.

In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the
different viewpoints of the two groups.  The newcomers accused the
hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers
accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English,
and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter.  Of
course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the
most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration.

In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration
and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions.  In the
following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that,
we'll look at how to answer one.

II:  How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions
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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.  Inevitably, a
number of bugs and changes have surfaced.

The Complete FreeBSD has been through a total of five editions, including its
predecessor Installing and Running FreeBSD.  Two of these have been reprinted
with corrections.  I maintain a series of errata pages.  Start at
http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata
information.

Note also that the book has now been released for free download in PDF
form.  Instead of downloading the changed pages, you may prefer to
download the entire book.  See http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ 
for more information.

Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing?
Please let me know: I'm no longer constantly updating it, but I may be
able to help

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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
corrupted and maybe the strings output will tell you something.

Sorry if this was specified before, but did this just start happening
or is this the first time you've tried to gzip large files on this
system?
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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 
howto wich works for me. Hope, someone of you can help me.


I have set gateway_enable=yes in my rc.conf, but it seems not to be 
working. (Question: Must this be enabled on the outside VPN-server too?)



Config at home (deleted all unnessesary):

Output of ifconfig:
fxp0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
options=8VLAN_MTU
inet 192.168.2.2 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 1500
inet 10.10.0.6 -- 10.10.0.5 netmask 0x

Output of netstat -r:
DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs  Use  Netif Expire
defaultskynet.gothic-chat UGS 0  226   fxp0
10.10.0.1/32   10.10.0.5  UGS 00   tun0
10.10.0.5  10.10.0.6  UH  10   tun0
192.168.2  link#1 UC  00   fxp0
192.168.2.255  ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  UHLWb   1   29   fxp0


Config at the VPN-server:

Output of ifconfig:
tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 1500
inet 10.10.0.1 -- 10.10.0.2 netmask 0x

Output of netstat -r:
DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs  Use  Netif Expire
default83.133.111.1   UGS 0 57308679em0
10.10/24   10.10.0.2  UGS 1  239   tun0
10.10.0.2  10.10.0.1  UH  10   tun0
192.168.2  10.10.0.6  UGS 02   tun0


I can ping in either direction between the two PCs with OpenVPN.

So far so good... I've set a route on another PC in the LAN (XP), wich 
shows up in route print as

10.10.0.0255.255.255.0  192.168.2.2 192.168.2.4   1

A tracert to 10.10.0.1 (the outside VPN-server) goes to 192.168.2.2 
(wich is correct i think) and the goes no further...


As firewall at home i use ipfilter, wich is set to be completely open:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ipfstat -i
empty list for ipfilter(in)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ipfstat -o
empty list for ipfilter(out)

The firewall at the VPN-server has:
pass out quick on tun0 all
pass in quick on tun0 all


Thanks for all your help!

Greetings,

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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 the strings output will tell you something.

I don't have a separate system, but I tried the strings output
of the tar before compression and the strings output of the tar
-after- compression and uncompression - as I mentioned the size output
is only two bites difference. 

The result was that the memory was exhausted on attempting a diff
of the two files, but there was around a 1 meg difference between
the two 1.5G ascii files.


 Sorry if this was specified before, but did this just start happening
 or is this the first time you've tried to gzip large files on this
 system?

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.
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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 your gzip to be about the same 2M in size.
Yes. It is.

 
 % ldd /stand/gzip /usr/bin/gzip
 ldd: /stand/gzip: not a dynamic executable
 /usr/bin/gzip:
 libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x2808)

 If you have sources I would try replacing those utilities. If that works
 then we have exonerated your hardware, but now all your software is
 suspect. 

I have upgraded my system to FreeBsd 4.9, the libc.so.5 in your case is
libc.so.4 in my case but it looks like it has been rebuilt in the upgrade.

I have downloaded and compiled the new 1.3.3 beta gzip from the gzip
website, and built it with no difference in my problem resulting.
I have uninstalled and re-installed bzip2 - also with the same eroneous
results.

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?
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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 should be BIOS agnostic. Once booted the BIOS is out of the
picture.

Where do the original and output differ? Use cmp(1) and it should list
the offset where first difference occurs:

% cmp aes_ctr.c aes_ctr2.c
aes_ctr.c aes_ctr2.c differ: char 1065, line 50

Probably won't list a line number. What would be telling is if the
problem occurs on a nice boundary like 2G. Sadly that would be typical
of Linux as FreeBSD has not had a 2G file size limit, ever. At least not
since 2.0.0. It has had cases where signed 32 bit values were used that
caused problems. To this day MacOS X's ftp client doesn't understand
file transfers over 2G. Transfers them just fine but gets confused as to
how much it has downloaded and how much is remaining.

Am thinking I know a 4.x machine that can be fired up with little more
effort than to attach a KVM and flip the switch. Will see in about 6 or
8 hours.

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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 his utilities. We found they were statically linked, in
/usr/bin/. That sounds fishy.

As for running out of ram, if the whole system was built statically
linked then such would not be surprising.

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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- ?









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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 it, and then popped in my 6.2 cd and rebooted.
Went to fixit console, and did a

Fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0

Rebooted, booted into freebsd fine.  Rebooted again, hit F1 for DOS, and
kaboom.  Winboot.exe is missing!

Has anyone successful configured a freebsd/vista dual boot, and if so, how
did you get around this issue?

Thanks,
-- 
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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 particular strike me as the most clearly explained: either
install DRI/Mesa from the most recent sources or configure the kernel so
it doesn't use the Atheros and nForce binary drivers.

Does anyone here have any more specific or useful information than the
hodgepodge of flailing about I've found on the Web?  I'm using FreeBSD
6.2-RELEASE on a Thinkpad R52 with a Mobility Radeon X300 graphics
adapter.  Is the Mesa 5.0.2 currently in my ports tree sufficient to
support the r300 driver with 3D acceleration?  Is there some resource I
missed that goes into some detail on the subject?

I'd appreciate it if someone would point me in the right direction.

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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 perfectly normal.  Got
everything the way I wanted it, and then popped in my 6.2 cd and rebooted.
Went to fixit console, and did a

Fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0

Rebooted, booted into freebsd fine.  Rebooted again, hit F1 for DOS, and
kaboom.  Winboot.exe is missing!

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


I have vista and freebsd on separate hard disks, so I just switch
which drive to boot off in the bios


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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 updated- ?


Here is a response from the port developer on the SpamAssassin list that 
has a link to grab a package from:


http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-users/200705.mbox/463A4278.9010405%40secnap.net

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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
 
 When do the ports get updated- ?

When someone (e.g. user, maintainer) submits the update.

Kris
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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
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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 md5, then comparing the numbers.

cat largefile | gzip | gunzip | md5

In this way, the file never even touches the disk, and that subsystem
can be ruled out entirely.

On a side note, does anybody know if those lossless codecs use the FPU?

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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
 everything the way I wanted it, and then popped in my 6.2 cd and rebooted.
 Went to fixit console, and did a

 Fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0

 Rebooted, booted into freebsd fine.  Rebooted again, hit F1 for DOS, and
 kaboom.  Winboot.exe is missing!

 Has anyone successful configured a freebsd/vista dual boot, and if so, how
 did you get around this issue?

 Thanks,
   
The Grub bootloader has no trouble booting both Vista and FreeBSD.
I created a small boot partition with a gparted live CD, installed grub
using a linux live/rescue cd
and added stanzas for Vista and Freebsd. Vista is chainloaded much the
same way XP was. Worked without problems.
At least for a day or two, then I ditched Vista :)
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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
everything the way I wanted it, and then popped in my 6.2 cd and rebooted.
Went to fixit console, and did a

Fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0

Rebooted, booted into freebsd fine.  Rebooted again, hit F1 for DOS, and
kaboom.  Winboot.exe is missing!

Has anyone successful configured a freebsd/vista dual boot, and if so, how
did you get around this issue?

Thanks,
  
I have my laptop dualbooting Vista and FreeBSD.  I did the install 
shortly after vista came out and at the time the FreeBSD boot loader did 
not boot Vista.  I installed the GAG boot manager and it works like a champ.


--Jay
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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, which seemed to go perfectly normal.  Got
 everything the way I wanted it, and then popped in my 6.2 cd and rebooted.
 Went to fixit console, and did a
 
 Fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0
 
 Rebooted, booted into freebsd fine.  Rebooted again, hit F1 for DOS, and
 kaboom.  Winboot.exe is missing!
 
 Has anyone successful configured a freebsd/vista dual boot, and if so, how
 did you get around this issue?

My first question is where does Winboot.exe normally live?
Somehow, with a .exe extension, it doesn't sound like an MBR or 
boot sector issue, but rather one that shows up after the MS-V 
booter starts running.The boot doesn't normally execute files
by name at that low level.Enough of the system has to be
there to deal with a OS specific file system.

I haven't played with Vista yet (ain't in any hurry either, but it
will probably eventually happen), so I suppose they might now write 
something down there where most systems (including MS) only use block 
addresses and not file system tables/links.   But, if not, then writing
a FreeBSD MBR should not make any difference.

So, that is why I am wondering where they are expecting to 
find Winboot.exe and who is expecting to find it.   I presume, since
you installed Vista first, that it is first on the disk (other than
any vendor installed diagnostic slice).   If not, that might cause
a problem.

jerry

 
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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:

rootdev=ad0s1a and /dev/ad0s1a (the same in /etc/fstab)

 

But I keep prompted to mount the root manually when the OS boots:

 

Mounroot ufs:ad0s1a

 

What can I do? The only solution I can think is to reinstall the system in
the new machine, but for other reasons I need to keep the installed OS.

 

Thanks in advance.

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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 
 list of supported DVD writers for the latest stable version of FreeBSD? I 
 don't want to spend a lot of time configuring it. I just want to install 
 something I know will work, with minimal need for configuration. Also, will 
 I need special software to do the actual writing? If so, what free software 
 works well and is easy to use? Suggestions? Success stories? 
 

I just picked up a Sony DRX-S50U from Staples on Wednesday. When I
tested it with growisofs and a DVD+RW it worked fine. This is an
external USB unit which is pretty small actually.

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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 question a 
while back,  and then found a working solution.   It involved getting 
rid of the freebsd boot manager,  and migrating to grub 0.94


Jeff

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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 releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE and downloaded
that directory.

Then I used sysinstall to do an upgrade.  However I changed the Install Root
directory to a drive other than /.

Then I untar'd base and src.

Then I copied GENERIC to RADIUS2 and tweaked the file to meet my needs.

When I tried to do a make I got a bunch of errors.   Now anytime I run the
make command I get the errors:
[root 271] make
Unknown modifier 'C'

Unknown modifier '.'

Unknown modifier 'C'

Unknown modifier '/'

Unknown modifier 'C'

Unknown modifier '.'

Unknown modifier 'C'

Unknown modifier '/'

and

/usr/share/mk/bsd.compat.mk, line 1: missing `in' in for
in
/usr/share/mk/bsd.compat.mk, line 1: Need an operator
/usr/share/mk/bsd.compat.mk, line 2: missing `in' in for
in
/usr/share/mk/bsd.compat.mk, line 2: Need an operator
/usr/share/mk/bsd.compat.mk, line 7: Need an operator
/usr/share/mk/bsd.compat.mk, line 8: Need an operator


Any ideas on what I screwed up and how I might fix it?


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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?
 
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 Jonathan,

 you may want to search the archives.   I posed this same question a
 while back,  and then found a working solution.   It involved getting
 rid of the freebsd boot manager,  and migrating to grub 0.94

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well, i hate it when this happens, but somehow i fixed it, but i have no idea 
what i did to eliminate the problem.  unfortunatly, my methods were not very 
scientific, and i didnt bother to test after each step i took.  things i did 
that could have been the fix:

1) inserting the vista install cd, and letting it run thru a repair session.  
it went kinda quick, and i didnt pay close attention to what it was doing, 
but it appeared to know exactly what the problem was and what to do.  after 
this, i am 95% positive that it booted back into vista without pausing at the 
freebsd loader (ie, had restored the original bootloader).  unfortunatly, i 
cant say for sure.

2) as i was installing the gag per recommendation, this ended what appeared to 
be successfully, but in the end, i didnt have gag.  i was back at a working 
freebsd loader, and it now boots into either freebsd or vista without any 
complaints at all.

*scratches head*

oh well, ill take it.  :)
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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 have successfully managed
to compile these and it appears to all work very well.

My problem is creating an rc.d script to start and run it as a daemon.
To start Jboss Web there is an sh script called run.sh which after a
bit of config runs the JVM and the relevant JARS. I created a simple
rc.d script to run this.

My problem is running the script does not run Jboss Web as a daemon
instead it runs it as if running ./run.sh from the terminal and halts
the rc.d process. The Jboss Web server is actually working, its just
not ideal. I have included the current script below.


It sounds like you haven't used the ports version of JBoss.  The ports 
versions may have prewritten scripts that would do what you want:


/usr/ports/java/jboss2
/usr/ports/java/jboss3
/usr/ports/java/jboss4
/usr/ports/java/jboss5

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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?



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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 ftp mirrors to get tarballs. Comment it and the error goes away.

Is it that MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE shouldn't be set as long as the port uses 
MASTER_SITES:n and MASTER_SITES_NN fetching mechanism? Is there any way to get 
rid of this dilemma? Maybe make MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE= install clean takes 
effect but it would make my life messy if I use portupgrade.

Thank you very much.

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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 set MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE in my /etc/make.conf in order to choose 
 faster ftp mirrors to get tarballs. Comment it and the error goes away.
 
 Is it that MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE shouldn't be set as long as the port uses 
 MASTER_SITES:n and MASTER_SITES_NN fetching mechanism? Is there any way to 
 get rid of this dilemma? Maybe make MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE= install clean 
 takes effect but it would make my life messy if I use portupgrade.

No, you made a mistake when you added it to your make.conf, e.g. some
kind of typo.

Kris
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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.
   
   Kris
   
  
  Yes, you're right! :-D
  Because I set MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE in my /etc/make.conf in order
 to choose faster ftp mirrors to get tarballs. Comment it and the
 error goes away.
  
  Is it that MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE shouldn't be set as long as the
 port uses MASTER_SITES:n and MASTER_SITES_NN fetching mechanism? Is
 there any way to get rid of this dilemma? Maybe make
 MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE= install clean takes effect but it would make
 my life messy if I use portupgrade.
 
 No, you made a mistake when you added it to your make.conf, e.g.
 some
 kind of typo.
 
 Kris
 

Oh, I think I find it. A pair of double quotes surrounding the value.

Thank you! :-D

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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 at 3.1.8
 
 When do the ports get updated- ?

The ports tree was just frozen yesterday (May 3) in anticipation of the
upgrade of Xorg to 7.2.

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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 in a private mail, but google
didnt help me, nor
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/ :(


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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@ ;)



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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
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200704132331.50079.dejan.lesjak
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20070502193159.GB42482

mcl
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