Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html

2013-06-25 Thread pete wright
nfo on setting up IPMI. -pete ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Status of Chromium port...

2013-05-15 Thread pete wright
s the same about gssapi.h. It looks like I was able to build this version of chromium last night on my build server I use for pkgng packages: > pkg info chromium chromium-27.0.1453.81 Mostly BSD-licensed web browser based on WebKit and Gtk+ I am running this build now (to compose this e

Re: Cdorked.A

2013-05-09 Thread pete wright
tter rundown of this it would be great if you could point me in the right direction. I am having problems finding a proper examination/explanation of this backdoor. cheers, -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread pete wright
7;t be a wasted effort :) i've been quite happy with it since it first was released, and there is still plenty of active development happening on it as well. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread pete wright
1-release/ there is also an east coast mirror hosted by NycBUG/NYI: http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2013-March/014741.html -pete ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: svn & new pkg system

2013-03-09 Thread pete wright
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > Is svn going to become part of the base system in 9.2-RELEASE? > not sure about svn, but this port has recently been commited: http://www.freshports.org/net/svnup/ it is a csup replacement. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadl

Re: Question about svn

2012-11-18 Thread pete wright
le Summer of Code FreeBSD related projects. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "free

Re: 10Gb SFP+ recomendations?

2012-09-26 Thread pete wright
ndations? > I have had good success running Intel 10gig NICs supported by ixgbe(1) on 8.x systems. I see no reason as to why they would not work on 9.x as well. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-19 Thread pete wright
ence - and hopefully there will be a csup like utility for svn available in base one day. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-19 Thread pete wright
using mercurial for quite a bit of time now for FreeBSD development(1), to take advantage of the distributed model of that SCM. yet having the main tree under CVS in the past, and SVN currently, makes sense to me. i feel that it results in a cleaner public tree that is easier to navigate.

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-19 Thread pete wright
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, pete wright wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Warren Block wrote: >>> >>> >>> csup updates just the files that have changed without all the overhead. >>> svn &g

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-17 Thread pete wright
heckout. > > csup updates just the files that have changed without all the overhead. svn > export can get a copy of all the current files, but it copies all of them > every time, not just the changes. > yea i agree with you. i wonder if it would be worth the effort of sharing a sv

Re: Default Samba port?

2011-11-13 Thread pete wright
production standard, but > something that "just works" on RELEASE-8.2 amd64. > your best bet may be to install a prebuilt package via: pgk_add -r samba that is unless you need some non-standard knobs tuned. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org _

Re: get rel 9.0 iso

2011-09-07 Thread pete wright
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > What is the ftp url to fetch the most current release 9.0 .iso file? 9.0-RELEASE is not available yet. 9.0-BETA2 has been annouced today though: http://www.freebsd.org/where.html#helptest this will also be available on mirrors shortly... -p

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

2011-07-22 Thread pete wright
er attribute caching (decreasing amount of getattr() calls when traversing filesystems) and other interesting bigs v4 has. Granted moving from v3 to v4 is not trivial... just my two bits :) -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread pete wright
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: > Yeah Pete, kinda need that huh.  Kurt, If that turns out to be the only > issue, don't feel bad - I've forgotten it myself several times!  I'm sure > many others have as well! > as someone who was fixing some

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread pete wright
       /root/do-curl.sh > --end crontab-- > > I'm doing all of this as root, as you can see. > > The job launches - I can see an entry for cURL in top - but no file in /root. > > I've tried several variations on the first line of the script, b

Re: Security monitoring all file changes

2011-04-22 Thread pete wright
tory > was changed or deleted and by whom we can answer that question. > > In what directtion should i look? Is Audit the thing for it? mtree is probably what you are looking for: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mtree&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELE

Re: New to FreeBsd

2011-01-03 Thread Pete
;s a page that lists a few : http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors As far as I know 'packets' are created using TCP/IP which is very basically how data is transferred across a computer network. Regards, Pete. ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: more dns weirdness

2010-12-09 Thread pete wright
s) which affects dig's > according to man 1 whois you can specify alternative hosts to query as well as alternative databases. specifically i think the -h switch will be of interest. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: ssh key authentication problem...

2010-10-28 Thread pete wright
the user, and not accessible by others. it also covers other files as well. HTH -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

Re: Exporting ZFS Pool

2010-09-08 Thread Pete Erickson
** Dan Nelson [2010-09-08 11:49:08 -0500] ** > In the last episode (Sep 08), Pete Erickson said: > > On Wed Sep 8 01:20:07 2010, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > > > On 09/07/2010 09:25 PM, Pete Erickson wrote: > > >> I'm relatively new to ZFS and have been playin

Re: Exporting ZFS Pool

2010-09-08 Thread Pete Erickson
On Wed Sep 8 01:20:07 2010, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 09/07/2010 09:25 PM, Pete Erickson wrote: I'm relatively new to ZFS and have been playing around with different file-backed set ups to determine how I will eventually configure my pools. I've recently come across a pr

Exporting ZFS Pool

2010-09-07 Thread Pete Erickson
part of an exported pool. ratchet# zpool create z /usr/tmp/disk1.dd /usr/tmp/disk2.dd invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following errors: /usr/tmp/disk1.dd is part of exported pool 'pool' -- Pete Erickson redlamb _at_ redlamb _dot_ net

Re: iptables equivaelnt

2010-06-21 Thread pete wright
supported by freebsd and i have had great success using these tools to combat spam. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread pete wright
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:57 AM, pete wright wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Joe's Morgue wrote: >> Looking thru your manuals, I have not seen anything about gaming on a >> FreeBSD machine. >> >> Are there drivers for higher end graphic cards avail

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread pete wright
ttp://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-4365.html Regarding games in particular - it really depends on which game you are looking to play, and what it's requirements are. I have played HalfLife2 via wine emulation on FreeBSD using the nvidia driver for example. HTH -pete -- p

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Pete French
ler is, however on PCI-X, not PCI. It's a shame PCI-X appears to have gone the way of the dinosaur :-( -pete. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: 8.0 zfs install

2009-12-04 Thread pete wright
ation you may have regarding the OS: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/filesystems-zfs.html You can also get more information via the FreeBSD wiki here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS -- pete wright www.nycbug.org ___ freebsd-

Re: splitting Mbox file thread-sorted

2009-11-05 Thread Pete
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:20 AM, jhell wrote: >> On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:13, guru@ wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Is there some tool or something in the ports which could split a Mbox >>> file into various pieces, but having the threads together? I could do >>> it by hand with m

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread pete wright
ce out of ports. > > That would mean less code in base and fewer security advisories. > yea i like where you are going with this frank - perhaps when opensmtpd is done we'll be in the position to import this into the freebsd tree? it sounds like it might fit the bill :) -pete --

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread pete wright
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, pete wright wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Lars Eighner >> wrote: >> >>>> You guessed wrong. >>>> >>>> We use m4, which cuts out most of the

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread pete wright
nitor patches w/o having to track ports. For more complex systems (my relay for example) - sure I use postfix, and freebsd makes this quite easy to do as well. if you don't want to use sendmail on your machines it's easy - just don't use it. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org __

Re: Mounting an NFS volume served by Mac OS X

2009-09-01 Thread pete wright
u using on the server side, which version are you attempting to use on the client side. also, it may be helpful if you post your /etc/exports file from your server (or what ever configuration you are using on the OSX server) and your mount command that is failing. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbu

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-05-21 Thread Pete Carah
he linux stuff mounted in bsd. The geom-linux-lvm does indeed work on this laptop, and mount finds and mounts the main linux partition; then any reference gets an errno back, apparently due to the inode length issue. I saw a request for mfc of the fix for this (it is apparently in fbsd-c

USB NIC udav driver

2009-03-15 Thread Pete C
.. TIA Pete C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: When is there going to be a USB install and run iso iamge for FreeBSD?

2009-02-21 Thread pete wright
; >> Hope it can help >> >> ___ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@fr

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-21 Thread pete wright
iring the one or two trusted users in wheel to executed any program that may require escalated privs (rndc reload, apachectl reload come to mind immediately). -p -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questi

Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space

2008-12-19 Thread pete wright
just the other day here. Not sure if they are > BSD-based, but both dyndns.org and zoneedit.com offser secondary service for > practically nothing. > I'm %99 sure that dyndns.org is FBSD based. I've been using them for a while now and am quite happy with them too. if you

MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread pete
domain set to use my cable IP as a MTA, or if I have to do some kind of end run around cablevision to get a MTA set up locally. Also looking for advice on which software would serve me bet in this instance. TIA Pete C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: nsswitch.conf man page

2008-07-16 Thread pete wright
:) > > I would assume I could add something to the affect of: > > passwd files ldap > group files ldap > yep that's about it, here is what i use for ldap auth on some workstations that hit an openldap cluster. passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap

Using RocketRAID 1810A (hptmv) as an ordinary controller?

2008-07-14 Thread Pete
I'd like to use my HighPoint RocketRAID 1810A as an ordinary SATA controller without any RAID functionality. This works fine out of the box for all sectors of the disk except the last ten, which are hidden. The controller is identified as: hptmv0: mem 0xfbf0-0xfbf7 irq 18 at device 2.0 o

Re: Version 5.4

2008-05-27 Thread pete wright
pache port that is currently installed. Is there a specific version of the Apache web server that is needed? FreeBSD supports many different versions of the Apache webserver - yet the ports system makes installing, and updating, these applications very easy. Hope this helps, -pete --

Re: DYNDNS server (NOT CLIENT)

2008-01-09 Thread pete wright
looks like both the client and server packages are available in the ports tree as well... /me is going to look into this for his own use now :) -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: Firewall Redirect

2007-11-30 Thread pete wright
but going this route may give you more flexibility than using a packetfilter ruleset and will allow you take advantage of load balancing etc. with mod_jk as well. i currently use this setup for a site that serves both static content from httpd and .jsp pages from tomcat all on the same box.

Re: vim doesn't preserve the terminal content

2007-11-02 Thread Pete Slagle
Yuri wrote: > I use vim both on Linux and FreeBSD. > On Linux after I exit vim original screen content is restored. > On FreeBSD vim leaves the last content viewed in vim. > > How do I make vim preserve the screen? > > Thanks, > Yuri This behavior is controlled by xterm settings. Try holding t

Re: iSCSI and multi-terabyte support?

2007-10-10 Thread pete wright
http://www.isilon.com/) which builds very scalable filers based on FreeBSD. I have beta tested their iSCSI implementation and it does look good. HTH -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: courier-authlib problems.

2007-10-09 Thread pete wright
three ports as well before > the upgrade, but I can not be 100% sure. I always kept these 2 severs > running the same versions of everything, so I assume they were. > > Anyone know how to fix this? > yea ran into a similar issue yesterd

Re: Backup Large FileServer

2007-09-28 Thread pete wright
t; accomplish this job. > > Alexandre - have you looked at using something like Bacula: http://www.bacula.org/ You should get much better performance (you can write your backup to disk - it does not have to be a tape device) and all windows metadata etc. should b

Re: Help! FreeBSD: 88.78 KBps, Linux: 624.95 KBps

2007-07-10 Thread pete wright
ia sysctl. i didn't really look at that stuff closely - that info is kinda pointless w/o the basic hardware, OS data. -p -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: sshd config config file question

2007-07-10 Thread pete wright
g how to start the daemon by hand, etc.. type: man sshd -p -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread pete wright
On 5/26/07, Svein Halvor Halvorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 pete wright wrote: > hmm...i'm still a little confused as to where you are going. there > are three main way's i've used snapshot's in large (~1PB)

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread pete wright
bases). now, here is an easy way to go - that should work for static dataset's: an installworld goes bad and /usr/bin is borked: $ tar cvpf - /usr/bin/.snap/ | (cd /usr/bin; tar xvpf -) or something similar. you could use rsync, but that would give you uneeded overhead IMHO. -p -- ~~o

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread pete wright
en dealing with whole filesystems and important data i think dump(8) is really the way to go as much work has been put into ensuring that you end up with a consistent image on disk. having said that - i see no reason why one couldn't write a wrapper around dump(8) and mksnap_ffs. -p -- ~~o0OO0o

Re: VNC ??

2007-05-14 Thread Pete C
Quoting Jack Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: uh, since he's blocking my emails, here is info if anyone else is interested. so sorry for the bad reply-to addy, new web-mail client ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

VNC ??

2007-05-14 Thread Pete C
what are some of the more current ways to do remote desktop functions w/ FreeBSD 6.2 host and WinXP client . . googled, but alot of stuff out there seems to be awful old . . TIA Pete C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Bridging with tap

2007-05-02 Thread Pete Jones
if_bridge and that I should be able to bridge the two interfaces using rc.conf. I have entered the correct command, but how do know for sure that the two interfaces are bridged? thanks in advance - Original Message - From: "Lowell Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: &quo

Bridging with tap

2007-04-29 Thread Pete Jones
Does anyone know anything about ethernet bridging to a tap interface in Freebsd 6.2. I have compiled the bridge option and the tap device into the kernel, but the tap device has not appeared. I have tried this on a virtual machine and a separate box with the same results, yet it works with Freeb

Re: Shell scripting: Absolute path name of a file given as parameter

2007-04-12 Thread Pete Slagle
Aitor San Juan wrote: > I have developed a shell script that, among other things, shows the filename > that was specified as a parameter. > > However, when I invoke the script and the file is located in the current > working > directory, it just shows: ./my_input_filename > > I'd like the scrip

Re: Recommended SMP Hardware

2007-04-05 Thread pete wright
find similar deals on the 'net as well. Hope this helps! -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Patches in FreeBSD

2007-02-26 Thread pete wright
errata patches" So there's your response. :) and you can update your third party packages via binary packages (which you can get from freebsd.org or build yourself)...so it seems these two solutions would be a great fit. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o

Re: origin of system message?

2007-02-14 Thread pete wright
On 2/14/07, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: pete wright writes: > > > > Feb 14 17:03:50 jerusalem kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 209.6.203.219:1026 from 202.97.238.130:52821 > > > > > > > >What program/process issues this

Re: origin of system message?

2007-02-14 Thread pete wright
el? > > please check if these two sysctl values are set: > > net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain: 1 # Log all incoming TCP connections > net.inet.udp.log_in_vain: 1 # Log all incoming UDP packets Both. I don't want to stop the messages, merely re-direct them. you c

Re: FTP Servers Down

2007-02-14 Thread pete wright
ewhere. hmm...what's the error message you are getting when it tries to grab a package. i do not see any issues from where i am, but an error message will help folks on the list diagnose what's going on your end. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC&#

Re: Dual boot problems

2007-02-13 Thread pete wright
am having problems compiling grub in this environment from the ports tree? it looks like grub may only build correctly on i386 systems, but you may be able to define your cpu as a 32bit arch in /etc/make.conf while trying to build grub to see if that works. i've never had to do this thoug

Re: Newbie--new install on Core 2 Duo?

2007-02-13 Thread pete wright
On 2/13/07, Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday February 13, 2007 at 01:42:23 (PM) pete wright wrote: > how would you define "correct"? have all systems boot with a SMP > kernel by default so that machines with multiple processors > automatically detect a

Re: Newbie--new install on Core 2 Duo?

2007-02-13 Thread pete wright
ldkernel KERNCONF=SMP make installkernel KERNCONF=SMP reboot this is all covered in the FreeBSD handbook, which all new admin's/users should be reading and following closely anyway ;) -pete > they will detect your cpus and will > install the

portmanager behaviour

2007-02-07 Thread pete wright
ortmanager removed itself from the system. anyone else see this? -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: interpreting "top" output (computing n% cpu usage in actual megahertz)

2007-02-02 Thread pete wright
n my opinion, but is obviously very pertinent to FreeBSD. this URL may also be a decent place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_management HTH -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-20 Thread Pete Slagle
Matthew Seaman wrote: > [You could make /etc/localtime a link or a symlink to the appropriate > file under /usr/share/zoneinfo, but only if /etc and /usr/share/zoneinfo > happen to be on the same filesystem (ie. on the root filesystem), which > is not the case in the default install of FreeBSD]

Re: duo core question

2007-01-17 Thread pete wright
On 1/17/07, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:55 AM, pete wright wrote: > On 1/16/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> thank you guys for reply... very useful... :-) >> >> so for you guys who have experiecen with thi

Re: duo core question

2007-01-17 Thread pete wright
27;d say yes - it may be helpful for similar reasons mentioned above. if you are using your desktop like %90 of unix people out there (web/mail and ssh'ing into servers) i'm not sure having two cores (let alone multiple CPU's) is worth the price. just my 2bit's. -pete -- ~~o

iSCSI hardware HBA status

2007-01-12 Thread pete wright
ards. For example I have a Qlogic 1gig 2port HBA with a ISP4022 chipset. Is any work being done on this? I would be willing to do some testing if time permits on my end. thanks! -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group

Re: Release info

2007-01-09 Thread pete wright
tml -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: alittle help

2007-01-05 Thread pete wright
you as well: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html -p -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Terabyte Pete
7:04 AM, Wednesday, December 20, 2006 In Winblow$, the release & bundling of IE was purposely as crippleware, virus, & bug delivery system 2 trap people into constantly 'upgrading'. A simple comparisson of Windows 95 side-by-side with the final Windows ME & various IE 'upgrades' illustrates h

Re: NFS question - which is the server

2006-12-12 Thread pete wright
he NFS client? in this model the NFS server will be the node in which you export your data to other machines. I.e. the machine which holds the files you want to access. The client will be the machine that needs to access said files. in your case the multiuser box will be the client.

Re: running out of mbuf clusters

2006-12-12 Thread pete wright
ikes, can't remember if 4.x allows you to tune this via sysctl or if you have to define it in your kernel config. in any event if you type "sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters" that should report you maximum mbuf's that can be allocated. I am guessing you may have to increase this va

Re: Real-time command history sharing between interactive shells

2006-11-29 Thread pete wright
ultiple accounts will not be sufficient. if it is you can define $HISTFILE in bash/ksh to point to ~/.history as well. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread pete wright
kpad entries in there. hopefully it'll give you a good idea of the hardware support of various laptops out there. putting "laptop" as a search string seems to pull up a fair amount of hit's. HTH -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group _

Re: 3Com 3c905B-COMBO and 10base2/BNC

2006-11-04 Thread Pete Slagle
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > anyone got 3Com 3c905B-COMBO network card (Fast EtherLink XL PCI) > working with 10base2/BNC? > > I just bought one and I can't figure it out. It has BNC connector and > should be supported according to man xl page. You did use T-connectors with 50 ohm terminators at b

Re: cvsup*.au.freebsd.org ??

2006-10-31 Thread Pete Slagle
James Long wrote: >> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:21:32 +1100 >> From: Alan Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: cvsup*.au.freebsd.org ?? >> To: Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Content-Type: text/plain >> >> I also find that

Re: Moving jails from one computer to another

2006-10-25 Thread pete wright
ations on a development server, then deploying the final product to a production server. Comments, thoughts, criticisms welcomed. yea, this is actually one the larger benefits of jailing IMO. i've used this method to help setup distributed mirroring of websites for some OSS projects. -pet

Re: musicpd & kld sound

2006-10-20 Thread Pete C
I have an issue w/ mpd starting (trying to, anyway) before the kld for sound loads up, which causes mpd to fail loading . . then I have to start mpd at the command line. I would like to set up sound in the kernel, but I have Aureal 8810 based sound on the MB and don't see a driver to use i

musicpd & kld sound

2006-10-20 Thread Pete C
se in the snd_"drvr" line in the config file. is there a way to specify the order in which these items load ? any clues appreciated . . Pete C replace 'nospam' w/ my first name to reply directly ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: VMWare

2006-10-13 Thread Pete Slagle
Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Davison, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I'm looking to run VMware on my FreeBSD box and note that version 3 is in >> the ports. >> >> I've not tried running Linux software ontop of FreeBSD, but how easy is it >> to download the free VMware Server software

Re: unattended installation

2006-10-05 Thread pete wright
l see section on scripting sysinstall. you will most likely want to merge this with a pxeboot environment. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: Question about installing FreeBSD

2006-10-03 Thread Pete C
easier way to install is to download the .iso files and burn them to CD . . then use your boot floppies to start the install from the CDs (or just boot from the CD if supported by your equip) Pete C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Re: Ruby gaining weight? [RESOLVED]

2006-10-03 Thread Pete Slagle
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Pete Slagle wrote: >> Recent versions of ruby18 seem to take more than 145 MB of virtual >> memory to build with portupgrade or "make install clean." > Karol Kwiatkowski wrote less than a week ago: >> # cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby18 >> #

Ruby gaining weight?

2006-10-02 Thread Pete Slagle
Recent versions of ruby18 seem to take more than 145 MB of virtual memory to build with portupgrade or "make install clean." I have several "classic" boxes running bind and a mail MTA on 4.11 that are memory-limited, but otherwise work well. The main boards are maxed out at 64 MB of RAM, and they

Re: Exim As MTA

2006-09-25 Thread Pete Slagle
B. Cook wrote: > I am running Exim as a sendmail replacement, and I keep getting a > "Message failure - message too big" in my inbox for root. (looks like > from daily run output) > I do want to see the mail due to the messages in the queue.. but how do > I get it not to show me rejected mail?

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Pete Slagle
Rob Gabaree wrote: > I have a remote server that I don't plan on using for email as I have > another server to handle that. My question is.. is it a bad idea to > _completely_ disable sendmail on that machine? Yes. You probably want to allow the server to send you administrative mail that

Re: Poutupgrade unsafe

2006-09-14 Thread Pete Slagle
Olivier Nicole wrote: > I know the mistake was on my side, I was not carefull enough when > using portupgrade on a production machine but... > > Yesterday I froze our system for about one hour when I used > portupgrade to upgrade Samba. It was a very minor upgrade (from 3.0.10 > to 3.0.23c,1 I th

Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox

2006-09-12 Thread Pete Slagle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > uninstall firefox > > then make sure linux binary compatibility is enabled, the easiest way > to do that is with sysinstall. (read the handbook for more info on > this step) > > Now cd into /usr/ports/www > and look at any port whose name starts with "linux" > > th

6.1 recommended instead of 5.x for new installations [was: Efficacy vs. "friendliness"]

2006-09-07 Thread Pete Slagle
jdow wrote: > I noticed that FreeBSD 5.x was somewhat quicker than that to get up, > running, and up to date. I can't think of a good reason to use FreeBSD 5.x for a new installation; 6.1 contains so many reliability and performance improvements that it is the clear choice over 5.5. (Upgrades ar

Efficacy vs. "friendliness" [Was: How to fix init -> /etc/ttys?]

2006-09-07 Thread Pete Slagle
Gary Kline wrote: > > Anyway, this is to the entire list: A week or so ago > I loaned my 5.3 set to a non-geek friend who had occasionally > been using RH. He brought the box of discs back and said it > was too hard to install; that RH had a much easier installatio

Re: Anyone Using the New Free Mulberry Mail Client?

2006-09-01 Thread Pete Slagle
RW wrote: > There used to be a port of Cyrusoft's Mulberry mail client that installed the > Linux rpm version; then Cyrusoft went bankrupt and the port dissappeared. > > Mulberry is now available for free as a standalone Linux binary: > > http://www.mulberrymail.com > > Has anyone

linux-firefox

2006-08-30 Thread Pete C
se libXfixes.so.3 is missing . . . Any clues appreciated . . . Pete C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Memory leak in PHP on FreeBSD

2006-08-30 Thread pete wright
d me. No, I don't want your offer of technical help." betting the admin's may have misunderstood something or misconfigured something... -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Time zone isn't displaying right one with 'tzsetup'

2006-08-23 Thread Pete Slagle
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 22 August 2006 at 23:45:19 -0400, Robert Gabaree wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I tried to update my new server to the new time zone by running >> 'tzsetup' and selecting Eastern. However, instead of showing 11:45, >> it shows 6:45 - 5 hours later. I even tried to d

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