securing apache2 on freebsd

2003-01-02 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hey, Does someone have a good link, pdf or doc to share about how to secure apache2 (or apache 1.3.X if there is currently no specific version 2 paper) on "freebsd", file permissions etc disable modules! How secure is the default installation of apache? Can you tighten it up if you only use static

Re: once last try

2003-01-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-30 13:40:50 -0500: > >3) Watch your /var/log/maillog for mail coming in from freebsd.org. > > If majordomo sends you one of the two messages, it most probably > > sends the other one, too. Or at least I can't think of a > > situation when it would

RE: opinions on my plan

2003-01-02 Thread Rob O'Donnell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Darren Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:49 AM To: fbsd-questions Subject: opinions on my plan I am building a firewall/NAT box for my father. This is the first firewall that I've built. And, I'm tryin

Re: burning audio CD's from mp3's

2003-01-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-30 15:29:35 -0300: > On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > I have a few mp3 files I'd like to burn an audio cd from. I use mpg321 > > for playing mp3's, and burncd to burn cd's, so my first thought was: > > let's pipe them together. I read the man pages, and

Re: do we have to wait for PHP 4.3 port?

2003-01-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-31 01:35:06 -0500: > "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BTW I'd love to see sendmail and named removed from the installs and > > moved to ports/packages only. > > Lots of people say that, but no one's done the work yet. It's a > *huge* amount of work, if you thi

promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread Yann GROSSEL
Hi, We have several FreeBSD 4.7 boxes that put automatically all their interfaces into promiscuous mode during the boot process. What should I do to prevent this from happening ? Our boxes are connected on a D-Link switch. We have noticed a very weird behaviour from a few of these machines, I'll

Shell scripting tutorial

2003-01-02 Thread Wayne Swart
Hi everybody I am looking for shell scripting manual, in html or pdf form, can anyone help To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Shell scripting tutorial

2003-01-02 Thread Voicu Liviu
Google.com On Thursday 02 January 2003 13:20, Wayne Swart wrote: > Hi everybody > > I am looking for shell scripting manual, in html or pdf form, can anyone > help > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubs

Digiboard Classicboard under FreeBSD

2003-01-02 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi all, Are the Digiboard Classicboard 8 PCI or ISA in any way usable under FreeBSD? Thanks, Per olof To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

/etc/ftpchroot

2003-01-02 Thread Wayne Swart
lo everyone is there a wildcdard type you can specify for /etc/ftpchroot ? this is on bsd 4.7 using ftpd thanks wayne To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Shell scripting tutorial

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:20:43PM +0200, Wayne Swart wrote: > Hi everybody > > I am looking for shell scripting manual, in html or pdf form, can anyone > help While these links are for bash, rather than shell, if you're using sh (as opposed to csh or one of its variants) most of it will work. h

Re: /etc/ftpchroot

2003-01-02 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Wayne Swart wrote: > lo everyone > > is there a wildcdard type you can specify for /etc/ftpchroot ? joe*, doe[0-9], etc. won't work > this is on bsd 4.7 using ftpd This is from ftpd(8): ... 5. If the user name appears in the file /etc/ftpchroot, or the user is a member of a group w

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
> In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > >I was working in my X-client lastnight (i use Exceed from my workstation > >to connect to the X-Client on my FreeBSD server) when i lost my dhcp lease > >due to a faulty config. Because of this my X session crashed. Now my > >Xclient refuses to give me

make world because of sendmail

2003-01-02 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hy, (from a *NIX newbie) I've been playing a bit around with freebsd! This a thing that happened a few times to me: When I did a "make world" it fails because of the sendmail configuration files! This happened to me when: 1) I simply had sendmail_enable="YES" in rc.conf or 2) when I modified a few

/etc/resolv.conf

2003-01-02 Thread McClain
Hello ppl, i got a problem with /etc/resolv.conf. On every start up, it gets somehow overwritten with settings i had earlier. I just don't find the script/program which rewrites it. Can somebody please help me ...thanks in advance To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: /etc/resolv.conf

2003-01-02 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Check out dhclient which uses the dhclient-script to overwrite your resolv.conf under certain (such as the default) conditions. Dw. On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, McClain wrote: > Hello ppl, > > i got a problem with /etc/resolv.conf. On every start up, it gets > somehow overwritten with settings i

Re: /etc/resolv.conf

2003-01-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-02 14:47:57 +: > i got a problem with /etc/resolv.conf. On every start up, it gets > somehow overwritten with settings i had earlier. I just don't find > the script/program which rewrites it. Can somebody please help me DHCP? -- If you cc me or remove the li

RE: /etc/resolv.conf

2003-01-02 Thread Barry Byrne
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of McClain > > i got a problem with /etc/resolv.conf. On every start up, it gets > somehow overwritten with settings i had earlier. I just don't find > the script/program which rewrites it. Can somebody

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:34:09PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > > In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you >wrote: > > >I was working in my X-client lastnight (i use Exceed from my workstation > > >to connect to the X-Client on my FreeBSD server) when i lost my dhcp lease > > >due to a faulty con

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
> Ugh, hopefully it won't come to that :-( You might have been onto > something with your comment about lock files -- XFree86 creates various > hidden files in /tmp, for instance I have: > > .ICE-unix/ > .X0-lock > .X110unix/ > > You might try deleting all of those (if you have t

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
From: Yann GROSSEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, We have several FreeBSD 4.7 boxes that put automatically all their interfaces into promiscuous mode during the boot process. What should I do to prevent this from happening ? Our boxes are connected on a D-Link switch. We have noticed a very weird behav

Lots of files in a directory

2003-01-02 Thread MikeM
I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the freedb.org lookup database. Unfortunately, I've seem to have run into a stumbling block. The server app requires over 250,000 files in a single directory. Each file is about 2k in size. It was a surprise to me (but probably not to tho

Re: Lots of files in a directory

2003-01-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-02 09:01:27 -0500: > I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the freedb.org > lookup database. Unfortunately, I've seem to have run into a stumbling > block. The server app requires over 250,000 files in a single directory. > Each file is about 2k i

openssl 0.9.6h checksum in ports

2003-01-02 Thread Hari Bhaskaran
Hi, I just did a cvsup and updated the ports collection and wanted to update the openssl. I see the makefile was updated to 0.9.6h, but the checksum isn't. Unless of course the openssl.org got yet another bad file. # make >> openssl-0.9.6h.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. >>

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread Yann GROSSEL
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 08:56:42 -0500 "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's your answer. Any machine with forwarding turned on will resend > a packet that isn't destin for it. That's by design. > It doesn't make much sense to me that you'd have a lot of machines with > forwarding turned

Re: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live/pcm cards: has anyonetried this?

2003-01-02 Thread John Bleichert
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, paul beard wrote: > Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:49:04 -0800 > From: paul beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live/pcm cards: has anyone > tried this? > > I have been working on recording vinyl LPs to digital files b

Re: Lots of files in a directory

2003-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
From: "MikeM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the freedb.org lookup database. Unfortunately, I've seem to have run into a stumbling block. The server app requires over 250,000 files in a single directory. Each file is about 2k in size. It was a surp

Mount "/" read-only.

2003-01-02 Thread roland Mathieu
Hi, I've got a FreeBSD 4.7 box with 4 differents partitions: "/", "/var", "/tmp" and "/home", and the configuration is finish. Is it possible to mount "/" read-only without troubles ? Thanks for your answers, roland. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-q

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
From: Yann GROSSEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 08:56:42 -0500 "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's your answer. Any machine with forwarding turned on will resend > a packet that isn't destin for it. That's by design. > It doesn't make much sense to me that you'd have a l

Re: Lots of files in a directory

2003-01-02 Thread MikeM
On 1/2/03 at 3:13 PM Roman Neuhauser wrote: |# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-02 09:01:27 -0500: |> I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the freedb.org |> lookup database. Unfortunately, I've seem to have run into a stumbling |> block. The server app requires over 250,000 files

Problem with AMD AM79C978 (PCNet32/Home - HomeHPNA) and external PHY

2003-01-02 Thread J. Seth Henry
I have a system with an onboard ethernet controller, the above mentioned PCNet32/Home device. Instead of using the two onboard PHY's, there is an external 10/100 PHY. Both are detected by the kernel, but in the wrong order. As such, the pcn device fails because it can't find any MII PHY's, and a fe

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread éé Yann GROSSEL ééé
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:42:13 -0500 "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Gateways are designed to forward packets from network to network. If a > >machine wants to send a packet to a remote network, it will send that > >packet to the gateway by putting the gateway interface MAC address in > >

Re: Mount "/" read-only.

2003-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:47:35PM +0100, roland Mathieu wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a FreeBSD 4.7 box with 4 differents partitions: "/", "/var", "/tmp" and > "/home", and the configuration is finish. Is it possible to mount "/" > read-only without troubles ? You'll find that you get errors as vari

Re: openssl 0.9.6h checksum in ports

2003-01-02 Thread Matt Smith
Confirmed -- Hari is not alone. On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 09:13, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > Hi, > > I just did a cvsup and updated the ports collection > and wanted to update the openssl. I see the makefile > was updated to 0.9.6h, but the checksum isn't. Unless > of course the openssl.org got yet anoth

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2003-01-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-30 11:26:22 +1030: > On Sunday, 29 December 2002 at 18:46:12 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-29 10:55:11 +1030: > > > > ... > > > >> For more information, take a look at the following, which is a message > >> I send to systems which

Re: Mount "/" read-only.

2003-01-02 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, roland Mathieu wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a FreeBSD 4.7 box with 4 differents partitions: "/", "/var", "/tmp" and > "/home", and the configuration is finish. Is it possible to mount "/" > read-only without troubles ? No. and yes :) You can, but you can't "without problems' So

Re: Portupgrade vs. multiple versions of packages

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 03:01:43PM +1030, Brian Astill wrote: > > That upgrade is a doozie. Been there, done that! > rm -fr qt2 is (I think) the correct thing to do (someone else on the > list will correct me). > Then port kde3. > > qt2 and qt3 will NOT live comfortably together. So delete qt

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
From: éé Yann GROSSEL ééé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:42:13 -0500 "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Gateways are designed to forward packets from network to network. If a > >machine wants to send a packet to a remote network, it will send that > >packet to the gateway by put

ad0s1a are not dectected

2003-01-02 Thread Jörg Ruppe-Tanner
Hello I have an older PC (Siemens PC100) and he has an 2 ide controllers. I have installed FreeBSD 4.4 and it works no Problems. Then I would upgrade to 4.6 or 4.6.2 or 4.7. And after Fails i treid an new installion When I boot from floppy the ata disk controllers where decteted korrkt as ata

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Brent J. Ermlick
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:52:22PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: . . . > i don't see what is wrong, a friend of mine just said the only solution is > to reinstall the entire machine, but i don't really consider that to be an > option. That doesn't make sense. What errors do you see in

Re: ad0s1a are not dectected

2003-01-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-02 15:17:39 +0100: > I have an older PC (Siemens PC100) and he has an 2 ide controllers. > I have installed FreeBSD 4.4 and it works no Problems. > Then I would upgrade to 4.6 or 4.6.2 or 4.7. And after Fails i treid an > new installion > When I boot from floppy t

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Brent J. Ermlick wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:52:22PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > . . . > > i don't see what is wrong, a friend of mine just said the only solution is > > to reinstall the entire machine, but i don't really consider that to be an > > option

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread John Bleichert
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:29:58 +0100 (CET) > From: Marcel Stangenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Brent J. Ermlick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Scott Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: XFree86 lockfile? > > On Thu, 2 Ja

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:29:58PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Brent J. Ermlick wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:52:22PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > > . . . > > > i don't see what is wrong, a friend of mine just said the only solution is > > > to re

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Brent J. Ermlick wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:29:58PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > . . . > > (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Wed Jan 1 10:02:54 2003 > > (EE) Unable to locate/open config file > > (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() > > Ah

Procmail and Exim - Freebsd

2003-01-02 Thread Ian Watkinson
Trying to get Fetmail - Procmail - Exim working. >From the Exim site for Version 4, it suggests # transport procmail_pipe: driver = pipe command = /usr/local/bin/procmail -d $local_part return_path_add delivery_date_add envelope_to_add check_string = "From " escape_s

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Brent J. Ermlick
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:18:48PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: . . . > so i assume X is working on the server now (i don't have a monitor on the > server) but i'm not getting a login prompt on my Exceed :( > > the xdm.log is empty so there are no errors reported by xdm. > xdm is sta

Saving a partially rotting IBM DTLA-307030 Harddisk

2003-01-02 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hello list, I've got the following problem which I hope someone could help me with: One of my boxes running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE has an IBM DTLA-307030 (30GB) which worked very well for more than 2 years now, but I think it starts rotting away according the following: * The security ou

Re: opinions on my plan

2003-01-02 Thread randall ehren
> I'm open to all suggestions, links or any other comments. This is new > territory for me. how-to on building a freebsd firewall with ipfilter: http://www.schlacter.net/public/FreeBSD-STABLE_and_IPFILTER.html NAT with ipfilter: http://www.isber.ucsb.edu/~randall/wireless/ipnat.html ipfilter

kern.maxfiles guidelines

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Wimpee
Hello, We have a 4.4-RELEASE server in production running primarily MySQL which, under extremely heavy loads, puts a lot of /kernel: file: table is full errors into the syslog. Newsgroup posts all seem to prescribe 'sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=[big number]', but I haven't seen any guidelines for the

Re: ata "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:57:16PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > I am seeing a problem with ata disks on 4 new systems, which > I believe is either a bug in the ata driver, or a problem with > the onboard IDE controller, or something else. Systems are as follows: > > Motherboard: ASUS A7M266-

Followup to "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Bruce Campbell
By the way, I've determined our removable IDE disk trays are manufactured by SNT (http://www.snt.com.tw/metal.htm) and are part number SNT-129. It looks like these are the same ones startech sells. I've placed my hardware configuration here: http://www.freebsd.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view/Freebsd

Re: Lots of files in a directory

2003-01-02 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, MikeM wrote: > On 1/2/03 at 3:13 PM Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > |# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-02 09:01:27 -0500: > |> I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the freedb.org > |> lookup database. Unfortunately, I've seem to have run into a stumbling > |> block

port question

2003-01-02 Thread bryan cassidy
is there a command i can use to see what packages will be installed before I install something from the ports? using freebsd 4.6.2 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Followup to 'fallback to PIO mode' on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread nate
Bruce Campbell said: > > - try UDMA100 with the drives directly attached (ie. no removable tray) - > maybe try a non onboard IDE controller yes I would reccomend a PCI ide controller, such as the Promise ATA/100, or Promise ATA/66. Also be sure your IDE cables are 18" and not 24" or 32" some peo

Re: Lots of files in a directory

2003-01-02 Thread MikeM
On 1/2/03 at 8:58 AM Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: |On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, MikeM wrote: | |> On 1/2/03 at 3:13 PM Roman Neuhauser wrote: |> |> |# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-02 09:01:27 -0500: |> |> I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the |> |> freedb.org lookup database. Unfortunate

Re: port question

2003-01-02 Thread John Bleichert
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, bryan cassidy wrote: > Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:06:16 -0800 (PST) > From: bryan cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: port question > > is there a command i can use to see what packages will > be installed before I install something from the > ports? us

OT: multitrack recording [was: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live...]

2003-01-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:06:14AM -0500, John Bleichert wrote: > I do a *lot* of recording with my SBLive! card and FreeBSD. It's all > guitar and drum machine through a 4-track, plugged into my sound card. The > trick with the line-in (at least on my rig) was that the input volume on > that ch

Re: openssl 0.9.6h checksum in ports

2003-01-02 Thread Hari Bhaskaran
Funny the ftp directory in ftp.openssl.org/source contains two sets of files. The checksum in ports seem to match with the BOGUS one. -rw-rw-r-- 1 openssl openssl 691 Dec 9 16:41 openssl-0.9.6h.BOGUS-0.9.6h.patch -rw-rw-r-- 1 openssl openssl 2178290 Dec 5 23:25 openssl-0.9.6h.BOG

Re: port question

2003-01-02 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:06:16AM -0800, bryan cassidy wrote: > is there a command i can use to see what packages will > be installed before I install something from the > ports? using freebsd 4.6.2 I suppose you could use # make pretty-print-run-depends-list and/or # make pretty-print-build-dep

Re: openssl 0.9.6h checksum in ports

2003-01-02 Thread Hari Bhaskaran
openssl.org just decided to re-release a release! It would have been much cleaner to bump up a version if they fix something! Come on, we are in 2003! http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20021208.215539.34764527.levitte%40openssl.org On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 11:21:30AM -0600, Hari Bhaskaran wrote

Problems installing FreeBSD

2003-01-02 Thread Bruno Campanelli
I've got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm having a lot of difficulty installing it. I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16 MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball disk and a Toshiba 3501XA CD-ROM drive. The installation works just fine, but when I try to re

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
> I've got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm > having a lot of difficulty installing it. I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16 > MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball > disk and a Toshiba 3501XA CD-ROM drive. The installation works just > fine, but when I

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD

2003-01-02 Thread Metin
Hello Bruno, Thursday, January 2, 2003, 6:48:13 PM, you wrote: > I've got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm > having a lot of difficulty installing it. I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16 > MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball > disk and a Toshiba 350

Re: OT: multitrack recording [was: recording audio with SoundBlasterLive...]

2003-01-02 Thread John Bleichert
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > This is off-topic from the original post, but since you mention that you > do a lot recording to your SBLive I though I would ask. Is there any > good multitrack recording software for FreeBSD. I recently made a > little preamp so that I could plug my

Re: openssl 0.9.6h checksum in ports

2003-01-02 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > openssl.org just decided to re-release a release! > It would have been much cleaner to bump up a version > if they fix something! Come on, we are in 2003! Yeah, and they're on 0.9.7. ;) KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsub

where can i get RIP source code.

2003-01-02 Thread Shivaji Navale _01307908
thanks shivaji --The World is the manifestation of our inner state To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: ata "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Francesco Casadei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:57:16PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > > > I am seeing a problem with ata disks on 4 new systems, which > > I believe is either a bug in the ata driver, or a problem with > > the onboard IDE controller, or something else

Re: Multicast Routing

2003-01-02 Thread mark tinguely
Usually multicast groups are joined on a multicast address. On Ethernet there is a mapping between multicast addresses and multicast ethernet addresses and if the ethernet card is well behaved, filters only those multicast ethernet addresses, and the IP stack filters the multicast IP address that a

File Descriptors

2003-01-02 Thread Walker Pendleton
Is there any way to see how many entries are being used in the file descriptor table? In other words, I want to know how many files are open on my system. msg14017/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: File Descriptors

2003-01-02 Thread Matt Smith
man fstat On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 14:12, Walker Pendleton wrote: > Is there any way to see how many entries are being used in the file > descriptor table? > > In other words, I want to know how many files are open on my system. -- Matt Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: kern.maxfiles guidelines

2003-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Michael Wimpee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > errors into the syslog. Newsgroup posts all seem to prescribe 'sysctl -w > kern.maxfiles=[big number]', but I haven't seen any guidelines for the > value of 'big'. Assume I get excited and do 'sysctl -w > kern.maxfiles=99'. What will happen as

Re: File Descriptors

2003-01-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Walker Pendleton wrote: Is there any way to see how many entries are being used in the file descriptor table? In other words, I want to know how many files are open on my system. sysctl kern.openfiles sysctl -a will provide you with a vast amount of information about the state of the system..

Re: Lots of files in a directory

2003-01-02 Thread MikeM
On 1/2/03 at 11:38 AM Dan Nelson wrote: |In the last episode (Jan 02), MikeM said: |> Is there anything I can do so that the file system works faster with |> such a large number of files? I'm looking for an increase in the |> area of 5 to 1. For example, the command "rm -rf misc" where "misc" |>

Re: Followup to "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote: > At present, I don't suspect bad media because the error message is > "WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0" which doesn't suggest a specific > sector/track etc, and running with UDMA33 instead of UDMA100 makes the problem > appear to vanish. The fallback

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Yann GROSSEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 08:56:42 -0500 > "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There's your answer. Any machine with forwarding turned on will resend > > a packet that isn't destin for it. That's by design. > > It doesn't make much sense to me that

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:18:48PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > . . . > > so i assume X is working on the server now (i don't have a monitor on the > > server) but i'm not getting a login prompt on my Exceed :( > > > > the xdm.log is empty so there are no errors reported by xdm. > >

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Brent J. Ermlick
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:28:44PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: . . . > I've tried reinstalling exceed but that didn't help. I disabled the xhosts > so that it will allow any client to display but that doesn't help either. > I've also tried using X-Win32 on this system (and on my lapt

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Brent J. Ermlick wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:28:44PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > . . . > > I've tried reinstalling exceed but that didn't help. I disabled the xhosts > > so that it will allow any client to display but that doesn't help either. > > I've al

Re: Procmail and Exim - Freebsd

2003-01-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:39:07PM +, Ian Watkinson wrote: > Trying to get Fetmail - Procmail - Exim working. > > >From the Exim site for Version 4, it suggests > > # transport > procmail_pipe: > driver = pipe > command = /usr/local/bin/procmail -d $local_part > return_path_add

Re: Lots of files in a directory

2003-01-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 02), MikeM said: > It was a surprise to me (but probably not to those on this list) that > the file system does not handle that many files in an expeditious > manner (I'm being kind here). > > Is there anything I can do so that the file system works faster with > such a la

Is there a way to get a MAC address from an IP address

2003-01-02 Thread Dan Malaby
Is there a way if given an IP address to get the MAC address. The problem I am having is that there are two nic's that are using the same IP address on my network, but the error message my FBSD box gives me is only the MAC address for the offending card. I belive that the offending card does hav

Re: Is there a way to get a MAC address from an IP address

2003-01-02 Thread randall ehren
> Is there a way if given an IP address to get the MAC address. The problem I > am having is that there are two nic's that are using the same IP address on > my network, but the error message my FBSD box gives me is only the MAC > address for the offending card. I belive that the offending card doe

Re: Procmail and Exim - Freebsd

2003-01-02 Thread Ian Watkinson
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 17:09, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:39:07PM +, Ian Watkinson wrote: > > Trying to get Fetmail - Procmail - Exim working. > > > > >From the Exim site for Version 4, it suggests > > > > # transport > > snip > > > # router > snip > > > > > > I

Re: Procmail and Exim - Freebsd

2003-01-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:18:21PM +, Ian Watkinson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 17:09, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:39:07PM +, Ian Watkinson wrote: > > > Trying to get Fetmail - Procmail - Exim working. > > > In the exim config file, however, when I start Exim, I

Re: File Descriptors

2003-01-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 02), Walker Pendleton said: > Is there any way to see how many entries are being used in the file > descriptor table? > > In other words, I want to know how many files are open on my system. $ sysctl kern.openfiles kern.openfiles: 662 $ BTW - your PGP key is not on any o

Re: ssh+slrn screengarbage

2003-01-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 30 Dec To freebsd-questions wrote: > > > In the last episode (Dec 10), dick hoogendijk said: > So, somehow there has to be something wrong w/ cons25 on the bsd > machine OR the support for it on the Debian Woody linux machine. It's > a small thing but still a pity ;-(( Like to solve it.. Nobod

Re: ssh+slrn screengarbage

2003-01-02 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, dick hoogendijk wrote: > The ONLY way to work OK remotely is starting with: > "screen ssh remotehost" My screen stays uncluttered. That nice, but I > don't have an answer to the WHY ;-) I've seen this behaviour regularly on (debian) linux to freebsd, solaris or AIX terms. An

Re: ssh+slrn screengarbage

2003-01-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 02 Jan Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > > The ONLY way to work OK remotely is starting with: "screen ssh > > remotehost" My screen stays uncluttered. That nice, but I don't have > > an answer to the WHY ;-) > > I've seen this behaviour regularly o

Re: ssh+slrn screengarbage

2003-01-02 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On 02 Jan Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > Am I to understand that a ssh connection _from_ my linux to my fbsd box > does not have these problems? Linux does not use cons25, does it? Linux its default terminal on the screen is 'Linux' which is close t

Re: Here are the logs...Re: qmail toaster wont deliver to vmailboxes

2003-01-02 Thread Drew Raines
Keith Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] qmail has its own list[1]. Don't post this stuff to freebsd-*. -Drew Footnotes: [1] http://cr.yp.to/lists.html#qmail To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Followup to "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > > At present, I don't suspect bad media because the error message is > > "WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0" which doesn't suggest a specific > > sector/track etc, and running with UDMA33 instead of UDMA100 m

Re: ata "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:42:03PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > [snip] > I don't have it enabled: > > hw.ata.tags: 0 > > I've manually set: > > atacontrol mode 0 UDMA33 UDMA33 > > and the problem has not recurred. > > -- > Bruce Campbell > Engineering Computing > CPH-2374B > University

Re: Followup to "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Barney Wolff
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 06:36:29AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > The fallback is clearly wrong because it turns isolated media errors > into pessimized i/o for the whole disk at best, system hangs during > resets next best, and system crashes at worst. I keep a disk with bad > media on line for t

Re: once last try

2003-01-02 Thread Jim Arnold
Why is Postfix getting the messages from localhost? An antivirus or something? Where is the line telling the message was delivered? This is a complete log for a message going through our gateway (Postfix-1.1.11): At home I don't run the mail server on my firewall. It's runni

Re: Missing file - Help!

2003-01-02 Thread Gregory Carvalho
I know you didn't ask, but you might consider using NUT (Network UPS Tools) which has extensive architecture and device support (including USB UPSes). BTW, I used: find / -name "int*4" on FreeBSD 3.2, FreeBSD 4.6, and FreeBSD 4.7 Release, but the results did not contain your indicated file. Ste

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD

2003-01-02 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:48:13PM +0100, Bruno Campanelli wrote: > > I've got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm > having a lot of difficulty installing it. I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16 > MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball > disk and a Toshiba

Re: OT: [was: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live...]

2003-01-02 Thread joe
On January 2, 2003 09:40 am, John Bleichert wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > ,snip> > > I use Audacity for all of my mixing. I do a lot of the individual me too. except my requirement is to record audio tapes to mp3. > In FreeBSD Audacity is the best IMHO. Another great one

Re: Jail setup with FreeBSD 5.0

2003-01-02 Thread Jens Rehsack
Axel Gruner wrote: Hi. I am trying to setup a jail in FreeBSD 5.0 RC2. I found out to use "mount -t devfs / $D/dev" instead of "cd %D/dev; sh MAKEDEV jail". So, i configured my jail a bit, and wanted to start it with the command:"jail /jail/ssh testhome 192.168.0.201 /bin/sh /etc/rc" But the jai

Re: OT: [was: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live...]

2003-01-02 Thread John Bleichert
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, joe wrote: > > > In FreeBSD Audacity is the best IMHO. Another great one (much more > > The one missing piece of my knowledge and understanding is to actually > do the recording. > > I've hooked up the tape card to the line-in of the sound but I can't > get the sound to b

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