Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full

2004-02-10 Thread Jez Hancock
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:36:27PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote: I tried doing an upgrade from 4.8 to 5.2, and part way through I got a filesystem full error (about 3 in a row actually) as each partion filled up. (No panic - doing it off a mirror). My question is - obviously the CDROM

Re: SCP fails while ssh works...

2004-02-10 Thread Quintin Riis
Are you using bash ? If ~/.bashrc generates ANY output, it WILL break the scp and rcp commands. Quintin twig les wrote: Hey all, I have to identical boxes running 4.6 and all of a sudden one stopped taking SCP even though it still takes ssh connections. The other box is still working fine

gd_curproc undefined

2004-02-10 Thread Elijah Plunkett
Hi, I tried out the DRM kernel module port and i keep getting this annoying thing saying that something called gd_curproc is undefined and so won't load the module. Any ideas on how to make it go? Thanks! Elijah. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

syslogd: select: Bad file descriptor

2004-02-10 Thread Sten Daniel Sørsdal
Feb 10 08:07:45 xx syslogd: select: Bad file descriptor FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1 i386 run as in a ttys wrapper script: /usr/sbin/syslogd -4 -A -cc -n -s -d -f /etc/syslog.conf the output of script/command is not redirected to /var/log but i suspect it happens when newsyslog runs. Has

snmpd Error opening specified endpoint

2004-02-10 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) I'm having a problem starting snmpd under FreeBSD-5.2-p2... I tried several options but I always get some strange errors. Note that I launch snmpd as root... --- # snmpd -p

cdrom hangs FreeBSD boot

2004-02-10 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) I'm using FreeBSD-5.2-RELEASE-p2 and I'm experiencing a very serious problem. When my cdrom is connected (slave on first IDE slot), FreeBSD hangs on boot at: Timecounter TSC frequency 2399937676 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec There's no error, no panic, no messages

Re: MP3 + Create Music CD

2004-02-10 Thread Mark Phillips
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Bryan Cassidy wrote: I have a bunch of mp3s and I want to burn them onto a cd so I can play them in my car cd player. Is there any recomendations on how to go about doing this? Would greatly appreciate it. /usr/ports/sysutils/k3b K3b is like 'Nero' for *nix. Very good

Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full

2004-02-10 Thread Richard Beyer
Thanks Jez, Here's my df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/ /dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp /dev/ad0s1g72G 2.7G64G 4%/usr /dev/ad0s1e 252M51M 181M22%/var procfs4.0K 4.0K

Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full

2004-02-10 Thread Jez Hancock
Hi Richard, On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:10:05PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote: Thanks Jez, Here's my df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/ /dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp /dev/ad0s1g72G 2.7G64G 4%

RE: 5.2 install hangs after menu

2004-02-10 Thread Kathy Quinlan
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dimitri Aivaliotis Sent: Monday, 9 February 2004 11:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 5.2 install hangs after menu On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:26:51 +0800 Kathy Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /usr/ports/net/cvsupit

2004-02-10 Thread Rod Brookes
Hi Thanks for your reply ...this solves the problem. Will install one of the cvsupit packages. Rod On 9 Feb 2004, at 14:03, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Rod Brookes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For some time now i have been installing FreeBSD from 4 to 5 although still a newbie, now all of a sudden

Out of memory and inactive memory

2004-02-10 Thread Douwe Osinga
Hi, I'm running Zope under FreeBSD 4. Zope keeps getting memory errors, i.e. malloc() fails. But top reports lots of inactive memory available. I'm new to BSD, but I did search around in archives and I think I learned that inactive memory is only kept around in case it is needed again and should

Re: NTFS drive D in fstab

2004-02-10 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:51:32 +0200 Robert Golovniov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, February 9, 2004, 4:52:36 PM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: IMT For my reference, what does ls /dev/ad0* print ? /dev/ad0/dev/ad0s2 /dev/ad0s3a

Re: PHP 4.3.4_6 make failed

2004-02-10 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2004-02-10 07:55:38 +0800: I was compiling PHP 4.3.4_6 but the configure script failed with this message: checking for Apache 1.x module support via DSO through APXS... Sorry, I was not able to successfully run APXS. Possible reasons: 1. Perl is not

SMBFS and vfs.usermount. BUG??

2004-02-10 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi there. I think i may have discovered a bug in free bsd 5.2-RELEASE, it may be in earlier versions too, but I have not tried it (maybe someone running 4.x could try it) I have made an fstab entry and nsmbrc file for a smb share. vfs.usermount is set to 1. A normal user (me in this case (edd))

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: OK. The price difference for AMD vs. Intel is pretty significant, but be aware that you'll also pay a significant premium for dual-proc hardware versus single-proc machines: compare an AMD 2400MP versus the 2400XP

Re: sendmail to a smarthost?

2004-02-10 Thread Simon Barner
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Try reading Simon Barner's tutorial on setting up FreeBSD for workstations. http://home.leo.org/~barner/freebsd/articles/mailsetup/article.html Oh this article is really helpful, I'm reading it .. it is really long. But my situation is pertty typical; I believe many

Re: 5.2 install hangs after menu

2004-02-10 Thread Dimitri Aivaliotis
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:47:27 +0800 Kathy Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK here is the info I get: After the menu, and the kernel load: loading required module 'pci' ACPI autoload failed - no such file or directory \ int= 0006 err= efl=0001 0896 eip=8903 8b08 eax=

issues..

2004-02-10 Thread rozzy zainal
dear sir/madam, i am one of the freebsd user.and btw, i want to ask something that related to freebsd and open source community: 1.what is the current issue that cameout in BSD and open sorce O.S, especially freebsd? 2.how to compare FreeBSD O.S with microsoft?what are features in freebsd that

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2004-02-10 Thread
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Problems with kdevelop3

2004-02-10 Thread J. Seth Henry
Guys, I recently built kdevelop3 from the ports tree, and it has been, to say the least, a bit unstable. Has anyone else had any problems with it? Specifically, after opening a project, it will crash out very easily. Closing the project, adding files to the project - even closing the

Re: How to safely merge two slices on harddisk?

2004-02-10 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:19, Rob wrote: Malcolm, Thank you for your detailed answer to my question. Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:46, Rob wrote: Do not change the offset of 'f'. If 'g' does not physically follow 'f' on the disk then this is not going to work -- give up

Re: Wireless network support

2004-02-10 Thread Bob Collins
On Mon, Feb 9, 2004, Per Hallstrm clacked the keyboard to produce: Hi! I need a wireless network card which will work with FreeBSD, and according to the handbook there are some supported chipsets. However, I am unable to find a network card with any of those chipsets (I am having a hard

Sun cobalt raq 550

2004-02-10 Thread Ksenia Marasanova
Hi list, Does anyone has good experience with running FreeBSD -stable on this server? I am thinking about buying one for spare. Appreciate any feedback, Ksenia. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Out of memory and inactive memory

2004-02-10 Thread Uwe Doering
Douwe Osinga wrote: I'm running Zope under FreeBSD 4. Zope keeps getting memory errors, i.e. malloc() fails. But top reports lots of inactive memory available. I'm new to BSD, but I did search around in archives and I think I learned that inactive memory is only kept around in case it is needed

Re: your mail

2004-02-10 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
?? ?? wrote: Sir, would please ask me a simple problem? How can I download the source code and what is the U RL? Now,I am trying to construct a operating system, and I have lots of questions about OS. Can you help me? Thanks a lot! You'll find everything you need at:

Re: your mail

2004-02-10 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, [gb2312] wrote: Sir, would please ask me a simple problem? How can I download the source code and what is the URL? Now,I am trying to construct a operating system, and I have lots of questions about OS. Can you help me? Thanks a lot! The freebsd documentation

Re: SCP fails while ssh works...

2004-02-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Quintin Riis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you using bash ? If ~/.bashrc generates ANY output, it WILL break the scp and rcp commands. And there's nothing about this specific to bash, either; on any shell, producing output from the startup scripts in a non-interactive shell WILL break

Re: 5.2 install hangs after menu

2004-02-10 Thread Dimitri Aivaliotis
Kathy- Please reply to the list, not me personally. Others may have the same problems, and can only benefit from an answer posted to the list. On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:54:03 +0800 Kathy Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: much unneccesary detail snipped - see earlier posts So, perhaps the

Please help me update my address book

2004-02-10 Thread Buck Jones
sorry for the inconvenience Freebsd-Questions, I'm updating my address book. Please take a moment to update your latest contact information. Your information is stored in my personal address book and will not be shared with anyone else. Plaxo is free, if you'd like to give it a try. only enter

Re: portinstall inn

2004-02-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wanted to portinstall inn nbut get a refusal stating: changing ownership of system directories Now I do understand that this changing happening is bad. But what if I want the Internet News Server installed? Is this possible without a system

disabling nfs in 5.2R-p2 ?

2004-02-10 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi, Out of curiosity how do you disable local NFS asynchronous I/O server/s in 5.2 ? I thought a simple.. nfs_server_enable=NO nfs_client_enable=NO in rc.conf would disable it completely but after rebooting I still see: guardian# ps -aux | grep nfs root 97 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL

Re: cvsup gets connection refused

2004-02-10 Thread James Gallagher
Hi Carl, Just out of curiosity, do you have a firewall between your BSD box and the cvs server you're trying to connect to? Alternatively, have you tested another cvs server? The reason I ask about the firewall is that I had a similar problem recently which turned out to be a particular port

Framebuffer support?

2004-02-10 Thread Christian
Hello all, Just wondering if FreeBSD's later versions will have framebuffer support at boot. If not, has it been considered already? Would be a nice tweak if it did. Best of luck, Christian _ Free email with personality! Over 200 domains!

Re: FreeBSD on Laptop

2004-02-10 Thread rfa
hi kris, i was in the process of upgrading my kernel from 5.0 Release to 5.2 (on my laptop) and it won't boot. my boss gave me these instructions: #cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui make all install clean #cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile /etc/stable-supfile change default host -

Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full

2004-02-10 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 10:10, Richard Beyer wrote: Thanks Jez, Here's my df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/ /dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp /dev/ad0s1g72G 2.7G64G 4%/usr /dev/ad0s1e

Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full

2004-02-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jez Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:10:05PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote: Thanks Jez, Here's my df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/ /dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp

Manuals?

2004-02-10 Thread Robert Golovniov
Hello, Can anybody suggest some good reading material about Sendmail, Fetchmail, and Amavis? Thank you! -- -=Robert Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Embedded%20key

RE: Out of memory and inactive memory

2004-02-10 Thread Douwe Osinga
Do you happen to have a per-process data size limit? What does Hey, thanks, that could be it. It says datasize limit = 130 Mbyte sort of where the process stopped working. Is there a way to change this setting on a global scale? I.e. if I limit datasize unlimited, it seems that only works for

Re: snmpd Error opening specified endpoint

2004-02-10 Thread Saint Aardvark the Carpeted
Antoine Jacoutot disturbed my sleep to write: I'm having a problem starting snmpd under FreeBSD-5.2-p2... I tried several options but I always get some strange errors. Hm...it looks like you may already have snmp running, or at least something else listening on UDP port 161: # netstat -a |

HP jetdirect printer installation

2004-02-10 Thread Tom Hollingsworth
Is there a utility similar to hppi for Solaris to install HP jetdirect network printers under FreeBSD? Thank you Tom Hollingsworth Unix Administrator Celebrity Resorts 4700 Millenia Boulevard 6th Floor Orlando, FL 32839 http://www.celebrityresorts.com Telephone: 407-997-5594 Fax:

Re: disabling nfs in 5.2R-p2 ?

2004-02-10 Thread Chris Ganderton
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:26:30PM +0200, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: Hi, Out of curiosity how do you disable local NFS asynchronous I/O server/s in 5.2 ? I thought a simple.. nfs_server_enable=NO nfs_client_enable=NO in rc.conf would disable it completely but after rebooting I still

Re: Out of memory and inactive memory

2004-02-10 Thread Uwe Doering
Douwe Osinga wrote: Do you happen to have a per-process data size limit? What does Hey, thanks, that could be it. It says datasize limit = 130 Mbyte sort of where the process stopped working. Is there a way to change this setting on a global scale? I.e. if I limit datasize unlimited, it seems

Re: snmpd Error opening specified endpoint

2004-02-10 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 15:52, Saint Aardvark the Carpeted wrote: something else listening on UDP port 161: # netstat -a | grep snm udp4 0 0 *.snmp *.* Yes, strange, isn't it ? Especially since this is a brand new system not even connected to the internet (I

Re: Booting non-freebsd partition from loader(8)?

2004-02-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Schmiedeskamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a question that google seems to be unable to answer. My question: Is it possible to boot from a non-freebsd partition after loader(8) is already in memory? Ultimately, I would like to see the familiar boot menu (where Chuck

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lewis Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to write a script to use with the Apache auth plugin mod_auth_any. I have the whole setup working, bar the script that does the authentication. I am worried that because the script must be read/writeable by the Apache user (www) that

Problem ins - /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libmysqlclient.so.12

2004-02-10 Thread Jun
Greetings! I would like to ask if how can i fix the error i always receive from my box FreeBSD 5.1-release-p12 when i run the /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/authdaemond start to run the IMAP. itgateway # /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/authdaemond start /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:12:09AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Lewis Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am worried that because the script must be read/writeable by the Apache user (www) that anybody that can write a PHP script on my machine can read the auth script and read the

deactivate slave on first IDE

2004-02-10 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) Since my system doesn't boot when my cdrom is plugged in (it hangs after timecounter... ; see my previous post), I was wondering if it was possible to tell FreeBSD not to deal with IDE1-slave (something like boot -noide2)... Indeed, in my bios, I set the IDE1-slave to none, but FreeBSD

Choosing between sh and perl for system scripts

2004-02-10 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Now that I have a desktop workstation and network, I'm trying to learn the true admin side of BSD, such as the periodic tasks, and how to automate things. I see perl all over the system, and I know it's powerful and easy to use. What might help me decide which tool would be best for the scripts

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Peter Risdon
Lewis Thompson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write a script to use with the Apache auth plugin mod_auth_any. I have the whole setup working, bar the script that does the authentication. I am worried that because the script must be read/writeable by the Apache user (www) that anybody that can write

Re: onboard sound does not work

2004-02-10 Thread Andrew Hall
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 17:05, Nicolas wrote: On Monday 09 February 2004 22.29, Andrew Hall wrote: On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 16:24, Nicolas wrote: On Monday 09 February 2004 21.50, Andrew Hall wrote: On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 15:24, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:47:31PM

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:56:08PM +, Peter Risdon wrote: Lewis Thompson wrote: I am worried that because the script must be read/writeable by the Apache user (www) that anybody that can write a PHP script on my machine can read the auth script and read the passwords that would be

build problems with fresh cvsup (5.2)

2004-02-10 Thread Goodleaf, John M
I started with a blank src dir and cvsup'd the whole 5.2 tree. A buildworld yields this: /usr/src/contrib/libstdc++/libsupc++/eh_personality.cc:38:23: unwind-pe.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/src/contrib/libstdc++/libsupc++/eh_terminate.cc:34:

[Fwd: Re: 5.2.1-RC floppy install: many if_X.ko modules failed to load]

2004-02-10 Thread Rostislav Krasny
Members of freebsd-current mailing list are probably too busy, so I'm forwarding my question to more dynamic freebsd-questions mailing list. Is my guess about the /src/release/Makefile right or wrong? BTW when 5.2.1-RC2 is going to be released? I saw few cvs commits with preparation to this

ldonline Unsubscription

2004-02-10 Thread ldonline
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proxy problems when updating ports

2004-02-10 Thread Dino Vliet
I can't use the cvsup method of updating my ports collection because I'm behind a proxy server and no matter what I try (like putting HTTP_PROXY = my.proxy in my environment as superuser and rerunning cvsup), my system can't seem to connect. Is there another way of obtaining the same? In the

Re: proxy problems when updating ports

2004-02-10 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:25:09 -0800 (PST) Dino Vliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't use the cvsup method of updating my ports collection because I'm behind a proxy server and no matter what I try (like putting HTTP_PROXY = my.proxy in my environment as superuser and rerunning cvsup), my

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Peter Risdon
Lewis Thompson wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:56:08PM +, Peter Risdon wrote: Lewis Thompson wrote: I am worried that because the script must be read/writeable by the Apache user (www) that anybody that can write a PHP script on my machine can read the auth script and read the

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Jez Hancock
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:06:37PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:56:08PM +, Peter Risdon wrote: snip Not that I know of, but have you considered compiling apache with suexec? Assuming your other users have seperate logins, this might work. You can have apache

Re: Choosing between sh and perl for system scripts

2004-02-10 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:44:16 + Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I have a desktop workstation and network, I'm trying to learn the true admin side of BSD, such as the periodic tasks, and how to automate things. I see perl all over the system, and I know it's powerful

Hpt Rocketraid 454

2004-02-10 Thread Rhiannon
Hello Sorry my bad english I use RocketRaid 454. Mainboard: MSI kt4av-l CPU: AMD XP 2000+ RAM: 2x512MB DDR333 HDD: Samsung SV0411N (40.0 GB)-RAID1 I install FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE with hpt374-4.9 (374-r5-bsd-v121.zip - http://www.highpoint-tech.com) to RAID1 via HPT Rocketraid 454. #: bonnie -d

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Robert Barten
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:28:14PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:12:09AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Lewis Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am worried that because the script must be read/writeable by the Apache user (www) that anybody that can write a

Re: Choosing between sh and perl for system scripts

2004-02-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
Now that I have a desktop workstation and network, I'm trying to learn the true admin side of BSD, such as the periodic tasks, and how to automate things. I see perl all over the system, and I know it's powerful and easy to use. What might help me decide which tool would be best for the

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:52:17PM +0100, Robert Barten wrote: No need for safe_mode, set php_admin_value open_basedir /www/dir/to/user/ in your vhost config, add if desired /tmp/phpupload/:/tmp/phpsession/ Yes, I've looked at this. However, I want to use userdir=public_html for serving PHP

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Eric F Crist
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 09:28 am, Lewis Thompson wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:12:09AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Lewis Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am worried that because the script must be read/writeable by the Apache user (www) that anybody that can write a PHP

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:41:22AM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Check the syntax for the .htaccess files in the httpd.conf file. This is a file that must be non-readable by regular users via php, but apache has a filter written within the httpd.conf file to disallow access. I know it's about

RE: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Eric F Crist
yes Eric F Crist President AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 -Original Message- From: Lewis Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 11:24 AM To: Eric F Crist Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lowell Gilbert Subject: Re: Shell script containing passwords.

Re: Choosing between sh and perl for system scripts

2004-02-10 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:48:48AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: : : : Now that I have a desktop workstation and network, I'm trying to learn the : true admin side of BSD, such as the periodic tasks, and how to automate : things. I see perl all over the system, and I know it's powerful

installing 5.2 for AMD 64

2004-02-10 Thread Pete Molina
good day.. i guess this is a stupid question... i have been using freebsd 5.1... and im just getting into the AMD64 chips.. i noticed that the AMD64 versions of 5.1 or 5.2 only have the boot only ISO.. the disk2 ISO and the mininst ISO.. my question is how do you install the 64 bit

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-10 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 10, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Just a note: If you want ECC with an AMD Athlon (not AMD64), you need to buy a dual board anyway, since I don't know of anyone who makes a board with a chipset that supports ECC that isn't a dual. Hi, Chad-- I've got a Shuttle

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-10 Thread Marc Wiz
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:58:34AM -0700, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Feb 10, 2004, at 5:25 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: OK. The price difference for AMD vs. Intel is pretty significant, but be aware

Re: Choosing between sh and perl for system scripts

2004-02-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:48:48AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: : : : Now that I have a desktop workstation and network, I'm trying to learn the : true admin side of BSD, such as the periodic tasks, and how to automate : things. I see perl all over the system, and I know it's

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-10 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 10, 2004, at 5:25 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: OK. The price difference for AMD vs. Intel is pretty significant, but be aware that you'll also pay a

RE: installing 5.2 for AMD 64

2004-02-10 Thread Edmund Craske
As far as I know, there are no packages yet built for amd64, so the only install disc is the miniinst one, which is essentially what you would normally get, but without packages. This one is the one to use. Ed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Options for a New Kernel

2004-02-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
I am still trying to learn how FreeBSD works. Can I create a new kernel file with the following entries or are they just for use in the loader.conf file? hint.acpi.0.disabled=0 # enable ACPI (i386 only) hw.ata.ata_dma=1 # enable IDE DMA hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 # enable

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-10 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Feb 10, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 10, 2004, at 5:25 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: OK. The price difference for AMD vs. Intel is pretty

Re: Options for a New Kernel

2004-02-10 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:36:56 -0500 Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still trying to learn how FreeBSD works. Can I create a new kernel file with the following entries or are they just for use in the loader.conf file? hint.acpi.0.disabled=0 # enable ACPI (i386 only)

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-10 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 10, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 10, 2004, at 5:25 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: OK.

checking checksums on binaries and checking for rootkits

2004-02-10 Thread Brent Bailey
hello, im using FBSD 4.9 ... IS there a way to check the checksum on binairies like ls , ps etc.. to check for rootkits ? On Solaris you can run md5 on a binary and compare it against a utility on SUNS website that will cehck the finger print to see whether the binary is part of a rootkit or the

Re: checking checksums on binaries and checking for rootkits

2004-02-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
hello, im using FBSD 4.9 ... IS there a way to check the checksum on binairies like ls , ps etc.. to check for rootkits ? On Solaris you can run md5 on a binary and compare it against a utility on SUNS website that will cehck the finger print to see whether the binary is part of a

What does __restrict do?

2004-02-10 Thread Bill Moran
In various places in the source code, for example, in the code for printf(): printf(char const * __restrict fmt, ...) I understand everything except __restrict. What does that mean/do? Is it a FreeBSDism? (I can't find anything about it in any C docs) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies

Re: checking checksums on binaries and checking for rootkits

2004-02-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 10), Jerry McAllister said: hello, im using FBSD 4.9 ... IS there a way to check the checksum on binairies like ls , ps etc.. to check for rootkits ? On Solaris you can run md5 on a binary and compare it against a utility on SUNS website that will cehck the

Re: Funky characters in KMail 1.5.4

2004-02-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:05:43PM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: Im not sure what to google for, so Im checking here to see if any other FreeBSD users experience this. Every now and then my emails that I send contain extra characters like =2D and =46 I have no idea what is causing it, and Im

Re: Options for a New Kernel

2004-02-10 Thread peter lageotakes
--- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still trying to learn how FreeBSD works. Can I create a new kernel file with the following entries or are they just for use in the loader.conf file? hint.acpi.0.disabled=0 # enable ACPI (i386 only) hw.ata.ata_dma=1 # enable

How about them optimizations?

2004-02-10 Thread Roop Nanuwa
Part of my current /etc/make.conf on my 5.2-CURRENT box looks like: CPUTYPE= athlon-xp CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe Now what I'm wondering is if those extras like mmmx msse actually do anything. The only reason they're in there is

RE: Manuals?

2004-02-10 Thread JJB
Replace sendmail with postfix and your email server world will become much simpler. Sendmail is an legacy email server application which uses macros and compiles to configure it's self. A real pain in the butt. Postfix is configured with text files and no compiling. Sendmail has an thick manual

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-10 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Feb 10, 2004, at 11:13 AM, Charles Swiger wrote: On Feb 10, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Just a note: If you want ECC with an AMD Athlon (not AMD64), you need to buy a dual board anyway, since I don't know of anyone who makes a board with a chipset that supports ECC

Re: HP jetdirect printer installation

2004-02-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:01:44AM -0500, Tom Hollingsworth wrote: Is there a utility similar to hppi for Solaris to install HP jetdirect network printers under FreeBSD? Nothing obvious that has specific support for JetDirect features. However JetDirect printers work well with just about any

RE: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full

2004-02-10 Thread richard
Migrating data will be problematic as there's lot of user cr*p and custom built web apps from generations of cowboy programmers, plus about 300 users and a couple of dozen virtual domains. As I'm really only after a stable implementation of a USB external drive (for backup) am I better off trying

Re: What does __restrict do?

2004-02-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:35:58PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In various places in the source code, for example, in the code for printf(): printf(char const * __restrict fmt, ...) I understand everything except __restrict. What does that mean/do? Is it a FreeBSDism? (I can't find anything

Re: How about them optimizations?

2004-02-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-02-10T20:14:46Z, Roop Nanuwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only reason they're in there is because I saw them on a website about what people use to optimize gentoo. Don't take this wrong, but that's like asking for car performance advice From some guy with a whaletail on his Sentra. --

FreeBSD 4.9: Server Works GCSL -- unknown chipset

2004-02-10 Thread Benjamin Thelen (CCGIS)
Hello list, First off, the environment: FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE, Intel P4 3GH with HTT enabled Mainboard ASUS NRL-L533 North Bridge: ServerWorks CMIC-SL South Bridge: ServerWorks CSB6 I checked google and the mailing list archive but couldn't find helpful (for me) information on this. A client

Re: How about them optimizations?

2004-02-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:14:46PM -0800, Roop Nanuwa wrote: Part of my current /etc/make.conf on my 5.2-CURRENT box looks like: CPUTYPE= athlon-xp CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe Now what I'm wondering is if those extras like

Segmentation Fault Question

2004-02-10 Thread Brendan McAlpine
Hey everyone, I am running version 4.3 and I am running into the following problem. When running one of the commands in vpopmail, I am getting a core dump (segmentation fault). There is no obvious vpopmail answer, so I'm thinking it might be system related. I ran ktrace/kdump on the

Re: How about them optimizations?

2004-02-10 Thread Roop Nanuwa
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2004-02-10T20:14:46Z, Roop Nanuwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only reason they're in there is because I saw them on a website about what people use to optimize gentoo. Don't take this wrong, but that's like asking for car performance advice From some guy with a

mount_smbfs

2004-02-10 Thread Brian H
Greetings: I am trying to use mount_smb to mount a share on a windows machine on my local area network. The problem is I think I need to authenticate with a domain controller to do so. I have tried a couple of things, but i have had no success. Here is what i have tried so far. Any thoughts?

Re: mount_smbfs

2004-02-10 Thread Jason Taylor
Brian H wrote: Greetings: I am trying to use mount_smb to mount a share on a windows machine on my local area network. The problem is I think I need to authenticate with a domain controller to do so. I have tried a couple of things, but i have had no success. Here is what i have tried so far.

how to make psybnc

2004-02-10 Thread Donny Ridwan
hello, I would like to ask how to make psybnc on FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE (GENERIC) i'm unfamiliar with FreeBSD's directory layout Thank you -- ___ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com [1]http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup

[SOLVED] Re: Segmentation Fault Question

2004-02-10 Thread Brendan McAlpine
Sorry for the quick post before everyone. Turns out that the problem WAS with vpopmail and wasn't a system wide thing. Basically an entry in a file was corrupt and had to be deleted. On Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 05:42 PM, Brendan McAlpine wrote: Hey everyone, I am running version 4.3

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