Re: scripting question

2006-10-03 Thread Ivan Levchenko
(forgot to cc the list =)) Remove the word root from the crontab entry. The user should be specified only in the system crontab. On 10/3/06, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i made a script and put on root's crontab, however it's not doing or showing the output that is forwarded to my email

What about carpdev?

2006-10-03 Thread Prokofiev S.P.
When will carpdev option appear for CARP devices in FreeBSD ? Thanks... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Ruby gaining weight? [RESOLVED]

2006-10-03 Thread Pete Slagle
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Pete Slagle wrote: >> Recent versions of ruby18 seem to take more than 145 MB of virtual >> memory to build with portupgrade or "make install clean." > Karol Kwiatkowski wrote less than a week ago: >> # cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby18 >> # make -DNOPORTDOCS install That put me on

Re: Ruby gaining weight? [RESOLVED]

2006-10-03 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
On 03/10/2006 11:37, Pete Slagle wrote: > Alex Zbyslaw wrote: >> Pete Slagle wrote: >>> Recent versions of ruby18 seem to take more than 145 MB of virtual >>> memory to build with portupgrade or "make install clean." > >> Karol Kwiatkowski wrote less than a week ago: >>> # cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby1

cvsup.freebsd.org DNS lookup failure(s)

2006-10-03 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Anyone else seeing this problem today? Name lookup failure for "cvsup.FreeBSD.org": Host name lookup failed Will retry at 07:54:22 Other hosts resolve fine. I did a search on the lists and didn't notice anything about host changes, etc. _F ___

need help with ppp

2006-10-03 Thread KHOO Guan_Chen
Sorry for using up bandwidth. I cannot connect to my ISP with FreeBSD (6.0). The ISP is not using PAP/CHAP in my case, but apparently something very old. Using minicom I can see that 1. my modem is connected to /dev/cuad0 2. after i dailled the ISP, they put me through a login. password and a

installing ports

2006-10-03 Thread Mbuthia Wangui
I have a bandwidth manager running on FreeBSD 4.9 LOCAL. I want to install net-snmp so that traffic generated on the bwmger can be pointed to cacti (like mrtg). My problem is that I have gone through enough manuals to get assistance on which commands I should run to install the ports hierarchy.

Re: installing ports

2006-10-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Oct 3, 2006, at 5:51 AM, Mbuthia Wangui wrote: I have a bandwidth manager running on FreeBSD 4.9 LOCAL. I want to install net-snmp so that traffic generated on the bwmger can be pointed to cacti (like mrtg). My problem is that I have gone through enough manuals to get assistance on which

Re: installing ports

2006-10-03 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Mbuthia Wangui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a bandwidth manager running on FreeBSD 4.9 LOCAL. I want to > install net-snmp so that traffic generated on the bwmger can be pointed > to cacti (like mrtg). My problem is that I have gone through enough > manuals to get assistance on w

Re: cvsup.freebsd.org DNS lookup failure(s)

2006-10-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Anyone else seeing this problem today? > >Name lookup failure for "cvsup.FreeBSD.org": Host name lookup failed >Will retry at 07:54:22 > > > Other hosts resolve fine. > > I did a search on the lists and didn't notice anything about host > changes, etc. One

Re: need help with ppp

2006-10-03 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 14:55, KHOO Guan_Chen wrote: > Sorry for using up bandwidth. > > I cannot connect to my ISP with FreeBSD (6.0). The ISP is not using > PAP/CHAP in my case, but apparently something very old. Using minicom > I can see that > 1. my modem is connected to /dev/cuad0 > 2. afte

Re: Checking remote processes

2006-10-03 Thread David King
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 15:12 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: ssh some.hosts.address "ps aux | grep httpd | grep -v grep" "ps aux | grep [h]ttpd" ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "pgrep httpd" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: mail to root

2006-10-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:20 pm, jekillen wrote: > Hello again; > I have a question about how mail from the system is generated > for root. This question was prompted when I edited the Postfix > aliases file and ran newaliases, then did postfix reload, > assuming the mail system was running. I was inf

R: Re: ipfw & cups

2006-10-03 Thread Vittorio
This are my rules (line 631 is about the same port!): Ciao - Vittorio #ipfw list 00500 check-state 00501 deny tcp from any to any established 00502 deny ip from any to any frag 00503 allow ip from any to any via lo0 00505 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 00508 deny ip from 127.0.0.0 /8 to any 005

Re: need help with ppp

2006-10-03 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2006/10/03 3:55, KHOO Guan_Chen seems to have typed: > Local> > I have tried to enter things like "ppp", "~ppp" "cppp" ">ppp" after > the (Local>) in my chat_script > but no go. In minicom, I see that they sometimes drop me into a > shell to which I can only exit, Somewhere over a decade a

Re: Question about installing FreeBSD

2006-10-03 Thread Pete C
Quoting Michael Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I really hope that you're answering questions about installing FreeBSD, since I can't yet start threads on freebsdforum.org. My question is : I have downloaded the entire FreeBSD 6.1 (about 17,5 GB) and made a FREEBSD directory

Re: how to block rj45 sockets.

2006-10-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 2, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Marwan Sultan wrote: Do you recommend any good switch product and model number which has port enable.disable feature ? other than cisco, in a good price? You're looking for "managed" switches; the HP Procurve lineup, and the 3com SuperStack III models are also pr

optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

2006-10-03 Thread Jeff Dickens
I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests. I'd like to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware host system. After reading and partially digesting the white paper on timekeeping in VMware virtual machines (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timeke

sendmail won't start

2006-10-03 Thread Andy Greenwood
I modified my local freebsd.mc file to add support for spamhaus. After I compilied the sendmail.cf file, sendmail won't start. What am I doing wrong here? [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]# m4 freebsd.mc > sendmail.cf [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]# /etc/rc.d/sendmail start 554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 2

Re: sendmail won't start

2006-10-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I modified my local freebsd.mc file to add support for spamhaus. After I compilied the sendmail.cf file, sendmail won't start. What am I doing wrong here? You have this: FEATURE(dnsbl, 'sbl.spamhaus.org', 'Rejected - see http://www.spamhaus.org') You want this: FEATURE(dnsbl, `sbl.spamhaus.or

Re: sendmail won't start

2006-10-03 Thread wc_lists
Andy Greenwood wrote: I compilied the sendmail.cf file, sendmail won't start. What am I doing wrong here? 554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 2: invalid argument to V line: "ERSIONID(FreeBSD: s" 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 6: fileclass: cannot open 'ATURE(access_db,': No such file or

Re: installing ports

2006-10-03 Thread Jeff Palmer
You may want to try using portsnap. pkg_add -r portsnap then portsnap fetch extract BTW: This sounds like one of the etnic (sp?) bandwidth manager boxes. Would that happen to be the case? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

PortSnap problems & relocating ports

2006-10-03 Thread Wayne
I've been using portsnap on 6.x systems for some time now with no problems. I decided to move /usr/ports and /usr/src to their own filesystem, /build, to make it easier to backup the important system stuff. I also relocated /var/db/portsnap to /build/db/portsnap. I thought I could edit /etc/

Can somebody help me out !!!!!!

2006-10-03 Thread DeadMan Xia ....
Well I am using FreeBSD 6.0 on Dell Power Edge 2850 running qmail, I am using LogiTech RAID Controller. I compile the kernel with normal IPFIREWALL, IPFIREWALL_FORWARD. I got some power with my power, every night my UPS batteries get discharged and my system shutdown hard. its about 4 to 6 times

Re: Can somebody help me out !!!!!!

2006-10-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 3, 2006, at 12:46 PM, DeadMan Xia wrote: I compile the kernel with normal IPFIREWALL, IPFIREWALL_FORWARD. I got some power with my power, every night my UPS batteries get discharged and my system shutdown hard. its about 4 to 6 times my system get Hard Shut in 2 days. although i

Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

2006-10-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:58, Jeff Dickens wrote: > I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests. I'd like > to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware > host system. After reading and partially digesting the white paper on > timekeeping in VMware

Re: cvsup.freebsd.org DNS lookup failure(s)

2006-10-03 Thread Solovyov, Evgeny
On 03.10.06 07:53 , Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Anyone else seeing this problem today? > >Name lookup failure for "cvsup.FreeBSD.org": Host name lookup failed >Will retry at 07:54:22 > > > Other hosts resolve fine. > > I did a search on the lists and didn't notice anything about host chang

installing perl5.8.5

2006-10-03 Thread Bawan Karn
I have installed FreeBSD 4.1. The in-built perl is installed on that but I have to install perl5.8.5. I have googled it and found answers to install perl, but I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I can't install it. I am wrting you the steps which I did: 1. Copied perl-5.8.5.tar.gz 2. Extracted th

SMART errors and file systems

2006-10-03 Thread Michael Knoll
I have a drive that gained a bad sector, detected by smartctl. I have the LBA number of the sector. The drive is one large UFS partition. Is it possible to determine where in the filesystem the sector lies? Mostly, what file is corrupted by the bad sector? Thanks, Mike _

vr0: watchdog timeout FreeBSD 6.1-p10 Crashing my backups

2006-10-03 Thread perikillo
Hi people i have read a some mails about this problem, it looks like all was running some 5.X branch, i have been using FreeBSD 6.1 some months ago, yesterday i make the buildworld process, right now i have my box with FreeBSD6.1-p10. This box runs bacula server with this NIC: vr0: port 0xe4

RE: installing perl5.8.5

2006-10-03 Thread Mark
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bawan Karn > Sent: dinsdag 3 oktober 2006 22:36 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: installing perl5.8.5 > > > > I have installed FreeBSD 4.1. I hope you mean 4.11; I really do. :) Other

Re: how to block rj45 sockets.

2006-10-03 Thread Marwan Sultan
Gurus Thank you all for your advices, I would go ahead and look for "managed" switches :) Belkin was a mistake, Thank you again Marwan > >Get real switching hardware to replace those Belkins. Cisco and other > >switches will allow you to enable/disable ports on demand. > > Do you recommen

ZendOptimizer and libm.so.2?

2006-10-03 Thread Mark
Hello, Is there a particular reason ZendOptimizer (/usr/ports/devel/ZendOptimizer) for PHP 4.4.4 requires FreeBSD 5.x or higher? Near as I can tell, only reason it wouldn't run really, is because of the absence of libm.so.3. But I resolved to be bold, and made a symlink for libm.so.3 to libm.so.2

RE: ZendOptimizer and libm.so.2?

2006-10-03 Thread Mark
I wrote: > Subject: ZendOptimizer and libm.so.2? > > > Hello, > > Is there a particular reason ZendOptimizer > (/usr/ports/devel/ZendOptimizer) for PHP 4.4.4 requires FreeBSD 5.x or > higher? Near as I can tell, only reason it wouldn't run > really, is because of the absence of libm.so.3. But I

Re: ZendOptimizer and libm.so.2?

2006-10-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 03), Mark said: > > Is there a particular reason ZendOptimizer > > (/usr/ports/devel/ZendOptimizer) for PHP 4.4.4 requires FreeBSD 5.x > > or higher? Near as I can tell, only reason it wouldn't run really, > > is because of the absence of libm.so.3. But I resolved to be bol

RE: ZendOptimizer and libm.so.2?

2006-10-03 Thread Mark
> -Original Message- > From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: woensdag 4 oktober 2006 0:19 > To: Mark > Cc: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' > Subject: Re: ZendOptimizer and libm.so.2? > > > > Which leads me to believe I'm correct in thinking Zend > > Optimizer really just nee

Re[2]: ZendOptimizer and libm.so.2?

2006-10-03 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Mark, Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 12:22:28 AM, you wrote: >> > Which leads me to believe I'm correct in thinking Zend >> > Optimizer really just needs libm.so.2, right? >> >> You're better off installing the misc/compat4x port to get libm.so.2 . > No, I *have* libm.so.2 (FreeBSD 4.11); T

RE: Re[2]: ZendOptimizer and libm.so.2?

2006-10-03 Thread Mark
> -Original Message- > From: Daniel Gerzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: woensdag 4 oktober 2006 0:27 > To: Mark > Cc: 'Dan Nelson'; 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' > Subject: Re[2]: ZendOptimizer and libm.so.2? > > > > Hello Mark, > > Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 12:22:28 AM, you wrote: >

Strange cron behavior

2006-10-03 Thread stan
I'm having a hard time getting cron to run a task. I've run crontab -e (as root), and added the following line: 12 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mirror_ubuntu This script runs from teh command line. Now I've seen plenty of strange beahviour because of the limited environment cron tasks get, but a basic

Re: scripting question

2006-10-03 Thread jan gestre
On 10/3/06, Ivan Levchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Remove the word root from the crontab entry. The user should be specified only in the system crontab. thanks ivan, but the solution i made was i put in the /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily directory, it is now working :D On 10/3/06, jan ge

mail server rejects local and virtual clients

2006-10-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aloha, Using help from this list and Greg Lehey's book I have built a FreeBSD 6.2 server for a mail server and Installed Postfix from ports and tested it OK. I can see mail on the server in the expected box by telnet. I installed pop3 to capture the mail on another FreeBSD 4.11 box on anoth

upgrading amavisd-new port fails

2006-10-03 Thread jan gestre
hi guys, i tried upgrading the amavisd-new port via portmanager and portupgrade, both methods failed, i had a similar problem before but i forgot how did i fix it :( is there a problem with the amavisd-new port? TIA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: vr0: watchdog timeout FreeBSD 6.1-p10 Crashing my backups

2006-10-03 Thread perikillo
On 10/3/06, perikillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi people i have read a some mails about this problem, it looks like all was running some 5.X branch, i have been using FreeBSD 6.1 some months ago, yesterday i make the buildworld process, right now i have my box with FreeBSD6.1-p10. This b

port failing for me on xorg-libraries

2006-10-03 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Hi, Running on 5.5 pre release. [Need to upgrade the machien, i know] Just cvsup'd my ports and I'm adding curl for php5-extensions. When it gets to the xorg-libraries I get this snip ===> xorg-libraries-6.9.0 depends on shared library: drm - found ===> xorg-libraries-6.9.0 depends

Re: IPFW + NATD rules

2006-10-03 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 01:04:54PM +0500, ?? ?? wrote: > I'm a junior in FreeBSD, and I faced with problem. You should know that others have mailers that are thread enabled. This means that when you compose a new mail, but you that the reply sort cut others may not read this, b

Re: Question about installing FreeBSD

2006-10-03 Thread jan gestre
On 10/4/06, Pete C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting Michael Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I really hope that you're answering questions about installing > FreeBSD, since I can't yet start threads on freebsdforum.org. > > My question is : > I have downloaded the entire Free

Re: Question about installing FreeBSD

2006-10-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jan gestre wrote: > On 10/4/06, Pete C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Quoting Michael Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I really hope that you're answering questions about installing >> > FreeBSD, since I can't yet start thr

Re: Strange cron behavior

2006-10-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I'm having a hard time getting cron to run a task. I've run crontab -e (as root), and added the following line: 12 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mirror_ubuntu This script runs from teh command line. Now I've seen plenty of strange beahviour because of the limited environment cron tasks get, but a basic

Re: Strange cron behavior

2006-10-03 Thread Atom Powers
On 10/3/06, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm having a hard time getting cron to run a task. I've run crontab -e (as root), and added the following line: 12 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mirror_ubuntu This script runs from teh command line. Now I've seen plenty of strange beahviour because of the li

Re: installing ports

2006-10-03 Thread Mbuthia Wangui
Hi Jeff, Thanks for the suggestion and yes the bandwidth manager is an etinc (ETR1800) box. Let me see how the portsnap goes. - Original Message - From: "Jeff Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:08 PM Subject: Re: installing ports

Re: Unable to compile libapreq2

2006-10-03 Thread Foo JH
Hi all, With Philip's encouragement and some extra work thrown in, I've made the following conclusion: 1. If I install Apache 2 + MP2 + libapreq2 using the existing port tree in FBSD6.1, it's fine. 2. If I install FBSD6.1 + cvsup-without-gui + updated port tree + Apache2 + MP2 + libapreq2, it