Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 21:37:47 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> Why would you need to do that? There is a bce driver in the 7.x OS > >> already. > > > > Cause it's unstable? Search these or many other archives. The short > > answer: under IO load the card drops net link or panics kernel. > > is it a

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 25 May 2009 15:41:04 Jos Chrispijn wrote: > I have some short movies (a la YouTube) that I would like to show as > video streams. Presenting them by download is messing up my bandwidth > (...). Can someone tell me if there is a simple solution installing such a > stream service/server int

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 02:08:38 Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On May 25, 2009 4:02:57 PM -0700 Carlos Pardo > > wrote: > > We are back porting the bce driver from 8.0 to 7.0. We are still missing > > some changes since cold boots work but rebooting (warm booting) fails! > > > > The error is: > > > > bce

Re: How to detect when gmirror sync is complete?

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 22:33:54 Peter Steele wrote: > I know I could have a script that continually checks "gmirror status" to > detect when a gmirror synchronization has completed, but is there a more > event-driven approach? Something that could be used to trigger and event > like devd does for d

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:21:42 Kurt Buff wrote: > All, > > I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the > authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small > problem, but don't know how to install the updated port. > > I cd'ed into the > /usr/ports/%CATEGOR

Re: Formatted text conversion

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:41:56 Kelly Jones wrote: > I have e-books in several formats (DOC, LIT, PDF, RTF, HTML, TXT, > etc). Is there a Unix command-line tool that converts between these > formats? > > If not, is there at least a tool that converts these formats to TXT? > > My goal is to read t

Re: How to recover disk space after "filesystem full"

2009-05-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 22 May 2009 18:19:25 Steve Bertrand wrote: > # pkg_add -r lsof Or use the native fstat(1). -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fre

Re: synchronize time

2009-05-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 22 May 2009 06:57:59 Roy Stuivenberg wrote: > Tnx guys, > > So now my /etc/ntp.conf is like : > server ntp.xs4all.nl > > driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift > > Problem is, when I open time-admin from console (root), > everything is greyed out, and I can't change from manual to > time servers. >

Re: Why so many ports have run-dependencies on non-system gcc versions?

2009-05-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 22 May 2009 02:00:29 Yuri wrote: > When I tried to delete gcc-4.3.4_20090517 I got this message: > pkg_delete: package 'gcc-4.3.4_20090517' is required by these other > packages and may not be deinstalled: > blas-1.0_3 > cgnslib-2.5.3_1 > fftw3-3.2 > fftw3-float-3.2_1 > fr-med-2.3.5 > get

Re: Kernel Panic

2009-05-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 22 May 2009 05:30:42 Shawn Badger wrote: > Hi, I installed FreeBSD 7.2 Release on a mini nettop (Intel > Atom/945gc/ICH7 hardware), and everything seemed to go smoothly. > However, when I boot the system and the filesystem checks have been > going for awhile, it always ends in a panic. H

Re: pkgdb -F problem

2009-05-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 21 May 2009 18:18:16 Leslie Jensen wrote: > I've just updated my 7.1-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE using freebsd-update. > > Everything went ok but I've got a problem when I do > > pkgdb -F > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.4: unsupported file layout What does file /usr/libl/libcry

Re: jail's adjkerntz

2009-05-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 22:56:26 alexus wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: > > 2009/5/20 alexus : > >> inside of my jail i get following emails... > >> > >> adjkerntz[25058]: sysctl(set: "machdep.adjkerntz"): Operation not > >> permitted > >> > >> i dont remember

Re: compiling FreeBSD date on Linux

2009-05-20 Thread Mel Flynn
#warning "Pedantic mode on" #define TOPIC "BSD build system tricks" On Wednesday 20 May 2009 21:57:02 Polytropon wrote: > > DPADD=${LIBUTIL} > > Needs to compile what ${LIBUTIL} point to, usually the > libutil directory in the src/ tree. This is the actual build dependency and the var is de

Re: compiling FreeBSD date on Linux

2009-05-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 19:45:59 francis keyes wrote: > Hmm... the date program looks pretty simple but I don't understand the > Makfile: > > #@(#)Makefile8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 > # $FreeBSD: src/bin/date/Makefile,v 1.11.30.1 2009/04/15 03:14:26 kensmith > Exp $ > > PROG=date > SRCS=

Re: Limiting resources in cron jobs

2009-05-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 16:18:28 Kirk Strauser wrote: > On May 20, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: > > Check with top what the CPU time is, it's not the same as the wall > > clock. > > Give me *some* credit. :-) Sorry, haven't you heard? Financial crisi

Re: proftpd TLS

2009-05-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 16:13:15 alexus wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Mel Flynn > > wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 21:18:48 alexus wrote: > >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Mehul Ved wrote: > >> > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:14 PM, alexus

Re: synchronize time

2009-05-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 15:08:35 Greg Larkin wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Saturday 16 May 2009 18:02:13 Roy Stuivenberg wrote: > >> Hi Mel, > >> > >> /etc/ntp.conf is empty. > > > > You'd need a server...Just one line is enough, f.e.: >

Re: Limiting resources in cron jobs

2009-05-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 16 May 2009 19:27:22 Kirk Strauser wrote: > www:\ > > :cputime=300:\ > :tc=default: > > I've run "cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf" to make that live. Then, I used > vipw to change www's class: > > www:*:80:80:www:0:0:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin > > H

Re: proftpd TLS

2009-05-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 21:18:48 alexus wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Mehul Ved wrote: > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:14 PM, alexus wrote: > >> i start it as a root, but it switchs to non-root > >> > >> nobody 52346 0.0 0.1 11820 4208 ?? SsJ Sun06PM 0:00.66 > >> proftpd: (accep

Re: apache not starting on reboot

2009-05-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 18 May 2009 10:55:00 Odhiambo ワシントン wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Brent Clark wrote: > > Hiya > > > > I have the following in my /etc/rc.conf > > > > mitm# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep apache > > apache22_enable="YES" > > mitm# > > > > The problem I seem to be experiencing is th

Re: Reading warnings when installing multiple ports

2009-05-19 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 16 May 2009 21:21:54 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 11:24:42AM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Friday 15 May 2009 19:26:00 mfv wrote: > > > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 13:53:35 Mel Flynn wrote: > > > > On Monday 11 May 2009 15:21:24 Jerry McAl

Re: synchronize time

2009-05-19 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 16 May 2009 18:02:13 Roy Stuivenberg wrote: > Hi Mel, > > /etc/ntp.conf is empty. You'd need a server...Just one line is enough, f.e.: echo 'server ntp.xs4all.nl' >/etc/ntp.conf -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: synchronize time

2009-05-16 Thread Mel Flynn
Hoi Roy, On Saturday 16 May 2009 17:01:25 Roy Stuivenberg wrote: > I seem to be unable to change my systemtime to synchronize with time > servers. > I'm using 7.2 stable and gnome2. > policykit.conf = > > > > > > > > > > > And ntpd_enable="YES" in rc.

Re: php5 pcre

2009-05-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 15 May 2009 11:13:41 Mark wrote: > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gorbatovsky > Dmitry Sent: vrijdag 15 mei 2009 11:04 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: php5 pcre > > > Whe

Re: csup source tree as of a certian date

2009-05-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 14 May 2009 20:56:37 Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > > Have you tried: > > *default date=2009.04.28.23.59.59 > > > > Back when I had to get the old XOrg, *default date' in my ports-supfile > > returned me to sanity ... > > > > -- > > Don Readdon_r...@att

Re: Reading warnings when installing multiple ports

2009-05-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 15 May 2009 19:26:00 mfv wrote: > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 13:53:35 Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Monday 11 May 2009 15:21:24 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > But, I very often wish there was a convenient way to see some of those > > > messages and especially messages

Re: ghostscript8 - errors when compiling from ports

2009-05-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 21:08:11 Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 05:54:09PM +0200, Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 of May 2009 12:08:55 you wrote: > > > just a guess, looks like a problems with cups-base, try to update it > > > first. I recommend ports-mgmt/portmaster

Re: subversion / dav_svn_module : Fatal error 'Recurse on a private mutex.'

2009-05-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 15 May 2009 02:27:43 Olivier Mueller wrote: > Hi Mel, > > On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 22:21 +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > > I'm still thinking there's two different (threading|bdb) libraries linked > > into httpd, but not sure to ask for which ldd...httpd or mod_dav

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 15 May 2009 08:46:46 Manish Jain wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:21:46 manish jain wrote: > >> I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in > >> single-user mode. > > > > The only reason to need an edit

Re: USB WLAN Atheros and USB Ethernet FBSD 7.2

2009-05-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 15 May 2009 13:04:50 Saša Stupar wrote: > I suggest you to buy a good AP (Lynksys, Asus, etc.) and it will work much > better than building it from FreeBSD. And this is based on which assumption with what criteria for "working better"? On my FreeBSD AP I can: - view my logs in realtime

Re: mergemaster -U overwriting modified files

2009-05-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 26 April 2009 11:12:12 Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > Bruce Cran wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:10:42 +0200 > > > > Peter Schuller wrote: > >> I recently began testing mergemaster -U since the perpetual "review > >> diff of file I never touched" grows annoying real quick. > >> > >> Unfo

Re: /tmp/security on 7.1-Release

2009-05-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 14 May 2009 08:35:40 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > >> Ever since upgrading from 7.0-Release to 7.1-Release I get the > >> following in the daily security reports: > >> > >> master.lc-words.com kernel log messages: > >> +++ /tmp/security.yMzCQbS8 2009-05-13 03:01:25.0 +020

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:21:46 manish jain wrote: > I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in > single-user mode. The only reason to need an editor and not have /usr and /var available is to edit /etc/fstab. It is trivial to spot errors with /rescue/cat and fix with /re

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 14 May 2009 12:38:30 Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/5/13 Mel Flynn : > > On Wednesday 13 May 2009 11:34:43 Michael Powell wrote: > >> Kind of like how those coming over from a > >> Linux environment all seem to want to change root's shell to bash, it &g

Re: make.conf options based on DESTDIR?

2009-05-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 20:16:47 David Wassman wrote: > I have setup several jails that use a master template similar to the > advanced jail configuration in the handbook. Currently, I build the master > jail with several build options turned off using a separate make.conf file > and setting __MAK

Re: scrotwm can't find

2009-05-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 14 May 2009 10:54:43 Saifi Khan wrote: > Hi: > > Trying to compile scrotwm (from OpenBSD ports) > http://www.peereboom.us/scrotwm/html/scrotwm.html > on my FreeBSD 8.x 200905 i386 system. > > and make can't find > .include > .include > > The directory /usr/ports/Mk/ has bsd.xorg.mk

Re: 7.0 -> 7.1 crash every two day

2009-05-13 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 19:46:26 Gabri Mate wrote: > On 19:57 Tue 12 May , Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Sunday 10 May 2009 20:51:48 mailingl...@modernbiztonsag.org wrote: > > > Dear List, > > > > > > I've upgraded from source my 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE.

Re: Reading warnings when installing multiple ports

2009-05-13 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 21:04:57 Glen Barber wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Mel Flynn > > wrote: > > On Monday 11 May 2009 15:21:24 Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> But, I very often wish there was a convenient way to see some of those > >> messages and esp

Re: subversion / dav_svn_module : Fatal error 'Recurse on a private mutex.'

2009-05-13 Thread Mel Flynn
Hi Olivier, On Wednesday 13 May 2009 19:32:36 Olivier Mueller wrote: > > > ==> /var/log/httpd/httpd-error.log <== > > > Fatal error 'Recurse on a private mutex.' at line 986 in file > > > /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_mutex.c (errno = 86) [Tue May 12 > > > 11:56:02 2009] [notice] child pid 6

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-13 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 11:34:43 Michael Powell wrote: > Kind of like how those coming over from a > Linux environment all seem to want to change root's shell to bash, it > serves no purpose except foot-shooting. - csh cannot redirect stderr seperately from stdout - on pipes the exit status from

Re: 7.0 -> 7.1 crash every two day

2009-05-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 10 May 2009 20:51:48 mailingl...@modernbiztonsag.org wrote: > Dear List, > > I've upgraded from source my 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE. It's a general > purpose server for a small company and it's clients, running web, sql, mail > and recursive dns. The machine is a Compaq ML350 G2. Version

Re: Reading warnings when installing multiple ports

2009-05-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 11 May 2009 15:21:24 Jerry McAllister wrote: > But, I very often wish there was a convenient way to see some of those > messages and especially messages about things one has to do during > the install, such as manually installing something or getting some > license thing handled, before

Re: Booting question

2009-05-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 11 May 2009 03:57:21 Michel Di Croci wrote: > Yes it is in. And it's not the sendmail that is slow, it's the detection / > kernel step... not the service steps. Please choose verbose boot from the menu and hand-copy the lines right before,right after and during which the hang occurs. Y

Re: subversion / dav_svn_module : Fatal error 'Recurse on a private mutex.'

2009-05-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 12:10:58 Olivier Mueller wrote: > Hello, > > I have a strange situation on our internal svn server. Since a few days > and some upgrades, if I try to access a new created repository via > apache, I get a blank page and this error in the apache error log: > > ==> /var/log/http

Re: Reformatting external harddrive

2009-05-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 03:18:13 Daniel Underwood wrote: > After unsuccessfully trying to reformat my external harddrive on my > linux machine, I'm trying to reformat the disk in FreeBSD. Frankly, I > just don't know how to do that. Please help me get the disk back to > working order; I don't need

Re: mount_nfs and fstab options

2009-05-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 14:33:00 Martin Badie wrote: > Hi, > > I have mounted an NFS share like: > > mount_nfs -LisT 10.10.10.199:/vol/share /mnt > > but I can't use -LisT on fstab because man mount_nfs states: Yes you can. Just comma seperate the arguments without whitespace in the appropreate

Re: isc-dhcpd server, HOSTNAME

2009-05-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 09 May 2009 15:09:45 Pieter Donche wrote: > case DHCP server DHCP client HOSTNAME env. var. > > 1 isc-dhcp30-server FreeBSD7-i386 not set >on FreeBSD-amd64 > 2 isc-dhcp30-server SuSE Linux 10.3 set >on FreeBSD-amd64 > > 3

Re: [warn] kevent: Bad file descriptor

2009-05-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 08 May 2009 23:23:32 Gary Gatten wrote: > I just compiled and installed nTop 3.3.10 and now I'm getting this > error. Had an older version running before this with no problem. I'm > on 6.0 RELEASE. I'm still googling, any quick fixes would be GREATLY > appreciated! Shot in the dark: m

Re: sshfs

2009-05-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 08 May 2009 10:18:40 Antonio Tommasi wrote: > "fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory" > Where is the problem There's no fuse device. Read the pkg-message again (fuse_enable in rc.conf and start fuse service - too rusty on the exact fuse* variable name). -- Mel __

Re: Frozen on Boot - Kernel Hanging?

2009-05-07 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 07 May 2009 23:46:54 APseudoUtopia wrote: > Hey, > > My server was fine when I went to work. When I got back, it was dead. > I had the datacenter reboot it, and it refused to boot. It just hangs > with no error message when booting. After the "Welcome to FreeBSD" > menu, it just freezes

Re: Run script on boot, as ordinary user

2009-05-07 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 07 May 2009 19:57:03 Nerius Landys wrote: > So there's cron. Is there anything that lets an ordinary user start > his/her programs at bootup of the system? And then run a script when > the system is shutting down? I'm familiar with /etc/rc.d/, but that's > not really what I'm looking

Re: isc-dhcp logging and status query

2009-05-07 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 07 May 2009 12:00:10 Pieter Donche wrote: > 2. Is there any tool to see what Statically assigned IP address are handed > out at a given time? > (I also see nothing in /var/db/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases file execpt comments) Add omapi-port 7911; to dhcpd.conf. Then, as follows: $ omshell > co

Re: basic

2009-05-07 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 21:09:07 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:00:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > 10 GOTO 10 > > > > On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:32:47 +0200, "giorgio novello" wrote: > > > Do you want obtain new market share? > > > > > > Develop e visual-basic like language, o

Re: Safe to 'make installkernel' in multi-user mode?

2009-05-06 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 22:52:12 Modulok wrote: > Just making sure I'm not brewing a disaster... > > Is it 'safe' to install a kernel (i.e. 'make installkernel') on a > system while in multi-user mode? It's the best and prefered way. Dropping to single user for installkernel has very little adva

Re: Maintaining a FreeBSD system - Workcycle

2009-05-06 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 07 May 2009 05:48:10 Tim Judd wrote: > 2) Install portaudit and watch the periodic mailings that are sent to you. > They list vulnerabilities in ports that really should be addressed. Not really. You can use the same common sense as with the base system and even more so (for the bas

Re: unable to boot with Nvidia AGP graphics card

2009-05-06 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 07 May 2009 04:35:30 Scott Parrish wrote: > Hi all, > Recently my PCI graphics card failed on my Dell Dimension 4100. I replaced > it with a known good card I had lying around: an Nvidia GeForce 3 TI200 > with an AGP interface. My FreeBSD installation will not boot with this > graphi

Re: make - reassign variable using if-then ?

2009-05-06 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 11:31:17 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I'm trying to build gcc43 on alpha 6.4. > In /usr/ports/lang/gcc43/Makefile I have: > > # grep NOT_FOR_ARCHS /usr/ports/lang/gcc43/Makefile > NOT_FOR_ARCHS= alpha ia64 powerpc > # > > In /etc/make.conf I have: > > .if ${.CURDIR:M*/lang

Re: make - reassign variable using if-then ?

2009-05-06 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 10:31:53 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I've this simple makefile: > > VAR=one > > all : main > > main : > @echo ${.CURDIR} > .if ${.CURDIR} > @echo ${VAR} > VAR=two > @echo ${VAR} > .endif > > When I output VAR second time, the value is still

Re: local security scanner for vulnerable common opensource www projects

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 00:01:12 Jeroen Hofstee wrote: > Mel Flynn schreef: > > You can do that, the issue is plugins: > > 0) SuperCMS v 1.0 installed > > 1) CoolStuff via webinterface, by SuperCMSNr1Fan, version 0.1.0.1beta > > 2) SuperCMS v 1.0.1 security releas

Re: local security scanner for vulnerable common opensource www projects

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 22:04:27 Jeroen Hofstee wrote: > Mel Flynn schreef: > > On Saturday 02 May 2009 14:50:14 Jeroen Hofstee wrote: > >> I tried to find a program which could scan the local filesystem and > >> extract a lists of well known web projects (joomla, word

Re: Where am I wasting resources? How to fix this problem?

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 30 April 2009 21:49:13 Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, VeeJay-- > > On Apr 30, 2009, at 12:02 PM, VeeJay wrote: > > Guys, I am not very good on freebsd, its you guys who help me to > > keeping my > > server up... I hope you can spare a few minutes to sort this > > problem... > > > > last pid:

Re: PostgreSQL 8.3.7 builds incomplete

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 23:32:37 Mark wrote: > I should have looked better, instead of just picking the highest-version > > server. Still, makes you wonder, if the postgresql84-server port is so > > incredibly broken, why even include it? It's a "repo copy stub" for the forthcoming release, th

Re: kernel errors - watchdog timeout

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 01 May 2009 16:12:50 Seur Bors wrote: > I'm constantly getting the following repeated in my /var/log/messages: > > kernel: re0: watchdog timeout > kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN > kernel: re0: link state changed to UP > > This was happening right from the get-go on new hardware

Re: Poor ZFS performance

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 04 May 2009 02:07:41 nf wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Frederique Rijsdijk > > wrote: > > nf wrote: > >> 733843456 bytes transferred in 61.124812 secs (12005656 bytes/sec) > > > > That is very low. I get about 60MB/sec in this way. Adding bs=1m it'll go > > up to 240MB/sec even

Re: local security scanner for vulnerable common opensource www projects

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 02 May 2009 14:50:14 Jeroen Hofstee wrote: > I tried to find a program which could scan the local filesystem and > extract a lists of well known > web projects (yoomla, wordpress etc), extract the installed version > number and match it against > a database of known vulnerabilities. Sim

Re: Apache errors.

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 04 May 2009 15:57:02 Martin Smith wrote: > Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Have you tried to recompile the port from which that library came? > > (pkg_info -W /usr/local/lib/libavahi-common.so.3 should help you finding > > the correct port if you do not know which port that is) >

Re: Upgrading jails to 7.2-RELEASE with freebsd-update

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 17:37:42 Martin Turgeon wrote: > Hi everyone, > > It's the first time I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to a > new release. I just upgraded the base system from 7.1-RELEASE to > 7.2-RELEASE and everything went fine. I now wanted to upgrade my jails > to the new re

Re: Is it necessary to generate a new SSL request each year?

2009-04-29 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 30 April 2009 01:05:50 Robert Huff wrote: > Dan Nelson writes: > > > When buying a new SSL cert, I've been generating a new > > > request each year... I am just about to buy another and it > > > occurred to me that I'm entering the same info. Do I really > > > need a new request f

Re: Where am I wasting resources? How to fix this problem?

2009-04-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 14:21:45 VeeJay wrote: > Hello Peter > > Thanks... I have tried the values but even after rebooting, I am still > getting the same old values as: > > server1# sysctl -a | grep maxdsiz > compat.ia32.maxdsiz: 536870912 > > server1# sysctl -a | grep

Re: Where am I wasting resources? How to fix this problem?

2009-04-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 14:29:42 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > [r...@wojtek ~]# sysctl -a |grep maxpr > kern.maxproc: 5266 > kern.maxprocperuid: 4739 > > > i don't know if there is limit Not relevant. See pthread_create(): EAGAIN is returned for lack of kernel memory or going over PHTREAD_THREADS_MAX

Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp

2009-04-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 27 April 2009 20:19:33 Anton Yuzhaninov wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:28:01 -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote: > MK> I'm setting up a firewall and would like to monitor certain system > MK> parameters like network, cpu, and memory usage. SNMP is an obvious > MK> choice to do the monitoring and

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-26 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 26 April 2009 01:12:48 Tom Worster wrote: > thanks for the tip, mel. i got rid of the ports involved and reinstalled > with WITHOUT_X11=yes and the install was faster and things are a lot > tidier. > > i had no idea that i ought to be configuring port builds with env vars. is > there doc

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 17:37:06 Tom Worster wrote: > by the by, on my test machine i ended up with python installed. seems to be > because i needed php5-gd which now depends on python. all for some simple > freetype2 calls. Wrong assumption. php-gd doesn't depend on python at all. devel/apr d

Re: libc or OpenSSL patches break ssh?

2009-04-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 20:11:09 Jake Evans wrote: > Am running 6.4-PRERELEASE. > > Received FreeBSD-SA-09:07.libc / FreeBSD-SA-09:08.openssl notifications > today, applied applicable patches correctly. > > However, now when anyone attempts to connect to my server via SSH, the > connection is cl

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 21:07:34 Chuck Swiger wrote: > Try contacting your ISP for nearby NTP > sources, Anchorage, AK, is special that way. I'll check with ACS if they have one, but if they don't, even traffic to the local competitor (GCI) goes through Seattle. -- Mel

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:43:30 Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, Mel-- > > On Apr 21, 2009, at 2:06 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: > > Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to > > believe it's > > possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time.

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 20:29:18 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: > > Now I'm also wondering how ntpd handles securelevel 2. > > "man init" suggests that stepping the clock by more than a second is > disallowed: yes, so doe

Re: Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, required by errors

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:33:37 Agus wrote: > 2009/4/14 Ruben de Groot : > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:40:51PM -0300, Agus typed: > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> Yesterday i suddenly start receiving this errors... first i noticed it > >> cause i couldnt login and bash threw it.. then su... > >> > >> /li

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:31:33 RW wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:43:32 +0200 > > Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote: > > > The bottom line though, is that ntpdate_enable=yes solves the > > > problem entirely, since the real

Re: Compiling FreeBSD with GCC 4.3+

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 17:37:50 David Naylor wrote: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:32:04 Mel Flynn wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > On Monday 20 April 2009 21:48:39 David Naylor wrote: > > > There has been an article recently published by phoronix > > > (http:/

Re: Sorting out owner and group permissions...

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 15:13:47 Mister Olli wrote: > no does not work, since using SSH / SFTP does not involve starting a > shell. so umask settings don't work. Then you're using the wrong system for the task. The OS can't make assumptions about "what the ownership/modes of a file should reall

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:11:52 Tim Judd wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Matthew Seaman < > > m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > > Mel Flynn wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote: > The bottom line though, is that ntpdate_enable=yes solves the problem > entirely, since the real problem is not the step, but the fact that it > happens in the background, and after a delay. Care to expand on that? Dovecot won't stop if root issues a

Re: Sorting out owner and group permissions...

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:17:40 Mister Olli wrote: > hi, > > I have the same problem on some fileservers I do the administration for. > But in my case the users send the files via SSH to the server. > > A solution for this, based on some OS mechanism would be really > great :-) umask(1). -- Mel

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 14:21:12 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Mark Stosberg wrote: > >>> We had problem with "named" starting on boot on a FreeBSD 6.1 server, > >>> managed > >>> by /etc/rc.conf. > >>> > >>> The startup script failed with errors about shared library "libm.so.2" > >>> failing > >>> to

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:39:32 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe > > it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't > > mea

Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
Hi, Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't mean the skew operation, but really change the time. Backwards is my primary concern but if it can be turned off completely it's fine with me. Rea

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 01:38:26 Tom Worster wrote: > portmaster -a -x mysql-server > portmaster mysql-server > reboot No no no. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start. Reboot is for kernel upgrades. And never use reboot unless in single user mode, cause reboot is really fast reboot: it doesn'

Re: Compiling FreeBSD with GCC 4.3+

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
Hi David, On Monday 20 April 2009 21:48:39 David Naylor wrote: > There has been an article recently published by phoronix > (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=pcbsd_vs_kubuntu&num=1) > that compares PC-BSD to Kubuntu. Kubuntu uses GCC 4.3.3 compared to > FreeBSD's GCC 4.2.2. Th

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 23:48:47 Tim Judd wrote: > > I include the following "ldd" output in case it's helpful. What could > > possibly > > be the issue here? > > > >Mark > > > > ### > > > > # ldd /usr/sbin/named > > /usr/sbin/named: > >libcrypto.so.4 => /lib/libcrypto.so.4 (0x281ff000

Re: mount_cd9660 - /dev/md0: Invalid Arguement

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 18:32:58 Евгений Л wrote: > Hello everyone, I am trying to mount an ISO image (which was converted with > with help from ccd2iso tool) Tried that too, I think that tool is broken, cause known working ISOs work with mdconfig as you described :/ -- Mel _

Re: Dump | Restore

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 14:59:55 cpghost wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:46:05PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > use rsh not ssh unless you really need encryption. > > Sure, you *could* do that, but be sure to encrypt *and* sign the > backup stream beforehand, e.g. using openssl or gnupg... A

Re: snd-hda no sound whatsoever

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 03:11:08 Eitan Adler wrote: > > If it still doesn't work put a verbose boot dmesg of snd_hda and pcm > > somewhere (see the man page of snd_hda) and ask on the > > freebsd-multimedia@ mailing list. > > #sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=0 > Works - thanks. Now - to make this chang

Re: Upgrading from 6.3 to 7.1 -- how dangerous?

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 19 April 2009 19:42:39 Doug Hardie wrote: > While most of the update process is > waiting for things to complete, mergemaster requires a lot of > responses to a ton of questions about updates to configuration files. > The vast majority of those will be to install the new version. > Howeve

Re: Upgrading from 6.3 to 7.1 -- how dangerous?

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 19 April 2009 19:06:55 John Almberg wrote: > I've thought about setting up a dummy server, just to practice on. Is > this a good idea? If this is to get a feel for the upgrade process, sure. But if the hardware is different, you won't be much wiser for the production box in question. I

Re: Fetchmail problem

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 09:12:32 Annelise Anderson wrote: > Fbsd1 wrote: > > Annelise Anderson wrote: > >> I am trying to use fetchmail on FreeBSD but get the message: > >> > >> fetchmail: SMTP< 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address > >> owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org does not resolve The questi

Re: How to create a livecd without compiling everything.

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 08:23:42 Peter Wang wrote: > I want to create a customized freebsd livecd, and i have read quite a > lot guides about how to do that. but the problem is: most of these > need make buildworld, make buildkernel ... I think it's hard for my > notebook do that. so is there a si

Re: About fetchmail

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 12:20:15 张臻 wrote: > Today when I used fetchmail to get my mails, it suddenly said that if > failed to connect to localhost:25 and failed to send the mail to myself, > does anyone know why? > The information that fetch out put > reading message x...@xxx.xx:1 of 3 (2223 octet

Re: Fan Speed

2009-04-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 19 April 2009 03:06:07 Christopher Chambers wrote: > My laptop runs a little hot. Is it possible to increase the default fan > speed? I'm running version 7.1 on an acer. Active cooling is under control of ACPI, typically not exposed to non-windows operating systems: hw.acpi.thermal.tz0

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:34:52 Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote: > As a fastcgi not cgi, there is a differenceimportant one. > for cgi request a new php process is started for a request. > fastcgi is php listening for network requests and process can be reused. And the more important difference with

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