Re: Sharing application jail and host?

2007-09-26 Thread Albert Shih
Le 26/09/2007 à 08:47:05+0800, Aminuddin a écrit > Hi freebsd gurus, > I'm playing with jail setup and wanted to provide a virtual server to my > external remote users to login by ssh and run a couple of applications. > > Do I need to install the application using the ports in the jail itself or

Re: pf redirect question

2007-09-26 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 04:48, Jonathan Horne wrote: > > > i was wondering if it feasable to down the server, take its IP and > > > stick it on our FreeBSD server, and then use pf with rdr statements > > > to redirect any traffic from stragglers to the service on the other > > > new server?

Re: Is your Thunderbird OK?

2007-09-26 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:47 +0200, Christian Baer wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:41:53 +0900 Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > > > Yeah I also like text based MUAs such as mutt or pine. Sometimes I get > > HTML messages from my co-workers who use webmail. I must read those HTML > > messages for my work, s

Re: Is your Thunderbird OK?

2007-09-26 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:47 +0200, Christian Baer wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:41:53 +0900 Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > > > Yeah I also like text based MUAs such as mutt or pine. Sometimes I get > > HTML messages from my co-workers who use webmail. I must read those HTML > > messages for my work, s

Re: xfce-4.4.1_1 strange behavior with Launch Desktop Icons.

2007-09-26 Thread Karsten Rothemund
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:07:20AM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:26:04 -0400 > Lisandro Grullon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear FBSD users, > > I am running FBSD 6.2R with most of my ports upgrade to the latest. I just > > finish doing a upgrade of Xorg 7.2 to 7.3

Re: Confusion on SSH and PAM

2007-09-26 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Any ideas or nudges in the right direction as to why this is happening? Looks like I've understood the interaction between SSH and PAM wrong here, so would appreciate some enlightenment. According to my understanding of the SSH protocol, you'

Re: pf redirect question

2007-09-26 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 02:28:48 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > No, don't use the IP on your server. Why you should do such a thing? > why not? i did specify that the old server is decommissioning and would be permenantly downed. > You just have to make sure that packets ($old_server <-> $wo

RE: xfce-4.4.1_1 strange behavior with Launch Desktop Icons.

2007-09-26 Thread Lisandro Grullon
I try reinstalling Thunar and see if that would fix the problem. I still experiencing the same problem, those two icons would not launch propery, I am pasting my .xsession-errors. /usr/local/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp /usr/local/etc/gdm/PreSession/De

Re: pf redirect question

2007-09-26 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Please CC me when replying to me, since I will see your replies in no time. Otherwise your reply might not be seen, since it ends up in another directory in my maildir. On Wednesday 26 September 2007 15:18, Jonathan Horne wrote: > On Wednesday 26 September 2007 02:28:48 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: >

SSH login banner?

2007-09-26 Thread takhoos
I need to apply an SSH user agreement policy so users agrees to the AUP _before_ they login. Everything I read puts the police on the screen after login. Any ideas? --Joe _ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Li

Re: SSH login banner?

2007-09-26 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:15:38AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to apply an SSH user agreement policy so users agrees to the AUP > _before_ they login. Everything I read puts the police on the screen > after login. Any ideas? --Joe The sshd_config(5) manpage documents the following

Re: Confusion on SSH and PAM

2007-09-26 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 11:02:26 Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > > Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > >> Any ideas or nudges in the right direction as to why this is happening? > >> Looks like I've understood the interaction between SSH and PAM wrong > >> here, so would apprec

sbcl/lisp question

2007-09-26 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi, while playing with SBCL and the editor slime, I found that slime needs some ("fast loadable") files in /usr/local/lib/sbcl/.. (with .fasl suffix) to be set executable. Was this forgotten by the port authors or is there some tricky LISP way to do it automatically (i.e. is it a bug or a fe

Re: SSH login banner?

2007-09-26 Thread Chris
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:15:38 -0400 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to apply an SSH user agreement policy so users agrees to the > AUP _before_ they login. Everything I read puts the police on the > screen after login. Any ideas? --Joe Have a look under /etc/sshd/ There is an sshd conf fi

qmail+wu-imap+squirrelmail

2007-09-26 Thread Bill Banks
I'm trying to setup qmail with squirrelmail thus wu-imap on Freebsd 6.2 . imap is not authenticating the user and I dont know why. Try: telnet 216.236.255.45 143 a1 login test 0 and see what I'm talking about. -- --- Bill Banks

Enlighten me nt Please

2007-09-26 Thread Hensley, Ed - Edward D
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Re: Can't boot new disk unless it's on the 2nd IDE channel

2007-09-26 Thread Joe in MPLS
Should have included this the first time: When the disk is on the first channel, the BIOS reports and "invalid partition table" then the boot loader runs anyway until I end up at a "mountroot>" prompt. Whatever I try to enter at the prompt I'm told the disk doesn't exist. It doesn't matter whi

Re: pf redirect question

2007-09-26 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 08:10:18 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > Please CC me when replying to me, since I will > see your replies in no time. Otherwise your reply > might not be seen, since it ends up in another > directory in my maildir. > > On Wednesday 26 September 2007 15:18, Jonathan Horne

RE: SSH login banner?

2007-09-26 Thread takhoos
I really appreciate the time and effort you took to answer my questionThank you for a clear and concise answer! --Joe > Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:12:35 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL > PROTECTED]> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SSH login > banner?> > On Wed, 2

Re: Enlighten me nt Please

2007-09-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Would it be easy, or maybe "not too difficult" to setup Enlightenment with FreeBSD which I am determined to get back into soon? Even possibly use the Elive approach, or is that a specific Linux executable? use ports ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: IPFW + NATD FORWARDING

2007-09-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"mr. phreak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I am having trouble with my IPFW+NATD forwarding. I know a lot of > people have > and I've googled my ass off. Still I can't get it right. I'm trying to > forward port 1213 in/out for dc++ usage. > > this is my setup: > > __WAN router (192.168.1.1) >

Re: Bandwidth filter with ipfw don't work

2007-09-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Edgardo Nuevo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > I have Freebsd 6,2 with 2 cards of network, vr1 (10.0.1.10 with access > to Internet), vr0 (192.168.1.1 internal network), I have configured > ipfw + dummynet, when I configure a PC with 192.168.1.x does not work, > but I put an IP type 10.0.1.x i

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:24:55PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: I have installed FreeBSd on IBM/Lenova and Dell with little problem. But, I wonder if anyone here has had any dealings with a nice little notebook from a Japanese company called 'Kojinsha'. I saw them the last time I was in Japan, of

Re: 6.2 Headless Installs Don't Seem to Work.

2007-09-26 Thread Martin McCormick
Jonathan McKeown writes: > (tar now does this, I believe), add the line > > console="comconsole" > > to boot/loader.conf in the directory which is the root of the CD, and then > make a new ISO and burn a new serial install CD. When I do tar vxf 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso It mostly work

Capturing data on the serial port

2007-09-26 Thread jhall
I have a need to temporarily capture data from our phone system via the serial port on one of my FreeBSD servers. What would be the best way to do this? Thanks, Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: pf redirect question

2007-09-26 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 17:42, Jonathan Horne wrote: > On Wednesday 26 September 2007 08:10:18 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > Please CC me when replying to me, since I will > > see your replies in no time. Otherwise your reply > > might not be seen, since it ends up in another > > directory in

Re: Capturing data on the serial port

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Boyd
On Sep 26, 2007, at 10:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a need to temporarily capture data from our phone system via the serial port on one of my FreeBSD servers. What would be the best way to do this? I've done this with Minicom set up to log to a file. /usr/ports/comms/minicom --C

http://dev.mysql.com/qualitycontribution.html

2007-09-26 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Hi All, I noticed that 'Debian user community' was listed here. Maybe we should start funneling all the mysql related stuff to a single FreeBSD managed user? -- Philip M. Gollucci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) c:323.219.4708 o:703.7

Re: Software Lojack

2007-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:56PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: I know all about various precautions to be taken. I also know I could write something. I just wanted to know if something like that is already written. jerry > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 06:33:30PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > Hi

Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Tim Kellers
Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production environment? My old Dell 2400 hardware is quickly expiring and I need to replace it with something that will support FreeBSD 6.2 and have enough horsep

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread falz
On 9/26/07, Tim Kellers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer > Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production > environment? > > My old Dell 2400 hardware is quickly expiring and I need to replace it > with some

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Martin McCormick
Tim Kellers writes: > Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer > Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production > environment? We recently installed Dell 2950's for DNS and DHCP server applications. They work great but some of their ho

Keyboard without Scroll Lock

2007-09-26 Thread Harry Matthiesen Jensen
Hi, I don't know where to post this, except from this list, so maybe someone will add it to a FAQ ;-). just for info, if you happens to buy a keyboard without the Scroll Lock key, as I did (Logitech EX110), and are missing this function in consoles, I found a solution with re-configuring the keym

Re: Software Lojack

2007-09-26 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:34:15 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:56PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: I know all about various precautions to be taken. I also know I could write something. I just wanted to know if something like that is

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:18:49PM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer > Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production > environment? > > My old Dell 2400 hardware is quickly expiring and I need to replace

Multiple Instances of OpenVPN

2007-09-26 Thread Marcos Vinicius Buzo
Good afternoon. I would like to know how could I run multiple instances of openvpn with one startup script for each config file. I'm running one instance with the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/openvpn script and another with the command openvpn --config configfile. Thanks in advance. ___

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Tim Kellers wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer > Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production > environment? Hi, I've got 860, 1435, 1600, 1950, 2950 all running 6.2-relelase-p7 with custom kernels. Watch out though the RAID-

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Martin McCormick wrote: one of the boot messages we see is > that all memory above 4 gigs is ignored or something to that > effect. > real memory = 3489300480 (3327 MB) > avail memory = 3414794240 (3256 MB) Thats not freebsd and if its its because you are using i386 and not amd64 >From a 1950 h

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:01 PMSep 26, 2007, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Martin McCormick wrote: [snip] real memory = 9395240960 (8960 MB) avail memory = 8291303424 (7907 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:

Re: Keyboard without Scroll Lock

2007-09-26 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007, Harry Matthiesen Jensen wrote: >Hi, > >I don't know where to post this, except from this list, so maybe someone >will add it to a FAQ ;-). > >just for info, if you happens to buy a keyboard without the Scroll Lock >key, as I did (Logitech EX110), and are missing this function

Re: courier-imap

2007-09-26 Thread Bill Banks
When I try to login , in my maillog it saids no such file. How do I tell it to use /etc/passwd Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Bill Banks wrote: i think that it not validating the username & passwd Have you started courier-authdaemond in /usr/local/etc/rc.d? Added users to UserDB or whatever au

Re: http://dev.mysql.com/qualitycontribution.html

2007-09-26 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 9/26/07, Philip M. Gollucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, I noticed that 'Debian user community' was listed here. > > Maybe we should start funneling all the mysql related stuff to a single > FreeBSD managed user? > > > -- >

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Eric Crist wrote: > On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:01 PMSep 26, 2007, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > >> Martin McCormick wrote: > > [snip] > >> real memory = 9395240960 (8960 MB) >> avail memory = 8291303424 (7907 MB) >> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs >> cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 >> cp

Re: Keyboard without Scroll Lock

2007-09-26 Thread Harry Matthiesen Jensen
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:22:39AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > > > >just for info, if you happens to buy a keyboard without the Scroll Lock > >key, as I did (Logitech EX110), and are missing this function in consoles, > >I found a solution with re-configuring the keymap (I'm probably not the > >

troubles with ftp access via browser

2007-09-26 Thread Walter
Hi, I've placed some files on a FBSD 6.2 server using the standard ftpd to access them. The content in question is a video clip, but could be anything that I wanted to share with people unknown. I can access the file list with a browser on my internal network - I do this to check that my links

Re: Keyboard without Scroll Lock

2007-09-26 Thread Rob
Bill Campbell wrote: just for info, if you happens to buy a keyboard without the Scroll Lock key, as I did (Logitech EX110), and are missing this function in consoles, A far simpler way is to use xoff/xon, ctrl-s stops things, and ctrl-q restarts. Yeah, but that won't retrieve the stuff that

Re: Keyboard without Scroll Lock

2007-09-26 Thread Duane Hill
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 at 14:44 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: -Rob [don't cc me; I'm subscribed and the reply addy is bogus] Not to take this off topic, so you own invalid.org? -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Tim Kellers
Thanks! I plan on using RAID 5 Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Tim Kellers wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production environment? Hi, I've got 860, 1435, 1600, 1950, 2950 all running

Re: Multiple Instances of OpenVPN

2007-09-26 Thread Darren Spruell
On 9/26/07, Marcos Vinicius Buzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good afternoon. > I would like to know how could I run multiple instances of openvpn > with one startup script for each config file. > I'm running one instance with the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/openvpn script > and another with the command op

Re: troubles with ftp access via browser

2007-09-26 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:27 PMSep 26, 2007, Walter wrote: Hi, I've placed some files on a FBSD 6.2 server using the standard ftpd to access them. The content in question is a video clip, but could be anything that I wanted to share with people unknown. I can access the file list with a browser o

Re: Keyboard without Scroll Lock

2007-09-26 Thread Harry Matthiesen Jensen
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:44:43PM -0400, Rob wrote: >>> just for info, if you happens to buy a keyboard without the Scroll Lock >>> key, as I did (Logitech EX110), and are missing this function in >>> consoles, >> A far simpler way is to use xoff/xon, ctrl-s stops things, and >> ctrl-q restarts.

Re: Keyboard without Scroll Lock

2007-09-26 Thread Rob
Duane Hill wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 at 14:44 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: -Rob [don't cc me; I'm subscribed and the reply addy is bogus] Not to take this off topic, so you own invalid.org? Uhh, no. Seems like I've seen it for years in examples, documentation and whatnot. So

Re: Keyboard without Scroll Lock

2007-09-26 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007, Harry Matthiesen Jensen wrote: >On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:22:39AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: >> > >> >just for info, if you happens to buy a keyboard without the Scroll Lock >> >key, as I did (Logitech EX110), and are missing this function in consoles, >> >I found a solution

Re: Keyboard without Scroll Lock

2007-09-26 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 21:24:24 Rob wrote: > Duane Hill wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 at 14:44 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: > >> -Rob [don't cc me; I'm subscribed and the reply addy is bogus] > > > > Not to take this off topic, so you own invalid.org? > > Uhh, no. Seems like I

Re: Keyboard without Scroll Lock

2007-09-26 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:24:24PM -0400, Rob wrote: > Duane Hill wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 at 14:44 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: >>> -Rob [don't cc me; I'm subscribed and the reply addy is bogus] >> Not to take this off topic, so you own invalid.org? > > Uhh, no. Seems like I've

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Tim Kellers
Thanks to everyone who has replied so far. This is very good information to know! Tim Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Eric Crist wrote: On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:01 PMSep 26, 2007, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Martin McCormick wrote: [snip] real memory = 9395240960 (8960 MB) ava

Dumb IPFW Question

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Yocum
Hi Everyone, Just to explain a bit, I have installed a FreeBSD 6.2 system on a machine to act as a natd router. I turned on the firewall and set the firewall rule script to the one from the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html) (Example Rules

Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Aliya Harbouri
Hi! I'm setting up a jailed server. I'm hoping to eventually use sysutils/ezjail to deaden the pain a bit! First step, have to get the disks partitioned! They're unpacked, at least ;-) I've read lots of comments like, "You should never setup your FreeBSD systems the way Linux or other *nix's

Re: Keyboard without Scroll Lock

2007-09-26 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Bill Campbell wrote: I think that the Scroll Lock key simply toggles this, sending alternate ctrl-s, ctrl-q to stop and start traffic. In a system console, Ctrl-S and -Q work as usual, but Scroll Lock lets you scroll through console history. man syscons | less +/Back\ S

Re: Dumb IPFW Question

2007-09-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 26, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Chris Yocum wrote: [ ... ] I also get "Sep 26 20:09:17 routy kernel: ipfw: 450 Deny UDP :53 :53 out via sis0" in my /var/log/security file. I have appended the ipfw rules below so you can see all the changes that I made from the original. The setup keyword should

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Federico Lorenzi
On 9/26/07, Aliya Harbouri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm setting up a jailed server. I'm hoping to eventually use > sysutils/ezjail to deaden the pain a bit! I gave that a shot once, but I found manual jail configuration to be better. > > First step, have to get the disks partitioned! Th

Re: Dumb IPFW Question

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Yocum
Hi, Yep, it was a blunder by me. Thank you very much! Chris On 9/26/07, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 26, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Chris Yocum wrote: > [ ... ] > > I also get "Sep 26 20:09:17 routy kernel: ipfw: 450 Deny UDP > router outside IP>:53 :53 out via sis0" in my > >

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 15:33:12 Federico Lorenzi wrote: > On 9/26/07, Aliya Harbouri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm setting up a jailed server. I'm hoping to eventually use > > sysutils/ezjail to deaden the pain a bit! > > I gave that a shot once, but I found manual jail con

Stress testing/burning in HDD's

2007-09-26 Thread Don O'Neil
I have an array that has a drive that keeps timing out/failing... So I need to replace it. However, I want to stress test/burn in a replacement disk first. What is the best way to do this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Aliya Harbouri
> > drive 2: > > / 2GB > A bit big, but fine I though so, but with drives this big & cheap ... :-) > > /boot 2GB > Nope, FreeBSD doesn't need / want a /boot I didn't realize :-/ Just to be sure, you DO mean it doesn't want a separate slice/partiti

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 22:20:11 Aliya Harbouri wrote: > Hi! > > I'm setting up a jailed server. I'm hoping to eventually use > sysutils/ezjail to deaden the pain a bit! > > First step, have to get the disks partitioned! They're unpacked, at least > ;-) > > I've read lots of comments like, >

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-26 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/25/07, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used Thinkpads for about 10 years with various Linux systems. > My last one was a Thinkpad 600 which I used continuously from > August 1999 through March 2007 when I got a Mac Powerbook (now if > only I could run OS X on a Thinkpad :-). > > W

Re: Stress testing/burning in HDD's

2007-09-26 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 15:59:25 Don O'Neil wrote: > I have an array that has a drive that keeps timing out/failing... So I need > to replace it. However, I want to stress test/burn in a replacement disk > first. > > What is the best way to do this? > > __

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-26 Thread Emanuel Marufo
Asus is the best for me, in my case Asus A6JC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Software Lojack

2007-09-26 Thread RW
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:34:15 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:56PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > > I know all about various precautions to be taken. > > I also know I could write something. I just wanted > to know if something like that is a

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Federico Lorenzi
On 9/26/07, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 26 September 2007 22:20:11 Aliya Harbouri wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm setting up a jailed server. I'm hoping to eventually use > > sysutils/ezjail to deaden the pain a bit! > > > > First step, have to get the disks partitioned! They're unpack

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:02:09PM -0700, Aliya Harbouri wrote: > > > drive 2: > > > / 2GB > > A bit big, but fine > > I though so, but with drives this big & cheap ... :-) > > > > /boot 2GB > > Nope, FreeBSD doesn't need / want a /boot > > I didn

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Aliya Harbouri
Hi guys! Some great ideas & advice. Thanks a lot :-) > > /boot *needs* to be on /. A loader looks for [bootdisk][bootslice] > > [a]/boot/loader. Ok, gotcha. > > Since you have 2 physical drives, you may want to do 8G on each drive. In > > the > > rare case it's needed, your system is in troubl

Re: courier-imap

2007-09-26 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 18:22:09 Bill Banks wrote: > When I try to login , in my maillog it saids no such file. How do I tell > it to use /etc/passwd > Which file is missing? I recently installed Courier-Imap on FreeBSD and some file was missing but I don't recall which one. Make sure /

Re: http://dev.mysql.com/qualitycontribution.html

2007-09-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Hi All, I noticed that 'Debian user community' was listed here. Maybe we should start funneling all the mysql related stuff to a single FreeBSD managed user? ale@ maintains the ports, so he's the obvious one. Kris ___ fre

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 23:40:26 Aliya Harbouri wrote: > I did not know I COULD split swap. Hum. How does the system > use/allocate each across the split ... Ok, ok. That's what Googling's > for :-) Actually, swapon(8) tells a lot ;) > > > > Unless you're a packrat where logs are concer

Backup Solution

2007-09-26 Thread Terry Sposato
Hello everyone, I am relatively new to the FreeBSD game and have a bit of a problem which I am not sure how to tackle. I recently build a server running VMWare ESX Server 3 which will eventually run 6-7 small production VM's. These Virtual Machines obviously have the need for backups and it pos

PF & NAT, how to forward GRE?

2007-09-26 Thread Paul Fraser
Hello list, I've got a box serving as a router between a wired and wireless network, as well as providing NAT services for a WAN link to the two aforementioned systems. I'd like to forward all incoming GRE traffic on the WAN link to a system on the wired network. Could anyone advise how? I thoug

beta nvidia driver xorg 7.3 is out

2007-09-26 Thread Aryeh Friedman
ftp://download.nvidia.com/freebsd/71.86.01/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-71.86.01.tar.gz It still officially lists itself as being 5-STABLE compatible but commenting out the #ifdefs in the effected files will get around this... I tried it *DID NOT* resolve any of my issues but I at least no longer get a AB

Re: Keyboard without Scroll Lock

2007-09-26 Thread Rob
> No, it's your way of saying STFU let invalid.org deal with it. > Example.com is set-up for this. Use that if you must. My apologies... I did some homework after your post and realized that is a valid domain name (though apparently inactive.) I won't use it. My STFU was self-referential. I

Re: Backup Solution

2007-09-26 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:40:52AM +1000, Terry Sposato wrote: > I will be very grateful for suggestions or ways people have tackled this > kind of problem in a production environment. I'd use a separate machine with a set of cheap SATA disks and connect my tape drives to this machine. Then I wou

Dual Opterons don't see all memory

2007-09-26 Thread Eric Osterweil
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone, I've recently taken ownership of a server (dual Opterons) in my research group. Whereas it was previously running linux, it is now running FreeBSD. Everything seems to be going great, except linux was able to make use of it's 6G

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

2007-09-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Eric Osterweil wrote: make use of it's 6GB of memory, and FreeBSD can only see about 4GB of it. Can anyone help me figure out how to make use of the missing GB? FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 this looks like a 32 bit binary to me. You either need a 64 bit binary

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

2007-09-26 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have the same problem on a intel duo x6850 what options/flags do I need to set in /usr/src/Makefile and/or /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC to make it compile 64 bit not 32? --Aryeh PS I think some of the nvidia issues I have posted might be due to this On 9/27/07, Erich Dollansky <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

2007-09-26 Thread Eric Osterweil
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 26, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Eric Osterweil wrote: make use of it's 6GB of memory, and FreeBSD can only see about 4GB of it. Can anyone help me figure out how to make use of the missing GB? FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: F

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

2007-09-26 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On September 26, 2007 9:06:57 PM -0700 Eric Osterweil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 26, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Eric Osterweil wrote: make use of it's 6GB of memory, and FreeBSD can only see about 4GB of it. Can an

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

2007-09-26 Thread Eric Osterweil
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 26, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On September 26, 2007 9:06:57 PM -0700 Eric Osterweil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 26, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Eric

FreeBSD Tomcat

2007-09-26 Thread Yance Kowara
Hi All, A web and database developer requested me to build atomcat server. Is there any good integrated doco on FreeBSD andTomcat? All I get when I googled it is old docs on JDK 1.3(e.g. http://www.osnews.com/story.php/3558/Deploying-Apache-Tomcat-on-FreeBSD/)and http://www.pl.freebs

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

2007-09-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On September 26, 2007 9:06:57 PM -0700 Eric Osterweil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 26, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Eric Osterweil wrote: make use of it's 6GB of memory, and FreeBSD can only see about 4GB of it. Can anyone help me figure out how

what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-26 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Currently I have done a build/installworld build/install/kernel using a i386 CPUTYPE (w/ SMP and APIC set in the kernel (I am using the default sys/i386/conf/GENERIC) do I need to change this to amd64 for a intel duo e6850? (I have had several seemingly unrelated problems that no one seems to be a

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

2007-09-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Paul Schmehl wrote: >> --On September 26, 2007 9:06:57 PM -0700 Eric Osterweil >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Sep 26, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: >>> Eric Osterweil wrote: > make use of it

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

2007-09-26 Thread Eric Osterweil
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 26, 2007, at 10:35 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Erich Dollansky wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: --On September 26, 2007 9:06:57 PM -0700 Eric Osterweil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 26, 2007,

Re: Dumb IPFW Question

2007-09-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:46:29 +0100 Chris Yocum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to explain a bit, I have installed a FreeBSD 6.2 system on a > machine to act as a natd router. I turned on the firewall and set the > firewall rule script to the one from the handbook > (http://www.freebsd.

Research About FreeSBD

2007-09-26 Thread Sanchez, Danilo
Good Night ! I am working on an Open Source Project and specifically I am researching about Freebsd as a Company. I would like to know more about your current market position , financial performance , etc. Can I find this information in your web page or may be contact somebody in your Organizati

Re: Research About FreeSBD

2007-09-26 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Danilo, Thursday, September 27, 2007, 8:12:59 AM, you wrote: > Good Night ! > I am working on an Open Source Project and specifically I am researching > about Freebsd as a Company. I would like to know more about your current > market position , financial performance , etc. > Can I find t

too late to change to security branch?

2007-09-26 Thread Bill Stwalley
I have servers running 6.1 and 6.2. I use freebsd-update in cron jobs to install binary security update to the base system, and use cvsup/portupgrade in cron jobs to install port updates. By default, cvsup uses CURRENT branch. I am tired of some updates breaking something unnecessarily, and am t