Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: You might think this sounds harmless but folks have done this kind of thing in the past with other products and wreaked havoc on the Internet. You can start by referencing dlink ntp fiasco in google to get an idea of what can happen to these kinds

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jul 27, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Born, Clinton wrote: Really? I wouldn't want such a myopic view when choosing to allocate our shareholders dollars. Best tool for the job. Period! That is not as easy as you make it out to be. WHat one

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 04:16:55PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: And my point is that those not supporting FreeBSD already don't care, since as far as they are concerned, their is no market for them to be losing not buying their products isn't

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: People like me who only use FreeBSD on the laptop would certainly give much shorter uptimes. Okay, I just wanna say, it's very strange to a mobile/desktop user. Again, I wasn't thinking so much about uptimes as the fact that the information

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote: User Freebsd wrote: We can also collect the access information of the cvsup server and portsnap server, can't we? What does that give? Approximately 15000 portsnap snapshots (i.e., /var/db/portsnap or /usr/local/portsnap directories) are being

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote: User Freebsd wrote: We can also collect the access information of the cvsup server and portsnap server, can't we? What does that give? Approximately 15000 portsnap snapshots (i.e., /var/db/portsnap or /usr/local/portsnap directories) are being

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: What we really need is score card to keep track of the good and bad companies. Someone with initiative could have this up and running in a day or less... After it's up we can put a BIG HONKING LINK on the FreeBSD main page.

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Amitabh Kant wrote: I see the whole issue this way: companies are free to choose whether to support FreeBSD or not, and I am free to choose/recommend their product in my installations. It's only when we start to speak with our money bags, that it will make commercial

Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-28 Thread User Freebsd
Okay, here is the challenge ... for vendors to 'take notice' of the fact that exist as a market, there really needs to be *some* numbers that ppl like -core, -advocacy and -marketing can use ... right now, there is nothing out there that can be considered either 'half the story', or just

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Atom Powers wrote: On 7/28/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Towards that end, as a starter, I would like to encourage everyone out there running 1 or more FreeBSD boxes to go to http://www.mreriksson.net/uptimes register all of your hosts

icmp packets - disabling via sysctl, or cisco switch ... ?

2006-07-27 Thread User Freebsd
Two part question here ... first part ... is there a way of just disabling icmp by setting a sysctl, so that a server just doesn't respond to them? second part ... is there a way of telling a cisco switch to drop all icmp packets, preferrably to all but an exception list, but to everywhere

Re: icmp packets - disabling via sysctl, or cisco switch ... ?

2006-07-27 Thread User Freebsd
icmp unreach response from 6646 to 200 packets/sec ^C And its been going on for several hours now ... :( On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Two part question here ... first part ... is there a way of just disabling icmp by setting a sysctl, so that a server just doesn't respond to them

RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Tamouh H. wrote: On Jul 25, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: ICP Vortex is an Adaptec company and Adaptec doesn't support FreeBSD. We've already been over this once. Not to disagree with you, but Adaptec put new drivers for 5.3 and 5.4 for their 2420, 2820,

RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Philippe Lang wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently been experiencing lock ups with the three servers that I've upgraded to 6.x ... one of which is 1 year old, the other two are 3 years old ... after getting everything setup with DDB, to the point that I could

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 7/26/2006 07:35, User Freebsd seems to have typed: The point is, if we keep acting as individuals, vendors will treat as unimportant ... if we start acting like an organization, and actually *lobby* these vendors for better support, maybe

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: * No binary blob drivers. This is one that I don't necessarily agree with ... if Adaptec came out with a *supported* iir driver, but it was binary only, I'd be happy with that ... I just want to know that if I *have* a problem with a piece of

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 7/26/2006 10:34, User Freebsd seems to have typed: Supporting 3ware is good, but what if/when Adaptec buys them out ... Adaptec doesn't officially support FreeBSD, therefore, anyone they buy out would most likely change their policy accordingly

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:36:51PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: * No binary blob drivers. This is one that I don't necessarily agree with ... if Adaptec came out with a *supported* iir driver

Re: What I would like to see, or How many FreeBSD boxen are out there?

2006-07-25 Thread User Freebsd
Subedar Technologies Ltd Subedar Baag Bibir Bagicha #1 North Jatrabari Dhaka 1204 http://www.DhakaStockExchangeGame.com On Sunday 23 July 2006 00:09, User Freebsd wrote: On various lists, including this one, there is talk about how to we make hardware vendors sit up and take more notice of us ... alot

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-25 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Oops, forgot about that. Use 5.x then. The statement is that newer versions of FreeBSD are slower than older versions. The point was that this isn't relevant to 90% of users for reasons I already cited. IMHO, I'm not so concerned about my

What I would like to see, or How many FreeBSD boxen are out there?

2006-07-22 Thread User Freebsd
On various lists, including this one, there is talk about how to we make hardware vendors sit up and take more notice of us ... alot of the negative responses back seem to be 'we are too small of a group', but, of couse, nobody out there can really give any even *reasonable* numbers of

Re: What I would like to see, or How many FreeBSD boxen are out there?

2006-07-22 Thread User Freebsd
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, jan gestre wrote: On 7/23/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On various lists, including this one, there is talk about how to we make hardware vendors sit up and take more notice of us ... alot of the negative responses back seem to be 'we are too small of a group

RE: SMP Performance (Was: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail ... )

2006-07-16 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Tamouh H. wrote: I have to put my two cents here: 1) I agree with few posters that FreeBSD performance have been lacking behind. I've reported few issues on performance list and many did. We offered few pre-production servers for performance testing, but the answer we

Re: DL360 G4 shared network iLo and FreeBSD

2006-07-16 Thread User Freebsd
You might want to try posting to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list ... I'm another one that uses the dedicated iLO port in the colo, but we have our own switch there also, so ports aren't an issue ... On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Eric Lakin wrote: On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 11:56:47PM +1000,

[KDE] starting application on specific desktop ...

2006-07-16 Thread User Freebsd
Hi ... I'm not finding anything that sounds relevant in the X man page, so either it isn't possible (which would be weird) or I'm missing something ... I have 8 desktops running under KDE ... I'd like, for instance, when azureus starts up, it goes to the 8th desktop, not current one

SMP Performance (Was: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail ... )

2006-07-13 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Jul 13, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Danial Thom wrote: Simply enabling SMP on a single processor system adds 20-25% overhead in freebsd 6.1. Again, readily admitted/accepted by the developers. There is no way to recover that in efficiency, at least not

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-13 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Nagy L?szl? wrote: Hello, I tried cyrus-imapd, but I'm unsatisfied. Their website was down for a day. Now it is up, but the pages were not updated after 2003. They had a majordomo list but it is not functioning. I found another mailing list but nobody answers. I do not

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-13 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Nagy László Zsolt wrote: Thank you for your responses! I tried to install cyrus-imapd, courier-imapd and dovecot, in this order. :-) Dovecot has my preference. I could install it in a few minutes, and it was very easy to configure. At least it is easier than courier, for

Linksys router and ssh time outs ...

2006-07-08 Thread User Freebsd
I just put a linksys router in place, so that we could use our wireless laptop, well, wireless ... now, I seem to be getting timeouts on my ssh connections when they are idle, but timeouts that I never received when I had my desktop directly connected to the cable modem ... I've looked at

Re: Linksys router and ssh time outs ...

2006-07-08 Thread User Freebsd
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Eric wrote: User Freebsd wrote: I just put a linksys router in place, so that we could use our wireless laptop, well, wireless ... now, I seem to be getting timeouts on my ssh connections when they are idle, but timeouts that I never received when I had my desktop

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2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jun 28, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: growing number of places (ie. Adaptec / Intel) appear to be dropping support for it as well ... Many places are starting support for FreeBSD, or increased support, as well --

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: Marc G. Fournier writes: The other selling point for me on HP was the 2.5 SAS drives ... our new servers have 4x72G SAS drives in a 1U space, which means I can do RAID1+0 How do those drives perform? They are too small for where I work. :-( At

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/28/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [deleted] --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net Do you offer Xen hosting Chad?.. and back on topic... What's the point of iLO

postfix-script: fatal: Postfix integrity check failed!

2006-06-20 Thread User Gandalf
Hello, I recompiled my kernel today (to 6.1 p2) and today postfix exited with this error message in the log: Jun 20 08:56:54 designaproduct postfix/postfix-script: fatal: Postfix integrity check failed! Otherwise it is working fine (there are no problems with postfix, except that it

Breakin attempt in the log

2006-06-13 Thread User Gandalf
Hello, I have thousands of similar lines in my security log each day: Jun 9 06:34:12 designaproduct sshd[58759]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for ev1s-67-15-10-78.ev1servers.net failed - POSSIBLE BREAKIN ATTEMPT! Is this something I need to fear of? Thanks, Laszlo

scponlyc on 6.1

2006-06-01 Thread User Gandalf
Hello, I have installed scponlyc with the chroot option: #cd /usr/ports #cd shells/scponly/ #make -DWITH_SCPONLY_CHROOT I have used scponly on Linux before, so I knew that there is a special makefile inside. #cd work/scponly-4.4/ #make jail I have created a new chrooted, scp only user

Scanner Canon Canoscan Lide 60 not found.

2006-05-27 Thread FreeBSD User Giacomo
-backend and xsane version. Thanks. Regard. -- Isaia Luciano FreeBSD user ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Strange messages in mail queue

2006-05-25 Thread User Gandalf
Hello, I might be offtopic... I always get a long daily output from periodic. Mail in local queue: -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient--- 1D3C91DD4AA45937 Tue May 23 10:54:42 MAILER-DAEMON (connect to onmail02.ongov.net[12.33.98.207]: Operation timed

Postgresql Autovacuum how?

2006-05-24 Thread User Gandalf
/local/etc/periodic/daily/502.pgsql): vacuuming... Password: vacuumdb: could not connect to database postgres: fe_sendauth: no password supplied Errors were reported during vacuum. This is my pg_hba.conf file: # TYPE DATABASEUSERCIDR-ADDRESS METHOD # local is for Unix

upload-only ftp server

2006-05-24 Thread User Gandalf
. Can you recommend one for me? I only need one ftp user (possibly with a password), and upload/list files only. The most important thing is security, and the ability to handle passive transfers. Thanks, Laci ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

php5 port broken???

2006-05-17 Thread User Gandalf
=== Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Found saved configuration for php5-5.1.4 = php-5.1.4.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. = Attempting to fetch from http://br.php.net/distributions/. fetch: http://br.php.net/distributions/php-5.1.4.tar.bz2: size

APIC_IO removed?

2006-05-16 Thread User Gandalf
Hello, I upgraded to 6.1 and tried to recompile my kernel. It fails because it does not know this option: options APIC_IO Is this changed, or removed from 6.1? Is it enough to just use options SMP? Thanks, Laszlo ___

gmirror and partitioning

2006-05-12 Thread User Gandalf
Hello! I would like to install a new FreeBSD 6.1 system on a computer that has two SATA drives. They are the same type. I would like to use gmirror. I read the handbook here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html But there is something I do not

Problem installing FreeBSD 6.0

2006-04-26 Thread User Gandalf
Hello, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 on a regular x86 PC. I'm using the official install disk. It tells me that there are no CD/DVD drives are detected. I have a Pioneer DVD writer (DVR-110D). That has ATAPI interface and I booted the installer from it... I also tried to install the

XEmacs 21.4 (patch 19) Mule does not work

2006-04-22 Thread User Elisej
I have installed XEmacs 21.4 (patch 19) Constant Variable [Lucid] (i386--freebsd, Mule) But mule does not work at all. For the first, it does not read files in proper manner. I have done the following: 1) visit a file using cp866 with cyrillic letters; 2) set terminal-coding-system to

What is sppp and how can I use it to set up PPP over Ethernet?

2006-04-19 Thread User Elisej
What is sppp and how can I use it to set up PPP over Ethernet? I have read sppp(4) and spppcontrol(8) but these two is too superficial. Elisej Babenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

The font iso05-8x16.fnt in FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE is broken

2006-03-28 Thread User Elisej
The font iso05-8x16.fnt in FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE is broken. The letter q looks like whitespace. How can I get a right font? Elisej Babenko mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

How to see keyboard scan codes?

2006-03-28 Thread User Elisej
Is there a program showing keyboard scan codes? I mean I press a key, and the program shows its code. Elisej Babenko mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Changing prompt

2006-03-28 Thread User Elisej
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:24:05AM -0300, Rodrigo G. Tavares de Souza wrote: Hi, How could I show the path on prompt or see colored files when I make a ls command? Best Regards, Rodrigo Souza Sao Paulo - Brazil The first depends on the shell used. For example, in bash do: export

Re: Mail service principles: can I have the second mailbox

2006-03-27 Thread User Elisej
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:25:37PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: User Elisej wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 01:54:17PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:19:21PM +0300, User Elisej wrote: Can a user have two mailboxes (and two addresses, of course)? Yes

Re: Mail service principles: can I have the second mailbox

2006-03-27 Thread User Elisej
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 07:47:43PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:28:55AM +0300, User Elisej wrote: Yes, sir, I will provide any information you need. I could be a maam, you never can tell ;=) I want to have two mailboxes with two addresses (for one

Re: Thanks! and... the su command

2006-03-26 Thread User Elisej
- freebsd.html -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Although it is described in the handbook, in my opinion an error message, or more generally a feedback message, should give more useful feedback to the user. Now the user must think of all the checks that can fail while - in this case

Mail service principles: can I have the second mailbox

2006-03-26 Thread User Elisej
Can a user have two mailboxes (and two addresses, of course)? Elisej Babenko mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Xemacs cursor in console

2006-03-26 Thread User Elisej
I use XEmacs 21.4 (patch 19) It sets the cursor as large blinking block on its own everytime. How to forbid it this? Elisej Babenko mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Mail service principles: can I have the second mailbox

2006-03-26 Thread User Elisej
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 01:54:17PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:19:21PM +0300, User Elisej wrote: Can a user have two mailboxes (and two addresses, of course)? Yes. Perhaps you could provide a bit more information? http://www.freebsd.org/doc

console driver and keymaps

2006-03-25 Thread User Elisej
How to understand and write keymaps? Is this any document besides kbdcontrol(1) and kbdmap(5)? The later two is not enought for me. After reading of these two I have many questions. E. g.: How to make Alt+a acting as sequence Meta a Alt+a acts in other way, than a pressed after the key acting as

BTX halted with a flashcard usb plugged

2006-03-06 Thread User Patrice
Hello I m using a fresh new install of freebsd 6.0, on sata disk. I have a btx halted error every time i boot with a usb flashcard plugged. BTX loader 1.00 BTX version 1.01 Consoles Internal video/keyboard Bios drive A: is disk0 int=000derr=efl=00030002eip=2aca

Re: Desperate

2006-02-24 Thread User Infos
Hello, You might be able to get better results from the group if you can provide the output of: uname -a Also, a copy of dmesg.today would also be invaluable in resolving any issues you are having. Just a thought. Best wishes. Quoting Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I am getting

Share desktop with XOrg

2006-01-18 Thread User Gandalf
Hello, Is it possible to share a desktop under the XOrg server? Is there a port for this? I'm aware of the -display option of X based programs. What I need is not a remote desktop connection. I would like to share my desktop to another user so he can see what I see. Thanks, Les

Re: Share desktop with XOrg

2006-01-18 Thread User Gandalf
Kilian Hagemann wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 18:08, User Gandalf pondered: Is it possible to share a desktop under the XOrg server? Is there a port for this? I'm aware of the -display option of X based programs. What I need is not a remote desktop connection. I would like to share my

Re: unable to build ntp

2006-01-16 Thread BSD Questions user
Thanks everyone for the help. For the archive: I went to /usr/src/contrib/ntp/ntpdate and edited ntpdate.c. I searched for 'host found' and changed the stderror to stdout. I then went to /usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp and performed a make install clean. Problem solved; the new 'host found' messages

how do I (non-interactively) change a users password in a script ?

2006-01-16 Thread user
/bin/sh script. Need to change a users password within the script based on a file of user/pass I am feeding the script. Easy. Except the passwd command does not seem to be able to take a password as an argument - I don't think that the passwd command can run non-interactively. So how

Re: Xorg - how to disable some video modes?

2006-01-12 Thread User Gandalf
gah, xfce4's control panel doesnt do that for me, though it used to on another older notebook i was using. for the life of me i cant remember what i did to make this happen then and not not. my xorg.conf is minimal. Which version are you using? I may be a new feature? 4.2.3.2 (Xfce 4.2)

Create more dsp and mixer devices

2006-01-11 Thread User Gandalf
Hello, The gaim instant messenger has support for three sound devices: ESD, Arts and using a command. I'm not sure what 'ESD' means. Is it the 'esound' package? (Enlightment sound daemon.) Somewhere I read that FreeBSD can do the same (e.g. sharing one audio device to multiple programs).

Re: Create more dsp and mixer devices

2006-01-11 Thread User Gandalf
The gaim instant messenger has support for three sound devices: ESD, Arts and using a command. I'm not sure what 'ESD' means. Is it the 'esound' package? (Enlightment sound daemon.) Somewhere I read that FreeBSD can do the same (e.g. sharing one audio device to multiple programs). Can you

Re: Create more dsp and mixer devices

2006-01-11 Thread User Gandalf
/usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer I have no ogg nor au files, but mplayer works for *wav and *mp3 from the CLI here As Michael Lucas was just saying, we have, um, **lots** of programs. KDK I did not know that mplayer has cli. But I tried to install that days ago. I always get the same

Re: Create more dsp and mixer devices

2006-01-11 Thread User Gandalf
Manually ftp in the .tbz file from ftp.freebsd.org or one of the mirror sites, and do a 'pkg_add mplayer.tbz'. That way you can download it, put on floppy, cd, whatever you have to to get to the machine in question - everything done in 'sysinstall' can be done outside of it too ;) Hmm,

Getting mplayer (Was: Create more dsp and mixer devices)

2006-01-11 Thread User Gandalf
earth# pkg_add -r mplayer Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/mplayer.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch

Re: Xorg - how to disable some video modes?

2006-01-10 Thread User Gandalf
Martin Möller wrote: * gandalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08-01-2006 10:29:18 +0100]: I can attach my xorg.conf file, if it helps. Yes, that would help indeed. Here is the config. I made a mistake. You were right. I forgot to use DefaultDepth. But I do not understand why I need it,

Native voip software for FreeBSD

2006-01-10 Thread User Gandalf
Hello, Do you know any native voip software for FreeBSD? I hate to install Linux compatibility mode just to have skype working. Thanks, Les ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

how should I (best practice) set up permissions for rsync ?

2006-01-10 Thread user
Hi, I want to rsync /usr/home from one machine to another, for purposes of backup. This would be a cinch if I just rsyncd -e ssh, as user root from one machine to another. The cron job runs with root perms, and the destination machine gets logged into as root and can write into the destination

Re: how should I (best practice) set up permissions for rsync ?

2006-01-10 Thread user
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Hi, I want to rsync /usr/home from one machine to another, for purposes of backup. i do: rsync -e rsh -avzrlHpogDtS --delete --delete-excluded --force \ --exclude-from=../$1-exclude [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ . where $1 is server name

Xorg - how to disable some video modes?

2006-01-09 Thread User Gandalf
Hello, I have FreeBSD 6.0 with an xorg server installed. I followed the instructions in the handbook, and I could create a working xorg.conf file. My problem is that xorg starts with [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to have [EMAIL PROTECTED] by default. I tried to add Modes 1024x768 Also

about the wireless card on freebsd5.4

2006-01-06 Thread User Webname
hello freebsd-question: first ,i am sorry for my English .. i have a box of a notebook ,install the OS freebsd5.4 .at my office ,there is wlan ,i buy a wireless card of linksys WPC11 VER.4 ..when i install the card into my notebook ,but it not work .. i find the quiestion

how can I determine the lowest not-in-use md device (for use with mdconfig) ?

2006-01-04 Thread user
The command: mdconfig -l will tell me what md devices are in use currently on the system. I have a situation where I want to automatically mount a vnode filesystem with an md device ... and I won't know ahead of time which devices are in use ... So ... can anyone think of an elegant way to

RE: how can I determine the lowest not-in-use md device (for use with mdconfig) ?

2006-01-04 Thread user
never mind - I see that mdconfig will take the first available device if you simply decline to specify one. thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

how can I find out which md device I just used ? (mdconfig)

2006-01-04 Thread user
mdconfig will use the next available md device, as long as you do not specify a particular device on the command line with the -u switch. Which is great. However, in a script, the very next thing I want to do is mount that mdconfig'd vnode filesystem. But I do not know which md device mdconfig

Re: how can I find out which md device I just used ? (mdconfig)

2006-01-04 Thread user
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Malcolm Kay wrote: On my system (5.4) mdconfig reports the created device to stdout: So: memdevice=`mdconfig -a -t malloc -s10M` sets the device name in $memdevice. Thank you very much - I have just verified that this works the same way on FreeBSD 6.0. I

how do I ... burn an audio CD from .WAV files _and_ add cd-text ?

2005-12-18 Thread user
I have wav files. The wav files come from cds that did not have cd-text information on them, so I have no cd-text examples or source files for these wav files. I want to burn an audio cd with some wav files (I know how to do this with burncd and cdrecord) BUT I also want to add cd-text to the

I need a better way to loop in the shell...

2005-12-13 Thread user
I always do loops in /bin/sh like this: for f in `cat file` ; do rm -rf $f ; done Easy. I like doing it like this. The problem is, when I am dealing with an input list that has multiple words per line, this chops it up and treats every word as a new line... For instance, lets say I have a

_still_ looking for FreeBSD dvd ripping software...

2005-12-11 Thread user
In the windows world I used dvd decrypter. It output .iso files directly, and it supported removing macrovision (and most importantly) removing prohibited user actions ( PUA / PUO ). I cannot find anything like this for FreeBSD. I asked previously, and was shown sysutls/dvdbackup

cp/mv/etc : argument list too long ... I am sick of this

2005-12-05 Thread user
Ok, so I have some big directories with lots of files. If I do mv or cp, it always refuses, telling me: cp: argument list too long so, no problem ... I get creative with things like this: for f in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ; do cp $f* /some/dir ;

Re: cp/mv/etc : argument list too long ... I am sick of this

2005-12-05 Thread user
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 05:56:22PM -0500, user wrote: [...] - since I live in 2005, what can I do to my FreeBSD system to upgrade it to handle the directories I have ? How do I fix this so I can do normal, simple command lines instead of butchered

dvd-ripping to iso on freebsd ...

2005-11-24 Thread user
, because I want very much to remove macrovision and prohibited user actions (PUAs / PUOs) as well. I have always used dvd-decryptor under windows and it has worked great, but I would like to just do it in FreeBSD in the shell, with a command line. Thanks

how do I feed a script conf file variables on the command line ?

2005-11-24 Thread user
Ok, let's say I have a shell script named script.sh, and script.sh sucks in a file /etc/file.conf that contains nothing but variable declarations like: SETTING1=setting1 SETTING2=setting2 and so on. Very simple. My question is, what if I want to feed the script a setting on the command line ?

2610SA sata raid array ... backported yet ? driver update package ?

2005-11-11 Thread user
I would like to use an adaptec 2610SA SATA raid controller with FreeBSD 5.4. My research: http://lists.ooz.net/freebsd-hackers/?mid=19018 shows that aac_pci.c has this in it for 6.0, and there were some plans to backport it to 5.4 with a driver update ? Does anyone know the status of this ?

Re: How do I chroot rsync like I chroot ftp ?

2005-11-10 Thread user
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: user writes: What is the equivalent mechanism for rsync ? I have not used it myself, but was looking at rssh tonight. There is also a program, not in the ports, called scopy or something of the like. Check the rssh port in the /usr

how do I tell FreeBSD to sync, for real ?

2005-11-08 Thread user
Sometimes you delete a large batch of files, or you do some other serious FS operations and the output of `df` does not tell you immediately of the new disk space, etc. If you run something like: sync Or even: sync ; sync it still doesn't show up. You either have to wait for a while, or you

Re: how do I tell FreeBSD to sync, for real ?

2005-11-08 Thread user
On 8 Nov 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: So my question is, well first off, why does this happen this way ? But mostly what I want to know is, is there a more graceful way to tell FreeBSD sync for real this time, not just for joke only ? Basically, is there a nicer way to get what I

Re: how do I tell FreeBSD to sync, for real ?

2005-11-08 Thread user
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, David Kirchner wrote: On 11/8/05, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I'm not asking why do I need to sync ... I understand why I need to wait, or issue a sync command. No problems there. What I am asking is, why is one issuance of `sync` not enough ? Why is two

snapshots on large filesystems

2005-11-04 Thread user
Hello, Considering a PC server running FreeBSD with 4 400 GB hard drives attached to a hardware raid controller doing raid-5. So this will present itself to the OS as a 1.2TB filesystem. Any comments on taking one or multiple snapshots of a filesystem of this size ? Given current disk

two quick conceptual questions RE: rsync (and rsyncing snapshots)

2005-11-01 Thread user
Hello, I have started using rsync somewhat extensively and had two questions regarding its operation. First, how does rsync respond to, and perform, when the source filesystem is under very heavy change ? If I have a filesystem that I want to rsync up to a backup server, but that filesystem is

Re: two quick conceptual questions RE: rsync (and rsyncing snapshots)

2005-11-01 Thread user
Chuck - thank you... On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: rsync complains when the filesystem changes underneath it, but it will continue to run. On the other hand, rsync is not going to safely maintain the referential integrity of a complex file like a live database, but it's okay

tarring over ssh question - pulling from the source to tarfiles

2005-11-01 Thread user
- /files | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar or if I want to split it into multiple files: tar cf - /files | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] split - -b 1024m /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar This works just fine. - My question is, what if I want to initiate this process from

Need to boot from CD and delete a file on the hard drive

2005-10-25 Thread Maude User
Hello All -- SUMMARY: I changed a configuration file and now I can no longer boot from my hard drive (but I can still boot from the CD). I would like to boot from the CD and undo my change to the configuration file -- but when I boot from the CD it automatically launches the install

Re: Need to boot from CD and delete a file on the hard drive

2005-10-25 Thread Maude User
Micah wrote: The option you are looking for is fixit from the install disk menu. This'll get you a command prompt. You will have to manually mount the partion that boot is on then you can delete, rename, edit, etc the file in question. === Micah -- Thank you for your answer --

Re: traffic accounting per username with ipfw in 5.4 ? (more)

2005-10-25 Thread user
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Andrew P. wrote: ipfw looks at the owner of a process, sshd in your case. If you really need to account the not-locally- initiated ssh traffic, start another sshd running as the user (on another port), and connect to that port [you can easily allow a user to connect

traffic accounting per username with ipfw in 5.4 ?

2005-10-24 Thread user
is going on with regard to what used to be called IPFW2, FreeBSD 5.x, and per-user traffic counting ? thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: traffic accounting per username with ipfw in 5.4 ? (more)

2005-10-24 Thread user
Hello, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Andrew P. wrote: On 10/25/05, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember that ipfw had been augmented some time ago to do traffic counting, etc., based on usernames ... but I see no mention of that in the ipfw man page on my 5.4-RELEASE system

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