Up_down~up

Just saw this in my security log: +++ /tmp/security.CVzQ19kE 2008-08-15 00:04:29.0 +0200 +fxp0: link state changed to DOWN +fxp0: link state changed to UP +fxp0: link state changed to DOWN +fxp0: link state changed to UP +fxp0: link state changed to DOWN +fxp0: link state changed to

Re: Up_down~up

Robert Huff wrote: My (em) cards do this - one UP, one DOWN, one UP - on system boot. You might be right; I did reboot my system at that time. Only I saw this for the first time... thanks for sharing, Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Up_down~up

Michael Powell wrote: I recently had an onboard 82540 chip fry out. It started sporadically and over time became more frequent. When I googled I found many references to heat problems. I then disabled rx/tx checksum offload and it seemed like it fixed it, but only for a short while. It got worse

Jittering sound on streaming

I am running a music station now and then and for some reason there exist a jittering sound after some hours. I think this is caused by BSD, but can't put my finger on yet. There was a thread on this some months ago but that thread didn't solve my problem. I use Icecast and/or Shoutcast for

Re: Jittering sound on streaming

Wojciech Puchar wrote: try setting rtprio on your streaming app and check if it still persist Great, that really worked! thanks for sharing, Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Symbolic link

I have this application that only works with local filedirectories. Is it possible to make a symbolic link to a URL (internet location with the files I want to display/open) so that I can fake location as being local? Jos ___

Re: Symbolic link

Thanks for your replies; I will follow up and see what is happening. Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Presenting 'host' command output

to server1 display? thank you, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Survive from DDoS

Kalpin Erlangga Silaen wrote: yesterday, our shell server was attack and server immeditiately reboot. I checked logs, it likes UDP flood with destination port 53. Is there any way how to survive from this kind attack? (i) Do a grep 53 /etc/services and search for ports 53 on both tcp and udp.

Delayed cronjobs

Let's say my system has been down for one day. Is it possible to automatically (re)start cronjobs on system startup that should have been run the day before? -- Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Delayed cronjobs [SOLVED]

Hi Michael, Thanks for sharing, just what I needed! -- Jos Michael Rudolph wrote: you might want to have a look at anacron(8). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Delayed cronjobs

Hi Jerry, Jerry McAllister wrote: You can write the sccript that your cronjob starts so that it keeps track of when it was last run and then either have cron run it often or add it to /usr/local/etc/rc.d to be run at startup. That would be a good option as well; I didn't think of that.

Simple DSN server

OS FreeBSD 7.0 Just got the idea to start a very simple local DNS server. For that I would like to use named. Some question I have regarding to this: Configuration files for named reside in /etc/namedb directory According to the manual, I might use the command 'sh make-localhost' but this

Re: Simple DSN server [SOLVED]

Hi Matthew, Matthew Seaman wrote: Nope. BIND has been updated and things have changed but the handbook hasn't caught up yet. You no longer need to run 'make-localhost' but can just use the provided zonefiles for forward and reverse lookups thereof. The rest is pretty much the same though. I

Re: 7-STABLE Watchdog Timeout

Jeremy, Perhaps this link could give you the solution to your problem: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/bsd-17/rl0-watchdog-timeout-519599/ regards, Jos Jeremy Karlson wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of moving a Subversion server from a 5-STABLE machine to a freshly installed 7-STABLE

Re: 7-STABLE Watchdog Timeout

Jeremy, Do you set 'Plug and Play BIOS: YES' in your bios settings? Switch 'PnP BIOS' to NO and everything might work fine. -- Jos Jeremy Karlson wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of moving a Subversion server from a 5-STABLE machine to a freshly installed 7-STABLE machine. I've moved the

CPU info

Slightly off-topic I think: can someone tell me if where I can find a program in the ports to watch various system information (Core temperature, etc) that works from the system prompt? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: CPU info

Roland Smith wrote: sysutils/mbmon On one of my computers it crashes my system. What I found about this on the Web: This is a X/tty motherboard monitor which supports LM78/79, WINBond 83781D/83782D/83783S, ASUS 991227F, and VIA VT82C686A/B PC-health chips via 3 methods: ISA-I/O, SMBus,

Re: small office backup hardware advice

Sdavtaker wrote: Now, they gave me some money for backup stuff. What will be a solid but cheap solution to keep some usefull backups? Woukd a second FreeBSD system with Samba on it be an option for some money? regards Jos ___

Re: Duplex printer advice

Kurt Buff wrote: I'm looking to replace my current printer - a Dell 1700n - because I can't make it work with FreeBSD/Linux. So tell us, what is the problem? -- Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

FreeBSD 6.2 update

I want to upgrade 6.2 to 6.3. Can you tell me where I can obtain the 'FreeBSD Update utility as described in the FreeBSD 6.3 and FreeBSD 7.0 release announcements' ? Thanks. Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Core tuning

Can I force manual load balancing on my dual core processor? Or is this entirely handled by FreeBSD itself? Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Core tuning [Solved]

Kris, That's the job of the scheduler. If you are running -current there is the cpuset utility that allows you to bind processes to subsets of CPUs. I see; thanks for sharing ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Make buildworld

Can someone tell me the difference between 'make -j2 buildworld' and 'make -j4 buildworld' ? Thanks, Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Upgrading Kernel on a Remote Server

Schiz0 wrote: The host is installing 6.3-RELEASE. I'd like to upgrade to 7.0-RELEASE, as well as compile in some kernel options for various things. What's the best way to do this on a remote system, minimizing compiling a bad kernel and causing it not to boot? I wouldn't have access to single

Grep Guru

I tried to make a grep script on find a string in all files on path ./ and down. It does anything exept searching in files and reporting them. Is there a Grep Guru who can hint me out? Thanks, -- Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Installing freeBSD

Huu Daud wrote: Iam new to this forum and to the Unix.My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or DVD ,it didnt send me to the screen for selection options as it

Re: generating random passwords

Bill Campbell wrote: I much prefer apg which can generate more-or-less pronounceable passwords which it is possible to remember (at least after typing them a few times :-). This is not supposed to be an offense to any author of a password generator, but: Never, but never trust any random

Re: okay, it's time to ask....

Gary Kline wrote: Cann anybody clue me in? I personally haven't had this problem, but perhaps you can have a peek at: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-449946.html Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

PORTS - no longer updated

I use a port that no longer is supported thru the regular ports. p5-Text-ParseWords-3.1 Parse text into an array of tokens or array of arrays ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) - textproc/p5-Text-ParseWords (port directory error) Have tried to remove it,

Re: PORTS - no longer updated

Lars Eighner wrote: The first step is find out what happened to it. In this case MOVED tells us this module has moved to core perl. I believe upgrading perl and forcing [-] Lars, thanks for sharing; I will follow your suggestion. Didn't know this MOVED thing... -- Jos

Re: PORTS - no longer updated

Matthew Seaman wrote: [-] to fix up the broken dependency linkages. Everything that depended on p5-Text-ParseWords would already depend on perl anyhow, so just delete the dependency if pkgdb can't work it out for itself. I understand and have done so, thanks for sharing; -- Jos

Re: to scsi or not to scsi

prad wrote: i've heard scsi hard drives are really good. i've also seen at least one site which claims that ide easily outperform scsi. for the server we got (dual P3 1GHz 2M which will use raid), is one preferable over the other? and what about sata? Prad, Have a look at this URL:

Perl updates

Can someone explain why we have to run an update batch in order to have all Perl related programs running with this update? Wouldn't it be better to upgrade Perl and have all programs use it as it hadn't been updated at all? Jos Chrispijn

Re: Perl updates

installed modules from [-snip-] Thanks, appreciate this detailed information. Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

named issue

: logging { category lame-servers {null; }; category edns-disabled { null; }; }; I would like to know what I could do to prevent generation of that line? Thanks, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: named issue

Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: These are queries your mailservers are making to the spamhaus blocking list. How many queries to the ZEN Spamhaus DNSBL are you making per day? If you exceed their non-commercial usage, they will cut you off. I see. Thank you all for your suggestions. Jos Chrispijn

Automake installed

could I do such best? thanks Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: BSD logo

is true religion. For me FreeBSD is true religion: bringing people together and speak about it is so much better that seeing things in a logo that isn't there at all... best regrets, jos chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: BSD logo

is true religion. For me FreeBSD is true religion: bringing people together and speak about it is so much better that seeing things in a logo that isn't there at all... best regrets, jos chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2)

). thanks, Jos Chrispijn Polytropon: On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:59:22 +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: When setting up my 1TB harddisk for FreeBSD 9.0, I have some questions about partioning: I think of creating two partitions of 5Gb; one for the standard FreeBSD file layour and a second one

Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2)

Thanks for this very informative suggestion. I think I need to study it thouroughly, but will certainly head for that solution. kind regards, Jos Chrispijn Polytropon: That would work, and could be performed easily even using the slice editor of the sysinstall program. Of course, make sure

FreeBSD 9x - PHP and MySQL

FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE Can you tell me what might be the best MySQL version to be used and which PHP version should I use to that? Running 64-bit. thanks, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

rm -R

I made a folder called -S; how can I remove that again? did a rm -R '-S;' but that doesn't work (...). thanks for your advise, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: rm -R

Ralf Mardorf: rm -R -S\; rm -R ?S? rm: illegal option -- S usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvW] file ... unlink file regards, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: rm -R

Teske, Devin: rm -R -- -S The -- tells it here's the end of the options, here come the file/directories Almost : rm -R -- -S; did it, thanks very much! BR, Jos Chrispijn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: rm -R

Teske, Devin: rm -R -- -S The -- tells it here's the end of the options, here come the file/directories Almost: rm -R -- -S; did it, thanks very much for you help! BR, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

RSync exclusion

basis). I will syn them on a daily basis to a fixed remote folder (where only the updates will be appended). Can someone tell me how I can do that on one command line? thanks in advance, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: RSync exclusion

Must have had a temporary brain damage, sorry... thanks Jos Paul Macdonald: --exclude /files/photos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: RSync exclusion

Daniel O'Callaghan: It uses rsync, but manages a directory tree with hard links to unchanged files. It would solve your problem, but in a different way. Thanks for this - the issue is solved, but I will certainly have a look to that one as well. Jos

Gateway on downloads

destination IP's to be switch through another network gateway IP? Thanks, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Access guard

I am looking for a program that watches login attempts (mail and ssh login) and blocks the ip address after xx failed attempts. Currently I am using ipfw - might be great if that program works with ipw too... Thanks, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd

Re: Access guard

All, Thanks for the replies, I will check them out! best regards, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

ipfw gateway rerouting

Can someone please hint me to to good explanatory site that explains how to reroute a network server to different/non standard network gateway(s) with ipfw? thanks, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

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