why an old operating system

2008-06-24 Thread prad
in our search for servers we contacted genstor (on the freebsd compatible hardware list) and a very nice fellow talked to us and sent us a quote. it was out of our price range, but i was very puzzled to see that the brand new and powerful system they were putting together was going to be operating

Difference between FreeBSD-FUSE and Linux-FUSE

2008-06-24 Thread Hashimoto
What is difference between FreeBSD-FUSE and Linux-FUSE ? I want to use FUSE, but I can't understand difference between http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/ (FUSE for FreeBSD) and http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ (FUSE for Linux). Are there some performance differences? Or are there some implementation differences

Re: SSHD Config questions

2008-06-24 Thread Mark Price
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi fellows, > > I am trying to configure sshd on my bsd and wanted to ask if the opitons > there, in case i enable them are "resource intensive"; > Let me give u an example, > > For instance, the Options > #ClientAliveInterval 0 >

Re: SSHD Config questions

2008-06-24 Thread prad
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:04:40 -0300 Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In case i enable them, would my server, which is very small(Very > little RAM,192MB i think)..its just for educational purposes; could > my server cope with it if for instance tehre were quite a few clients > connected? I dont k

RE: Wipe a drive clean

2008-06-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:40 PM > To: Steve Bertrand > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Andrew Falanga > Subject: Re: Wipe a drive clean > > > >> I'm having no luck finding hits

SSHD Config questions

2008-06-24 Thread Agus
Hi fellows, I am trying to configure sshd on my bsd and wanted to ask if the opitons there, in case i enable them are "resource intensive"; Let me give u an example, For instance, the Options #ClientAliveInterval 0 #ClientAliveCountMax 3 In case i enable them, would my server, which is very small

Re: Wipe a drive clean

2008-06-24 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:36:35 -0600 > "Andrew Falanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I >> > >> > Have a look at security/wipe. >> >> Before reading this, yes I did.

Re: Wipe a drive clean

2008-06-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2008/6/23 Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'm not sure about flash memory, but for a harddrive, simple writing 0's >> is not a secure way to delete data. It can still be recovered. > > Actually, this is for an expe

Re: Wipe a drive clean

2008-06-24 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:36:35 -0600 "Andrew Falanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I > > > > Have a look at security/wipe. > > Before reading this, yes I did. In fact, I even installed it. > However, the first operation appears to be a rena

Re: Sendmail && Google Apps Email - Not Working Together

2008-06-24 Thread Mark Price
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Schiz0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Below is the output of /var/log/maillog. I'm trying to send an email > from the "irc" account on the server, to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I think > maybe sendmail is getting confused because the hostname of the FreeBSD > box is also "d

Bluetooth headset - paired...now what?

2008-06-24 Thread Norberto Meijome
(sending again, it doesn't seem to have hit the list...? ) hi :) FreeBSD ayiin.octantis.com.au 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #57: Tue Jun 24 11:05:18 EST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AYIIN i386 I have my headset . It is a Philips SHB6100 ,as reported by : # hccontrol -n ubt

Re: Simple Text Mail Setup

2008-06-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:26:02 -0700, FT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configur

xl driver in FreeBSD6.3 fails to maintain connections

2008-06-24 Thread David Gurvich
Hello, I have an x86 box with a 3com 905b ethernet card installed. I had frequent problems in connecting to it and in fact the card was not up when I checked. A reboot or 2 would bring the card up, but it would not stay up, ie ssh from another computer would disconnect. There did not appear to be

Sendmail && Google Apps Email - Not Working Together

2008-06-24 Thread Schiz0
Hey list, I have a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE box at "domain.tld". I decided I want to use Google Apps to handle my email accounts, so I set my MX records at "domain.tld" to point to google's servers. I don't want to accept any incoming mail on my FreeBSD box (It's firewalled off anyway), but I do want t

Re: trouble shooting samba performance

2008-06-24 Thread Sten Daniel Soersdal
worms wrote: Hello, Can anyone point me to a guide on trouble shooting samba performance or a quick list of common issues I can check for. I've been googling but haven't found much that referenced a recent version of FreeBSD and Samba. I am running FreeBSD 7.0 on VmWare Server 2.0 hosted on a

Re: Sendmail Masquerade Problem

2008-06-24 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 02:19:44PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > >I have problem with sendmail that is giving me a headake. I can send > >mails als long when I give the from adres, but when I leave this out > >the > >server enters the localname

net4801, nanobsd, & -current

2008-06-24 Thread Michael W. Lucas
Hi, I'm trying to build a new nanobsd on 8-current from June 5, and I believe I've messed up the kernel for my Soekris net4801. Each boot gets to: Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... - and hangs forever. My kernel is below. It looks pretty similar to my config from last year under 7-current. An

amanda-client port configure options not passing.

2008-06-24 Thread Stephen P. Cravey
I'm having issues with the amanda-client port. At some point in the past months, when I install a new amanda-client it appears that the configure options are not passing correctly. THe OS version doesn't seem to matter, 6.2, 7.0, 6.3 all appear to have the same issue. The specific behavior I'm

Re: Sendmail Masquerade Problem

2008-06-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Alex de Kruijff wrote: I have problem with sendmail that is giving me a headake. I can send mails als long when I give the from adres, but when I leave this out the server enters the localname and my ISP isn't accepting the mail. (i.e. echo 'test' | mail -vs test [

Sendmail Masquerade Problem

2008-06-24 Thread Alex de Kruijff
I have problem with sendmail that is giving me a headake. I can send mails als long when I give the from adres, but when I leave this out the server enters the localname and my ISP isn't accepting the mail. (i.e. echo 'test' | mail -vs test [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] works, but without th

Re: ipw2200 freebsd 7 firmware problem

2008-06-24 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Fernando Apesteguía <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:28 PM, peter harrison > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thursday, 22 May 2008 at 14:04:46 +0100, Vince Hoffman said: >>> peter harrison wrote: >>> > Thursday, 22 May 2008 at 9:13:41 +0100, Vinc

Amazon Kindle

2008-06-24 Thread dfeustel
Has anyone used Amazon's Kindle ebook reader with FreeBSD? Kindle has a usb interface for up/down-loading documents to/from a computer. I wonder whether and how well that interface works with FreeBSD and/or with OpenBSD. Thanks, Dave Feustel ___ freebsd-

Re: xfce on amd64 not working

2008-06-24 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Matthew Donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 02:48:45PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> All, >> >> My (relatively) newly purchased Thinkpad T61 (type 7658-CTO) with 4g >> RAM is running 7.0-STABLE amd64 from June 8. >> >> I've gotten Xorg running

Re: how to reject all mac addresses except some mac addresses using ipfw?

2008-06-24 Thread Chris St Denis
Yavuz Maslak wrote: I use ipfw on freebsd7. I have two questions 1- I want to fix an ip address for each mac address. But some pc and servers have more than an ip address. How can I map multiple ip addresses for a mac address? 2- I want to allow these fixed mac addresses using ipfw. After tha

Re: how to reject all mac addresses except some mac addresses using ipfw?

2008-06-24 Thread sfourman
would you have a working example on how to deny traffic from a mac address if it is not using a allowed ip address.. I would like to use pf On 6/24/08, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 24, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Yavuz Maslak wrote: >> 1- I want to fix an ip address for each mac address

to get cs working for now

2008-06-24 Thread Matthew Donovan
This will work for now but needs a bit of tweaking to work correctly on FreeBSD. Copy /etc/termcap to ~/.termcap or /usr/local/etc/termcap so that you do not mess with the system termcap.Edit ~/.termcap or /usr/local/etc/termcap with any editor that you like. Find cons25 termcap information Add

Re: how to reject all mac addresses except some mac addresses using ipfw?

2008-06-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
[ ...please don't top-post... ] On Jun 24, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Yavuz Maslak wrote: But I should have asked different my first question. I have meant that how can I restrict to use an ip address which I already assigned to a computer, anyone can use at his pc? There is nothing which can prev

Re: restart named in a cron

2008-06-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Nicolas Letellier wrote: Hi. I want to restart named in a script executed by a cron. My script is: #!/bin/sh # verify named conf and restart it /usr/sbin/named-checkconf if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "Errors when verifying named configuration" exit 1 else /etc/rc.d/named

Re: how to reject all mac addresses except some mac addresses usingipfw?

2008-06-24 Thread Yavuz Maslak
I got my second question. But I should have asked different my first question. I have meant that how can I restrict to use an ip address which I already assigned to a computer, anyone can use at his pc? - Original Message - From: "Chuck Swiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Yavuz Maslak" <[EMA

Re: restart named in a cron

2008-06-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 08:17:20PM +0200, Nicolas Letellier wrote: > Hi. > > I want to restart named in a script executed by a cron. My script is: > > #!/bin/sh > # verify named conf and restart it > /usr/sbin/named-checkconf > if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then > echo "Errors when verifying named

Re: restart named in a cron

2008-06-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Nicolas Letellier wrote: Hi. I want to restart named in a script executed by a cron. My script is: #!/bin/sh # verify named conf and restart it /usr/sbin/named-checkconf if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "Errors when verifying named configuration" exit 1 else /etc/rc.d/named

Re: how to reject all mac addresses except some mac addresses using ipfw?

2008-06-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 24, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Yavuz Maslak wrote: 1- I want to fix an ip address for each mac address. But some pc and servers have more than an ip address. How can I map multiple ip addresses for a mac address? Most people use ifconfig, perhaps indirectly via /etc/rc.conf. 2- I want to all

Re: restart named in a cron

2008-06-24 Thread Schiz0
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Nicolas Letellier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I want to restart named in a script executed by a cron. My script is: > > #!/bin/sh > # verify named conf and restart it > /usr/sbin/named-checkconf > if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then >echo "Errors when verifying

restart named in a cron

2008-06-24 Thread Nicolas Letellier
Hi. I want to restart named in a script executed by a cron. My script is: #!/bin/sh # verify named conf and restart it /usr/sbin/named-checkconf if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "Errors when verifying named configuration" exit 1 else /etc/rc.d/named restart > /dev/null fi # O

Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36

2008-06-24 Thread Viacheslav Chumushuk
On Tuesday 24 June 2008 09:58:05 Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: > Thanks for help, guys. I'll try this way at the evening (GT +2). I was trying, but witout success. Answer the same :( I don't know what is the strange problem... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

how to reject all mac addresses except some mac addresses using ipfw?

2008-06-24 Thread Yavuz Maslak
I use ipfw on freebsd7. I have two questions 1- I want to fix an ip address for each mac address. But some pc and servers have more than an ip address. How can I map multiple ip addresses for a mac address? 2- I want to allow these fixed mac addresses using ipfw. After that I want to deny all

How to get a working

2008-06-24 Thread Edwin L. Culp
My laptop has a built in camara and would like to know where I could start to get it up and running. I saw that someone had done some work on USB camaras a few months ago but can't find any doccumention as to which camaras, etc. etc. Mine is: # usbdevs -l port 3 addr 2: high speed, power

Re: File Systems

2008-06-24 Thread Bob Johnson
On 6/24/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I would like to contribute my knowledge of several otherwise ar cane >file systems and wanted your take on modifying the FS types with other >values. Is there a central authority for all file system types that >these should

external input doesn't work with my NVidia MCP67 High Definition Audio Controller.

2008-06-24 Thread Edwin L. Culp
Is there anyone who has this controller working that could share the way they got it to work? This is an Acer Aspire 5520-5679 AMD Turion 64x2 running +- up to date current. I can play music but can't generate it nor can I see the input with kmix and trying to set the mic volume I get "mix

Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36

2008-06-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 08:36:11PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:55:51AM +0300, Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: > > >>And at the start of installation process I have warning about wrong disk > >>geometry. > > >Probably your best bet is to ignor

Re: Historical question about INDEX-file in /usr/ports

2008-06-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:36:49PM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > Hello list, > > a small question for the expirienced users of FreeBSD: > > At which time the name of "INDEX.db" to "INDEX-?.db" changed? (I suppose > during the creating time of FreeBSD 6) And then it was changed, was the > datab

Re: Historical question about INDEX-file in /usr/ports

2008-06-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Stevan Tiefert wrote: | Hello list, | | a small question for the expirienced users of FreeBSD: | | At which time the name of "INDEX.db" to "INDEX-?.db" changed? (I suppose | during the creating time of FreeBSD 6) And then it was changed, was t

Historical question about INDEX-file in /usr/ports

2008-06-24 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Hello list, a small question for the expirienced users of FreeBSD: At which time the name of "INDEX.db" to "INDEX-?.db" changed? (I suppose during the creating time of FreeBSD 6) And then it was changed, was the database format also been changed? With regards Stevan Tiefert __

Re: Problem with IF_RE

2008-06-24 Thread FreeBSD
Pietro Cerutti wrote: | | No, I do not have it. Do you suppose I should? I have other devices and | nodes coming up alright -- including mapping for different loopback | devices as well. Well, the os doesn't receive link up notifications from the interface.. I fear is not as simple as devd, but

Urgent Notification

2008-06-24 Thread Business Transfer Notication via YouSendIt
Hello from Business Transfer, Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:Good Day Dear, Kindly open the atatchment to view the content of your message from Mrs.Susan Shabangu. Thanks and God Bless. You have 1 file(s) called MOVEMENT.doc from [EMAIL PROTECTED] waiting for download. You can click on th

Re: portsclean -L question

2008-06-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Tuesday 24 June 2008 07:28:26 am Ghirai wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:13:51 -0500 > > David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 June 2008 04:41:55 am Ghirai wrote: > > > After upgrading couple ports, i get this output with portsclean > > > (sorry for the big paste): > > > > >

File Systems

2008-06-24 Thread james
I would like to contribute my knowledge of several otherwise ar= cane file systems and wanted your take on modifying the FS types with other values. Is there a central authority for all file system types that these should be registered with first or should I simply choose values and

Re: portsclean -L question

2008-06-24 Thread Ghirai
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:13:51 -0500 David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 24 June 2008 04:41:55 am Ghirai wrote: > > After upgrading couple ports, i get this output with portsclean > > (sorry for the big paste): > > > > ghirai# portsclean -L > > ** /usr/local/lib/libcharset.so.1 is

Re: Fixit / LiveFS problems (AMD64)

2008-06-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Kent Hauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently rebuild a 7-STABLE which refused to boot & then ran into some > problems trying to recover. > > 1) After escaping to the loader prompt, I could only enter a couple of > characters (eg 2) before the machine hung. Not enough for the "unload / >

Re: portsclean -L question

2008-06-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Tuesday 24 June 2008 04:41:55 am Ghirai wrote: > After upgrading couple ports, i get this output with portsclean (sorry for > the big paste): > > ghirai# portsclean -L > ** /usr/local/lib/libcharset.so.1 is shadowed by > /usr/X11R6/lib/libcharset.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libcharset.so.1 <- > libiconv

Re: core Dumb during CVSUP

2008-06-24 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Warren Liddell wrote: | Subject: core Dumb during CVSUP http://www.prodigio.it/5/linguasegni.gif Sorry, couldn't resist :) - -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.

7.0 with packages-7-stable -- how to fix system

2008-06-24 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Since rebuilding >300 ports on my 7.0 system would have taken too long after the gettext bump, I used packages-7-stable for the portupgrade -- I should have known better... The kdevelop portupgrade failed with: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: version FBSD_1.1 required by gtar not found

Re: core Dumb during CVSUP

2008-06-24 Thread Warren Liddell
On Tuesday 24 June 2008 21:51:09 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Warren Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have up untill recently been able to do cvsup np's at all, now all of a > > sudden it core dumps, any thoughts welcome.. > > > > Connecting to cvsup.au.freebsd.org > > Connected to cvsup.au.fre

Re: portupgrade dependency loop

2008-06-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"DA Forsyth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I fix this? > > ===> Registering installation for horde-base-3.2_3 > pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package pear-Auth-1.6.1 > pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package pear-Auth_SASL-1.0.2 > pkg_create: dependency loop detected f

Re: core Dumb during CVSUP

2008-06-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Warren Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have up untill recently been able to do cvsup np's at all, now all of a > sudden it core dumps, any thoughts welcome.. > > Connecting to cvsup.au.freebsd.org > Connected to cvsup.au.freebsd.org > Server software version: SNAP_16_1h > Negotiating file

portsclean -L question

2008-06-24 Thread Ghirai
After upgrading couple ports, i get this output with portsclean (sorry for the big paste): ghirai# portsclean -L ** /usr/local/lib/libcharset.so.1 is shadowed by /usr/X11R6/lib/libcharset.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libcharset.so.1 <- libiconv-1.11_1 /usr/local/lib/libcharset.so.1 <- li

Re: Patch Failures during Portupgrade

2008-06-24 Thread Warren Liddell
On Monday 23 June 2008 18:03:34 Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Warren Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Below is the hunk of ports that continually fail to upgrade due to > > problems with patching. i use the command portupgrade -aDkp -m BATCH=yes > > > > Any ass

Re: Strange Out of disk space

2008-06-24 Thread Peter Boosten
Artem Kuchin wrote: Unfortunatelly no, it does not. I don't have md at all, but reboot always solves the problem and i still have no idea how to look at what's eating the disk space. fstat shows all (amongst other things) open files (actually inode numbers) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org

Re: Strange Out of disk space

2008-06-24 Thread Artem Kuchin
Nejc Škoberne ?: Hey, My guess is that something has mmap-ed a HUGE chunk of disk space. If I reboot the space is freed. Much more likely is that some program has deleted a large file, while still holding it open. Usual suspect is some kind of log file, or temporary file. Then I just

Re: Opera's javascript time is off

2008-06-24 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Camilo Reyes wrote: | All, for some reason when javascript posts the current system time inside | of Opera, it reports it as being off by one hour. For example, when I use | gmail chat; the time is off by one hour. Any reason that could be causing |

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 221, Issue 4

2008-06-24 Thread DA Forsyth
On 23 Jun 2008 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated about "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 221, Issue 4": > Message: 26 > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:46:58 +0100 > Subject: Re: CPU temp's on core 2 duo,should they be significantly > different? > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:52:07PM -0700, Ge