The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-09-03 - 2006-09-23

2006-09-24 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

Openbgpd TCP-MD5

2006-09-24 Thread Mihai Tanasescu
Hello, Does anyone know if TCP-MD5 is working with OpenBGP on Freebsd ? I've got a Freebsd 6.1 system (6.1-RELEASE-p5) on which I've tried both openbgpd and openbgpd-devel. The system has a test session now with a Cisco 3750 equipment. On the OpenBGPD machine I have setup the Cisco

Re: pf + ipv6 + keep state - any known issues?

2006-09-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, I am using pf on a 6.1 machine. I have a tunneling interface (gif0) for my IPv6 feed. The problem I am having is connecting to myself in spite of firewalling. I am allowing traffic on port 22 to my public ipv6 address. I am also allowing all outgoing

question: How to use SERIAL PORT

2006-09-24 Thread m.shenven
[EMAIL PROTECTED] serial and UART Tutorial, by Frank Durda Sirs, Where on the Internet can I details of: How to program a WINDOWS XP computer so that in will input/output to an external device through its SERIAL PORT? ANY information you can supply, would bew greatly appreciated ! m.shenven

Re: question: How to use SERIAL PORT

2006-09-24 Thread Mike Fern
On 9/24/06, m.shenven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] serial and UART Tutorial, by Frank Durda Sirs, Where on the Internet can I details of: How to program a WINDOWS XP computer so that in will input/output to an external device through its SERIAL PORT? ANY information you can

RE: Thin Terminals

2006-09-24 Thread Ansar Mohammed
Does it dance the Sun Ray dance, or are we back to rolling our own? Ceri Huh? Clearly, its not as attractive as a Sun Ray. But I dunno about dancing and rolling.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Radeon R300 3d support

2006-09-24 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 9/23/06, Steve Roome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've noticed a lot of people trying to get radeons with R300 and newer cores working with FreeBSD and 3D acceleration. At least there's been a fair few unanswered requests for it for a while now. So, does anyone know when the newer ati

Dual Monitor problems

2006-09-24 Thread Jonathan Arnold
I'm using FreeBSD 6.1 (by way of PC-BSD 1.2) and I'm trying to get my ATI x850 card to work with dual monitors. I have the xorg.conf set up correctly (see my blog post on the long hard battle to get that beachhead secured here: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000744.html ) but now

NFS configuration

2006-09-24 Thread David Bila
Dear All, Im triyng to get NFS installed in one of my FreeBSD server so I can share some folders on it and be able to save documents on the shared folders remotely. I did all the configuration both in the server and the client. When I try to mount the exported folders I get a message saying

Re: freebsd 6.1 floppy installation problem - boot loader finds only 16MB, but I have 256 MB - and it hangs

2006-09-24 Thread backyard
--- Vo¹tenák Vladimír [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have an old HP NETSERVER PRO 2xpentium pro, 256 MB ram, and I tried to install the actual FREEBSD 6.1 there. I made 3 floppies: boot, kernel1 and kernel2. When it starts booting from the boot floppy, the loader show I only have

Re: NFS configuration

2006-09-24 Thread Armin Pirkovitsch
David Bila wrote: Dear All, Im triyng to get NFS installed in one of my FreeBSD server so I can share some folders on it and be able to save documents on the shared folders remotely. I did all the configuration both in the server and the client. When I try to mount the exported folders I

Re: Thin Terminals

2006-09-24 Thread Ceri Davies
On 24/9/06 13:52, Ansar Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it dance the Sun Ray dance, or are we back to rolling our own? Ceri Huh? Clearly, its not as attractive as a Sun Ray. But I dunno about dancing and rolling.. Does it work with Sun Ray server? Ceri -- That must be

Re: question: How to use SERIAL PORT

2006-09-24 Thread David Kelly
On Sep 24, 2006, at 5:26 AM, m.shenven wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] serial and UART Tutorial, by Frank Durda Sirs, Where on the Internet can I details of: How to program a WINDOWS XP computer so that in will input/output to an external device through its SERIAL PORT? ANY information you can

Re: FreeBSD locale and sympa

2006-09-24 Thread Atom Powers
On 9/22/06, RJ45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed sympa5 from the FreeBSD ports collection. I am running FreeSBD 6.1 The problem is that the main sympa web interface does not show me the language options, so I cannot choose a language, and also the language menu is filled of spaces,

USB based webcam

2006-09-24 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I have a laptop with a built in webcam: ugen0: Vimicro Corp. USB2.0 Web Camera, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 Since this goes on the generic usb device, I guess there is no driver. Is this supported? Do I need to download a driver somewhere or will webcam software provide it? Secondly, what

kernel: calcru: negative runtime of -604787 usec for pid 16 (yarrow) messages..

2006-09-24 Thread Rob Gabaree
I see that in /var/log/messages I am getting messages like the following... Sep 24 13:08:36 tx kernel: calcru: negative runtime of -604849 usec for pid 16 (yarrow) Sep 24 13:08:36 tx kernel: calcru: negative runtime of -604842 usec for pid 16 (yarrow) Sep 24 13:08:38 tx kernel: calcru:

Problems with X mouse pointer

2006-09-24 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, After an year of successful using of FreeBSD, a friend of mine asked me to install it on her laptop. The laptop is Pestigio Visconte 120 with Intel 855 chipset. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and run X with only one problem. The mouse pointer in X is not a normal arrow, but a white big square.

Re: Making simple colorful block diagrams for presentations

2006-09-24 Thread Alberto Rizzi
ajm ha scritto: On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 11:57:35AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:20:00PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Hello, I want a simple tool that can be used for preparing block diagrams and arrows, that is all. I want to be able to use few colors,

Restricting access to home directory

2006-09-24 Thread Matt Juszczak
Hi all, I would like to give a user access to my box via some kind of FTP but restrict him to his home directory. I have seen scponlyc, which supposedly can do this, but can't seem to get it working. I have also read up on protftpd + ssl, and configuring it to lock users into their home

Re: Problems with X mouse pointer

2006-09-24 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
On 9/24/06, Ivan Rambius Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, After an year of successful using of FreeBSD, a friend of mine asked me to install it on her laptop. The laptop is Pestigio Visconte 120 with Intel 855 chipset. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and run X with only one problem. The mouse

Re: Restricting access to home directory

2006-09-24 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello Matt, Matt Juszczak wrote: Hi all, I would like to give a user access to my box via some kind of FTP but restrict him to his home directory. I have seen scponlyc, which supposedly can do this, but can't seem to get it working. I have also read up on protftpd + ssl, and configuring

Re: Restricting access to home directory

2006-09-24 Thread albi
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:09:23 -0400 (EDT) Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to give a user access to my box via some kind of FTP but restrict him to his home directory. I have seen scponlyc, which supposedly can do this, but can't seem to get it working. and what do you

swap

2006-09-24 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi list, 512 MB of Ram, 1024 MB of swap, 6.1-STABLE After some time my system begins swapping, which is normal. The weird thing is that swapping goes on even after closing the memory consuming programs. here's the output of top(1): Mem: 103M Active, 37M Inact, 107M Wired, 6656K Cache, 60M Buf,

Re: swap

2006-09-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 24), Pietro Cerutti said: 512 MB of Ram, 1024 MB of swap, 6.1-STABLE After some time my system begins swapping, which is normal. The weird thing is that swapping goes on even after closing the memory consuming programs. here's the output of top(1): Mem: 103M

GAIM not capable of sending files, but can receive

2006-09-24 Thread O. Hartmann
Sorry, maybe a little bit off-topic here. I tried using GAIM as IM, but ran into trouble. Receiving documents is working, but with or without any kind of firewall sending files is not possible. The GAIM installation is as is taken from the ports collection, firewall disabled ... Tried

Re: GAIM not capable of sending files, but can receive

2006-09-24 Thread Armin Pirkovitsch
O. Hartmann wrote: Sorry, maybe a little bit off-topic here. I tried using GAIM as IM, but ran into trouble. Receiving documents is working, but with or without any kind of firewall sending files is not possible. The GAIM installation is as is taken from the ports collection, firewall

Re: swap

2006-09-24 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 9/24/06, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once the kernel decides to swap a page, that area of swap is reserved until the process exits, even if the kernel pulls the data back from swap. That way if memory gets low again, the kernel knows it can quickly discard the in-RAM copy of the data

Hitachi disk performance

2006-09-24 Thread ajmm
Hi! I saw your posts with title Performance issue amd64. I don't know if this could help, but I'm having the same problem with ICH5 SATA controller and the same Hitachi drives on linux. I cannot activate DMA, and bandwidth is lesser than 10MB/s. I could not solve the problem, until

some apps very slow under Gnome

2006-09-24 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, This may/may not prove the superiority of BSD over the Linux kernel, dunno. Maybe you can help me figure out what I need to tune; or (*sob*) lighten my load on ethos. I've got three of the 4 default workspaces full of apps. Mostly

Re: Want to install RELEASE-6.1, have 5.3 disks

2006-09-24 Thread Jason Artz
--- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 23, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Jason Artz wrote: Hello, I want to install FreeBSD 6.1 on my system, but I only have a version 5.3 CD. I can tell sysinstall to get 6.1 instead of 5.3 via FTP (under Options, Release

Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Rob Gabaree
Hi, I have a remote server that I don't plan on using for email as I have another server to handle that. My question is.. is it a bad idea to _completely_ disable sendmail on that machine? Right now /etc/ rc.conf has: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO

Re: Want to install RELEASE-6.1, have 5.3 disks

2006-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 02:12:24PM -0700, Jason Artz wrote: Is there a way to do a binary install instead of downloading all the new sources and compiling them as an upgrade? Sort of. You can do it by hand if you're careful (the install files -- base.aa, etc -- are just .tar.bz2 files cut up

Re: Hitachi disk performance

2006-09-24 Thread O. Hartmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I saw your posts with title Performance issue amd64. I don't know if this could help, but I'm having the same problem with ICH5 SATA controller and the same Hitachi drives on linux. I cannot activate DMA, and bandwidth is lesser than 10MB/s. I could

Re: GAIM not capable of sending files, but can receive

2006-09-24 Thread O. Hartmann
Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: Sorry, maybe a little bit off-topic here. I tried using GAIM as IM, but ran into trouble. Receiving documents is working, but with or without any kind of firewall sending files is not possible. The GAIM installation is as is taken from the ports

Re: Patches for jail support of multiple IPs?

2006-09-24 Thread Michael Eubanks
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 12:51 -0700, Chris wrote: Are there any official patches to support multiple IPs in jails or would I be limited to taking a chance with the few 6.1 patch files I've found on the net. I searched the UPDATING on HEAD and for anything that might be related but found

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Michael S
I have the same four lines in rc.conf, but that is because I installed postfix. If you want to disable it completely, you'd use sendmail_enable=NONE, but you wouldn't be able receive messages sent by crontab, syslogd, etc. Michael --- Rob Gabaree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a remote

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:18:27PM -0400, Rob Gabaree wrote: So what should I do? Should I just have sendmail_enable=NO in / etc/rc.conf, so only the incoming mail service is disabled? That way messages could be sent without the above errors? Or what? You should allow the system to

Re: GAIM not capable of sending files, but can receive

2006-09-24 Thread Armin Pirkovitsch
O. Hartmann wrote: Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: Sorry, maybe a little bit off-topic here. I tried using GAIM as IM, but ran into trouble. Receiving documents is working, but with or without any kind of firewall sending files is not possible. The GAIM installation is as

Re: Restricting access to home directory

2006-09-24 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hi Matt! If you are talking about givin FTP access only, then the easiest way to do it is just adding the user to the file /etc/ftpchroot and thats all!! if the file does not exist. then create it. add to /etc/ftpchroot all users that you want them to ftp but never see any upper level

Re: Patches for jail support of multiple IPs?

2006-09-24 Thread Michael Eubanks
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 12:51 -0700, Chris wrote: Are there any official patches to support multiple IPs in jails or would I be limited to taking a chance with the few 6.1 patch files I've found on the net. I searched the UPDATING on HEAD and for anything that might be related but found

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

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

Re: Patches for jail support of multiple IPs?

2006-09-24 Thread Chris
On Sep 24, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Michael Eubanks wrote: On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 12:51 -0700, Chris wrote: Are there any official patches to support multiple IPs in jails or would I be limited to taking a chance with the few 6.1 patch files I suppose you could alias your primary network interface,

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Rob Gabaree
Thanks. What I did was remove all lines except `sendmail_enable=NO` and in / etc/mail/aliases, I setup the root alias to goto my real email address: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] I setup my firewall to block incoming/outgoing email on ports 21/25 as well, so no one on the outside can access mail

make behavior with obj directory

2006-09-24 Thread Matthieu Michaud
i was noticed this behavior using make on freebsd and netbsd : [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat Makefile all: pwd [EMAIL PROTECTED] make pwd /usr/home/ohmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] mkdir obj [EMAIL PROTECTED] make pwd /usr/home/ohmer/obj it seems a hard coded make behavior so it rather looks like a

Problem w/ py-ldap Installation

2006-09-24 Thread Ted Johnson
Hi; I've installed the py-ldap from the ports doing the make install clean dance. Everything seemed to proceed smoothly. However, when I fired up my python interpreter and entered import ldap it didn't recognize the module. So something went wrong and I don't know what :( I did get this from

Recompiling base sendmail with another DB

2006-09-24 Thread Jack Stone
I've wanted to test the use of some of snertsoft's milters, but they require a Berkley DB-4.1+ I believe instead of the 1.85 used by the base system's sendmail. Somewhere I read about recompiling sendmail, which then would allow me to comile with a different DB choice. The steps are below.

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Robert C Wittig
Rob Gabaree wrote: Thanks. What I did was remove all lines except `sendmail_enable=NO` and in /etc/mail/aliases, I setup the root alias to goto my real email address: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] I setup my firewall to block incoming/outgoing email on ports 21/25 as well, so no one on the

lpd hewlett packard

2006-09-24 Thread justin
Hello, I`m trying to configure my hp deskjet 520 and i`m running into some trouble. The handbook says it all has to do with the interupt driven configuration, it does not work with some new hp printers. I have to switch to the polled mode. If you want polled mode, remove in your

Re: Want to install RELEASE-6.1, have 5.3 disks

2006-09-24 Thread backyard
--- Jason Artz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 23, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Jason Artz wrote: Hello, I want to install FreeBSD 6.1 on my system, but I only have a version 5.3 CD. I can tell sysinstall to get

RE: Recompiling base sendmail with another DB

2006-09-24 Thread Jack Stone
From: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Recompiling base sendmail with another DB Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:59:54 -0500 I've wanted to test the use of some of snertsoft's milters, but they require a Berkley DB-4.1+ I believe instead of the 1.85 used by the

Re: Want to install RELEASE-6.1, have 5.3 disks

2006-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:49:59PM -0700, backyard wrote: I thought if you went to the options in sysinstall and go to the part that says Release Name and it likely is going to say 5.3-RELEASE change that to 6.1-RELEASE and then do an ftp install. You should get the newer version of the

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:18:27PM -0400, Rob Gabaree wrote: Hi, I have a remote server that I don't plan on using for email as I have another server to handle that. My question is.. is it a bad idea to _completely_ disable sendmail on that machine? Right now /etc/ rc.conf has: