Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
Hi PJ, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ typed: I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give some insight on what is see from this end: You probably won't get much helpfull response. When troubleshooting, it's allways best to try to break down the problem

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:12:27PM -0400, PJ typed: Ruben de Groot wrote: Hi PJ, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ typed: I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give some insight on what is see from this end: You probably won't get

Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

2009-08-12 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 01:00:31PM -0700, Raisa Brokhshtut typed: Hello, ? My old desktop has FreeBSD that I have never used. One of the friends of my son installed it long ago, but no one used that PC since then. Now I want to get rid of this program and to install Windows.?Every time when

Re: location of user crontab files?

2009-08-12 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:21:08PM -0400, Karl Vogel typed: On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:50:54 -0400, Identry iden...@gmail.com said: I Where are user crontab files stored in the file system? I want to make I sure this info is backed up. They're in /var/cron/tabs. If you're using

Re: Some problems with Marvell Yukon NIC

2009-08-06 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 06:44:15PM +0300, Anton typed: Hello freebsd-questions, Found the solution here: [1]http ://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-10/msg01065 .html But do not know how to apply patch :-( The URL you posted says it all: Save

Re: ftps ?(off-topic)

2009-08-04 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:14:39AM +0200, Mark Stapper typed: It would be nice to hear more she-calling on these lists though... So maybe mailing list etiquette should state anyone posting to a mailing list should be referred to as she like we do with boats and institutions like the

Re: Building FreeBSD Current on Debian Squeeze AMD64

2009-07-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:12:14PM +0200, Oliver Pinter typed: debian not only linux based: http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ http://www.debian.org/ports/#nonlinux That's not the point. FreeBSD is a complete OS. Not just a kernel and some tools Why would you want to replace all the

Re: Bruteblock

2009-07-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:06:35PM -0400, Grant Peel typed: Hi all, I am trying to get Bruteblock working on FreeBSD 6.2 and hav e run into a snag. It appears that Proftpd is not sending log detail to the auth or authpriv facility. I have a simple Proftpd setup, with the SysLog

Re: Sendmail to duplicate messages

2009-07-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:58:55AM +0700, Olivier Nicole typed: Hi, What rule, in what file should I set-up to have my mail sendmail mail server duplicate all messages to another mail server? I am in the proces sof setting-up a new mail server; in the meantime I want all messages arriving

Re: Samba PDC with LDAP backend

2009-07-20 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 06:22:50PM +0800, Ruel Luchavez typed: But to some one out their who has an idea to this you are very much WELCOME:-) I think this was mentioned before, but did you have to edit /usr/local/etc/smbldap-tools/smbldap.conf and

Re: Samba PDC with LDAP backend

2009-07-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:53:40PM +0800, Ruel Luchavez typed: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Olivier Nicole o...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Still it does not start the LDAP, hers my /etc/rc.conf: slapd_flags='-h ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fopenldap%2fldapi/ ldaps:// 192.168.5.0/

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:46:43AM -0400, Steve Bertrand typed: John Almberg wrote: On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: You can fix the security problems by dumping Bind and using djbdns. What security problems? This one ? :) http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2812 I

Re: Make a FreeBSD instance within FreeBSD with Jail...

2009-07-12 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 06:20:55AM -0700, Diego Montalvo typed: I had a hosting company which allowed me to run my own apps in an instance of a jail what if I wanted to make a dynamic jail that has its predefined softwares installed? How does one go about duplicating this dynamically? Like on

Re: jail/system crash with mount_unionfs

2009-07-10 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:37:40AM -0400, Jim typed: As you can see, there is a work around, so I'm not that /bothered/ by this, but it'd be nice to know what's up. Am I doing something wrong? If not, can anyone replicate this? Should I file a bug report? according to the manpage, unionfs is

Re: FTP Server for individual client spaces

2009-07-10 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 03:10:24PM +0100, RS Wood typed: I run a small engineering company* that exchanges large files (CAD, etc.) with clients, and I want to keep the docs off my email server by setting up a stand alone FTP server where each client can upload and download its relevant files.

Re: FTP

2009-07-08 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:06:12AM -0500, Kevin Kinsey typed: Jos Chrispijn wrote: Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:27:53AM +0200, Jos Chrispijn typed: - use truss on the server process Thanks for your reply; can you explain what you mean with this? Jos Chrispijn

Re: FreeBSD HA file cluster possibilities

2009-07-08 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 03:54:23PM -0500, Adam Vande More typed: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:17 AM, RIck van der Zwet rvdz...@transip.nlwrote: d) drbd: http://www.drbd.org/ - Does anyone has a working (alternative) setup on FreeBSD? Any other solution/setup I am missing? Using external

Re: FreeBSD HA file cluster possibilities

2009-07-08 Thread Ruben de Groot
Hi Rick, On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:17:46PM +0200, RIck van der Zwet typed: I been (re)searching and reading what the options are with regards to H(igh) A(vailablility) file storage using FreeBSD, but cannot yet find a proper working solution. Any advice welcome! I've sought for proper

Re: FTP

2009-07-07 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:27:53AM +0200, Jos Chrispijn typed: FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE I do an upload to this server (plain ftp, not thru a php script) and every time the upload gets stuck at approx. 1,2 Gb. There is no shortage on capacity on that slice and I don't get a log report on ftp

Re: how to do a live migration of a freebsd box to another box with rsync

2009-07-06 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 06:18:03PM +0200, insrc typed: Hi, I'm used to migrate GNU/Linux system from one box to another by booting the second box with a liveCD (like systemrescueCD for example) and by copying the / filesystem (using the ssh transport) with rsync. I would like to do the same

Re: IPFW: Need some help

2009-06-28 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 02:14:00PM +0300, Anton typed: Hello all, I'm new to *nix and now, while configuring IPFW Firewall on FreeBSD 7.2 = has stuck in a problem: After packet from my network is passed to natd demon - it is returning t= o firewall (it is normal, as I

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:36:31AM -0400, John L. Templer typed: ed is an interactive program, and it has always been considered as such, at least since BSD 4.2. Way back then there were three main editors, ex, vi, and ed. If you had a nice video terminal then you used vi. But if you were

Re: slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

2009-06-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:35:56PM -0500, Dan Nelson typed: In the last episode (Jun 22), Ruben de Groot said: My main concern here is if applying the trivial patch I posted would break anything in the http protocol layer. And if not, why isn't the POST method included in the http accept

Re: slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

2009-06-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 05:23:19PM +0200, Fabian Keil typed: Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:35:56PM -0500, Dan Nelson typed: In the last episode (Jun 22), Ruben de Groot said: My main concern here is if applying the trivial patch I posted would

Re: Changing my login directory

2009-06-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 03:05:55PM -0400, Karl Vogel typed: On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:13:32 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca said: S I've got a couple of jails now that I use exclusively for Perl S development. As soon as I log into the box via SSH, my first command is S _always_ cd

slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

2009-06-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
Hi, Can enybody explain why the http accept filter only works on GET/HEAD requests? The reason I ask is I was checking up on the slowloris DOS tool (http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/slowloris.pl) and, like others before me, found that the -httpready switch (which uses POST instead of GET) renders

Re: slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

2009-06-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Norbert Papke typed: On June 22, 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote: Can enybody explain why the http accept filter only works on GET/HEAD requests? The reason I ask is I was checking up on the slowloris DOS tool (http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris

Re: freebsd mass deployment

2009-06-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:01:42AM +, Martin Thomas typed: Hello list, I'd like to install FreeBSD on a number of machines, automatically and unattended over Ethernet via PXE. I'm quite familiar with FAI, which does a great job for Debian, and I'd like to know whether there is

Re: The 'uname' output

2009-06-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:40:47PM +0200, Harry Matthiesen Jensen typed: I have wondered why my build number in the 'uname' output not is incrementet for each build I make of the system, it shows '#0' all the time. Example output of 'uname -a': FreeBSD mugin-LAN.localhost 8.0-CURRENT

Re: Cannot login as root, exited on signal 11

2009-06-16 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 02:37:54PM -0400, Glen Barber typed: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Ruben de Grootmai...@bzerk.org wrote: If so, reboot into single-user mode, and change it back. Why reboot? You can su -s /bin/tcsh How can you change the shell if you cannot log in? That's

Re: Cannot login as root, exited on signal 11

2009-06-15 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 04:11:12PM -0400, Glen Barber typed: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Ungaunga...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all This is FreeBSD 7.2 on i386. After a custom compiled from sources installation, root cannot log in but normal users can log in. Here are the

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 04:39:19PM +0200, Bernt Hansson typed: Polytropon said the following on 2009-06-12 12:54: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:45:59 +0200, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: Mel Flynn said the following on 2009-06-12 01:23: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 11 21:56:24

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 06:25:07PM +, Paul Schmehl typed: Is there a right way to do things in Unix? Yes there is. But the burden is on the developer/packager. The right way to do things is to leave the choice to the end-user. ___

Re: Program update(s)

2009-06-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:47:39PM +0200, Jos Chrispijn typed: Can someone tell me why I have to recompile all related programs when I upgrade to a newer version of Perl? How easy it would be that all these 'to be recompiled' programs only were linked to just Perl instead of Perl.x.x.x. Or

Re: kernel compiling questions

2009-06-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 05:19:01PM -0700, Jason Helfman typed: Hi. I am trying to figure out how when making the kernel that the number is incremented. For example my system reads: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #4 I have my own kernel that works, however I would like to have it read this:

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-09 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:43:08AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar typed: Buy second hand branded hardware from ebay (allegro in poland). It's usually hardware that was used in offices and replaced by more modern ones. It's already tested!!! You could get high-end PIII with 512MB RAM for $30 at

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:58:57PM -0400, Chuck Robey typed: Lars Eighner wrote: I have some sources which may or may not exist. My target should be rebuilt if a source exists that is younger than the target. But sources that do not exist should be ignored and make should not be

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-07 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 02:05:39PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar typed: rsync isn't bloated and it's well written IMO. It still does only one job, and it does it well. As you say, most common tasks can still be done with only short options. This would change if some developer decided to add other,

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-06 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:08:23PM -0500, Kirk Strauser typed: Chris Rees wrote: Traditional: % tar xzvf bluurgh.tgz GNU recommended: $ tar --extract --verbose --gunzip --file bluurgh.tgz Seriously, why are long options encouraged? Scripting. I almost always use long options

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-06 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 11:49:51AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar typed: what some single-letter option meant. I pretty much never use them on the command line, though. Agreed, the long options *as an alternative* can be descriptive in scripts, tutorials, howto's etc. The other reason often

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-06-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 05:48:29PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar typed: every donation is highly welcome. Please have a look at http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml As you can see, every donor is mentioned, no matter how small the amount. They'll display a link for donations of

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-06-02 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:08:30AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar typed: I still cannot understand why you - an active, experienced and knowledgeable FBSD user - would want to scare off potential donors for the once again please reread that post. it wasn't even potential donor, but potential

Re: USB-to-serial adapter configuration

2009-05-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:07:09PM +, Saifi Khan typed: Hi all: How does one configure settings for USB-to-serial adapter in FreeBSD ? The one i have purchased is http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=CHEAP-SERIALcats=199catid=482%2C1303%2C199%2C461%2C106%2C1009%2C601

Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?

2009-05-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:36:31AM -0700, Peter Steele typed: FUD, read ifconfig(8) There is no mention of wake-on-LAN in the man page for ifconfig in 7.0. I'd be interested in seeing if the 8.0 man page has added anything. It has: wol, wol_ucast, wol_mcast, wol_magic

Re: does the DRBD can running on freebsd ?

2009-05-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:32:17AM +0800, yibin.ji...@gmail.com typed: hello I hava a question, can the DRBD run on freebsd ? And does the FreeBSD have DRBD-likes the soft on freeBSD? Unfortunately not. Allthough you can mirror a filesystem over the network using a combination of ggate and

Re: lost+found

2009-05-04 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 11:06:27PM +0200, Polytropon typed: On Sat, 02 May 2009 15:45:13 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: [~]# cd /tmp/lost+found/#123456 [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# ls Okay, it's empty. [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# cd .. Strange, why does .. lead you from

Re: how to deceive programs as if I were a local user?

2009-04-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 05:34:16PM +0900, Kouichiro Iwao typed: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:17:11AM -0700, Chris Cowart wrote: This error means the program tried to look up some name information for your UID number and failed. You need to configure the data source in /etc/nsswitch.conf:

Re: OpenLDAP/SSH : sshd[1414]: fatal: login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid 1000

2009-04-24 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Ivan Voras typed: O. Hartmann wrote: Since several months after a upgrade from OpenLDAP 2.4.11 to the most recent one I have trouble login in on machines which authenticate users via OpenLDAP. I've just installed a fresh machine with FreeBSD

Re: how to deceive programs as if I were a local user?

2009-04-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 04:32:29PM +0900, Kouichiro Iwao typed: Hi. I'm going to connect to the remote server with nxclient. But, net/linux-nx-client does't work with non-local (NIS or LDAP) account. Connecting the remote server, nxclient says connection error and I found out that it

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

2009-04-14 Thread 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... /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by -su Then i remove bash and

Re: Can I resume the perl upgrade?

2009-04-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:05:50PM -0700, David Southwell typed: On Saturday 11 April 2009 17:20:56 Chris Rees wrote: I hope it is not too far off topic but: Can anyone tell me how to fix this one: Stale dependency: bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-3.15 - perl-5.8.9_2 (lang/perl5.8): can't

Re: cannot kill process with kill -9

2009-04-10 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:26:51PM -0600, Joshua Gimer typed: You might also find a little bit information about what the process is waiting on by attaching to it with strace (in ports under devel) (strace -p PID). why would you install strace from ports? truss does the same job. Ruben On

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:30:31AM +0530, Mehul Ved typed: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: For testing purposes I've used Suns VirtualBox under Windows, it runs under Linux as well. (Free)BSD installs well and it can give you a first impression on how

Re: mod_php5 and apache22

2009-03-24 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:20:26PM +0100, Mel Flynn typed: On Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:13:33 Christoph Kukulies wrote: I moved a site from some FreeBSD 5.2 or something (with apache2 and mod_php5 at that time, about 3 years old) to 7.1 (Beta though) and apache22. Now I don't find

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 06:02:26AM -0500, Michael Powell typed: Redd Vinylene wrote: Thanks guys. But I guess I'm all outta luck: $ sudo -s /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libutil.so.5 not found, required by sudo [snip] Don't know if this would help but you might try

Re: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-04 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:52:02PM +, Vincent Hoffman typed: Marc Coyles wrote: I need to do a find / replace throughout the entire of the /home/horbury/public_html directory... I've tried 'find /home/Horbury/ -type f | xargs grep -l base64_decode' to get a list of the files that

Re: Anybody familiar with publib??

2008-11-30 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 02:51:23PM -0800, Gary Kline typed: People, I found a neat function in publib that should do what I want, but adding either #imclude publib.h // as per man publib OR #include /usr/local/include/publib.h fails. Yes, I am adding -lpub to the enc of gcc.

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:23:24PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar typed: once again i repeat - FreeBSD is not windows replacement. it's unix. All nice GUI for unices turned to be bad idea, every windows user will say it's poor compared to windows. and they are right. I totally disagree. Please note

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:16:37PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar typed: All nice GUI for unices turned to be bad idea, every windows user will say it's poor compared to windows. and they are right. I totally disagree. Please note that your *opinion* doesn't become truth, i exactly repeat opinion

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-16 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:20:26PM +0100, Polytropon typed: On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:49:35 -0800 (PST), GESBBB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, this also works with Perl as you no doubt know. I cannot count how many times I have installed a Perl script and then had to modify the

Re: Recover Deleted File FreeBSD 7.0

2008-08-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
Restore from your backups (you DO have backups, don't you?) ;) Otherwise, there's no easy way to do this. If the data you deleted is very valuable, first thing to do is umount the filesystem, preventing the data of the deleted files from being overwritten by any new filesystem writes. There

Re: Group Limits

2008-07-31 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:24:02AM +0200, Roland Smith typed: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:32:23AM +1000, Michael Christie wrote: Can any one advise me how to expand the number of groups allow on freebsd I think my default it is 16, I need to make it 50 to 100 The number 16 is from

Re: filesystem information

2008-07-01 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:12:59PM -0400, Jim typed: I'm aware of nothing but a UPS can completely protect me from an outage. I was just wondering why that ONE file system was misbehaving, and the rest are prefectly fine - which seemed odd. Additionally, why were files that are read, but not

Re: Vsftpd rotate logs with newsyslog...

2008-06-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:29:13AM -0400, David Robillard typed: Well, i take this opportunity also to ask about Apache toowhich signal should i send? A HUP signal should work for apache. Actually, the Apache documentation says that one must use USR1 instead of HUP to send a

Re: Vsftpd rotate logs with newsyslog...

2008-06-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
Hi Agustin, On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 03:52:55PM -0300, Agus typed: Hi fellows... I am wanting to rotate logs for vsftpd using newsyslog...My question is, does vsftpd needs to get the HUP or any signal after rotation? I run it from inetd so i guess the HUP should be sent to inetd.pid

Re: cutecom requires sudo to work, but minicom works without - permissions?

2008-04-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:11:33AM -0500, Derek Ragona typed: At 07:39 PM 4/14/2008, Steve Franks wrote: I have two terminal programs - cutecom and minicom, both built from ports with no tweaks. Minicom will fire up and hit the serial port just fine, but cutecom can't open it except with

Re: DNS /etc/namedb owner hell

2008-02-20 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:09:53AM +0200, Deian Popov typed: Hello, I have the following problem with bind: it is configured to run as bind:bind and after every reboot of the system all files and directories under /etc/namedb become owned by root:wheel so bind is unable is unable to

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-02-01 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:57:49PM -0600, Chris typed: NOTE: I don't use mergemaster unless I go from say 6.3 to 7.0 Not wise. New features and fixes are applied to configuration files and rc scripts regu;arly. You'll probably miss them. STABLE is the security fix branch. Wrong. According to

Re: Spamassassin: Fill /var/log/maillog

2008-02-01 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:45:10PM +0100, Martin Schweizer typed: Hello I get allways the following message in /var/log/maillog: Jan 31 17:21:36 acsvfbsd02 spamd[53289]: spamd: connection from localhost.sample.ch [127.0.0.1] at port 64026 Jan 31 17:21:36 acsvfbsd02 spamd[53289]: spamd:

Re: How to install FreeBSD remotely from Debian Linux Environment?

2007-12-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:11:01PM +0100, Yves Vogl typed: Hi, I tried to install FreeBSD from an existing Debian 4.0 Linux installation with Depenguinator 1.1. Depenguinator failed due to a wide range of incompatibilities caused by gcc-4.0 and the beta code used in Depenguinator. Next

Re: Remove ports dependencies

2007-08-10 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:53:39PM +0100, Christopher Key typed: Hello, I recently tried to install vim from the ports collections, however I didn't do it with 'WITHOUT_X11', and accordingly it went off and installed X + presumably a whole load of dependencies which I really don't want. Is

Re: Can cron e-mail HTML?

2007-07-16 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 06:21:16PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin typed: = To accomplish this I have my cron job run a script like this Sorry, I missed the most important part. Your script just uses /usr/bin/mail, the same way cron does. You are not adding anything, not already present in cron --

Re: mknod, devfs and FreeBSD

2007-01-31 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:25:24AM +, Freminlins typed: Kris, On 29/01/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To put it bluntly, it's something you're just going to have to get over :-) That's unhelpful. It is, in my opinion, a bad idea to have to mount up 1400 instances of

Re: [PATCH] Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop

2005-11-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ruben de Groot Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:37 AM To: Peter Clutton; Derek Tracy; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [PATCH] Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop Following up on myself; the patch below (relative to 5.4-RELEASE) makes my vaio VGN-S5M/S

[PATCH] Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop

2005-11-16 Thread Ruben de Groot
Following up on myself; the patch below (relative to 5.4-RELEASE) makes my vaio VGN-S5M/S recognise the SATA controller for what it is. Before: atapci1: GENERIC ATA controller port 0x18a0-0x18af,0x1894-0x1897,0x18b0-0x18b7,0x18b8-0x18bb,0x18c0-0x18c7 irq 18 at device 31.2 on pci0 ad4: 76319MB

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop

2005-11-15 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:59:52AM +1100, Peter Clutton typed: On 11/15/05, Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My quess from the below snippet of dmesg is that there's something fishy about the second controller (where the disk is attached) that is tolerated by 5.4's ata driver

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop

2005-11-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 09:02:52AM +1100, Peter Clutton typed: On 11/14/05, Derek Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have finally decided to ditch Gentoo for FreeBSD especially since the new release is out now, but I have ran into a huge problem. Upon trying to boot the install CD (I have

Re: LDAP/nss_ldap adduser script

2005-07-27 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:39:14AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hi all, I've been using an ldap directory for quite a while now for my network logins, and love it. Problem is, it can be quite cumbersome to work with, any ldap clients I have looked at are either very sketchy or overly

Re: Problem with isc-dhcp3-server and etherboot

2005-07-27 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:53:51PM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn typed: - I noticed that portupgrade stops dhcp before upgrading, but does not start it again afterwards. Is this expected behaviour? Well, I certainly wasn't expecting this last time I upgraded dhcpd. Found out only days later when

Re: Suggestions for post rm -rf /etc/*

2005-04-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:52:41AM -0500, Glen Smith typed: Anyone have a suggestion for fixing a machine three states away after you rm -rf * dir/* inside of /etc or am I just screwed. I even had zsh ask me if that's what I really want to do. ::sob:: Well, asuming you don't have any backups

Re: Who is using ACLs in production?

2005-03-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 01:20:06PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski typed: Anyone using ACLs in production on FreeBSD 5.x? If so, how do you use them, and what are your impressions? How do they affect performance, how reliable is the code, does it really help security, etc.? I installed many samba

Re: dir ~

2005-03-01 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:58:45PM -, Rob typed: Hi, I typed mv file dir/~ and I now have dir/~ but when I go to that it takes me to my home which happened to be root, I tried to delete the directory and it started deleting roots home. Is there a way to delete this ~ dir? How

Re: Why can't I access my floppy disk?

2005-02-28 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:41:10PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski typed: Loren M. Lang writes: I don't know why this is, it should still be possible, especially since you can mount cdroms. /dev/fd0 is read/write by root right? And the disk already had a formatted filesystem on it before you

Re: tap interface, bridging and freebsd 5.3

2005-02-28 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:18:55PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli typed: Andrea Riela wrote: but I don't see a tap interface in /dev or with ifconfig ... You won't see any network interface in /dev; just run ifconfig -a and check: you won't find any of the listed devices in /dev. That's right;

Re: remote dump via ssh

2005-02-28 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 03:41:51PM +, John typed: Hi folks I want to level 0 dump a remote partition onto a large local disk. There's not enough space on the remote machine to dump to a file then sftp over. It needs to dump via ssh. any ideas? lokking for an elegant one-line solution

Re: SCO file system mounting

2005-02-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:13:06AM -0600, Aftab Jahan Subedar typed: Hauan David A wrote: -Original Message- From: Aftab Jahan Subedar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SCO file system mounting Hello to all.

Re: talk command help

2005-02-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:07:43PM -0800, monchis typed: I Am new to unix so I am learning how to use it, but i want to know how to talk to someone. I already used the man pages but i just don't get it. can you show me an example of how to talk to someone hat is logged in. thanks You'll have

Re: Sendmail masquerading configuration

2005-02-08 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 03:05:21AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt typed: -Original Message- From: Ruben de Groot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 6:55 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Ian Moore; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail masquerading

Re: favor

2005-02-08 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:16:22PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski typed: DG So it helps the copyright situation, but breaks the usefulness of DG any archive. The copyright situation is an unavoidable legal mandate, not an option. You cannot defend against an infringement action by saying that

Re: ktrace as a replacement for strace

2005-02-08 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 03:59:28AM -0800, Loren M. Lang typed: I'm looking for a replacement for the strace program I used to use on linux; freebsd has a port of strace, but it just hangs everytime I use it. It looks like the bsd version of strace would be ktrace/kdump. I was able to get

Re: Sendmail masquerading configuration

2005-02-07 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:28:17AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt typed: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ian Moore Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 2:07 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sendmail masquerading configuration

Re: Strange foreign connections

2005-02-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:01:42AM -0600, Gene typed: While running netstat I found these entries: Active Internet connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address(state) tcp4 0 0 localhost.52730undernet1.blueyo.ircd

Re: ee editor rules :)

2005-02-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:23:12PM +, Xian typed: Does anyone have an Idiots guide to VI? There isn't. vi was never meant to be used by idiots ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Compiling/installing ports via NFS - any gotcha's? (while building linux_base-8-8.0_6, /usr/bin/build-locale-archive: cannot lock new archive: Operation not supported)

2005-02-02 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:15:19PM -0600, John typed: I don't have enough storage on my laptop for the entire ports tree (surprise, surprise), so I'm trying to make install acroread and jdk14 via NFS mounts from a bigger server. I'm down to trying to get the specific version of linux_base

Re: Perl modules

2005-02-02 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:06:57AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hello, I have to do thise things: A) if Perl is installed from pkg_add and not the ports, uninstall it. pkg_delete -f perl5.8 B) add ENABLE_SUIDPERL=true to /etc/make.conf C) cd to /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 D) make

Re: library call for directory path creation?

2005-02-02 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:39:21PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc typed: On 02/01/05 12:58 PM, Michael C. Shultz sat at the `puter and typed: On Tuesday 01 February 2005 11:35 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: I know there might be a better place for this question, but here goes. I'm working on a

Re: [lorenl@alzatex.com: Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?]

2005-02-01 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:47:53AM -0800, Loren M. Lang typed: On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:38:53PM +, Mark Ovens wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: replacing MYWORKGROUP, SERVER, USER, secret as neccessary. Make sure nsmb.conf is only readable by root. Add the following line to fstab:

Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?

2005-01-31 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:42:29AM -0800, Mac Mason typed: Can anybody point me at some documenation for mounting a samba share at boot time? I'm used to the linux-style trick of adding it to fstab and pointing it at a credentials file, but am pretty sure that won't work in FreeBSD. See

Re: [Repost] Logging to custom file via syslog [was]: php log to own syslog file

2005-01-27 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:28:06AM -0500, Gerard Samuel typed: ... This will only log user.info messages coming from the ppp program to /var/log/php.log. Either move the user.=info line up or finish the !ppp block with a !* line (see manpage). I went over the man page, and I dont see any

Re: [Repost] Logging to custom file via syslog [was]: php log to own syslog file

2005-01-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:18:46PM -0500, Gerard Samuel typed: I think this is a FreeBSD problem. It's not. Here is what I have. 1. I removed my initial modification of /etc/syslog.conf, and added - user.=info /var/log/php.log According to

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