Re: Why ue0 do ARP on non local address when using static route?

On Feb 13, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Jin Guojun wrote: > /etc/ethers does not help because there is no way resolve the IP by QFHN in > ethers. I'm not sure what "QFHN" is, but setting up an entry in /etc/ethers provides the IP to MAC address mapping that ARP attempts to provide dynamically. > The corre

Re: Using svn to checkout a deprecated port.

Hi-- On Feb 18, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: > I need to use svn to checkout the old "security/cfs" port so I can do > a one-time transfer of some data off of a USB drive. At the end of the > day, I just need the one port so if the cvs repository is available I > could also ge

Re: external hdd

On Mar 28, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Laszlo Danielisz wrote: > If I'm sharing an external 1TB HDD with FreeBSD and OS-X (I wan to use Time > Machine), what is the best file system to use? Time Machine is only supported on top of journaled HFS+; I'm not sure how fusefs-hfs is doing on FreeBSD, though. O

Re: external hdd

Hi-- On Mar 29, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 29 March 2013 18:06, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> Time Machine is only supported on top of journaled HFS+; I'm not sure how >> fusefs-hfs is doing on FreeBSD, though. Or you could setup multiple >> partitions a

Re: ntp problems (strata too high)

Christopher McGee wrote: [ ... ] > I hate to reopen a dead thread, however, I'm having a very strange > problem I have 2 machines running ntpd. I just set this up and it is > not working. [ ... ] > 192.168.1.3.STEP. 16 u1 12800.0000.000 > 192.168.1.2.DROP.

Re: Download the whole ports tree

RW wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2005 07:54, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> Well, if you really think you want this, then just: >> >> cd /usr/ports >> make fetch > > Just idle curiosity, but does anyone have a feeling for how much that would > download? Around 25 GB. -- -Chuck ___

Re: "Load Balancing": How Busy are the servers?

Marc G. Fournier wrote: 1. What variables on a server should be monitored to determine how busy a server is? For instance, I've always been taugth that 'loadavg' is not an indication of how busy a server is, since a high loadavg on a single CPU server might be an overloaded server, but moderat

Re: ker.ipc.maxpipekva error again and again

Imran Imtiaz wrote: I am getting the following messages again and again, why it is accuring and how can I correct and track it? Dec 27 00:48:00 darkstar kernel: kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7) You might look at ps or top for lots of stuck processes generated by something which are

Re: ker.ipc.maxpipekva error again and again

Imran Imtiaz wrote: actually i am running some graph generating scripts this is because of them but it doesn't happened all the time so how can i correct it ? Adjust or serialize your scripts, or recompile the kernel with more KVA allocated to pipes. See the Handbook about rebuilding the kern

Re: your advice on vinum, RAIDs

Joe Auty wrote: I've been considering buying another hard drive for my FreeBSD machine, and building a RAID with my current hard drive so that both drives are treated as one. This is known as RAID-1 mirroring. Do any of you have experience in this area? Is this advisable? Yes and yes. :

Re: your advice on vinum, RAIDs

Joe Auty wrote: Some great advice here! What RAID level would you recommend for simply maximizing the hard disk space I have available? RAID-0 striping. Note that it gives you no redundancy or protection. This is just my personal backup machine and will consist of two drives, so I don't

Re: New IDE drive in old PC

Chris Whitehouse wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: [ ... ] The new disk will be just for data. If this will "just work" how do I configure the BIOS so the PC will boot with the large drive installed? I presume you mean GB for size. I just plugged a 250GB drive into a PII

Re: NATD Internal Network problems

Chris S. Wilson wrote: [ ... ] IE: 67.128.100.2 is my external IP, on my internal network I try to connect to 67.128.101.2:80 which is forwarded in my natd.conf and the connection is refused. Does anyone know why? Change the "-" to a "0" in: redirect_port tcp 10.0.10.2:8- 67.128.100.2:80

Re: NATD Internal Network problems

Chris S. Wilson wrote: Hmm, still does'nt work. That seemed to be a typo however I still cant connect :( Does "telnet 10.0.10.2 80" from the firewall box work? Does normal NAT work OK (ie, can internal machines connect outside)? Does not using the external IP help: redirect_port tcp 1

Re: Help me

Daniel A. wrote: I think it's kinda sad that there is not a standartized way of versioning software, across the whole OSS community. Yes, well, not everyone behaves the same way or has the same preferences. The porter's handbook has a discussion of the different version naming conventions, m

Re: good blogging port?

Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 1/7/06, Jeff D. Hamann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to start a blog. does anyone have any recommendations for a blogging tools from the ports collection? Preferrably one I can hook up to php and postgresql... I use Wordpress. It's PHP and Mysql. Seconded.

Re: Using pkg_add to satisfy port dependencies...

Luke Bakken wrote: Is there a way to tell the ports system to try to fetch port dependencies using the 'pkg_add' command rather than try to build the dependency first from source? "pkg_add -r _port_" ought to fetch needed runtime dependencies, too? Or maybe you are looking for the "portupgrade

Re: freebsd 6 - amount of total visible memory is decreasing constantly

Ilya E Veretenkin wrote: Problem: Total amount of visible memory is decreasing constantly [ ... ] As you can see, memory which was visible using top utility decreased from 3224 to 3195 Megabytes in less than 2 hours. And this process will continue to the point, where swapping begins. Server dur

Re: Server vendor specific mailing lists ...

Marc G. Fournier wrote: Not sure who best to send this to, but figured I'd send it publicly to see also if others think this idea might have merit ... Basically, I'm just about to take possession of my first HP server ... my biggest 'fear' is that HP doesn't support FreeBSD, but from posts I'

Re: rshd, rlogind, .rhosts question

Wojciech Puchar wrote: i use this widely with NetBSD and now try with FreeBSD rlogin/rlogind works the same - all OK. if host is entered in .rhosts then it logs in without password rsh -l login host command worked fine too in NetBSD same way - no asking for password if .rhosts consist of my

Re: limiting Buf memory

Wojciech Puchar wrote: on my 1GB machine: Mem: 529M Active, 209M Inact, 149M Wired, 38M Cache, 109M Buf, 1772K Free while "Cache" is dynamic, Buf is not and never goes down. how can i get it down to somehow like 40MB? I think "Buf" corresponds to what NetBSD's top calls "File", it's the amou

Re: limiting Buf memory

Wojciech Puchar wrote: Mem: 529M Active, 209M Inact, 149M Wired, 38M Cache, 109M Buf, 1772K Free while "Cache" is dynamic, Buf is not and never goes down. how can i get it down to somehow like 40MB? I think "Buf" corresponds to what NetBSD's top calls "File", it's the amount of memory that

Re: Ummm... Why can't I find the FreeBSD 6.0 ISO images?

David Benfell wrote: It seems like no matter which site I try, I get a message that pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.0 doesn't exist. So I guess I've got two questions: 1) Where are the ISOs really? They are right here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/ .

Re: Ummm... Why can't I find the FreeBSD 6.0 ISO images?

David Benfell wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:15:59 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: Unable to confirm: Okay. Now I'm really bewildered. But apparently the problem is on my Mac. On a lark, I tried another system. This one is my OpenBSD system that I use for routing. It's pulling down the ISO j

Re: kernel memory tunables

Michael Barnett wrote: I am trying to figure out which system tunables determine memory resource usage by the amount of available physical memory in the box so i can hard code sane values on a system with a lot of memory. If the machine is properly configured, getrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, ...) is

Re: no one here use restore/dump?

Wojciech Puchar wrote: nobody here do backups of their systems? strange?! I backup and restore using those self-named tools on a variety of DLT and 4mm DAT tape drives. 4mm DDS DAT kinda sucks, and they are super-sensitive to being cleaned a lot. Did you have a more specific question...?

Re: Help backing up to networked drive

Mike Loiterman wrote: [ ... ] This is working fine, but I have to run the script mannually and enter the password. So my question are these: 1. Is there any other way of doing this so that I would not have to deal with the password issue from ssh? This is all taking place behind a secure fi

Re: no one here use restore/dump?

Wojciech Puchar wrote: [ ... ] Did you have a more specific question...? yes - i did before. i have problems with restore. dump is about 60GB and 1.5 million files. two problems when doing restore -rvf /device 1) after extracting all directory listing it starts to do "Make node..." but afte

Re: Post-Install update steps?

Xn Nooby wrote: Is there a way to tell which are available as packages? I would have guessed gqview would have been, but apparently it is not. I'm also not certain I am doing the commands right, though I was able to install subversion successfully via packages. You can look at /usr/ports/LEGA

Re: Blogin software recoendations

stan wrote: I want to host this on FreeBSD, preferably by using something that;s in the ports tree. I've installed and got working wordpress, but it doesn't seem to have the ability to allow me to define individual blogs for each person, which is what I need. I'd like for each persons blog to hav

Re: Blogin software recoendations

stan wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:40:18AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: stan wrote: I want to host this on FreeBSD, preferably by using something that;s in the ports tree. I've installed and got working wordpress, but it doesn't seem to have the ability to allow me to define indivi

Re: shell scripting question (mdconfig device choosing)

Ensel Sharon wrote: and I know how to use awk to strip away the leading "md" from each piece of the output ... but I do not know how to take output like: 8 9 11 14 and decide that the lowest available number is "0". How can I do this ? % echo '9 8 11 14' | sort -nt ' ' | head -1 8 -- -Chuck

Re: IPFW / NFSD

Mark Frasa wrote: > I am currently running 1 HTTP server on FreeBSD 6.0 > > Offcourse, like anyone that likes security, i am running IPFW and set > the kernel to block by default. > > Behind that HTTP server i am running 2 Linux boxes. > > The problem is that when i enable the firewall and openu

Re: Bridging Firewall Machine Questions

Ian Kaney wrote: > Hi there. I wonder if somebody could help me with an issue I'm experiencing. You've asked an interesting question, but there's a lack of data ("vmstat -i", dmesg, "sysctl net"). You might obtain better results by putting together some details, maybe as files in a directory bein

Re: ntpd problem in release 6.0

Vincent Chen wrote: [ ... ] > Why I have to restart ntpd to get connected? I don't have this problem with > release 4.7. I've seen this once and gotten the impression that ntpd had fired up before DNS was working, because the ntpd was able to connect with local peers listed in the /etc/hosts file.

Re: shared library's directory

Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > Dear all, > I wanna develop shared library in FreeBSD, > What's that's directory? People normally put their own and third-party shared libraries under /usr/local/lib. > I wrote a shared library & then used > ldconfig /usr/lib > after above command,my gedit wasn'r ra

Re: FreeBSD drops to single user mode

Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Friday, January 27, 2006 22:49:25 + RW > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ ... ] >>> Here's my fstab, if that illuminates anything: >>> >>> ... >>> /dev/ad5s1d /files ufs rw >>> 2 2 >> >> >> If you neglected to comment-out this l

Re: pf and scrubbing bubbles

J.D. Bronson wrote: > I am using this in my pf.conf (on 6.0) and was wondering if these settings > are appropriate. > > While 'scrub' by itself is always recommended, I added a few more things > that seem to ought to be there? > > I use this for all the NICs...WAN and LAN... > with the exception

Re: Number of files

Pelle Andersson wrote: > I have a 4.11 server wich have been running successfully, for som years now. > One directory is containing images, and this directory is growing really > fast. > > My question is; how many files can a directory contain, totally? Millions (it depends on the filesystem bloc

Re: DNS nslint error messages

Brad Gilmer wrote: > I am running freebsd 5.4-STABLE on an IBM e-series 330 server. I have > recently started playing with DNS and have been largely successful. However, > nslint reports the following errors: > > nslint: missing "a": localhost. -> 127.0.0.1 > nslint: missing "a": localhost.org

Re: How many IP address aliases can practically be used on one physical Ethernet interface?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am implementing and using a test bed simulating a huge amount of IP > clients, each preferable having a unique IP address. There is no, no way > to have an individual physical interface for each simulated client so I > use IP aliases. Use BPF or libnet to generate test

Re: Question about synchronizing source tree with cvsup

Jose Borquez wrote: > I would like to synchronize a server which I did a minimal install. I > would like to customize the stable-supfile so as not to download > unneeded files. I would like to know what options I need to include > from the following to do a source sync of only the essential files

Re: DNS nslint error messages

Brad Gilmer wrote: > Chuck and Gorgios, > > Thank you very much for your suggestions. Sure. At least occasionally, we manage to be helpful. :-) [ ... ] > Chuck, you said, >> The second one (nslint error) recommends adding a line like: >> localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 > >> ... to your gilmer

Re: Getting a new server

Lisa Casey wrote: > My company (a medium sized ISP) has decided to replace one of our mail > servers. We need more CPU power, memory, etc. My boss is talking about > getting 2 good size hard drives with a raid card to mirror these. I was > planning to install FreeBSD 5.3 (because that's the latest

Re: "Interrupt storm"?!

Garrett Cooper wrote: [ ... ] > Interrupt storm detected on "irq11: ahc0"; throttling interrupt source > ahc0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x9 > ach0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase > > Any ideas what this means? > ahc0 is the dev name for my adaptec scs

Re: Screen Command

A. Clausen wrote: > I'm installing 6.0, but I noticed there's no "screen" command > available. Has it been removed or is this an oversight? It's not part of the base system: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/screen && make install -- -Chuck ___ freebs

Re: Dumping /usr to samba mounted drive

Mike Loiterman wrote: > Gayn Winters wrote: [ ... ] >>> Changing the format of the drive to Mac OS Extended fixed the >>> problem. UFS has a 4 gig file size limit. >>> >> Mike, >> >> I'm glad you got it working. What was Apple ever thinking with a 4GB >> limit? >> >> -

Re: Trouble with resources under network load

Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > I've got P4 box with 256Mb RAM. I want it to be able to > forward 5Mbit/s between 500 PPTP clients (no crypto/ > compression) and our ISP. I understand we should > probably get Cisco for this, or at least a higher-spec > box, but I just want this setup to be kinda proof o

Re: question

Hello-- Eduard Suica wrote: > Concept it's free, under a freeware licence. We are still to decide if it > will be "Open source" or "partially open source" ... (with some "obfuscated" > code to protect the kernel). How ever, we'll assume responsabilty over it. You're welcome to submit and maintain

Re: How to get 2 if's act like a switch?

Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > Can I get 2 interfaces on a router switch ethernet frames > (between themselves and the box itself) and the other > interfaces act like normal ones? I need services like dhcpd > to not see any difference between the 2 switched if's, just > like it's a single ethernet segm

Re: How to get 2 if's act like a switch?

Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 2/8/06, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: [ ... ] >> See: "man bridge". > > Thanks. First I thought that bridge is not what I want. > Apparently, if_bridge does not switch packets, and >

Re: Best Way To Block Range of Addresses with ipfw2?

Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I want to deny access to addresses in this range: > > 84.57.113.0 - 84.61.96.255 > > What is the best way to specify this range for ipfw2? There must be a > better way than listing a whole bunch of individual networks. deny ip from 84.56.0.0/13 to any ...comes pretty cl

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

Chris Maness wrote: > How should I set up cvsup to just track security updates for ports. And > would the best thing to do after I synced CVS, do portupgrade -a so that > everything selected gets rebuilt. > > What is the equivalent for the base system? The ports tree isn't branched; just get HEA

Re: fine grained firewall?

andrew clarke wrote: > Is it possible to configure the FreeBSD firewall to block ports on a > per-user or per-executable basis? > > eg. > > - Block /usr/local/bin/irc from connecting to TCP port 6667 > > - Block user 'johnsmith' from connecting to TCP port 21 Yes to users (if the connections or

Re: need some advice on our cisco routers..

Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: >> We have a couple of cisco routers. There was one time when suddenly we >> cannot > login remotely via telnet. I investigate further and was shocked when I found > out that there where 16 telnet connections coming from outsiders ip > addresses. I > immediately called

Re: recovering from failed cvsup upgrade

wo_shi_big_stomach wrote: > Greetings. I need help recovering a system that became > unresponsive during an upgrade. Steps: Download the FreeBSD 5.4 .iso image, and do a binary upgrade installation from that. You should have run "mergemaster -p" before the initial buildworld, and you should run m

Re: fine grained firewall?

andrew clarke wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 07:30:17AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] >> Yes to users (if the connections originate from the firewall box), no to >> per-executables. The latter seems useless when "cp irc myirc" is all it >> would >>

Re: nforce2 digital audio output support? (or spdif support at all?)

FreeBSD Prospect wrote: > Am Montag, 6. Februar 2006 21:54 schrieb FreeBSD Prospect: [ ... ] >> Any idea, if spdif support is already in -CURRENT, and if not, if somebody >> is working on that issue? > > Now that's strange, I really thought, I am not the only one interested in > being able to use

Re: recovering from failed cvsup upgrade

wo_shi_big_stomach wrote: > Thanks -- I have that system back. Whew. [ ... ] You're welcome. > The upgrade routine warned that it could not replace > the /usr/src tree and that cvsup was the right way to > do this. > > To get this system from 5.4-RELEASE to RELENG_5_4, am > I ok just cvsup'ing s

Re: SDR GEM312P

Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > I'm building a new server and stumbled upon this: > >> ses0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 8 lun 0 >> ses0: Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device >> ses0: 3.300MB/s transfers >> ses0: SAF-TE Compliant Device > > I guess it has something to do with a SCSI hot-swap device, but I d

Re: natd & auth requests

Wojciech Puchar wrote: > how can i make ident service to make informative answers for connections > handled by natd? like answering last byte of source IP number or DNS > reverse name or maybe from table like oidentd? If you're using 1-to-1 NAT forwarding, run identd or the inetd-based version on

Direct disk access, was: Re: (no subject)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to have the source code of (the set of) programs > that can "read from"/"write to" any sector of a disk without a > file-system, think of them as the disk i/o programs that underly the > file-system. I expect them to have (collectively) about four argu

Re: Memory leak?

Robert Leftwich wrote: [ ... ] > Mem: 274M Active, 227M Inact, 263M Wired, 95M Cache, 214M Buf, 4536K > Free > Swap: 4068M Total, 707M Used, 3361M Free, 17% Inuse > > real memory = 3221159936 (3071 MB) > avail memory = 3106529280 (2962 MB) > > What's the best way to track down more information a

Re: FreeBSD installing on PC w/ Intel 64bit CPU

Albert yu wrote: > I have a question on Hardware compatability while installing FreeBSD 4.8 on > some newly built PCs. > May I know is FreeBSD version 4.8 support Intel 64bit CPU w/ 915GV chipset > Motherboard ? I think the answer is no, I believe 64-bit support was added around 5.2.1: http://www

Re: Interested in selling retail freeBSD sets

René Luckow - Cortex Systems wrote: > We're interested in selling freeBSD along with a range of other OS > distributions on our website, which caters the European market. OK. Have fun... > How would we going about obtaining these? http://www.freebsd.org/where.html If you wanted to become a Fre

Re: Concerns about wording of man blackhole

Fabian Keil wrote: > I set Followup-To freebsd-questions. OK. [ ... ] > In which way does this protect against stealth port scans? Returning a RST tells the scanner that the port is definitely closed. Returning nothing gives less information. >>> As open ports still show up as open

Re: i386 or amd64 ?

Panter V. wrote: [ ... ] > I have a few questions: > > Can I use the amd64 version for this configuration? Yes. > If I use i386 does this mean performances will be visibly lower than > using amd64? No, if anything, most software will run faster in 32-bit mode. YMMV. If you have a really big da

Re: Blocking an individual email address

James Csoka wrote: > After reading the page you linked to, and looking at the examples, I added > the line To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REJECT (using my personal email), and it had no > effect. I can't find any good reason it didn't work, but it fails to > prevent me from sending mail from inside my work

Re: natd with several alias IPs

Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > I wonder, what tricks do you use to use more than > one alias IP? I mean, if you have hundreds of > hosts behind your firewall, what can you do to alias > some of them to one ip, others to another and so on. See "man natd" about the following options for 1-to-1 NAT trans

Re: Help with strange web server problem

Jerry Bell wrote: [ ... ] > I've done some more troubleshooting and some strange things have > appeared. First, the colo says there is NO proxy, and NO firewall in > front of this server. That's believable too, perhaps you simply have a NIC which is failing or is screwing up the packet checksums

Re: PAE kernel

Robert Uzzi wrote: > What is the secret to compiling a PAE kernel? 42? No, no, that's not it. [1] Try: cd /usr/src && make buildkernel KERNCONF="PAE" Look at and perhaps modify /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/PAE first, if you like. -- -Chuck [1]: I'm in a whimsical humor, sorry. __

Re: Log analysis server suggestions? [long]

what you want to do with it. It comes back to what I was saying in my last few postings on this topic: - look at your data - then decide what you want to collect from it - then collect it - count the stuff you throw away - vector the rest to a human's att

Re: getline function

Tom Grove wrote: > Mike Jeays wrote: [ ... ] > That works and I had looked into that earlier...it seems like it does a > lot more than just one function from the man page. I guess I can use > that for now but I wonder why getline() is broken in gcc on FreeBSD? getline() is not part of the standar

Re: getline function

Tom Grove wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] >> getline() is not part of the standard C library. >> What makes you think gcc is broken...? > > Yeah...I see that after some more research. So, now I guess my question > is being that it's not standard and gets() is no

Re: 3Ware Escalade Issues

Don O'Neil wrote: > There appears to be a bad sector on one of the drives according to smartctl, > but nothing serious. What that may mean is that there have been many bad sectors, which have been corrected using the spares, until no more spare sectors are left for replacements. That drive may

Re: help

FuLLBLaST wrote: > 1) > When starting up system, after each login i must type "startx" to enable > the desktop environment. If you want X to always be running, try: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html > 2) > I've installed KDE, as it's described in your handbook

Re: equivalent to linux cp -al

Matias Surdi wrote: > I've a script on a linux box wich makes backups, it uses the "cp -al" > command to make hard links and preserve atributes. > > Is there an equivalent on FreeBSD? "cp -p" comes reasonably close, but will duplicate files rather than creating hard links. If you need to preserv

Re: Daemon.gif for my private Website

Hubertus Kohl wrote: > Can I put the little Daemon on my privat Website? > Is there somewhere a Banner or something that I can use for my private site? > Who can tell me this with a little Background of the rights ? > Sorry for my bad english - but I think you understand what I mean. Your english

Re: Download

Lorin Lund wrote: > Luis Thillet wrote: [ ... ] > Many weeks ago I succeeded in downloading 6.0. But if you don't have > broadband it's nearly hopeless. When I first learned of FreeBSD - years > ago - I tried downloading the ISO disks by modem. I would start a > download at bedtime but it never wor

Re: ftp problem

Sean wrote: > I have my bsd system setup to allow ftp. > > However when I try to ftp a directory and the contents from another > system it basically uses the directory as a file name and all contents > in that directory are ignored. > > I am guessing that I am doing something wrong when I type to

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

manish jain wrote: > I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart > one). > It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other > daemon > to work with it so that the system automatically shuts down before backup > supply > runs out ? No. If you

Re: Cron Q

Graham Bentley wrote: > Is it OK to list two different tasks on two lines for the exactly the same > time ? > I did this and the second one didnt run maybe it was a problem with the > job ... You're probably better off having a one-line cron line which invokes a shell script that runs your tw

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] >> No. If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or >> serial port, apcupsd has nothing to work with. > > As best I can tell from the OP's description, a

Re: denyhosts

Robin Becker wrote: > I'm trying out the denyhosts port; it starts up and performs as expected, > but it won't recognize a running instance as this python if test fails. > Is there a more freebsd way for python to find out if a given process is > running? > > if os.access(os.path.join("/proc",

Re: Converting a Regex into plain text

Warren Liddell wrote: > is there any pkg avilable that'll convert a regex into plain txt ? No. Most regular expressions cannot be expressed as finite plain text strings, that is why regex is used in the first place. > Presently i dont care if its windows based or FreeBSD based Hmm. -- -Chuck

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

Kristian Vaaf wrote: [ ... ] >>> I've tried over and over again. And sent about a >>> dozen e-mails to this list. >>> >>> http://www.home.no/hedhnta/result.txt That URL doesn't work: 4-sec% fetch -v http://www.home.no/hedhnta/result.txt looking up www.home.no connecting to www.home.no:80 requesti

Re: Trouble with resources under network load

Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 2/5/06, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ ... ] > > Feb 24 19:47:21 gw named[482]: client 10.32.7.32#1027: error sending > response: not eno

Re: ls -c vs. ls -u / manpage / architecture question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] > I could see in the source of ls that these two options > are opposite of each other, but being ignorant about > the architecture of UNIX file system, i'm not positive > that in addition to the time of last modification > and the time of last access, there is not >

Re: rl0 discard oversize

Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all :-) > > I have a fbsd 5.4 > today while copy a lot files (several Gb) the network saturation...and don't > responding of ping :-( > > in dmesg i see: > > rl0 discard oversize frame (ether type 4a82 flags 3 len 38118 > 1514 [ ... ] > where is the problem? With the rl0

Re: 6.0 problems

Greg Goodman wrote: [ ... ] > When freebsd6.0 boots it will hang at the part that says > Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec > > The system is running a Supermicro motherboard with dual 3.2 gig Xeon cpus > and 2 gig ram. Also running an Adaptec raid 5 card. > > If we boot up in safe mode it boots

Re: Freebsd with multiple nic's

gahn wrote: > I am running Freebsd 5.4 and have problems with > multiple nics. [ ... ] > Any help will be greatly appreciated. Are the NICs all on distinct subnets? You can't put two NICs using IPs on the same subnet without taking more complex issues into consideration like bridging or channel b

Re: Backup softwares ?

Frank Bonnet wrote: > Frank Bonnet wrote: >> Hello >> >> I'm searching for a professional backup software that runs with >> FreeBSD 6.x >> it will drive an Overland library and would have an ergonomical >> graphical interface >> as the person who will use it will not be a computer freak :-) also >>

Re: Writing CDs on a DVD drive.

Malcolm Kay wrote: > It is not very clear what utilities are capable of writing R or > RW CDs on a multipurpose optical drive. It seems that burncd > doesn't do this and the man pages for growisofs talks of > specific DVD media types but not CDs. > > Is cdrecord a suitable tool for this purpose

Re: sudden jump in swap usage, how to tell what's using it

Nathan Vidican wrote: > Typically, we sit between 0-10% of swap used... this morning I came in, > and output of top is showing 76% used; that's some 3Gigs+ more than usual. > > System load is still sitting at 0.05, and no adverse effects seem to be > coming our way. No particular processes appear

Re: Writing CDs on a DVD drive.

Malcolm Kay wrote: [ ... ] >> * 6.0: >> * - fix for DVD+R recordings in Samsung TS-H542A; >> * - DVD-R Dual Layer DAO and Incremental support; >> [ ... ] > > I have 5.21 and found most of the above in the source code so it > looks as though I can write double layer +R but will need to > upgra

Re: Calculating of total free memory

N. Ersen SISECI wrote: > I want to know REAL free memory size in my system. What I want to know > that is the real free memory size is hw.physmem - Free memory (the one > that is shown at the output of top -b). Various tools such as the one in > freecolor ports in ports tree says it is not like t

Re: Users and groups properly organized?

Kristian Vaaf wrote: [ ... ] > Have you all ever had a look at your /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group? Yes. Most people who edit these files by hand try to keep them in order, but... > Stupid question. But notice the user and group identifications being thrown > about as if they didn't matter.

Re: forward hosted domain / subdomain to local box

Pete C wrote: [ ... ] > . . at the hosted domain, I have access to DNS records, and the 'control > panel' has alias and redirect options, but require an ip or hostname . . > . I reversedDNS'd my current ip to ool-4357635e.dyn.optonline.net but I > don't know if hostname changes with the ip . . . >

Re: help

Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: [ ... ] > It does not worl as expected. it says, > > still running as root. user not specified with -u option. it can not > create .spamassasin/.user_prefs files under user directiries. But it > creats .spamassasin/.user_prefs under root. > > Why ? pls help me. It to

Re: Help Please

Marc Ravenor wrote: [ ... ] > I work for a systems integrator based in the UK. I have a client that is > currently using FreeBSD version 4.11 and version 6. He currently wants > to use the software on an HP DL320 G4 server. The problem he is facing > at the moment is that when the software is loade

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