What's the bridged option in ipfw's man page ?

Hi... lists, I've read the ipfw man page and in the RULE OPTION There is bridged option there. I'm currently set the bridge-base firewall so my question is what's the bridged packets and how much I take advantage from this option ? TIA, pjn

How DBA solved overload problem ?

To all, As a newly DBA, I really don't know how I deal with this problem. My problem is not so long ago, my database server seem to overloaded. It take me a time to find the cause of problem. I realize that some program don't queried wiht inappropriated SQL statement. I mean they're not

Problem with adding more swap !

Hi, all The documents on freebsd's website suggest that, as a system grows, it's recommended for adding more swap paritition to system. My questions are: Does it mean adding another swap to disk or to slice ? The disk structure: ad0s1 -- ad0s1a / (boot from here)

Re: Problem with adding more swap !

Hi, I've heard if there are many disks on one machine it's good (in respect of performance) for adding swap parition on multiple drive, what does this mean (if that's true) ? My box has six IDE drives two on primary, two on secondary and two connected via IDE controller. TIA, pjn ---

Have anyone seen this benchmark ?

Hi, all I saw this on www.OsNews.com (http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/) but no FreeBSD_4. Is there any benchmark between linux-2.6 and FreeBSD_4 in various aspects. Or any comments are welcome, pjn Want to chat instantly

why can't I get FreeBSD-RELEASE-p14 with this cvsup file ?

Hi all I've cvsup with below supfile. After finished, The file:/usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh say # @(#)newvers.sh 8.1 (Berkeley) 4/20/94 # $FreeBSD: src/sys/conf/newvers.sh,v 1.44.2.29.2.15 2003/11/27 16:34:21 nectar Exp $ TYPE=FreeBSD REVISION=4.8 BRANCH=RELEASE-p14

Re: why can't I get FreeBSD-RELEASE-p14 with this cvsup file ?

date in supfile but still get only 4.8-RELEASE-p14. Why isn't it 4.8-RELEASE-p15 ? TIA, Pote --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:16:36AM +, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: Hi all I've cvsup with below supfile. After finished, The file:/usr/src

Re: why can't I get FreeBSD-RELEASE-p14 with this cvsup file ?

You're specifying a date string right down to the precise second that the patches were applied to the tree, which I think is confusing cvsup, and getting you the state of things just before the update. All you need to do is specify a date *after* the patches went into the tree, but before

CVSup issue (again) !

To... Matthew As we concerned yesterday, I've experiment cvsup many time and noticed that I must specific *date=release=cvs date=2004.02.05.18.01.18 tag=RELENG_4_8 (which is one day after Security Advisory annouced) in supfile so I will got 4.8-RELEASE-p15 as I want and it matched with

Ask about software package system issue.

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Re: MYSQL startup error

--- Gareth Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running 5.2 Release, and have recently installed mysql-4.0.18 server. I first made a default install by issuing the following commands in the port: $ make # make install $ cd /var/db/mysql mysql_db_install Worked perfectly when i

How can I log message via syslog ?

Hi, all Sorry for my Englist. I have a shell script let say script.sh and I would like to log logging message for that script by using syslog. What're step accomplish this this and how syslog look like ? TIA, Pote

Re: 4.7 release

--- Jeronimo Romero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where 4.7 released iso can be obtained from??? I checked the main ftp site at freebsd.org and only 4.8 was available... Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks. To...Jeronimo Romero What's the reason that you want to

why can't I implement syslog ?

Hi all, I would like to log my message by using syslog so I altered /etc/syslog.conf like below (kill and re-start syslogd as well) # file: /etc/syslog.conf -- snip --- local1.debug/var/log/myScript.log and in a shell script I use # /usr/bin/logger -i -p local1.debug

How can I do this on DHCP server ?

Hi list, I've set up a DHCP server but I'd like to know which address (from address pool) hasn't assigned to any machine. Is there command line to accomplish this. PS. I use ISC-DHCP v.3 installed from ports. TIA, Pote

RE: FreeBSD 4.9 freezes

To... Have you tried press SCROLL LOCK once ? Maybe during your make running, you unintendly pressed such button so your keyboard is locked. Try to press SCROLL LOCK again. Cheers, Pote --- Jesse A. Coddington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's an example of what happens. ns1# top

Re: maxproc is automatically adjusted?

--- Mipam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I noticed that kern.maxproc was different than i expected. Same goes for maxusers. It seems FreeBSD sizes these values according to your system? I couldnt find any info upon this, whether this is happening and how and on bases upon what it sizes

Why can't I mount NFS ?

Hi all, I want to export 1. /mnt/xx/aa 2. /mnt/xx/bb 3. /mnt/xx/cc from machine:A to machine:B. On B I can mount /mnt/xx/aa and /mnt/xx/bb successful except /mnt/xx/cc, why or I missed something ? Below is some information may be useful. --- /etc/export on machine:A --- /mnt/xx/aa

How can I remove this file ?

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How can I correct this in postfix ?

Hi lists, I use postfix as my mail server, and today, from output of command postqueue -p I saw one mail unable to send out. I found that the destination of email is correct and I want to correct this. How can I do that ? Anybody know ? TIA, Pote

Re: How can I correct this in postfix ?

]: warning: saving corrupt file 632EA43B from queue active to queue corrupt I mean I've just corrupted queue file. So I'd like to know the elegant method to correct something in queue file. Do you know one ? TIA, Pote --- Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2004, Supote

Re: Can't get splash scr working - arg

--- Kevin Berrien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4.8 has the following /boot/loader.conf /boot/defaults/loader.conf I edited both, and configured both individually.. with no success. :::sample from /boot/loader.conf userconfig_script_load=YES splash_bmp_load=YES bitmap_load=YES

Re: firewall

--- RYAN vAN GINNEKEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ipfw /etc/rc.fw4 gives me ipfw: bad arguments, for usage summary ``ipfw'' need to start my firewall without rebooting ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Make buildworld failure...no inodes free! Do I have to pay?

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Damn mbworld failed. I did note that after dropping to su mode fsck -p did not much more than reports /dev/ad0s1a :NO WRITE ACCESS /dev/ad0s1A :UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY ;RUN FSCK MANUALLY Then the script from makebuild showed up usr :

Re: /var/run/ pid files

--- Ronny Hippler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, What controls the creation of the pid files in the /var/run/ directory? every time I shut down I get the error: bftpd.pid: No such file or directory therefore I am not getting a clean shutdown on bftpd, no biggie but annoying. I am

Re: help

--- Palash Agarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble finding the download location for freebsd. I have searched the ftp site but i do not know which file to download. I am also unable to access the readme's in the ftp server. Please help me!

Ask about BSD's history.

Hi, all I'm now interested in BSD's history and have read some of article from INTERNET. But because English isn't my mother language so I havn't cleared in the point of 1. What is the result of lawsuit between BSDi (maybe include UC Berkeley) and USL in the early of 1970s ? 2. The

Re: Ask about BSD's history.

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Can I subnet my network like this ?

Hi, all I would like to verify my knowledge by building the network like below but not sure whether it's impossible for subnetting like this - say, from Gateway no2, is divided to 172.16.0.0/16 and 172.17.0.0/16 subnet. I heard that it isn't recommend or impossible (not sure again) to use

Re: Problem mounting hdd?

--- mdm mdmd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok i have freebsd 5.0, and its on a hdd with 2.5 gigs and im trying to mount my slave drive that has and msdos filesystem with 30 gigs on it. I use the command mount_msdosfs /dev/ad1s1 /slave, but it gives me an error saying something about next free

Re: DNS question...

Hi, Have you try host command ? host your_server_name Maybe DNS takes a couple day for propagation. If this is the case try later in next 2-3 days. Cheers, --- Xpression [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I'm getting a problem with my DNS, I'm running 4.7 + named, the config files are

Re: IP Problems

--- Ben Dover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, this is difficult to explain and my problem is probably bigger than what I have found but here goes. I have a dedicated 5.1 FreeBSD box and when I did a dmesg I received a repeating message as follows: arplookup 66.246.xx.1 failed: host is

Re: How can I subnetting my network ?

--- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Supote Leelasupphakorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I will assign public IP address to all interfaces, is it neccessary that I must inform the upstream router's administrator to add my subnet in routing table of upstream

Can't delete files after mergemaster.

Hello, I've already MERGEMASTERed due to updating from FREEBSD-4.7 to FREEBSD-4.7-p10. My question is why I could't delete /var/tmp/temproot. No matter what's about permission because I logged as root. What is deny root from delete file ? Pote

Is it neccessary for sending mail from php ?

Hello, I've install apache+php and would like to use function:mail() in php to sendmail from my box(Freebsd). My question is, is it neccessary to run sendmail or other SMTP-like service on this box for able to send (outgoing) mail. Thanks in advance.

gnitiev@nashe.ru

Hello, I heard that RELENG_4 is not always able to compile correctly because it's source are updated so often. I recommend you, in production to cvsup only RELENG_4_7 or RELENG_4_8 or RELENG_4_X where X is minor version number. Cheer, __

what dose the command chflags used for ?

Dear all, Because we have the command chmod for change the permissions of files so what does the command chflags used for and what suituation I must use it ? Thanks in advance, Want to chat instantly with your online

Re: what dose the command chflags used for ?

Dear all, Because we have the command chmod for change the permissions of files so what does the command chflags used for and what suituation I must use it ? chflags is used to set system flags on files you don't want to be modified accidentally - most commonly the 'noschg' flag stops

what does /dev/ad0s use for ?

Hi, all In addtion to files named /dev/ad0sX (where x is slice number) in /dev those I can mount it usually, there is /dev/ad0s1 (has no partition label). My question is when and what this device file is use for? Thanks for any explaination.

Re: Granting access on MySQL

Hello, I need to grant a user access to a database. How can I do it? This is what I've tried: mysql grant all on databasename.* to username; I got no error messages, but I after connecting as the user, I couldn't use the database. Hi, Finally, don't forget to flush privileges or

Why must I use firewall ?

Hi, all So far, I known firewall is a choice when I want to protect my boxes from crackers but my question is if I closed the service I don't use (such as port 25 for STMP) so the cracker out there can't attack, what's the reason firewall come to play ? Thanks in advance,

Help: can't send email from my box.

Hi, all I have tried below echo this is my testing email | mail -s 1st mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] but no luck. /var/log/maillog show me that [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=pjn (1001/1001), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30040, relay=localhost.mytestdomain.com [127.0.0.1],

Re: SSH login banner: IP address instead of DNS name

Hi again. When I SSH into my 4.8 box, the first line of the banner is: Last login: Mon Jun 30 19:31:44 2003 from 15-characters-of-a-host-name That DNS name is truncated to 15 characters. I would much prefer an IP address. What do I need to change to get this? --Paul Hoffman You can alter

how many bytes send out of my box?

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Can vi edit binary file in hex format?

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Re: Can't get splash scr working - arg

In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Have you edited /boot/loader.conf (see loader.conf(5)) and include the following lines: splash_bmp_load=YES bitmap_load=YES bitmap_name=mysplash.bmp for more information refer to 'man splash'

Re: Able to mount samba but it's empty

Follows From: Danny MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Supote Leelasupphakorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Able to mount samba but it's empty Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:20:42 -0700 On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:44:02PM +0700, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: Hi all

Where I can find boot's dmesg

Hi list, I'm currently use FreeBSD-5.2 and just wondered where I can see the dmesg in the time I booted my box up. TIA, pjn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

what's wrong with my swap partition ?

Hi list, I owned 2 boxes of FreeBSD 4.x and just noticed that the output of command swapinfo are strange coz there are two lines of swap entry like below. What's wrong with my 2nd boxes and how do I do with this ? --- snip from the 1st box --- Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity

Re: Where I can find boot's dmesg

PROTECTED] To: Supote Leelasupphakorn [EMAIL PROTECTED],freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where I can find boot's dmesg Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:12:53 - MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from sun13.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.128.145]) by mc1-f40.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211

Re: what's wrong with my swap partition ?

Hi list, If so, what do I do next coz there is no command swapoff in such box. It's 4.10-RELEASE. But I'm pretty sure that I've never run command swapon maually or I miss something. TIA, pjn Original Message Follows From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Supote Leelasupphakorn [EMAIL

Re: what's wrong with my swap partition ?

From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Supote Leelasupphakorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what's wrong with my swap partition ? Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:44:53 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org ([69.199.47.57

Ask for your recommended system network monitoring system.

Hi all I'm currently run FreeBSD 4.11 on my box for a year and very impress its performance. Now I'd like to monitor disk space, system and network status of some servers at work via web-based. Any monitor tool you are using or recommended ? TIA pjn

why must boot in single mode.

Hi all I'm using FreeBSD 4.[89] for a few years. So far I upgraded my release to security branch by following the instructions in /usr/src/Makefile and after finished, my box is running fine. Only one thing that I ignored - rebooting in single mode but because I am not at the box's console.

Each version of apache lunched date.

Hi all, I'm currently completing some maintenance documents at my office and need to know The launch date of each version of apache in the past (especially 1.3.28 1.3.27). My question is how or where can I found the apache's history file (yeah, launched date included). TIA, Pote :-)

Able to mount samba but it's empty

Hi all, I'm using 4.8-RELEASE-p15 and Samba-2.2.8a for mounting shared directory on Windows2000 (NTFS). So far the disk on Windows2000 is only 120 GB and mounting is successful. But after I changed a disk to 200GB, I can sucessfully mount both 120GB and 200GB (I mean no any error message are

P4B533 vs DDR Ram 400 MHz

Hi, lists I own the Asus P4B533 mainboard for a year and it is using DDR-266 MHz. I want to add more memory with DDR-400 MHz. Have any one had experience on this situation. What I would like to know is Is there any problem if I will use DDR-400 MHz with mainboard Asus P4B533. Any comment