Re: Using Install CD To Prepare Hard Disk

2008-03-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 05:28:22PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I would like to use the CD install menus to only prepare the hard disk (Partition, Label, Format) without actually installing anything on the drive. Can this be done? There seems to be no None option for Distributions, and I cannot

Re: /usr/local/www a tradition?

2008-03-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:29:55PM -0600, Modulok wrote: Is there a compelling reason for placing subversion and web-server data in /usr/local and not somewhere else? I was thinking of keeping all user accounts (human and daemon alike) in one place like, /home/www and /home/svn and so forth.

Re: SATA problems (Abit IP35-Pro)

2008-03-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Isaac Mushinsky wrote: If I set SATA controller to AHCI, the system boots (although with some ACPI errors), and I was able to install. However, fdisk thinks that the geometry is incorrect, and insists on a different one Sysinstall nearly always says this, and undoubtedly sysinstall is

Re: Superuser password lost

2008-03-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bill Moran wrote: I don't know of anywhere in the FreeBSD base system that the term superuser is used, so I assume he'll get a more direct answer from the PC-BSD folks. Hate to be picky, because I'd agree with most everything else you wrote, but superuser, and its synonym super-user, do

Re: VPN - Which way to go?

2008-03-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: Howdy people, I need to setup a VPN connection to the university's network. Now, there's a chapter in the handbook about VPN over IPsec and there seems to be this thing called OpenVPN in the ports collection. Which is the better way to go? The handbook still

Re: remote startup scripts

2008-03-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Björn König wrote: I have a setup where /usr/local is actually not a local file system. It's NFS. My problem is that the initialization scripts doesn't seem to consider that startup scripts could be remote. Am I right or are there options that I missed yet? I assume the problem is that

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 AMD64 and apache 2.2.8 exited on signal 11

2008-02-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: BB# php -v PHP 5.2.5 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Feb 24 2008 21:57:57) Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies with eAccelerator v0.9.5.2, Copyright (c) 2004-2006 eAccelerator, by

Re: ntptrace: Command not found.

2008-02-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Some confusion here. A fresh 7.0-PRERELEASE install, sources from yesterday, no ports installed yet. I usually configure ntpd as part of the setup procedure and check back later if it is syncing. Well, today I was in for a surprise I cannot explain:

Re: Question about freeBSD package.

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Daniele Di Lorenzo wrote: Dear FreeBSD, I am writting you to ask the same question of previous email. Can you tell me about bjorb license and if I can use this package in order to commercial usage, please? Otherwise can you tell me another way, if you know it, to obtain these information,

Re: Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Derek Ragona wrote: I usually just set the shell to /usr/bin/false or /usr/sbin/nologin for users like these. Of course you can't test these interactively with su. If you want to do that, give the account a valid login shell, test it, then set it to false or nologin. It's not clear to me

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Matthew Seaman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 06 Feb 2008, Alex Zbyslaw wrote Setuid/gid bits on shell scripts aren't considered safe, however and may even be disabled. THERE IS NO REASON FOR THIS, JUST USE THE FILE-SYSTEM TO PROTECT THE FILES (MAKE THEM NOT WRITEABLE

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Lachlan Michael wrote: Real puzzler. I'm surprised not to have at least one process growing, though. Maybe it's not using much CPU and you're not spotting it. Following you advice, as far as I can tell, the mailman qrunner process /usr/local/bin/python2.5 /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner

Re: Xorg NV driver problems GeForce 6200

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joshua Isom wrote: On a slightly off note, my BIOS seems to want to hide the integrated graphics if an AGP card is attached, even though I've had it working fine. Is there a way to be able to use the integrated graphics even though an AGP card is attached? Is it detected by FreeBSD?

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Lachlan Michael wrote: # su mailman This account is currently not available. I'm not sure about the syntax but limits -U mailman doesn't seem to make the user mailman, but just use the class default. su -m mailman will do what you want. However, to be sure what your limits are, I would

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Lachlan Michael wrote: How big does the mailman process actually get? top will tell you. Mailman values don't budge. None of the mailman processes go over about 8.5M, which is what they are during idle time. Real puzzler. I'm surprised not to have at least one process growing,

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jason C. Wells wrote: navneet Upadhyay wrote: Hi, I have two binary packages of an application of version 1.1 and 1.2. *The 1.1 is already installed, how can i upgrade it to 1.2* ? Do i have to uninstall 1.1 and then install 1.2 ? I would prefer a way by which i can upgrade an

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, I have looked at my /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and realized that the symlink I put there has the root as owner. It all works but I would rather use a non-root user for to run that script. $ ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel40 May 9 2007

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I have looked at my /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and realized that the symlink I put there has the root as owner. It all works but I would rather use a non-root user for to run that script. $ ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel40 May 9 2007 sender.sh -

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Thank you. I realized this was the case before I wrote previous message. The thing is the real file is owned by user api. However, when the application is started following a reboot, its logs are created by user root, whereas when I start it by hand as user api, its logs

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I have never really understood the thing about setuids, gid and etc. :) I am not planning a restart so won't try it but I am pretty sure that logs are created by root unless the api is started manually. No big deal really but thanks for all the suggestions! It's very

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Wojciech Puchar wrote: No, don't add anything to rc.local. no because of? The manual page. The rc.local script contains com- mands which are pertinent only to a specific site. Typically, the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ mechanism is used instead of rc.local these days but

Re: SATA question

2008-02-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Darryl Hoar wrote: Well, maybe I spoke to soon. While looking at dmesg in prep for doing a custom kernel for my new server, I noticed an oddity. ad4 - DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ata66 cable. ad4 - SAMSUN HE160HJ JF800-24 Is this telling me the system recognized my 160GB 7.2K RPM

Re: Apache Error Authentication (Nagios)

2008-01-31 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
David Alanis wrote: Good Day: First and foremost, I would like to thank everyone for providing a fantastic mailing list. Today I happen to need assistance from you all. What is happening is I installed apache and nagios on my firewall. However, when I go to login to nagios I get the

Re: Apache Error Authentication (Nagios)

2008-01-31 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
David Alanis wrote: However, when I go to login to nagios I get the username and password prompt but I am unable to login I apologize for the very long e-mail). I did some research online but found nothing too much helpful. Thank you in advanced! #Error Message from httpd-errors

Re: Dump and restore for Windows partitions

2008-01-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Martin Boulianne wrote: Maybe this is a dumb question, but I was wondering if I could use dump (and restore) on Windows NTFS partitions. Say I have a NTFS partition, ad0s1. Could I use: # dump -b 4 -f /backups/winxp.dump /dev/ad0s1 No. Dump is specific to ufs/ufs2 filesystems. It

Re: Automatic `nodump' flag?

2008-01-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mikhail Teterin wrote: I'd like the entire contents of each user's .mozilla/firefox/*/Cache directory to be excluded from the regular filesystem dumps. Running ``chflags -R nodump /home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache'' does the trick, but this needs to be redone daily -- prior to running the

Re: restore(1) dumpfile to directory rather than filesystem -- possible? -- SOLVED

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mel wrote: man restore: -r Restore (rebuild a file system). This will recreate the filesystem, meaning, the files extracted will have identical inode numbers as on the original filesystem. Thus, you will very likely run into problems when using this mode. You're looking for -x, which

Re: old kernel's name

2008-01-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I even tried to install it from a CD but I get an error about some error while copying a library to HD and the installation process could not continue. It asked me to check some screen for debugging purposes (but it was not obvious which screen as I was in sysinstall). I

Re: spamd-setup can't find spamd.conf

2008-01-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Colin Brace wrote: $ sudo /usr/local/sbin/spamd-setup -n spamd-setup: Can't find all in spamd config: No such file or directory Dan mentions this error message in his tutorial: If you get the following error message: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/pfspamd start Starting pfspamd. spamd-setup:

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

2007-12-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Patrick Baldwin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relatively simple, but: webmail# mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/usbdrive: incorrect super block OK, it seemed a good chance

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Wednesday 12 December 2007 04:06:01 Erich Dollansky wrote: There's no clean solutions to getting different lookups per-user that I The clen solution is hosts. But hosts is operating system-wide. Both ipfw and pf support tables, which is what you

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2007 13:01:14 schrieb Alex Zbyslaw: snip explanation I don't see how a firewall is appropriate for this (hosts.allow, likewise). The point of the exercise is to never even contact the ad host. Transparent proxy with squid

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Erich Dollansky wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Assuming I've understood your initial post correctly, then I do the same, redirecting some dozen ad sites to a local web server. With a this is how I started. Then friends did the same. We exchanged the files. We added

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Basically, why I personally rather like the squid (i.e., proxy-based) approach to ad-blocking is the fact that if you try to do this at a lower level than the HTTP-level, there's bound to be pages that display wrong/broken, simply because not being able to fetch

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
RW wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:31:08 + Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have zero experience of squid beyond reading about it, but it has always sounded like a major resource hog. It depends how you use it. I think you can probably get it down to about 15 MB, if you

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Erich Dollansky wrote: If you still see unwanted content, just add a line and it will be gone during your next visit. Like AdBlockPlus, only more work. The beauty is, Internet feels still faster then before. Like AdblockPlus. It has one

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Erich Dollansky wrote: But new sites have new stuff I would like to be filtered out. To make these experiences as rare as possible, I collect from friends and the Internet hosts files to filter as much as possible. This resulted in a pretty large file meanwhile. But the Internet looks much

Re: How to replace two strings in a file in the same time with sed command ?

2007-12-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Halid Faith wrote: I want to replace two or more strings in a file in the same time with sed command. How do I that ? Do you mean something like: sed -e 's/string1/replacement1/g' -e 's/string2/replacement2/g' or sed -f instructions.sed instructions.sed: s/string1/replacement1/g

Re: how to compile and install a new driver

2007-11-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chuck Robey wrote: Nice description, but you'd better include enough info so that they could make FreeBSD-stype diffs: diff has the unfortunate default of making an output that is compatible with ed(1). This supplies extremely little information to use, in case the file you're trying to

Re: FreeBSD questions

2007-11-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Andy Greenwood wrote: If you want the newer versions of software from the ports tree, don't limit your results by the tag. Basically, you're saying (IIRC) I want the version of the port that was included with this release instead of I want the most recent version of this port. the release

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-09 18:55, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I've been using the following for some time: keramida su - Password: root# exec env SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-09 16:34, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ discussing `su -m' option ] Also the only way I know on FreeBSD to interactively become a user with no real shell (true, nologin etc). It should be possible to type: su username i.e

Re: install

2007-11-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: complaints are not accompanied by solutions. The installer has been a bikeshed for many years; everyone seems to know what color it should be, how many windows it should have, how many doors to install, what type of lighting it needs, how many penguins should be

Re: install

2007-11-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Reid Linnemann wrote: The installer has been a bikeshed for many years; everyone seems to know what color it should be, how many windows it should have, how many doors to install, what type of lighting it needs, how many penguins should be accommodated in the rafters, and what relative

Re: how to change next boot from windows to freebsd?

2007-11-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Craig Boston wrote: Attached is the source to a program that I wrote about 4 and a half years ago. It performs the function of a dumbed-down boot0cfg for Windows, only understanding the -s option, or giving you an interactive menu to choose from. It also is hardcoded to use PhysicalDrive0,

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 and PERC 5i controller

2007-11-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jay Aikat wrote: Thanks for your response. Yes, unfortunately, the DAG software for the DAG card we wish to use on this machine supports 5.4, but has not been thoroughly tested for more recent versions of FreeBSD. We could use Linux, but I prefer FreeBSD. I am exploring switching the PERC

Re: Software to print vouchers from large amount of txt data

2007-10-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2007, simon butsana wrote: I am looking for a software that will read repetitive data from a text file and send it to a preformated fanfold paper (impact printer). The software must be customizable as to be told on which area of the paper to print a

Re: Strange perl script

2007-10-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chad Perrin wrote: then updatedb and locate sploger so you're using As was pointed out earlier in the thread, you can easily delete a file after running it, so whatever was running may not exist on the disk any more. Also, it is completely trivial to change the name shown by ps simply by

Re: determing space in the / partition

2007-10-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bill Vermillion wrote: Think about it a moment. You you mount you have 'mount point' that is typically directed to the fs that you have mounted there. If nothing is mounted the mount point will get all the data. Zbigniew, it sounds like your script is just dumping to what it assumes is a

Re: vpn which freeBSD 6.2

2007-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ckd ckd wrote: Hi, i tryed to make a VPN between 2 freeBSD 6.2 like this : 10.0.1.0/24 ---GW1: 10.0.0.1 = 10.0.0.2 GW2 --- 10.0.2.0/24 whith GENERIC kernel i can ping from either subnet. i compiled a custom kernel with options IPSEC and IPSEC_ESP . the ping dont work ? You

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robin Becker wrote: Eric Crist wrote: I'm sure nobody will mention this, so I will. On most systems with support ACPI, your colo provider can simply press the power button on the front of your server. FreeBSD's kernel will pick up the signal and shut down cleanly. Once you're

Re: [Fwd: Re: What is a 'normal' amount of un-solicited connection attempts?]

2007-08-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Adam J Richardson wrote: Modulok wrote: I'm new to the admin game and this is somewhat of a subjective question, so bear with me... I run a small network on a home/office broadband connection and I'm getting more than my fair share of un-solicited traffic (maybe) on what I believed to be in

Re: load script at bootup

2007-08-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I also have a script that I want to start at boot time and I simply symlinked it to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ It starts fine but now I wonder if maybe this is not the proper way to start up scripts? I don't think there's anything wrong with that solution, and I myself

Re: Test on FreeBSD site

2007-08-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bill Moran wrote: I haven't noticed if the mail servers are doing greylisting, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were. They do. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: FreeBSD MBRs

2007-08-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: You only need an MBR on disks that will be booted. I don't know as it will actually hurt anything to write an MBR on non-boot, data only disks, but it can garbage up you menu with non-functional choices. What you need is an MBR on every disk which is *passed through*

Re: FreeBSD MBRs

2007-08-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Christopher Key wrote: Sorry the original post wasn't clear, I'll have a go at rexpressing my original questions using the above for context. It was a complicated series of events, so it's easy to end up with a confusing description (and the fault might lie with us being too dumb to

Re: mysqldump/gzip shell scripting question...

2007-08-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Eric Crist wrote: First off, I don't care if you send example in perl, php, or sh, but we're not a python shop here, so those recommendation will not be useful... I'm trying to write a shell script that scans our databases for tables starting with archive_ which are created by other

Re: Problem with dump over SSH: Operation timed out

2007-08-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bram Schoenmakers wrote: If you can write (and compress if short of disk space) the dump locally and try an scp to your remote host as Nikos is suggesting, that will narrow down the problem a bit. Any other large file will do: doesn't have to be a dump. As I wrote in my initial mail:

Re: Problem with dump over SSH: Operation timed out

2007-08-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Keep in mind that dump(8) uses UFS2 snapshots. I don't know the current status, but in the past, snapshots were not working that good. This statement is far too general and IMHO does a disservice to those who worked on snapshots. There were (and maybe even are, but

Re: don't read it

2007-08-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Duane Hill wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] works fine for sending test messages. Subscribe to it and use it for test message sending. Don't even need to subscribe:-) You can view the archives at http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/freebsd-test.html or

Re: Waiting for BIND security announcement

2007-08-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: But since I'm masochistic, I figure that I should inflict problems on myself like remembering to update the serial numbers myself. (Big shouting reminder comments at both ends of the zone files seem to do the trick) emacs zone-mode will do it automatically for

Re: what do you do with daily, weekly, monthly outputs..

2007-07-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
B. Cook wrote: Hello All, What do you do with the FreeBSD emails that each server you have sends you every day? I'm wondering if I could be doing something useful with them as opposed to keeping them in a folder and then deleting them after time. Mostly I send the outputs to /var/log and

Re: Finally Converting From Bind 8 - Bind 9

2007-07-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tim Daneliuk wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: 2) Better still is there some sort of include mechanism where I could keep a flat file of public host information for use by db.external, but include it into db.internal. I don't think there is, but let someone who uses

Re: Finally Converting From Bind 8 - Bind 9

2007-07-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tim Daneliuk wrote: 2) Better still is there some sort of include mechanism where I could keep a flat file of public host information for use by db.external, but include it into db.internal. I don't think there is, but let someone who uses bind more than I do give a definitive on that

Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-07-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 04:46:52PM +0100, John Murphy wrote: Wasn't there, once upon a time, an error message in FreeBSD which reported 'This doesn't look like Kansas, Toto'? I remember seeing that error message somewhere, but do not remember where or if it

Re: Hardware monitor needed

2007-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi, My FreeBSD 6.2 server restarts suddenly once or twice a day. I believe it is because the processor is overheated, but I'm not sure. Is there a way to check this from software? I would like to install a hardware monitor program that can log out processor temperature

Re: Hardware monitor needed

2007-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Laszlo Nagy wrote: Check out healthd or mbmon. One or other has worked OK for me on other Asus boards, and both are in ports (sysutils/ I think). If you have ACPI and your board supports thermal zones, then you can check those. sysctl -a | egrep 'acpi.*therm' or sysctl -a | egrep

Re: Upgrading x.org to 7.2 (to make other ports happy)

2007-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Andrew Falanga wrote: I just read my reply to this from the weekend. Wow, it sounds like I'm a complete idiot. Ok, what I meant to say (had other things on my mind this weekend) was that being unfamiliar with 'script' I thought it was some sort of interpreter through which I had to run this

Re: csh and echo syntax

2007-06-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Olivier Regnier wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 and i use for the moment csh. When i test this command in console echo -ne /dev/da0s1\t /mnt/usb\t msdos\t rw,noauto\t 0\t 0 /etc/fstab and with a cat /etc/fstab, i have this : -ne /dev/da0s1\t /mnt/usb\t msdos\t rw,noauto\t 0\t 0 The \t is

Re: Upgrading x.org to 7.2 (to make other ports happy)

2007-06-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Andrew Falanga wrote: I come back a little later to find that I've got to update X.org according /usr/ports/UPDATING. I open this file and read up on what it says. In there it says I need to run a script called xorg-upgrade however, this script does not exist on this box. Please read the

Re: portupgrade -o strangeness...

2007-06-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Josh Tolbert wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:04:38PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Josh Tolbert wrote: (15:38:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~) $ pkg_info | grep bison bison-1.75_2,1 A parser generator from FSF, (mostly) compatible with Yacc (15:38:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~) $ sudo

Re: total system freeze - where to look for more information

2007-06-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: It is possible that the freeze occured during dump operation which is done to a network drive mounted via mount_smbfs option. One problem we've encountered with dumping to an SMBFS file system is virus checking on the Windows host causing all kinds of problems, but

Re: Nvidia doesn't start on cryptic errors

2007-05-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Vittorio De Martino wrote: Actually the nvidia.ko mdule was and is loaded hpbsd# kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 24 0xc040 5b33d8 kernel .. 43 0xc0a7e000 1e058linux.ko 51 0xc0a9d000 435c acpi_video.ko 63 0xc0aa2000 61ba0

Re: Sendmail ignores hosts.allow

2007-05-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Maxim Khitrov wrote: I'm not sure I understand what you mean... I'm not using inetd, and the default configuration doesn't block sendmail from all remote hosts. The ssh server is running all by itself, same as sendmail. The way I understand it is that as long as the server was compiled with tcp

Re: A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup

2007-05-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, This question probably hasn't much to do with CVS directly but using cvsup. I want/need to update a 6.0-RELEASE system. However, this system has some critical data on it and I'd rather not move to code that is perhaps experimental or bleeding-edge technology. I see

Re: looking for ethernet errors, collisions

2007-05-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hi, I'm used to this showing on the interface in the ifconfig output on Linux, but on FreeBSD it doesn't seem to show errors, collisions, etc. What's the standard way to show that on FreeBSD? netstat -i sounds like what you want. --Alex

Re: Piping across machines? - a suggestion

2007-05-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nino Ivanov wrote: Dear Sir or Madam, I am still a newbie in some respects, so maybe this idea is a moot point or done already, but in case it is not, I'd like to suggest it: One nice thing about unix is this piping, like programX | programY | programZ... Well, I just thought: Wouldn't it be

Re: Fluxbox crashes when I startx

2007-05-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
E. J. Cerejo wrote: Since Fluxbox has moved from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local I haven't been able to start it, it just crashes I followed the instruction on how to edit the menu file but it still crashes and I get this line. Has anyone had this problem with Fluxbox? I'm running FreeBSD 6.2

Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system

2007-05-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Matthew Seaman wrote: Gabriel Rossetti wrote: How can I do that? When I use sysinstall to create my partitions it automatically create's it as da0s1d. Use: bsdlabel -e da0s1 There's also a trick you can use in sysinstall. It will only ever assign an a partition to /. So if you

Re: font problems in firefox, thunderbird,.. gtk?

2007-05-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jan Zach wrote: Yes, I have read this. And also used. I cannot remember why I disabled it after the problems began. The ~/.fonts.conf is attached. It evidently affects the fonts in the sense that they are not blurred now but still I'm getting different fonts on every start - for instance,

Re: mountroot

2007-05-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Franco Vitali [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: Defending against SSH attacks with pf

2007-04-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bill Moran wrote: I'm a big fan of PKI, but PKI suffers from one major problem, and it's the same flaw that physical keys suffer from: you have to have the key with you. If I had to use SSH from random locations, I'd get a USB stick that attached to a (physical) keyring and just stick it

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Amarendra Godbole wrote: I subscribe to many fbsd lists through gmail, and am not able to visually detect which email was sent to which fbsd list. Is it possible to add a tag in the subject line, something like, [fbsd-q], or [fbsd-questions], or similar so that emails can be visually

[Fwd: Re: I like Ubuntu]

2007-04-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Forwarded on behalf of Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:29:43AM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: How does apt-get compare to something like yum/up2date on FC/RHEL? I.e. is there something that makes apt-get better? It uses a package format that requires more information

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First my experience with [Free]BSD as a server completely mirrors Dag-Erling's observation, it [mostly] just works. I started with BSDI switching to FreeBSD around 3.5. I think it is also true that depending on your hardware a FreeBSD

Re: Port for Roller?

2007-04-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Murray Taylor wrote: cd /usr/ports make search key=roller | more If its there this will find it ... and often much more as well depending on the key string used. grepping for Port: cuts down on the gibbering a bit make search name=roller | less will only look in the name of the port.

Re: Port for Roller?

2007-04-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: make search name=roller | less Should add that this only looks in whatever version of the port tree you have downloaded. You would want to update your port tree to be sure you got an up-to--date answer. If, for any reason (*) you don't want to update your port tree

Re: FileSystem Fix

2007-04-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/04/07, Chris Hesselrode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mount reload of '/' failed: No such file or directory Can't stat /dev/ad6s1e: No such file or directory (6 times ... with different ending letters) How can I fix this? In the /dev there are only: ad4 ad4s1

Re: Port removal

2007-04-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi all, On RELENG_6_2, I'm going to be installing chillisoft from ports. However, when I first ran 'make', there was an initial configuration window came up before compile. I selected the wrong options (I realized this after the make was complete). I did not do a 'make

Re: Harddisk problem

2007-04-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Taavi Tänavsuu wrote: I'm not yet very familiar with harddisks, filesystems, and FreeBSD, but is there anything else i could try to make the disk usable again, or is it somehow physically damaged? There are two possibilities: 1) The disk is damaged. From your output that's what I'd

Re: Should sudo be used?

2007-04-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: I noticed one grammatical thing of question. In the first paragraph under Use ssh instead of Telnet or rsh/rlogin it says they should never be used to administrate a machine over a network, I think the word should be 'administer' instead of 'administrate'

Re: about freebsd

2007-04-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Juan Ramos wrote: Hi I want to know more about the bigining of freebsd : - the year it was born - responsables - first version etc http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree?rev=1.111;content-type=text%2Fplain From the bibliography in the handbook:

Re: newbie amd64 force 32bit nvidia-driver port

2007-04-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
B. Cook wrote: Hello all, I'm trying out amd64 on this Dell M90, and it seems to be going great.. *except* the nvidia-drivers port won't compile on amd64.. so I took out the i386 entry in the Makefile and it gets to a part where its linking and gets this: === Building for

Re: Own ports organization

2007-04-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Milan Knizek wrote: Hello, are there any recommendation how to organize own ports? Should I keep them within official /usr/ports structure or rather separately? If kept separately, how does it work with pkg* commands then? For what it's worth, if you use cvsup then you can store your own

Re: var Filesystem Full Help

2007-04-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Sean Murphy wrote: I am getting these errors on my var filesystem but df -h shows there is plenty of space available. Check df -i as you may have run out of inodes rather than out of file space. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: var Filesystem Full Help

2007-04-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Noah wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Sean Murphy wrote: I am getting these errors on my var filesystem but df -h shows there is plenty of space available. Check df -i as you may have run out of inodes rather than out of file space. lsof is your friend First of all, please don't top-post

Re: var Filesystem Full Help

2007-04-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Sean Murphy wrote: Check df -i as you may have run out of inodes rather than out of file space. Looks as though I have plenty of inodes muse2# df -i Filesystem1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity iusedifree %iused Mounted on /dev/amrd0s1a 1012974 57694874244 6%1520

Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

2007-03-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Christian Walther wrote: I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately: Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=13554983 Mar 29 21:02:34 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=35376691 Just thought I should

Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager

2007-03-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:06:51PM -0700, Jim Priovolos wrote: How can I remove the FreeBSD boot manager? My disk is full with an NTFS partition or slice and there was only room for 7 meg of anything else. The only thing that is installed now is the boot manager

Re: Uptime

2007-03-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Stan Cooper wrote: It was that obvious, huh? :-) Yup ;-) The think I didn't see anyone mention was how you could have found this for yourself. apropos uptime gives you a list of manual pages which mention the word you give. Just like google, sometimes you need to be creative about

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