On Jul 21, 2004, at 3:51 PM, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
[ ... ]
OK, as I understand, the branches are -CURRENT and -STABLE. But I
often see
4.10-STABLE recommended for production use. This is probably due to
what you
describe above.
That's right, 4.10 is the latest -STABLE release.
What does RELEASE me
On Jul 26, 2004, at 3:34 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
I have 4 large (120- 200 Gig) hard drives server. The server
died and I'm no longer using FreeBSD I can get the data off these
drives?
- Convert UFS to any other mountable and OS X? If so, where? I
thought maybe Ghost, but sector co
On Dec 20, 2004, at 3:55 PM, Brett Glass wrote:
I'm getting ready to build some (hopefully) high reliability servers
with
ECC memory. I'd like to put FreeBSD on them. What facilities (if any)
does
FreeBSD have for:
1) Reporting the status of ECC memory (errors corrected, errors
uncorrected,
On Dec 29, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Nick Wilson wrote:
if I set the permissions to add group readable, I get
Dec 29 17:27:02 jericho sm-mta[659]: STARTTLS=server: file
/etc/certs/myca.key unsafe: Group readable file
What owner, group and permissions should I set for myca.key?
My .crt files have 644 perm
On Jan 5, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Andreas Davour wrote:
I have searched the handbook and the manpages and not really
understood the role of bpf. Is it supposed to be enabled when I use
IPFW or is it another beast altogether, best left undisturbed?
The BPF, or Berkeley Packet Filter, is really intended
On Jan 5, 2005, at 4:19 PM, Kiffin Gish wrote:
Sometimes when I am trying to make something from the ports I get the
message that the port is 'broken'.
For example, while trying to build the enlightenment window manager.
What does that mean and what can I do to get around it?
The BROKEN line in the
On Jan 7, 2005, at 4:49 PM, sp0ng3b0b wrote:
Will FreeBSD keep the 4.x line alive for a little while longer?
Perhaps going into 4.12, 4.13, etc?
FreeBSD is in the middle of releasing 4.11, and has committed to
providing extended support for 4.10 through May 31, 2006 and for
RELENG_4 (meaning 4.1
On Jan 11, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
We're getting ready to create some new servers from scratch
(format/install). We've been using 4.9 and 4.10 for a while now with
no problems. We've got one 5.3 box setup for test purposes.
On this list I have seen comments about instability issu
On Jan 14, 2005, at 12:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The entire point of this extended discussion, for those who have paid
attention, is that FreeBSD 4.x, which is admittedly the fastest version
available, DOES NOT work with intel's fastest CPUs because it doesnt
support the necessary chipsets,
L
On Feb 28, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote:
on 5.3, gcc 3.4.2 sees to have been updated, but doing a make
install doesn't give you the new version 3.4.4 (gcc --version).
what would the procedure be to get the newer gcc set as the default?
cd /usr/ports/lang/gcc34
make install
echo "CC=/usr/loc
On Mar 8, 2005, at 11:02 PM, Andreas Lindström wrote:
It seems i have the same kmem_malloc problem as some others has had in
their SMP computers that is running FreeBSD 5.3, however, it is also
different... my problem doesnt occur after an extended period of
running the server, it occurs randomly a
On Mar 9, 2005, at 12:09 AM, Joe Schmoe wrote:
Two config options I cannot seem to find in pine, and
wonder if they exist ... if you know what they are:
See the resources at:
http://www.washington.edu/pine
...particularly the Pine-Info list. Discussing problems or reporting
bugs with pine on a Fr
On Mar 9, 2005, at 6:49 AM, Andreas Lindström wrote:
[ ... ]
I hope you find a solution to your problems, but if would help if you
provided real error messages, and frankly, a lot of your complaints
sound too much like trolling to bother with. If FreeBSD-4 works fine,
use that, or switch to Lin
On Mar 9, 2005, at 10:53 PM, Luciano Musacchio wrote:
I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? :),
I need to set some filter on my mail server, can some one here give
me a hint on this?
Consider greylisting, amavisd, SpamAssassin, and a virus scanner of
your choice.
Greylis
On Mar 10, 2005, at 4:49 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
This is bullshit, milter-greylist is in the ports. Greylisting
does not require postfix. Just because YOU are too lazy to
understand sendmail doesen't mean everyone else is.
I've paid my dues to sendmail:
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?
On Mar 10, 2005, at 6:44 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
FreeBSD 4.EIGHT came with Sendmail 8.12.8 out of the box. OK, so now
your not too lazy to understand Sendmail, you just have a gigantic
chip on your shoulder against it so your going to ignore the most
popular MTA on the planet and pretend it do
On Mar 15, 2005, at 1:46 AM, Adam Michalak wrote:
I have a few questions regarding the pagers more and less.
If I type "man more" at the prompt i get the man page for less
are more and less now considered interchangeable?
FreeBSD might actually ship with less configured to replace more.
When I do v
On Mar 15, 2005, at 12:47 PM, doug wrote:
Thanks, your excellent answer prompted me to actually read the less
man page :)
Lots of usful stuff. One question. On 4.11, at least no meaning is
suggested for
MM (rather than M). Is this a typo or an undocumented feature?
Some versions of less will disp
On Mar 15, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
I must have bumped into this before, but it still stumps me.
What would my sendmail on sage/ns1.thought.org get a
"Connection refused" from my major server, tao.thought.org?
Mail is queued in ns1.
DNS for that address
On Mar 16, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Darryl Hoar wrote:
Should I dedicate an entire machine to being a DHCP server ? Or will
the load be minimal and I can put the DHCP server functionality on my
webserver ?
A DHCP server is very lightweight, and you can run one on a machine
used for other tasks just fine
On Mar 16, 2005, at 3:01 PM, kalin mintchev wrote:
11125 requests for memory denied
1 requests for memory delayed
0 calls to protocol drain routines
You were exceeding the amount of socket buffer memory available there.
huge difference. so i think about 260 lines of netstat -p tcp output
like:
tc
On Mar 16, 2005, at 3:56 PM, Joshua Lewis wrote:
I was trying to setup an FTP server last night on my 5.3 box. I was
using
the handbook and was instructed to make a new user ftp. So that worked
fine and I was able to upload to ftp's home dirrectory but wanted to
know
if I can safley delete the .*
On Mar 16, 2005, at 4:44 PM, kalin mintchev wrote:
You were exceeding the amount of socket buffer memory available there.
i'm aware of that. the question is why?
The literal answer is that this pool of open connections with lots of
unsent data is clogging things up. Why those connections are not
On Mar 17, 2005, at 4:43 PM, luke wrote:
this is the 3rd place it's stopped, and like i said, if i repeat the
make buildworld command it will go a little further and stop again.
i'm going to start using time make buildworld and see if there is a
pattern here. this machine has been acting as a slack
On Mar 19, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
[ ... ]
Sigh. Theo, there are lots of ways of interacting with other people:
if you go out of your way to antagonize somebody, the result is
generally not going to be positive. I think Scott is mature enough to
continue to help other BSD projec
On Mar 19, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
It's not a binary driver, it's a 2-clause BSD licensed driver that
contains full source. You said that the OpenBSD driver is unstable,
so I offered to help. That has nothing to do with binary apps.
From
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports
On Mar 19, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
Sigh. Theo, there are lots of ways of interacting with other people:
if you go out of your way to antagonize somebody, the result is
generally not going to be positive. I think Scott is mature enough to
continue to help other BSD projects-- includ
On Mar 19, 2005, at 4:48 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Scott is or was under NDA with Adaptec. Scott certainly is not in a
position to give away all of Adaptec's internal documentation.
Frankly, I doubt even the CEO of Adaptec would be free to simply give
away all of their internal docs-- Adaptec un
On Mar 19, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
I don't think Adaptec dictated terms to Intel vis-a-vis the i860 chips
used for hardware parity computation on some of their RAID cards, for
example. I don't think Adaptec dictated terms to Dell vis-a-vis the
PERC 4 series, either.
Whaat? Dell?
On Mar 19, 2005, at 7:01 PM, Jason Crawford wrote:
FreeBSD users.. also watch how Scott claims he is about freedom of
choice, yet proceeded to lock you into only one option for a RAID
card, which would seem to be anti-choice... and being pro-choice would
have pushed for open docs a long time ago.
F
On Mar 19, 2005, at 7:20 PM, Jason Crawford wrote:
I fail to see how this "FUD check" email has anything to do with the
fact that Scott locked all freebsd users to Adaptec's binary-only
management utility, which means the user IS NOT FREE to change
something on it to either work better, fix a bug,
On Mar 19, 2005, at 8:44 PM, Jason Crawford wrote:
So something is only unacceptable if it has been previously talked
about on a freebsd mailing list? Wow that's one big ego there. If it
was acceptable, none of this would be happening, but it is. [ ... ]
You are the one making claims about what Fr
On Mar 20, 2005, at 2:24 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
[ ... ]
In that case Dell is a customer of Adaptec, not the other way around,
so any NDA that Dell might require for Adaptec to sign would not
have restricted Adaptec's use of it's own programming documentation.
And you know this, because...?
You
On Mar 20, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Adam wrote:
Have you read the NDA between Adaptec and Intel?
If not, how do you know just what it does or does not cover?
Once again, you're making claims of fact about a document that you've
probably never seen.
I think you are making wild assertions and have not eve
On Mar 20, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Adam wrote:
Do you claim to speak for Adaptec? Your words are dangerously
ill-chosen if you do not work for Adaptec, because you are misleading
people about the company and about their products.
Quit being such a corporate apologist. They refuse to give out the
inf
On Mar 20, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Mark wrote:
I'd bet a dollar to a donut that LSI, Promise, 3ware, and other
vendors of RAID hardware also have NDA agreements which would prevent
those companies from making every single internal document available
to the public.
Nobody ever asked they make 'every sing
On Mar 20, 2005, at 4:31 PM, Adam wrote:
Pretend for a second that your first claim is actually correct, that
Adaptec does not want to sell hardware. Just what do you think you
are accomplishing by trying to convince people not to buy Adaptec
hardware, then? According to your words, that's exa
On Mar 20, 2005, at 6:30 PM, Jens Ropers wrote:
Lets please stop feeding this troll. I'll grant him that his bait is
cleverly constructed but that doesn't give him the right to degrade a
vital discussion to ad hominem attacks, rhetorical nitpicking and
all-out bickering. Nor does it give him the
On Mar 21, 2005, at 11:38 AM, FreeBSD Questions wrote:
I too have this problem on my laptop. I was wondering if there is any
trick to killing a run away process like open office. I have tried to
kill -9 it to no avail and killing its parent process only makes it
change its parent process to init.
On Mar 21, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Robert Gogolok wrote:
The webserver is running FreeBSD, and currently I get many FIN_WAIT_2
states:
# netstat -n -p tcp | grep FIN_WAIT_2 | wc -l
48
I wonder WHAT is responsible for sending every 5 minutes ACK messages
to the clients in FIN_WAIT_2 state? tcp.inet.t
On Mar 21, 2005, at 12:08 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
The README for openldap22-sasl-server indicates Berkeley DB 4.3 is
required for slapd. I adjusted the /etc/make.conf to WITH_BDB_VER=43
and
the port system now complains, not that I'm trying to upgrade that
version of SASL, just an example is
On Mar 21, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Robert Gogolok wrote:
Charles Swiger wrote:
The TCP stack wants the remote end to acknowledge the last FIN it
sends and close the connection cleanly, and there is a timer (2 *
MSL?) which gets started when a connection moves into the closing
stages (FIN_WAIT_1
Hi, Andrew--
On Mar 21, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Andrew Robinson wrote:
It makes me wonder if FreeBSD is identifying the card as something
different than it is. Is that possible? What next steps might be
useful for me to take?
Take a look at the output of "pciconf -v -l". The odds are that it
lists
On Mar 21, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Robert Gogolok wrote:
I've looked at the "Closing a Connection" chapter from the RFC and
tried to understand it. The state diagram above shows that from the
FINWAIT-2 state there is only one possible way to reach TIME WAIT.
That's right.
So FreeBSD must be using anoth
On Mar 21, 2005, at 2:11 PM, Sean Murphy wrote:
Sean Murphy wrote:
| I have dual NICs (Intel 1000/MT) in my FreeBSD 5.3 Server. I would
like
| to use both NICs to send and receive traffic for NLB. Each currently
| has a different IP can some one point me in the right direction so
that
| they ca
On Mar 21, 2005, at 9:31 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
*If I'm wrong, it's Chuck's fault, heh heh
It's always my fault, even when it's not my fault.
(I must have done something. What did I do, again? :-)
--
-Chuck "guilty!" Swiger
PS: Kevin's suggestion is not a bad idea, either that or submitting
On Mar 23, 2005, at 5:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--> On one of my web sites, that used to run Solaris 2.7 OS, I had a
functional
cron script, mirroring a Solaris Server at home.
The web site was moved to a BSD Server, without access to many
binaries like "find".
Can anyone tell me WHERE I
On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
If memory servers, the slices I created were
ad0s2 /
ad0s3 SWAP
ad0s4 /usr
People normally create a BSD partition table within an FDISK partition,
so / would be on ad0s2a, rather than using all of ad0s2 for a sing
On Mar 23, 2005, at 2:00 PM, Raymond Lualhati wrote:
anyone know how to recover root password in red hat linux?
Sure. If you ask on a Linux list, they'd probably tell you to boot
from a CD, mount the hard drive, and change /etc/password. Since
you're asking here, maybe we should try to encourag
On Mar 23, 2005, at 4:55 AM, Riaan Annandale wrote:
I ssh to anything over 10 machines at a time and leave the xterms idle.
When I come back to a session and press enter / start typing, it takes
a
few seconds to come alive. Almost as if the connection got canned.
Well, it could be anything from a
On Mar 23, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Gert Cuykens wrote:
The thing i dont understand is why i can not load the if_nv.ko at boot
time in the load.conf file ? My pc keeps on rebooting if i do that. I
have to do everything manualy ?
Yes, that is odd. If you can get a crashdump from the system to see
why it
On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Christopher Nehren wrote:
On 2005-03-23, Alex Zbyslaw scribbled these
curious markings:
% find /usr/ports -type f -name pkg-plist -exec egrep -H epstopdf {}
\;
Just a bit of nitpickery: I've found that piping the output to xargs
rather than using find's exec produces f
On Mar 28, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Dixit, Viraj wrote:
Looking in to a solution why my FTP uploads are so slow on Free BSD
5.3 version. Downloads are very fast but uploads are excruciatingly
slow. My BSD system is on autoselect option as my port on the network
switch. I have also tried various option
On Mar 28, 2005, at 8:53 PM, Alan Curtis wrote:
$ showmount -e 192.168.1.100
I got this error
RPC: Timed out: Can't do Exports rpc
so I went back to the FreeBSD machine and tried again
$ showmount -e localhost
and now get the same error (almost)
RPC: Timed out
showmount: can't do exports rpc
Any id
On Mar 29, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Mac Mason wrote:
Specifically, much of the use of this machine is in unwired sorts of
places, where I want to use the wi0 interface and not the xl0
interface.
If I don't have xl0 in /etc/rc.conf, and then dhclient wi0, it works
fine.
If I do have xl0 in rc.conf, I can
On Mar 31, 2005, at 2:26 PM, dick hoogendijk wrote:
Is it possible to go back to 4.11R if you've updated src to 4.11-stable
first and updated sthe system w/ make buildworld, install..
If I put the 4.11R sources back in /usr/src and do a make/build etc..
again will my fbsd system really be 4.11R aga
On Mar 31, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
Something I've never been able to figure out. When installing a
new machine, and you come to the "Network Configuration" dialog,
what do you put in for the Host: and Domain: if it is a machine
on an internal network (ie., 192.168.1.149)? Does it
On Mar 31, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Gert Cuykens wrote:
How do you start two things ?
exec unclutter -root
exec enlightenment
Don't use exec, except possibly for the last command. Use an "&" after
the command name for earlier commands which do not exit immediately.
--
-Chuck
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On Mar 31, 2005, at 6:17 PM, Gert Cuykens wrote:
thx ps what is the difference between exec and without exec
Read "man sh":
exec [command [arg ...]]
Unless command is omitted, the shell process is replaced
with the
specified program (which must be a real program, not
On Apr 4, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Gert Cuykens wrote:
think it did not work because you have to do "exec make buildworld >
log.file & logout" dont know did not try it yet :)
Is ctrl+D the same as close exit or logout or does it stand for detach
and run in the background ?
Cntl-D when read as input means
On Apr 4, 2005, at 2:14 PM, Gert Cuykens wrote:
what does stty stand for ?
If you want a complete description, read the manpage.
--
-Chuck
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On Jan 31, 2005, at 1:22 PM, albi wrote:
Mark Ovens wrote:
I want to install apache with SSL but there are two ports,
www/apache13-modssl and www/apache13-ssl
What is the difference, and which is the best to install?
i think the apache13-ssl has SSL build in, the other uses a module for
SSL
Apach
On Jan 31, 2005, at 6:41 PM, Ed Alley wrote:
Is there a system limit on the size of the heep,
or something that disallows running with more
than 500MB total size? even though I have
2GB RAM.
Indeed so. Please consider the output of the limit command, and the
maxdsize parameter to the kernel's
On Feb 1, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
I just discovered that there is a port of libpcap. Does anybody know
if it performs better than the pcap that comes with FreeBSD?
I believe the port compiles PCAP with a larger default buffer size than
the PCAP which comes with FreeBSD. It may dr
On Feb 1, 2005, at 11:43 AM, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
I need the equivalent of a variant, however. A hold-everything
variable
that can be any type in C/C++. Is there something already out there I
can
use or should I just roll my own?
Your question probably belongs on comp.lang.c, but the canno
On Feb 1, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Gert Cuykens wrote:
How can you display all service d[ae]mons runnning on your system ?
And how can you display all conn[ec]tions to your system ?
"ps aux", "netstat -a". Please make an effort to read the FreeBSD
handbook, or consider using the freebsd-newbies mailing
On Feb 1, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Dixit, Viraj wrote:
Just installed FreeBSD 5.3, all seems to be working except the error
from sendmail. I can ping the mail server in the domain that I am
trying to send the mail. But the mail gets send to my "
/var/spool/mqueue" directory. The error is "host n
On Feb 1, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Gert Cuykens wrote:
one more list to add in my collection : )
ps how do you start stop the sshd daemon ?
Carefully, at least if you are doing so remotely rather than on the
console:
kill `cat /var/run/sshd.pid`
and how do you specify all network daemons from the ps au
On Feb 1, 2005, at 5:48 PM, Gert Cuykens wrote:
Why are there 2 mysql processes ?
Probably a shell script which restarts mysql if it dies, but ask on a
mysql list.
i want to start sshd, how do you fix this ?
echo 'sshd_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
reboot
Otherwise, consider the code in /etc/rc.n
On Feb 1, 2005, at 6:10 PM, John wrote:
Once it is BUILT on the NFS system - will I be able to INSTALL
it on my clients? Has anyone tried anything like this?
Once you've got a native JDK built as a package on FreeBSD, you can
install it on other FreeBSD client machines, yes, no problem. If you
On Feb 15, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Richard Meyer wrote:
I've been inundated by hundreds of Cialis, Taladafil, etc spam
e-mails. More than one hundred requests to unsubscribe (I never
subscribed to begin with) have gone un-implemented. What can I do ?
Use a spam filter. Don't try to unsubscribe to spa
On Jan 9, 2004, at 6:12 PM, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
How can I programatically find out the CPU frequency?
[ ... ]
Better ideas?
Here's a chunk of code from an old homework assignment from my days at
CMU. :-)
http://www.pkix.net/~chuck/clockspeed/
This uses an iterative method to achieve result
On Jan 12, 2004, at 5:45 AM, Philip Schulz wrote:
I'm currently working on a program which will be used in a closed
company
environment. The programm is written in C. For this program, I need to
find
a way of parsing a configuration file. I found a library which can do
exactly what I need, it's
On Jan 12, 2004, at 10:37 AM, fbsd_user wrote:
On an new install with only an root account, I want to set the
command line prompt prefix and the default editor for all new users
and also the root account.
What file do I put the 'set env' commands in to make this happen
globally?
Look at /etc/prof
On Jan 12, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Xpression wrote:
[ ...a question on how to change a shell script... ]
Try:
#! /bin/sh
path=/some/dir
if !([ -f $path/this.one ]); then
touch $path/this.one
for file in $path/file1 $path/file2 $path/file3; do
echo "
On Jan 12, 2004, at 9:52 PM, Jefferson San Juan wrote:
How do I restrict normal users from executing their own compiled
executable
binary files?
Give them a "restricted shell" which limits the commands they can run
to ones you specify. See "man zshall" for one example, although other
restricted
On Jan 13, 2004, at 7:59 PM, Zoltan HERPAI wrote:
i'm having problems compiling a new kernel. relevant parts of the
config
are:
options SYSVSHM
options SHMMAXPGS=524288
This quantity is measured in 4K virtual memory pages; make it smaller
and try again.
--
-Chuck
On Jan 14, 2004, at 1:15 PM, Paulo Roberto wrote:
building imap-uw with: WITHOUT_SSL=YES seems to have no effect. I keep
getting "Login Disabled" messages thru syslog. I searched the net and
found a lot of similar cases like this, but all the solutions I tried
did not work. I had this port on a 4.7
On Jan 13, 2004, at 9:04 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
I suspect that a restricted shell isn't going to be appropriate in
this case. Restricted shells are useful for avoiding shooting
yourself in the foot, but they're really not intended to be secure.
You're probably right that my suggestion is only a
On Jan 16, 2004, at 5:32 PM, Grant Peel wrote:
Other than setting a /var/mail quota to 0 for a user, how does one
turn off
mail for a UNIX user without affecting ftp or shell access?
You can configure the system not to accept mail for that user,
something like:
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 Email to
On Jan 20, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Brent Bailey wrote:
the errors im concerned about are
5775699 dropped due to full socket buffers
and
319427 dropped due to no socket
the first makes me think that the buffers are depleted and cant
written to
if so ...how do i correct this ?
"netstat -m" should list t
On Jan 20, 2004, at 1:56 PM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
CUCU=`cat /path/do/dir/* | some_filer_program`
and have in $CUCU the distinct lines from all the files.
Try:
CUCU=`cat /path/to/files/* | sort | uniq`
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On Jan 20, 2004, at 3:27 PM, fbsd_user wrote:
[ ... ]
FBSD Lan PC can not ping Public Internet ip address or resolve
domain names. Ping to public internet ip address get msg
sendto no route to host
[ ... ]
rc.conf
clear_tmp_enable="YES"
moused_enable="YES"
moused_port="/dev/psm0"
moused_type="auto
On Jan 22, 2004, at 2:02 PM, fbsd_user wrote:
What is the facility news used for?
Usenet news. See /usr/ports/news/inn.
Can I remove all the news stuff from /etc/syslog.conf file?
Sure. But it doesn't do any harm to leave the defaults alone.
--
-Chuck
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On Jan 22, 2004, at 5:24 PM, Keith Kelly wrote:
I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install
proceed
with fdisk's geometry value assumptions, and what I always get is a
non-bootable hard drive that gives the "Missing operating system"
error at
boot.
Sufficiently old mother
On Jan 22, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Keith Kelly wrote:
The motherboard is not old. It is an MSI KT4 Ultra motherboard, if I
remember the model number correctly off the top of my head, for the
Athlon
XP architecture. The BIOS doesn't even explicitly list what mode
(LBA, CHS,
extended CHS) it is using t
On Jan 23, 2004, at 1:07 PM, Michael Whitley wrote:
I have read through the archives and seen that newer versions of
Spamassassin have fits with freebsd because of an outdated perl
version. I noticed that there is a SpamAssassin 2.6 port out for
freeBSD 4.9 but was wondering if anyone has had su
On Jan 23, 2004, at 8:13 PM, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
Why perl 5.8? My 5.2 machine is running postfix, perl 5.6.1 and
amavisd-new
without any trouble at all.
I don't believe that there is anything wrong with perl-5.6.x.
For that matter, I don't feel religious opposition to using the stock
per
On Jan 23, 2004, at 7:05 PM, Brent Wiese wrote:
I've never used it, but based on the way it reads, it seems like the
overhead of the calls on even a moderately busy site could have serious
server impacts. Am I worried about nothing or do I need to put my
foot down so he doesn't affect the other j
On Jan 24, 2004, at 12:51 AM, Rishi Chopra wrote:
I was rather disappointed with the results. Can anyone suggest what
might be causing such slow disk speeds, or whether these speeds are
out of the ordinary for a 4-disk FreeBSD RAID5 installation? I have
done nothing to configure the card aside
On Jan 24, 2004, at 9:20 AM, scott renna wrote:
I'm wondering exactly, however, what would cause a
message such as this to be displayed in dmesg:
kernel: sis0: Applying short cable fix(reg=e8)
My card seems to be working fine, and I'm wondering
exactly what this means.
Does anyone know and has a
On Jan 30, 2004, at 1:33 PM, Spades wrote:
What if one of my admin accidentally did a:
chmod -R o+rx /
and changed my entire system permissions.
What should i do to restore it?
See "man mtree".
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On Feb 4, 2004, at 10:31 AM, Lucas Holt wrote:
The userland is freebsd.. i.e. the executables in /usr/bin, /bin, etc.
I'm sure apple alters a few things. The part of OSX that differs is
in the kernel. Roughly half the kernel is FreeBSD 5.0 and the other
half is based on the Mach 3.0 kernel de
On Feb 4, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Lucas Holt wrote:
MacOS X is using a monolithic kernel which derives from between the
CMU Mach project v2.0 and v2.5 circa 1990, which was Avie Tenavian's
grad project at CMU. Apple is not using the Mach 3.0 microkernel,
nor is it using "half of the FreeBSD 5 kernel"
On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
G'day all ...
Simple question, I would hope ... I want to spec out a new server,
and
want to compare AMD vs Intel ... is there anything online that gives
approx equivalents? ie. a Xeon 2.4Ghz processor would be approx
equivalent to an AMD ..
On Feb 9, 2004, at 12:34 PM, Darryl Hoar wrote:
I'm running 5.1-release. I've installed rsync from ports.
I've looked at the man pages and only saw where I
can specifiy the log format. How do I specify a log
file? or must I : rsync -av /test/ /tmp/test > mylog.txt ?
The rsync documentation say
On Feb 9, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Charles Swiger wrote:
I know you're not a troll, Marc, but this question is much like asking
whether emacs or vi makes a better editor. :-)
Actually, I wasn't asking which one was better though :) I'm only
cu
On Feb 10, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
Just a note: If you want ECC with an AMD Athlon (not AMD64), you need
to buy a dual board anyway, since I don't know of anyone who makes a
board with a chipset that supports ECC that isn't a dual.
Hi, Chad--
I've got a Shuttle AK3
On Feb 11, 2004, at 4:59 AM, Bryan Cassidy wrote:
Just wondering if people wouldn't mind sharring their /etc/make.conf
settings with others.
Here's what I use on -STABLE:
KERNCONF=NORMAL
#KERNCONF=GENERIC
CPUTYPE=pentium
CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe
COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe
BOOTWAIT=5000
#NO_CPU_FLAGS=true
IPFW2=
On Feb 11, 2004, at 8:52 AM, stan wrote:
How can I configure FreeBSD's default sendmail to work like this:
If the message is for domain1 or domain2, deliver directly.
If not, use a smarthost
You also need to add domain1 and domain2 to /etc/mail/local-host-names.
Then do a "make restart" in /etc/
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