The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-01-16 - 2005-02-05

2005-02-06 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

RE: How to compile linux apps?

2005-02-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Brian, This package does some unportable stuff, one of the biggies is making assumptions about the system getopt. Your going to have to make some mods to it and no guarentees it will work even once you get it installed. Let us know, though. Anyway here's the list: 1) CD to

smbfs problems

2005-02-06 Thread Incoming Mail List
I'm experiencing a strange problem with smbfs and can't find any references to it on the web. I've mounted a share from a win2k machine that contains JPEG images to a mount point on my FreeBSD system using mount_smbfs. The mount point is located within an http directory tree so the JPEG images

RE: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sandy Rutherford Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 3:55 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: favor On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:43:32 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: MH

Re: Trying to get glib updated to run AbiWord-2.0

2005-02-06 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 05 Feb Michael C. Shultz wrote: Try to upgrade with sysutils/portmanager, it doesn't require ruby. Can it upgrade just _one_ port ? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11 ++ FreeBSD 5.3 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja

Redirect based on domain name

2005-02-06 Thread r p
Hi, I've set up two jails on my system. I'm wondering if it's possible to redirect incoming traffic to a particular jail based on the domain name? So, if someone connected to first.com they would be directed to the 192.168.0.1 jail, and if they connected to second.com they would be directed to

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-06 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:00:01PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 5 February 2005 at 17:45:25 -0500, Peterhin wrote: Is it better to leave a computer (a stand alone) running continuously or is it OK to shut it down at the end of the day.? I remember years ago someone

increasing swap activity

2005-02-06 Thread Michael Hines
I've written a remote-memory system for a thesis of mine. As a result, I'm able to setup a diskless client that swaps to remote memory instead of a remote disk. The specifics, reasons, and design of the system are a long story However - this system allows for much faster page-fault

Re: gtk2 questions ?

2005-02-06 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 09:47:03PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: Where can i ask gtk2 questions like What i must do to convert this to gtk2 ? http://www.gtk.org/ #ifdef __hpux #define G_INLINE_FUNC #endif

Re: Trying to get glib updated to run AbiWord-2.0

2005-02-06 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 06 February 2005 01:16 am, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On 05 Feb Michael C. Shultz wrote: Try to upgrade with sysutils/portmanager, it doesn't require ruby. Can it upgrade just _one_ port ? No, it upgrades everything that needs upgrading. You may ignore certain ports if they are big and

Re: Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-06 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 11:54:00PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Loren M. Lang writes: LML Right now I have two login processes running, one for each virtual LML console I am logged in at the moment, though my ssh login shells don't LML have any login processes for them. My guess is that

rad5s1b shows up mysteriously instead of ad5s1b

2005-02-06 Thread Kjell B.
I just moved my disks to a different controller and this happened to (part of) my swap. I have searched the mailing lists, the FreeBSD homepage and Googled without success. I basically have two disks: ad0 and ad1 before the move; ad4 and ad5 after the move. ad0/ad4 is the main disk while ad1/ad5

RE: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 5:56 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: favor Sandy Rutherford writes: SR This is not so clear. In a March 2004 decision

RE: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Marella Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:35 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: favor Am I the only one longing for a freebsd-legal mail list that I will not subscribe to?

ATA Tagged Queuing?

2005-02-06 Thread Kjell B.
I'm considering turning on Tagged Command Queuing in my ATA system. My disks are all Hitachi 7K250 (two HDS722512VLAT80 and one HDS722516VLAT80) which according to Hitachi support this feature (queue depth = 32). However, I read in

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-06 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:35:07AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: Thx this clears alot of questions :) One more question doh, about the x cookie. How long does it take to calculate the x cookie string yourself of a user you want to hack :) PS is the x cookie in anyway related to the

Sendmail masquerading configuration

2005-02-06 Thread Ian Moore
Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I want to make sendmail (on a 5.3-Release server) leave the host name out of the sender address when sending mail from that machine. I.E. mail from root currently has a sender address of [EMAIL PROTECTED], I want it to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead.

RE: Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 5:49 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running top without a shell -- more questions John writes: J No, there are HUGE security

RE: Sendmail masquerading configuration

2005-02-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ian Moore Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 2:07 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sendmail masquerading configuration Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I want to make

zyxel

2005-02-06 Thread Gosha Sh
Hello! i have Zyxel omni adsl usb ee(Alcatel chipset),but it works only under linux or windows... but i need it working under FreeBSD!!!I've searched google and freebsd.org,but i didn't find anything related this aspect.Drivers under linux were created 3 years ago,and i wonder why there is no

RE: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peterhin Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 2:45 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Leaving a Computer Running ? Is it better to leave a computer (a stand alone) running continuously

Re: Sendmail masquerading configuration

2005-02-06 Thread Ian Moore
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 20:58, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ian Moore Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 2:07 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sendmail masquerading configuration Hi, I'm

Re: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Sandy Rutherford writes: SR Hold on a second. Shared P-to-P directories certainly are indexed and SR Finckenstein knew this. Where are they indexed? I though P-to-P was a proprietary protocol--which implies that public services like Google can't index it. An index internal to the P-to-P system

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-06 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Kenneth Jennings writes: KJ Ah. I bet there are more than a few people here who can repeat a KJ horror story about what happened when a long running server was shut KJ down. Yes, I'm one of them. Many people believe that if a fan or disk drive is showing signs of impending failure, it should be

Sendmail rejects incoming messages with large number of 'received' headers

2005-02-06 Thread Wayne Sierke
My FreeBSD mail server includes a getmail/sendmail/maildrop combination which occasionally fails when getmail retrieves a message via POP which has a large number of 'received' headers which result in it being rejected by sendmail. Is there some way of convincing sendmail to accept these messages,

Re: media players

2005-02-06 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 09:46:38AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:57:04PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:15:18PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: I am looking for a media player that supports the oss sound driver, easy to install codex, and uses the

Re: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: TM This is a bit of twisting of the definition of site that is public TM in my opinion. The key distinction is between a venue to which access must be explicitly requested and one that a person can visit without any formalities. Asking people to register or subscribe in

Re: access oracle from php (mod_php4)

2005-02-06 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:31:14PM +0100, Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hi. I need to access a oracle 9i database installed on a remote machine from a php script (www/mod_php4) I already can access mysql databases.. but not oracle.. I'm using a client app to access an oracle 8i database myself.

Re: zyxel

2005-02-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:39:33AM -0800, Gosha Sh wrote: Hello! i have Zyxel omni adsl usb ee(Alcatel chipset),but it works only under linux or windows... Better get an adsl router with an ethernet connection instead of a USB one. You won't need special drivers for it. but i need it working

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-06 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: TM In a clean room or positive pressure network room, where there is TM an extremely low level of dust, off-the-shelf computer fans will TM last many years longer than fans in a typical home PC. What about filters? On my current FreeBSD server (not in a clean room,

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-06 Thread Mark Rowlands
My FreeBSD server runs continuously because it has to: it holds my Web site, my e-mail server, my DNS server, my NTP server, etc. The other machines run continuously because it's more convenient and because I worry about machines not coming back up again if I power-cycle them. my machines

Re: Within X, how can I see console messages?

2005-02-06 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 10:40:19AM -0600, John wrote: On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 02:51:34AM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:01:06PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: I know I can Control-Alt-F1 to go back to the console, but is there a way to see these messages in an

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-06 Thread Xian
On Sunday 06 February 2005 01:30, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: If you turn it off, you should check /etc/crontab and decide when to perform the nightly maintenance. I turn my computer off over night so I can sleep. This would mean missing the cron stuff but since most of it is done by periodic, I

The F5 does not stop to break to cause the server of FreeBSD paralyze the problem

2005-02-06 Thread abbish
Managing person good: My system is a FreeBSD+ Apache+ PHP4.10+Mysql4.08 do the WEB server usage, appearing to open a Web page to press down the F5 now not to stop to break, would appear the CPU to take up the rate 100% memory usage quantity to explode the full circumstance, please ask how to

www.orkut.com

2005-02-06 Thread neeloofar afsharee
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Broken Comiler

2005-02-06 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, A few weeks back, on of my raid drives cacked. Since then, I have not been able to comple anything. I get messages like: (example while trying to .configure php4.3.10). loading cache ./config.cache checking host system type... i386-unknown-freebsd4.4 checking for gcc... gcc checking

Re: Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-06 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 05:24:51PM -0600, John wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:00:07AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: John writes: snip J Once upon a time, like version 7 Unix, login would simply make an J exec-family call to replace itself with the desired shell after J doing all

RE: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 01:59:40 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Marella Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:35 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: favor

Re: smbfs problems

2005-02-06 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 03:55:39AM -0500, Incoming Mail List wrote: I'm experiencing a strange problem with smbfs and can't find any references to it on the web. I've mounted a share from a win2k machine that contains JPEG images to a mount point on my FreeBSD system using mount_smbfs. The

Re: Broken Comiler

2005-02-06 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 06:59:40AM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, A few weeks back, on of my raid drives cacked. Since then, I have not been able to comple anything. I get messages like: (example while trying to .configure php4.3.10). loading cache ./config.cache checking host system

Re: Broken Comiler

2005-02-06 Thread Grant Peel
Sorry, I sent the console output and forgot the config.log output Here it is... # more config.log This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. configure:1638: checking host system type configure:1726: checking for

Re: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Ceri Davies
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6 Feb 2005, at 01:56, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Sandy Rutherford writes: SR However, it is hard to see that as the prerequisite positive act SR on the part of the web site owner. It is more a positive act on SR Google's part. Google doesn't find out

Re: Redirect based on domain name

2005-02-06 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 05:17:25PM +0800, r p wrote: Hi, I've set up two jails on my system. I'm wondering if it's possible to redirect incoming traffic to a particular jail based on the domain name? So, if someone connected to first.com they would be directed to the 192.168.0.1 jail,

Re: Redirect based on domain name

2005-02-06 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 05:17:25PM +0800, r p wrote: Hi, I've set up two jails on my system. I'm wondering if it's possible to redirect incoming traffic to a particular jail based on the domain name? So, if someone connected to first.com they would be directed to the 192.168.0.1 jail,

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-06 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 02:05:00 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS is the x cookie in anyway related to the user passwd ? Completely unrelated, it's just a random number basicly. If it is a random number how can the xserver it user x random number and not user y random number ?

Virtual Hosting multiple domains

2005-02-06 Thread Loren M. Lang
Is there an easy way to run multiple domains off of one sendmail client without using jails? We're thinking about replacing mailsite from rockliffe with a unix solution instead. The problem is we need an easy way to run independent mail domains that each have their own accounts and can access

RE: natd or firewall problem?

2005-02-06 Thread Gelsema, Patrick
I think that has to depend on how your natting and firewalling is set up. Aka how do you manage incoming traffic, outgoing and forwarding traffic between 2 interfaces. I'm using ipchains for it, and I got my rules per interface setup, and do thorough checks regarding sources. But it is something

ipfw / ppp NAT

2005-02-06 Thread Chris Knipe
Hi, Is there any way that I can get / configure ipfw / Kernel PPP to rewrite the source address via NAT? -- Chris. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Broken Comiler

2005-02-06 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 06 February 2005 03:59 am, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, A few weeks back, on of my raid drives cacked. Since then, I have not been able to comple anything. I get messages like: (example while trying to .configure php4.3.10). loading cache ./config.cache checking host system

Re: ipfw / ppp NAT

2005-02-06 Thread Chris Knipe
Ok wait, let me explain a bit more, because it seems the source-address is not my problem. y.y - x.x - x.1 y.y is a IP from the Internet x.x is the FreeBSD gateway, and x.1 is a client on a internal network I run NAT (via ipfw / ppp) on x.x. The packet comes in from y.y, via x.x, to x.1,

where is net.inet.udp.sendspace?

2005-02-06 Thread Michael R. Hines
On my 5.3-RELEASE system, sysctl -a | grep net | grep space gives: net.local.stream.sendspace: 8192 net.local.stream.recvspace: 8192 net.local.dgram.recvspace: 4096 net.inet.tcp.sendspace: 32768 net.inet.tcp.recvspace: 65536 net.inet.udp.recvspace: 42080 net.inet.raw.recvspace: 8192 Where is

where is net.inet.udp.sendspace?

2005-02-06 Thread Michael R. Hines
On my 5.3-RELEASE system, sysctl -a | grep net | grep space gives: net.local.stream.sendspace: 8192 net.local.stream.recvspace: 8192 net.local.dgram.recvspace: 4096 net.inet.tcp.sendspace: 32768 net.inet.tcp.recvspace: 65536 net.inet.udp.recvspace: 42080 net.inet.raw.recvspace: 8192 Where is

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-06 Thread Mark Rowlands
On Sunday 06 February 2005 12:24, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: TM In a clean room or positive pressure network room, where there is TM an extremely low level of dust, off-the-shelf computer fans will TM last many years longer than fans in a typical home PC. What about

Re[2]: ipfw / ppp NAT

2005-02-06 Thread Hexren
CK Ok wait, CK let me explain a bit more, because it seems the source-address is not my CK problem. y.y - x.x - x.1 CK y.y is a IP from the Internet CK x.x is the FreeBSD gateway, and CK x.1 is a client on a internal network CK I run NAT (via ipfw / ppp) on x.x. The packet comes in from

Re: Re[2]: ipfw / ppp NAT

2005-02-06 Thread Chris Knipe
given that tun0 is the interface that connects x.x to the world (y.y) then what you have now would be: ipfw add divert natd all from any to any via tun0 from what I understand what you want you should probably add somethin like: ipfw add divert natd all from any to any via rl0 rl0 being the

Re: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:53:40 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Sandy Rutherford writes: SR Hold on a second. Shared P-to-P directories certainly are indexed and SR Finckenstein knew this. Where are they indexed? I though P-to-P was a proprietary protocol--which implies

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-06 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Xian writes: X I turn my computer off over night so I can sleep. You're never a true system administrator until you can sleep surrounded by the sound of fans and disk drives. Extra points if you can sleep amid racks of datasets (less and less common these days). -- Anthony

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-06 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Mark Rowlands writes: MR I use my gfs tights... christ... I hope she's not subscribed here as MR well What type of material and weave? Tights = stockings? Hmm. I never thought of that--by gosh, it might work! MR yup.. but only on old scsi drives Unfortunately, my older machine has

RE: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 3:08 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: favor Except that it's not covered under fair use. It requires an explicit license. No.

Re: increasing swap activity

2005-02-06 Thread Nagilum
Michael Hines wrote: I've written a remote-memory system for a thesis of mine. As a result, I'm able to setup a diskless client that swaps to remote memory instead of a remote disk. The specifics, reasons, and design of the system are a long story However - this system allows for much

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:45:58PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Mark Rowlands writes: MR I use my gfs tights... christ... I hope she's not subscribed here as MR well What type of material and weave? Tights = stockings? Hmm. I never thought of that--by gosh, it might work!

Re: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Sandy Rutherford writes: SR I'm not sure what you mean here. If you are going to call http SR public, then wouldn't any other open protocol also be public? It's a network that people explicitly opt into. For example, if you put something on a P-to-P network, it's reasonable to assume that it

RE: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 3:25 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Leaving a Computer Running ? Ted Mittelstaedt writes: TM In a clean room or positive

Re: Installing on an IBM 600X - anyone tried it?

2005-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mr. Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed FreeBSD 5.3 on an IBM 600X, and tried to get X started. I get this error I can't really understand. I'm going to type it below so maybe someone can point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance everyone. --Ralph xauth:

Information about the kernel

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Re: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:00:56 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: SR Now #2, authorization: SR SR Finckenstein states: SR SR [26] No evidence was presented that the alleged infringers either SR distributed or authorized the reproduction of sound recordings. They SR merely

Re: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: TM Many content creators take the attitude that any republishing TM isn't covered under Fair Use. Probably because that attitude is grossly congruent with the law and jurisprudence. TM That is understandable because the Fair Use doctorine is TM deliberately broad ...

Re: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Chris
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: TM Many content creators take the attitude that any republishing TM isn't covered under Fair Use. Probably because that attitude is grossly congruent with the law and jurisprudence. *** Snip *** After following this thread, does this mean we're

Re: Redirect based on domain name

2005-02-06 Thread r p
Hi, No, you were right the first time, I only have one ip. Ok, I will investigate apache's name-based virtual hosting, and use different ports for the ssh servers. Thanks, Rick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-06 Thread Xian
On Sunday 06 February 2005 14:01, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: TM For PC's left on for long periods, they have a different problem TM because disk drives that spin at full speed continuiously (as TM server drives do, servers have power saving disabled on their TM drives of course for obvious

Re: failure to keep added user accounts

2005-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Each time i add a user via the adduser command the process goes through aok and sais that it has saved the information when finished and yet when a users command is issued there is no other user ... why would this be happening ? users(1) shows the users who

Installation does not start

2005-02-06 Thread Matej Badali
Hi! I'm new to FreeBSD and I need some help! I have tried to install FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.3, but with both I wasn't successfull! I want to try how FreeBSD works so I have tried to install it on an older computer, maybe is this the cause, but I have read that you can install it on an i484 with

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-06 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Xian writes: X I have an archaic thing thing running a small web server and it is built a X damn site better than most other computers I've seen. It has and old SCSI X drive that's built like a brick. What brand? My old HP Vectra is beautifully built, but you don't really notice it until you

Re: Memory and Battery applets

2005-02-06 Thread Jorge Mario G.
--- Matt Aasted [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I'm running Gnome 2.8 on a recent version of FreeBSD Stable 5.3 on an x86 (dell latitude d600) processor, and whenever my system is on the memory usage shown in the gnome memory monitor slowly climbs to 100% over the course of about an hour.

WORKAR?OUND: dhclient problems in 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-06 Thread David Gerard
David Gerard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050124 05:34]: This afternoon, I set up a new machine with 5.3-RELEASE. Started with three 5.3-beta5 floppies, told it I wanted 5.3-RELEASE from a CD-R, installed minimal base, man pages and ports, created two users. On reboot, I ran dhclient and it

Re: Sendmail masquerading configuration

2005-02-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Ian Moore wrote: I want to make sendmail (on a 5.3-Release server) leave the host name out of the sender address when sending mail from that machine. I.E. mail from root currently has a sender address of [EMAIL PROTECTED], I want it to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. [snip] I

Re: Memory and Battery applets

2005-02-06 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:11:45AM -0500, Matt Aasted wrote: I'm running Gnome 2.8 on a recent version of FreeBSD Stable 5.3 on an x86 (dell latitude d600) processor, and whenever my system is on the memory usage shown in the gnome memory monitor slowly climbs to 100% over the course of about

Re: how to configure Xorg to run at 1280x1024

2005-02-06 Thread Danie Du Toit
You have two SubSection display's with depth 8 - try remove the second one : SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 06:42:23 +0100, Dejan Lesjak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: People, One of my

RE: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-06 Thread Denny Jodeit
Xian writes: X I turn my computer off over night so I can sleep. You're never a true system administrator until you can sleep surrounded by the sound of fans and disk drives. Extra points if you can sleep amid racks of datasets (less and less common these days). -- Anthony

Bus errors

2005-02-06 Thread Tom Parquette
Hi. I'm running 5.3-R with a custom kernel on a dual processor athlon. I've recently started getting Bus error showing up as a reason for various failures. e.g. setiathome, make buildworld. I've also gotten some panics (there are only about 5 messages that didn't tell me anything and (sorry) I

wget port

2005-02-06 Thread dave
Hello, I was wondering what the status of the wget ports was? I've been getting an error about wget 1.8.2 having vulnerabilities so i uninstalled it and installed or tried to install wget-devel, but portaudit said it also had vulnerabilities and it would not permit the install to continue.

Re: Virtual Hosting multiple domains

2005-02-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Loren M. Lang wrote: Is there an easy way to run multiple domains off of one sendmail client without using jails? Of course, start here: http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html You can do fancier things if you use a smarter LDA, such as procmail. In other words, we don't want customers to

Re: wget port

2005-02-06 Thread DanGer
Hi dave, Sunday, February 6, 2005, 7:11:28 PM, you has on mind: Hello, I was wondering what the status of the wget ports was? I've been getting an error about wget 1.8.2 having vulnerabilities so i uninstalled it and installed or tried to install wget-devel, but portaudit said it also

Using Sysinstall through Proxy

2005-02-06 Thread Robert McHugh
I've installed FreeBSD 5.3 for i386 on a system behind a firewall that requires a username and password to gain internet access. Is there anyway to tell sysinstall not only the address of the proxy, but also a username and password that is required for internet access? Thanks, Rob

Re: Sendmail rejects incoming messages with large number of 'received' headers

2005-02-06 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 09:42:21PM +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote: My FreeBSD mail server includes a getmail/sendmail/maildrop combination which occasionally fails when getmail retrieves a message via POP which has a large number of 'received' headers which result in it being rejected by sendmail.

easy VPN config HOWTO?

2005-02-06 Thread darren david
Hi all- I have been searching high and low for a straightforward VPN configuration HOWTO with no luck. everything i've found is way over my head and very convoluted (to me, at least). Perhaps such is the nature of VPN. My goal is simply to allow users running Windows to VPN in to my home

Re: Bus errors

2005-02-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:07:54PM -0500, Tom Parquette wrote: I'm starting to wonder if I have a hardware problem with this machine since it only seemed to start when I put a heavier load on it (e.g. setiathome) and the strange symptoms seem to be showing up in multiple places. It could

Re: easy VPN config HOWTO?

2005-02-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 06 February 2005 01:39 pm, darren david wrote: Hi all- I have been searching high and low for a straightforward VPN configuration HOWTO with no luck. everything i've found is way over my head and very convoluted (to me, at least). Perhaps such is the nature of VPN. My goal is

wireless usb not recognized

2005-02-06 Thread grinny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody, I have an wireless steno MB112 from Apacer. This is a little usb memory stick (512MB) and wireless lan card. Does anybody know (or knows how I can find out) if this wireless card is supported? The card uses a 'Prism2' chipset. When I

Re: easy VPN config HOWTO?

2005-02-06 Thread Thomas Foster
http://www.section6.net/help/pptphow.php Hope this helps T - Original Message - From: darren david [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 11:39 AM Subject: easy VPN config HOWTO? Hi all- I have been searching high and low for a

Re: wireless usb not recognized

2005-02-06 Thread John
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:22:40PM -0800, grinny wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody, I have an wireless steno MB112 from Apacer. This is a little usb memory stick (512MB) and wireless lan card. Does anybody know (or knows how I can find out) if this

Re: wireless usb not recognized

2005-02-06 Thread John
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:26:53PM -0600, John wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:22:40PM -0800, grinny wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody, I have an wireless steno MB112 from Apacer. This is a little usb memory stick (512MB) and wireless lan card.

postgres 8 init script problem?

2005-02-06 Thread Dick Davies
Anyone else having problems starting postgres 8.0.1 (from ports) on RELENG_5? It seems to start alright, but clankily: root$ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start hang for about a minute could not start postmaster root$ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh status pg_ctl: postmaster is running (PID:

Sendmail host lookup problem

2005-02-06 Thread Hexren
I have a LAN in the 192.168.0 range. I am trying to send mail from 192.168.0.78 (gc-infra.steenbuck.net) to 192.168.0.29 (bettchen.steenbuck.net). This leeds to 550 errors. Host unknown (Name server: bettchen.steenbuck.net: host not found) 192.168.0.29 is also acting as my DNS Server. Both

Re: Bus errors

2005-02-06 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Tom Parquette wrote: Hi. I'm running 5.3-R with a custom kernel on a dual processor athlon. I've recently started getting Bus error showing up as a reason for various failures. e.g. setiathome, make buildworld. I've also gotten some panics (there are only about 5 messages

Re: where is net.inet.udp.sendspace?

2005-02-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:54:15AM -0500, Michael R. Hines wrote: On my 5.3-RELEASE system, sysctl -a | grep net | grep space gives: net.local.stream.sendspace: 8192 net.local.stream.recvspace: 8192 net.local.dgram.recvspace: 4096 net.inet.tcp.sendspace: 32768 net.inet.tcp.recvspace:

Re: increasing swap activity

2005-02-06 Thread Michael R. Hines
OkHere's the system's design: What I have created is a 3-part distributed memory system: 1. a client machine setup as a diskless client has a page fault or wants to swap out a page. The request goes through NFS to a machine. 2. The machine that receives the request is a linux machine running

Working with Maxima from inside Lyx broken?

2005-02-06 Thread Maarten
Hello list, On my office linux box I have lyx working nicely with maxima. I installed Maxima and Lyx on my home Freebsd box but there it does not work... In the shell from which I start Lyx I see: $ lyx use equation inset use cell: [char i mathalpha][char n mathalpha][char t mathalpha][char e

Re: where is net.inet.udp.sendspace?

2005-02-06 Thread Michael R. Hines
I see. I'll modify the application. Is there also a way of controlling the kernel's UDP buffer queue - the queue used to store user-space packets before they're put on the link? I've seen other mailing lists through searching where users listed the existence of a udp.sendspace. Where those just

Re: where is net.inet.udp.sendspace?

2005-02-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 05:16:08PM -0500, Michael R. Hines wrote: I see. I'll modify the application. Is there also a way of controlling the kernel's UDP buffer queue - the queue used to store user-space packets before they're put on the link? AFAIK they're queued directly to the

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