RE: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Kris and all, Sorry for the top post but would you quit feeding the trolls? Ted Mittelstaedt PS: TM, shut up and post some benchmarks proving your side of the argument. Not that we would believe them but you deserve to have to spend some time forging them up. -Original Message-

RE: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerard Samuel Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:32 AM To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? Here is a thought. Why would

Re: Anyone booting from RAID

2004-10-08 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 6. Oktober 2004 20:30 schrieb Brent Wiese: I have an Intel motherboard with onboard SATA raid. It uses the Adaptec ICH5 chip, which appears to be supported in the very latest 5.3-beta6. However, on install, it sees the individual disks (ad4 ad6) instead of the mirror. It's not

Re: Does anybody...

2004-10-08 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2004 20:24 schrieb Thomas Sparrevohn: Hi Does anybody know whether the 3Ware 9500 Series work with FreeBSD with RAID 5 - I am considering buying one and the manual page for twe only mentions the 8000 series and RAID 0/1 Look at twa. twe is not for the 9xxx series of

simple documentation question (adding a disk)

2004-10-08 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
The 'Adding a Disk' page in the Handbook explains how to add disks to the system via /stand/sysinstall http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html Im running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and followed the directions on the above link but fdisk gave me a heads up when trying to

Re: Protecting SSH from brute force attacks

2004-10-08 Thread Dennis Koegel
Hi, On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:15:25PM -0700, Luke wrote: There are several script kiddies out there hitting my SSH server every day. Sometimes they attempt to brute-force their way in trying new logins every second or so for hours at a time. Given enough time, I fear they will eventually

Re: Protecting SSH from brute force attacks

2004-10-08 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
# After 10 unauthenticated connections, refuse 30% of the new ones, and # refuse any more than 60 total. MaxStartups 10:30:60 From an old server of mine, looks related to solutions you're seeking (but I agree with Dennis, deny PasswordAuthentication is strongest. On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:24:54

Re: Protecting SSH from brute force attacks

2004-10-08 Thread spam maps
Vulpes Velox wrote: On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Luke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are several script kiddies out there hitting my SSH server every day. Sometimes they attempt to brute-force their way in man login.conf for more info :) I'm just guessing, but are you trying to

RE: Planning a Upgrade (5.2.1 -- 5.3)

2004-10-08 Thread Walker, Michael
-Original Message- From: Donald J. O'Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 3:48 PM To: Walker, Michael Subject: Re: Planning a Upgrade (5.2.1 -- 5.3) On Thursday 07 October 2004 02:54 am, you wrote: Do you know of any utilities that I can use to read through

Re: automount vs Solaris

2004-10-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:52:43PM -0700, Steve Watt wrote: I'm trying to bring a FreeBSD server up in a mostly Solaris environment, and am currently arguing with amd. The Solaris systems share an NIS map (auto.nfs) that looks like users host:/mountpoint/something/ which gets translated

which files to edit to alter networking information

2004-10-08 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi all, I installed Freebsd4.10 from the university network through dhcp. I had to alter some settings but it worked fine and I can access the internet. I got a hostname from the network and everytime I start Freebsd, it searches for that hostname. However, I will use my laptop now from home

Re: simple documentation question (adding a disk)

2004-10-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-08 00:22, Benjamin P. Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 'Adding a Disk' page in the Handbook explains how to add disks to the system via /stand/sysinstall http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html Im running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and followed the

Network setup

2004-10-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
At home I have in my network: - A FreeBSD server - A FreeBSD workstation - A Windows gaming box - A FreeBSD laptop - A friend's backup server All are connected to a switch witch in turn is connected to the internett. I have real ethernet comming into my house, and all my machines have

Re: Network setup

2004-10-08 Thread David Jenkins
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:51:53 +0200 (CEST), Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At home I have in my network: - A FreeBSD server - A FreeBSD workstation - A Windows gaming box - A FreeBSD laptop - A friend's backup server All are connected to a switch witch in turn is

Re: Protecting SSH from brute force attacks

2004-10-08 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, 8 October, 2004 8:44 am, spam maps said: Vulpes Velox wrote: On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Luke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are several script kiddies out there hitting my SSH server every day. Sometimes they attempt to brute-force their way in man login.conf for more

Need help with Saslauthd and Sendmail

2004-10-08 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
I'm using this guide http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html to install a secure mail server. The imap-uw part is working fine, but the sendmail part isn't. == My system: FreeBSD 4.7 STABLE Sendmail

Sluggishness on a 6 CPU HP-6000 Netserver

2004-10-08 Thread David Landgren
Hello, I have just installed an HP-6000r Netserver with 2Gb RAM and 6 P-III 700MHz processors. I cvsupped src (4.10-STABLE) yesterday and built the world and kernel. I've stripped out just about everything else I can from the kernel: usb, firewire, apm, serial port, //l port, PCMCIA, other

Re: Need help with Saslauthd and Sendmail

2004-10-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:30:51PM +0200, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: Wow. Excellent problem report. I try to start saslauthd manually by doing a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd.sh start, but nothing happens. Have you put: saslauthd_enable=YES into /etc/rc.conf? You need to do

Re: Protecting SSH from brute force attacks

2004-10-08 Thread Chris
Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, 8 October, 2004 8:44 am, spam maps said: Vulpes Velox wrote: On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Luke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are several script kiddies out there hitting my SSH server every day. Sometimes they attempt to brute-force their way in man

Sluggishness on a 6 CPU HP-6000 Netserver

2004-10-08 Thread David Landgren
Hello, I have just installed an HP-6000r Netserver with 2Gb RAM and 6 P-III 700MHz processors. I cvsupped src (4.10-STABLE) yesterday and built the world and kernel. I've stripped out just about everything else I can from the kernel: usb, firewire, apm, serial port, //l port, PCMCIA, other

Re: Need help with Saslauthd and Sendmail

2004-10-08 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
At 13:01 08.10.2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:30:51PM +0200, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: Wow. Excellent problem report. I try to start saslauthd manually by doing a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd.sh start, but nothing happens. Have you put: saslauthd_enable=YES

Network probleme

2004-10-08 Thread madjid oudai
I'm new freeBSD (5.2.1)user, My network card (broadcom 57xx) is detected by os. I can ping locally, but not to others hosts. The message viewed on the screen: 1- ping: sendto : No route to host 2- bge0: watchdog timeout --reseting On boot, the second message is also wiewed. thanks madjid

Re: Network probleme

2004-10-08 Thread Bill Moran
madjid oudai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new freeBSD (5.2.1)user, My network card (broadcom 57xx) is detected by os. I can ping locally, but not to others hosts. The message viewed on the screen: 1- ping: sendto : No route to host 2- bge0: watchdog timeout --reseting I was seeing this, and

Re: Network setup

2004-10-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[David Jenkins, 2004-10-08] : I *think* you might need to setup a network bridge. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/filtering-bridges/index.html Hope this helps. This seems to be *exactly* what I'm looking for! Thanks! Svein Halvor

Re: Need help with Saslauthd and Sendmail

2004-10-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 01:14:10PM +0200, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: At 13:01 08.10.2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:30:51PM +0200, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: Wow. Excellent problem report. I try to start saslauthd manually by doing a

Re: sleep in startup script never wakes up

2004-10-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Dormer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a shell script that I've put in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory of a box to do some fscking when needed. The script is straightforward, there are not any complicated control structures or anything like that. However, at one point it had a

Re: VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Everlund
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 7 October 2004 at 18:11:52 +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: Hi Greg and list! Thank you for your reply! I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid. Can you be more specific? My vinum.conf looks like this, if this is to be more specific:

latex2html problems (fwd)

2004-10-08 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
Hello FreeBSD gurus! I have a question for you. I have installed FreeBS 5.2.1-RELEASEp9 in my computer. I also upgraded my ports, compiled and installed the following ports: latex2html-2002.2.1_3 Convert LaTeX documents to HTML teTeX-2.0.2_2 Thomas Esser's distribution of TeX friends

Re: phpwiki

2004-10-08 Thread Alan Curtis
On Oct 6, 2004, at 3:32 PM, Glenn Sieb wrote: Alan Curtis said the following on 10/6/2004 3:14 PM: I installed php4-mysql. Is there more I have to do? ?php phpinfo(); ? does not indicate any mysql stuff and phpwiki still does not work. There is probably some option I have to set when compiling

Can't compile wine port

2004-10-08 Thread Alexandr
I cvsuped ports tree and do this: cd /usr/ports/emulators/wine make install and get in end this message: ../.././..//gcc-3.4-20040827/libiberty/fibheap.c:395: warning: implicit +declaration of function `memset' gmake[2]: *** [fibheap.o] 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory

Re: Need help with Saslauthd and Sendmail

2004-10-08 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
At 14:43 08.10.2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 01:14:10PM +0200, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: At 13:01 08.10.2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:30:51PM +0200, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: Wow. Excellent problem report. I try to start

Re: Cannot log into 4.10 machine via ssh

2004-10-08 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Danny Howard wrote: Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Recently this doesn't work any more: We can type in our login names, but there won't be any password prompt. Even locally from the server's terminal itself nothing happens. What happens when you try to ssh? It is good to describe

Re: which files to edit to alter networking information

2004-10-08 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 02:03:59AM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi all, I installed Freebsd4.10 from the university network through dhcp. I had to alter some settings but it worked fine and I can access the internet. I got a hostname from the network and everytime I start Freebsd, it searches

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/8/04 2:42:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is a thought. Why would they be running a pre-production release as a production server I have no idea what yahoo does, but I think it would be irrespondsible for them to attempt using 5.x on a

Re: problem installing firefox

2004-10-08 Thread trypticon
Its not there. Should i just re-install Xfree86-libraries? Original Message From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem installing firefox Date: 07 Oct 2004 10:31:14 -0400 [EMAIL

Re: Need help with Saslauthd and Sendmail

2004-10-08 Thread Josh Tolbert
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:01:38PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:30:51PM +0200, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: Wow. Excellent problem report. I try to start saslauthd manually by doing a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd.sh start, but nothing happens. Have

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/8/04 2:37:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kris and all, Sorry for the top post but would you quit feeding the trolls? Ted Mittelstaedt PS: TM, shut up and post some benchmarks proving your side of the argument. Not that we would believe them but

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 8, 2004, at 11:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys are the ones making the claims that 5.3 is going to be so great. I just wonder how you come to that conclusion if you don't have any definitive tests. I dont have a release to test, so when its done I'll test it. I think it sums it

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:39:05PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: : I'm sure that Yahoo, like any large commercial enterprise, has a whole : host of specific customizations that they have applied to FreeBSD, : and their version of FreeBSD doesen't look like what we have, at least not : where the

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Andrew Moran
On Oct 8, 2004, at 8:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must be a democrat Kris, because you always spin what people say in a way such that is completely wrong when you say it. I said the 99% of us If there was any doubt in my mind that TM4525 was a troll, he's just removed it. I think it's

iir driver ... swapping a disk ...

2004-10-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Looks like I'm going to have to rebuild the machine, since I must have hosed something in its configuration, but ... have a server, 6 slots, 5 of which were 'active drives' (0-4) ... drive 2 crashed, so figured I'd take slot 5 and put it over into slot 2 and have it rebuild ... when I tried to

Re: Network setup

2004-10-08 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 02:31:01PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: [David Jenkins, 2004-10-08] : I *think* you might need to setup a network bridge. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/filtering-bridges/index.html Hope this helps. This seems to be

need help configuring Xserver

2004-10-08 Thread George Theodo
Hi all. I am trying to setup the XServer, but till now no success. My computer is a laptop, an Acer Travelmate 2501LC. The video card is ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9100IGP, and the memory is 64MB shared from RAM.I installed FreeBSD 4.10 RELEASE. I have tried through /stand/sysinstall with all the tools,

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:39:05PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: : I'm sure that Yahoo, like any large commercial enterprise, has a whole : host of specific customizations that they have applied to FreeBSD, : and their version of FreeBSD doesen't look like what we have,

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-10-08 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2004/09/19 02:40:48 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2004-10-08 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 03:44:13PM +0200, Remko Lodder wrote: : Apart from that: Why do you actually want to know? It's better not to : know the exact version since others might abuse that information and : hack into the company. That does not feel right, well not with me :-). I was just

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:45:09AM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : : On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:39:05PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: : : I'm sure that Yahoo, like any large commercial enterprise, has a whole : : host of specific customizations that they

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:45:09AM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : : On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:39:05PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: : : I'm sure that Yahoo, like any large commercial enterprise, has a whole : : host of

Re: need help configuring Xserver

2004-10-08 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
George Theodo wrote: Hi all. I am trying to setup the XServer, but till now no success. My computer is a laptop, an Acer Travelmate 2501LC. The video card is ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9100IGP, and the memory is 64MB shared from RAM.I installed FreeBSD 4.10 RELEASE. I have tried through /stand/sysinstall

Re: Floppy drive is going nuts

2004-10-08 Thread Charles Ulrich
Daniela said: Recently, my floppy drive isn't working properly. The kernel often panics on unmount of a UFS floppy, and sometimes also while reading or writing an ordinary DOS-formatted floppy. Very often, the data is corrupted, but when formatting the floppy, it shows no errors. And once I

Re: latex2html problems (fwd)

2004-10-08 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Eduardo Viruena Silva thusly... I have installed FreeBS 5.2.1-RELEASEp9 in my computer. 4.10-p3 here ... latex2html-2002.2.1_3 Convert LaTeX documents to HTML teTeX-2.0.2_2 Thomas Esser's distribution of TeX friends ... with

How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R

2004-10-08 Thread Danny
How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R? Thank you! ...D ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Friday 08 October 2004 08:54 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys are the ones making the claims that 5.3 is going to be so great. I just wonder how you come to that conclusion if you don't have any definitive tests. I dont have a release to test, so when its done I'll test it. Why

Re: How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, October 08, 2004 02:22:13 PM -0400 Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R? Define update. Do you mean use the ports version instead of the src version? Do you mean update the ports version? Update the src version? It might be helpful if you described

Re: Deleting /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11

2004-10-08 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! I decided to remove XFree86 from my server since I don't really use it and its just taking up space. So I removed all gui ports, including all of gnome and XFree86. Done. Now, I'm wondering if there is any reason I shouldn't just delete /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11? Aren't they just

Re: How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R

2004-10-08 Thread Danny
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:28:59 -0500, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Friday, October 08, 2004 02:22:13 PM -0400 Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R? Define update. Do you mean use the ports version instead of the src version? Do you mean update

Re: Deleting /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11

2004-10-08 Thread Mark Edwards
On Oct 8, 2004, at 11:37 AM, Toomas Aas wrote: Hi! I decided to remove XFree86 from my server since I don't really use it and its just taking up space. So I removed all gui ports, including all of gnome and XFree86. Done. Now, I'm wondering if there is any reason I shouldn't just delete

Re: benchmarking a process

2004-10-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Andrew Moran wrote: This isn't specific to freebsd I suppose.. but does anyone know any good programs to measure how long a process took, how much memory it requested, and how much network traffic it send/received? See man getrusage and man gprof for the first two questions. Measuring how much

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Andrew Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys are the ones making the claims that 5.3 is going to be so great. I just wonder how you come to that conclusion if you don't have any definitive tests. I dont have a release to test, so when its done I'll test it. 6.0 is much, much better. And try downloading a

Re: latex2html problems (fwd)

2004-10-08 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Parv thusly... latex2html-2002.2.1_3 Convert LaTeX documents to HTML teTeX-2.0.2_2 Thomas Esser's distribution of TeX friends ... with latex2html-2002.2.1_3 teTeX-2.0.2_3. Michelle:/home/mrspock/tex latex2html test --- it was properly

Re: How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, October 08, 2004 02:40:06 PM -0400 Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever is easiest; I do not feel like rebuilding the src, but I don't know if I need to. I am trying to install a perl CPAN module: mx1# perl Makefile.PL Perl 5.006 required--this is only version 5.00503, stopped at

Re: How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R

2004-10-08 Thread Danny
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:20:56 -0500, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Friday, October 08, 2004 02:40:06 PM -0400 Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever is easiest; I do not feel like rebuilding the src, but I don't know if I need to. I am trying to install a perl CPAN module:

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Friday 08 October 2004 16:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A very simple request - I do respect peoples right to state their point of view - but there FreeBSD has through its entire life spam aimed (at least for the time I have been following the delvelopment - and that goes far longer back

Re: How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R

2004-10-08 Thread David Jenkins
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:45:25 -0400, Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:20:56 -0500, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Friday, October 08, 2004 02:40:06 PM -0400 Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever is easiest; I do not feel like rebuilding the src, but I

Re: How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R

2004-10-08 Thread Danny
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 21:34:36 +0100, David Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Danny, As Paul previously commented, you need to run use.perl port. This will update /etc/make.conf to tell your system to use the ports version of Perl in future. mx1# use.perl port Makefile.PL Usage:

Re: How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R

2004-10-08 Thread David Jenkins
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:40:40 -0400, Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 21:34:36 +0100, David Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Danny, As Paul previously commented, you need to run use.perl port. This will update /etc/make.conf to tell your system to use the ports

Re: UPS on FreeBSD

2004-10-08 Thread login
Thanks to all. Now we getin' somewhere Per the link provided by Robert, I did the followings: 1) re-compile/install the kernel by hashing the uhid device. # deviceuhid # Human Interface Devices 2) reboot the system to launch/verify (uname -a) the newer kernel 3) deinstall apcupsd

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Friday 08 October 2004 16:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A very simple request - I do respect peoples right to state their point of view - but there FreeBSD has through its entire life spam aimed (at least for the time I have been following the delvelopment - and that goes far longer

Re: How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R

2004-10-08 Thread Danny
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 21:47:10 +0100, David Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you are missing the point here. At the prompt enter the following as root (without the quotes) or prepend sudo to it. use.perl port My mistake - it's been a long day. Thank you for all your help. ...D

Re: How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R

2004-10-08 Thread Danny
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:09:31 -0400, Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 21:47:10 +0100, David Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you are missing the point here. At the prompt enter the following as root (without the quotes) or prepend sudo to it. use.perl port

resolv.conf missing

2004-10-08 Thread Lance Earl
I am planning to convert my redhat server (www.dallypost.com) to 5.x freebsd when 5.x is released as stable. Until then, I am working with 5.1.2 to get familiar with it. I have installed it on a dhcp network with the following: dhcp server: 192.168.0.1 fedora computer: 192.168.0.2 bsd computer:

Re: resolv.conf missing

2004-10-08 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:40:40PM -0600, Lance Earl wrote: I am planning to convert my redhat server (www.dallypost.com) to 5.x freebsd when 5.x is released as stable. Until then, I am working with 5.1.2 to get familiar with it. I have installed it on a dhcp network with the following:

Re: resolv.conf missing

2004-10-08 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 08 October 2004 04:40 pm, Lance Earl wrote: I am planning to convert my redhat server (www.dallypost.com) to 5.x freebsd when 5.x is released as stable. Until then, I am working with 5.1.2 to get familiar with it. I have installed it on a dhcp network with the following: dhcp

Re: How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, October 08, 2004 04:40:40 PM -0400 Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mx1# use.perl port Makefile.PL Usage: /usr/local/bin/use.perl port - /usr/bin/perl is the perl5 port /usr/local/bin/use.perl system - /usr/bin/perl is the system perl mx1# port as in the name of the port

Re: resolv.conf missing

2004-10-08 Thread Bill Moran
Lance Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning to convert my redhat server (www.dallypost.com) to 5.x freebsd when 5.x is released as stable. Until then, I am working with 5.1.2 to get familiar with it. I have installed it on a dhcp network with the following: dhcp server: 192.168.0.1

Re: How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, October 08, 2004 05:14:00 PM -0400 Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stop in /home/danny/Date-Calc-Iterator-1.00. mx1# Any suggestions? Or if I need to rebuild any specific perl ports? (Would you believe this all started because I wanted to use pflogsumm.pl to generate reports from my

Re: How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R

2004-10-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Paul Schmehl wrote: When you finish, you need to run use.perl port (read pkg-message), and you'll have to rebuild any ports you've already built that use perl since you will have changed the default perl installation. Try run this: perl -e 'print join \n, @INC' This shows the paths which perl

How to limit traffic?

2004-10-08 Thread oim
Hello! How can i limit traffic on Lan/Ethernet (rl0) on localhost ? An example quota 1024 mb in month. Thank you! With best regards OIM ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: DooM3 not working on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE :/ [SOLVED!]

2004-10-08 Thread Hugo Silva
Hi list, All that was needed was upgrading the nvidia-driver. Worked after this :-) On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 12:28:15AM -, Hugo Silva wrote: Hi, I'm running into trouble trying to run the DooM3 beta on FreeBSD. Yesterday I installed the Doom3 client on 5.3(-BETA5) and the game runs

Age of Empires on FreeBSD --- Possible?

2004-10-08 Thread Hugo Silva
Hey, I really need to get Age of Empires II - The Conquerors Expansion working on my (only workstation) FreeBSD box. I don't have windows anymore and I'll not switch back to be able to play, but I'd like to know if it is possible at all to run the game on BSD. Perhaps winex ? I heard it is

Re: How to limit traffic?

2004-10-08 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 03:58:40AM +0700, oim wrote: How can i limit traffic on Lan/Ethernet (rl0) on localhost ? An example quota 1024 mb in month. You can do this by combining the firewall (ipfw rules) with the port ipa. I have a example of a combination of ipfw with ipa and mrtg (for graphs)

Re: VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid

2004-10-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 8 October 2004 at 14:52:48 +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 7 October 2004 at 18:11:52 +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: Can you be more specific? My vinum.conf looks like this, if this is to be more specific: drive ad5 device /dev/ad5s1e

Re: How to NOT load AGP?

2004-10-08 Thread Tuc
I'm assuming you have the nvidia-driver port installed? Text below is from /usr/X11/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README. hint.agp.0.disabled=1 If you're using FreeBSD 5.2.1 or another -CURRENT kernel that does not yet offer this functionality, the

problem with mozilla/foxfire

2004-10-08 Thread a k
I've been trying to get mozilla/firefox to work for a while - it mostly works but now and then it hangs so i decided to run it from a terminal and see what was going on - the below is what happens when i access certain sites (such as the forumns at amdmb.com). I suspect it is flash related but i'm

Need help with IPFW rule

2004-10-08 Thread Norm Vilmer
I get this message (below) on the console of my FreeBSD 4.10 firewall: Connection attempt to TCP my public ip:20388 from 61.151.248.42:80 flags 0x12 It appears that this is getting through the firewall and is logged to the console because log_in_vain is 1. Question: What IPFW rule would block this

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/8/04 2:25:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You guys are the ones making the claims that 5.3 is going to be so great. I just wonder how you come to that conclusion if you don't have any definitive tests. I dont have a release to test, so when its

Re: How to update perl on FreeBSD 4.9R

2004-10-08 Thread Christopher Nehren
On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 14:40 -0400, Danny wrote: I am trying to install a perl CPAN module: mx1# perl Makefile.PL Perl 5.006 required--this is only version 5.00503, stopped at Makefile.PL line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 3. mx1# All I know is that I need to

Re: Hard Disk failure

2004-10-08 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
Hey Dean, Everything is a file in the UNIX world, so copying over file for file is no problem. be sure that you preserve permissions (aka 'archive mode') preseriving ownership and permissions is vital. '``cp'' should do everything you need in this case. Are you sure there are bad sectors? Can

Re: phpwiki

2004-10-08 Thread Richard Lynch
Alan Curtis wrote: 7. followed the instructions at http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions and added foreach ($_REQUEST as $k = $v) $$k = $v; At this point, you might as well use .htaccess to turn register_globals back ON for phpwiki, since you have effectively

RE: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 8:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? In a message dated 10/8/04 2:42:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL

RAID 1 in HP NetServer LC 2000

2004-10-08 Thread Muhammad Reza
Dear All, Howto setup RAID 1 in HP NetServer LC 2000 ? I have 2 Seagate HDD that want to be mirror 1:1, Can i do that from Symbios software or tool from my FreeBSD 4.10 ? regards reza ---snip--- sym0: 896 port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xfd00-0xfd001fff,0xfd002000-0xfd0023ff irq 11 at device 6.0 on

RE: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 7:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? In a message dated 10/8/04 2:25:52 PM Eastern

RE: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread NetAdmin
dang, how long is this thread gonna go on? Is it that important? I see a lot of good questions and equally good answers on this list, but I think this particular thread is starting to stoop beneath us all... On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 00:56, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message-