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

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 9/29/07, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:03:05 + Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have more then 4gb and was wondering why it didn't all show up is there anyway to do a in place upgrade (I have a lot of user data)... also someone should think about

Re: Viewing jpegs with Mutt

2007-09-30 Thread Harry Matthiesen Jensen
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:45:34PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: Is it possible to view jpegs inline using the Mutt MUA? If so, I would appreciate being directed to a site that would have that information. To your .mailcap file, add: # This maps all types of images (image/gif, image/jpeg,

Re: too late to change to security branch?

2007-09-30 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hi Bill! 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. The ports system doesn't have any branches. The same

Re: too late to change to security branch?

2007-09-30 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
I run freebsd-update and my cvsup configuration uses *default release=cvs tag=.. I am actually following security branch, since I do not recompile the kernel, right? This cvs tag only matters if I compile the kernel, right? If you are using freebsd-update then you are following the security

Re: Enlighten me nt Please

2007-09-30 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
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? You can install enlightenment from ''x11-wm/enlightenment'' or

Re: How to restart a freezed tty?

2007-09-30 Thread Bahman M.
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:09:40 -0400 Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 13:16 +0330, Bahman M. wrote: Hi all, For some reason all the ttys are frozen up; I can switch between X and them back and forth but not between the ttys themselves using ALT+Fn.

oops (was Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64))

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
well the procedure *ALMOST* worked turns out that sysinstall clobbers any unmodified bsdlabels (bug?) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

(amd64) kernel reconizes sound card but no dev nodes are made

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
My kernel reconizes my sound card: monster# kldload snd_hda monster# kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 12 0x8010 b2b1d0 kernel 21 0x80c2c000 9dc0 linprocfs.ko 32 0x80c36000 3a060linux.ko 41 0xb11ac000 e3de

the continuing adventures of nvidia vs. xord 7.3

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Normally I wouldn't mention this this may point to a deeper set of bugs in xorg/nv/nvidia/freebsd 7-current. Where things stood: 1. I had xorg 7.3 on freebsd 7-current (i386) 2. It did not reconize any nvidia card in anyway shape or form (nv, nvidia (even he latest beta's posted on 9/26), etc.)

Re: Viewing jpegs with Mutt

2007-09-30 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:03:37AM +0200, Harry Matthiesen Jensen wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:45:34PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: Is it possible to view jpegs inline using the Mutt MUA? If so, I would appreciate being directed to a site that would have that information. To your

Re: How to restart a freezed tty?

2007-09-30 Thread Bahman M.
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:09:40 -0400 Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 13:16 +0330, Bahman M. wrote: Hi all, For some reason all the ttys are frozen up; I can switch between X and them back and forth but not between the ttys themselves using ALT+Fn. Can

Re: Security report question

2007-09-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Kurt Buff wrote: [ ... ] +Limiting closed port RST response from 283 to 200 packets/sec I don't know what this means, though I suspect it could mean that I'm being port scanned. Is this a reasonable guess? Yes. It could also be something beating really hard on a single closed port, too. --

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread Bruce Cran
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: To set time: $ sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org 29 Sep 23:48:31 ntpdate[9404]: adjust time server 66.250.45.2 offset 0.001289 sec ntpdate is deprecated, you should use ntpd -q instead if you want ntpd to set the time once then exit. From ntpdate(8): Note: The

pci serial card issues

2007-09-30 Thread chris.scott
Hi i'm running freebsd stable (last build 28th) and am having a few issues with 2 pci serial cards. Basically I'm trying to build a serial server. However the driver doesn't seem to work correctly. Sep 28 22:18:56 boxster puc0: NetMos NM9845 Hex UART port

Forcing buffer cache to use available memory

2007-09-30 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, Is there a way to force the buffer cache to be more aggressive when caching reads? Or even just plain force a certain number of megabytes to be dedicated to the buffer cache? -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail

Re: Portupgrading cups-base gives compiler error

2007-09-30 Thread Don Read
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:06:37 + Aryeh Friedman said: When will this be in cvsup? --Aryeh About 30 hours ago. localhost.root# ls -l /var/log/cvsup.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 41979 Sep 29 03:19 /var/log/cvsup.log localhost.root# grep cups-base /var/log/cvsup.log Edit

Re: newby needing help

2007-09-30 Thread neal
Hi Roland, thanks for the guidance, you've helped me sort out some confusions too. I shall try later this afternoon to mount my /home ext3 partition, after having another attempt to understand the man page for this command. anyway, your help has been useful and is greatly appreciated.

cups-base fails to compile

2007-09-30 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm running FreeBSD 6-stable and I just updated the ports tree using cvsup and the portupgrade tools, but now I get this error when I try to build cups-base: cc -Wshadow -Wunused -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -fPIC -Os -g -I.. -I/usr/local/include -O -pipe -march=pentium4 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE

Re: Adding CR/LF

2007-09-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-28 18:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this should be easy, but I cannot get it to work right. Basically, I have a list of items, and I need to place each one on a separate line. Here is the script I am using. #!/bin/sh FILENAMES=test1 test2 test3 FILELIST= for filename in

Re: cups-base fails to compile

2007-09-30 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Pablo Mora wrote: On 9/30/07, E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6-stable and I just updated the ports tree using cvsup and the portupgrade tools, but now I get this error when I try to build cups-base: cc -Wshadow -Wunused -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -fPIC -Os -g -I..

Re: Forcing buffer cache to use available memory

2007-09-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Peter Schuller wrote: Is there a way to force the buffer cache to be more aggressive when caching reads? Or even just plain force a certain number of megabytes to be dedicated to the buffer cache? You want to adjust the vfs.read_max sysctl, I believe, or the vfs.maxbufspace for your second

Re: Adding CR/LF

2007-09-30 Thread Ray
On Sunday 30 September 2007 9:04:40 am Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-09-28 18:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this should be easy, but I cannot get it to work right. Basically, I have a list of items, and I need to place each one on a separate line. Here is the script I am using.

Re: Security report question

2007-09-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On 9/30/07, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: [ ... ] +Limiting closed port RST response from 283 to 200 packets/sec I don't know what this means, though I suspect it could mean that I'm being port scanned. Is this a reasonable guess? Yes. It could also be

Re: 7.0-CURRENT Ports Collection?

2007-09-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-29 20:15, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: Are you attempting to download ports on 6.2 before you move to 7 or on 7? If the and your on a SMP (dual core don't know about physically seperate) there are

Re: oops (was Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64))

2007-09-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-30 07:24, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well the procedure *ALMOST* worked turns out that sysinstall clobbers any unmodified bsdlabels (bug?) Which 'procedure' would that be? You haven't quoted anything from the previous messages, and your mailer hasn't included an

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

2007-09-30 Thread RW
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:55:15 + Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second of all in many peoples minds (including mine) we are used to there being subtle diffs between AMD and intel for the same class of processor thus would naturally think if it was lableb amd64 it is for Advanced

Re: Forcing buffer cache to use available memory

2007-09-30 Thread Peter Schuller
You want to adjust the vfs.read_max sysctl, I believe, or the vfs.maxbufspace for your second question. sysctl -d vfs is likely to be informative Thanks! That looks like what I'm after. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval:

keep track of a text file

2007-09-30 Thread Jeff Laine
Hi to all. --- I'm using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p17 Just wonder about one catch: is it possible to keep track of any text file's contents in a real time? For example, I open ttyv1 and via some magic command :) I get my file's contents updating in real time if any modifications

Re: keep track of a text file

2007-09-30 Thread N.J. Mann
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Laine wrote: Just wonder about one catch: is it possible to keep track of any text file's contents in a real time? For example, I open ttyv1 and via some magic command :) I get my file's contents updating in real time if any modifications occured. Any

Re: keep track of a text file

2007-09-30 Thread Jeff Laine
On 30/09/2007, N.J. Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Laine wrote: Just wonder about one catch: is it possible to keep track of any text file's contents in a real time? For example, I open ttyv1 and via some magic command :) I get my file's contents

Re: 6.2 amd64 ufs_dirbad

2007-09-30 Thread Eric Osterweil
On Sep 29, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Can you post your dmesg(8) from /var/run/dmesg(8) so that we can see your SATA controller information? Can you try loading /usr/obj and /usr/src onto an alternate disk to see if the problem is controller/HBA/sata cable/disk related?

best spam filter port(s) for postfix?

2007-09-30 Thread Joe in MPLS
I'm running 6.2-STABLE with postfix with cyrus-sasl, imap-uw horde for mail. I'd like to stop depending on clients(Thunderbird PDAs) for primary spam control (especially because our PDAs don't do any). AV scanning would be a plus too. ...jgm

Re: best spam filter port(s) for postfix?

2007-09-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:20 PM 9/30/2007, Joe in MPLS wrote: I'm running 6.2-STABLE with postfix with cyrus-sasl, imap-uw horde for mail. I'd like to stop depending on clients(Thunderbird PDAs) for primary spam control (especially because our PDAs don't do any). AV scanning would be a plus too.

Re: best spam filter port(s) for postfix?

2007-09-30 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 30 September 2007 20:28:23 Derek Ragona wrote: At 03:20 PM 9/30/2007, Joe in MPLS wrote: I'm running 6.2-STABLE with postfix with cyrus-sasl, imap-uw horde for mail. I'd like to stop depending on clients(Thunderbird PDAs) for primary spam control (especially because our PDAs don't

Re: best spam filter port(s) for postfix?

2007-09-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 03:20:58PM -0500, Joe in MPLS wrote: I'm running 6.2-STABLE with postfix with cyrus-sasl, imap-uw horde for mail. I'd like to stop depending on clients(Thunderbird PDAs) for primary spam control (especially because our PDAs don't do any). AV scanning would be a

Re: 7.0-CURRENT Ports Collection?

2007-09-30 Thread NetOpsCenter
James Jeffery wrote: Does 7.0 come with a disk for the Ports Collection or would they have to be downloaded from the internet? Im having trouble getting packages from the web, lots of errors when i try to install them. Everything seems dependant on everything else. Once i get the SSH to work

Configuring FBSD to use HP Photosmart C6180

2007-09-30 Thread White Hat
I just purchased a HP Photosmart C6180 All-in-One printer. It is connected to my network via a wireless network. The FBSD PC is hardwired to the router. The printer works flawlessly from the WinXP machines on the network. I installed the 'hplip' port without any difficulties. I tried snmpwalk and

php failing to produce phpinfo()

2007-09-30 Thread bob
My business has been using PHP for years. Mysql outputs to my browser, where I can print invoices, bills and any business statitic. Suddenly, my browser started acting funny. I don't know how to use the repair disk to fix a problem, so I reinstalled FreeBSD-6.1. It still works the same

Re: Configuring FBSD to use HP Photosmart C6180

2007-09-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 02:12:55PM -0700, White Hat wrote: I just purchased a HP Photosmart C6180 All-in-One printer. It is connected to my network via a wireless network. The FBSD PC is hardwired to the router. The printer works flawlessly from the WinXP machines on the network. I

Re: best spam filter port(s) for postfix?

2007-09-30 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 30 September 2007 21:03:06 Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 03:20:58PM -0500, Joe in MPLS wrote: I'm running 6.2-STABLE with postfix with cyrus-sasl, imap-uw horde for mail. I'd like to stop depending on clients(Thunderbird PDAs) for primary spam control (especially

Re: php failing to produce phpinfo()

2007-09-30 Thread eoghan
bob wrote: My business has been using PHP for years. Mysql outputs to my browser, where I can print invoices, bills and any business statitic. Suddenly, my browser started acting funny. I don't know how to use the repair disk to fix a problem, so I reinstalled FreeBSD-6.1. It still works

Re: php failing to produce phpinfo()

2007-09-30 Thread Miguel Segura
bob wrote: My business has been using PHP for years. Mysql outputs to my browser, where I can print invoices, bills and any business statitic. Suddenly, my browser started acting funny. I don't know how to use the repair disk to fix a problem, so I reinstalled FreeBSD-6.1. It still works

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread jekillen
On Sep 29, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: To set time: $ sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org 29 Sep 23:48:31 ntpdate[9404]: adjust time server 66.250.45.2 offset 0.001289 sec To date info about your timezone settings: $ zdump /etc/localtime /etc/localtime Sat Sep 29 23:49:19

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread jekillen
On Sep 30, 2007, at 12:48 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: Brian A. Seklecki wrote: To set time: $ sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org 29 Sep 23:48:31 ntpdate[9404]: adjust time server 66.250.45.2 offset 0.001289 sec ntpdate is deprecated, you should use ntpd -q instead if you want ntpd to set the

Re: Adding CR/LF

2007-09-30 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:09:52PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The output I would like to see is: test1 test2 test3 String manipulation in sh is painful at best. Any of the scripting languages are better at this. A Ruby example, almost a

Mutt Help

2007-09-30 Thread Rem P Roberti
Hi All...I am a newbie using Mutt, and I have Fetchmail running as daemon. Fetchmail is doing its job, periodically retreiving my pop3 mail, but I am so far unable to find the correct entry for the .muttrc file which will result in Mutt automatically retrieving mail from fetchmail. Any help

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread RW
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:17:30 -0700 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 30, 2007, at 12:48 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: ntpdate is deprecated, you should use ntpd -q instead if you want ntpd to set the time once then exit. From ntpdate(8): Note: The functionality of this program is now

Re: Mutt Help

2007-09-30 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 05:54:37PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: Hi All...I am a newbie using Mutt, and I have Fetchmail running as daemon. Fetchmail is doing its job, periodically retreiving my pop3 mail, but I am so far unable to find the correct entry for the .muttrc file which will

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread jekillen
On Sep 30, 2007, at 6:13 PM, RW wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:17:30 -0700 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 30, 2007, at 12:48 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: ntpdate is deprecated, you should use ntpd -q instead if you want ntpd to set the time once then exit. From ntpdate(8): Note: The

Re: Security report question

2007-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:41:00 -0700 Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/30/07, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: [ ... ] +Limiting closed port RST response from 283 to 200 packets/sec I don't know what this means, though I suspect it could mean that I'm

hpiod (hplip version) dies immediatly on freebsd

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
uname -a FreeBSD monsert 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Sep 30 20:57:46 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 monsert# hpiod can't open or create : m io/hpiod/hpiod.cpp 195 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

X on ThinkPad crashes after sleeping (zzz'ing)

2007-09-30 Thread C Thala
Hardware: IBM ThinkPad T41 OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 My laptop recently started exhibiting very weird behavior. Sleeping still works fine, but when I bring it back from sleep, X Windows seems to have crashed. Whatever is on the screen (fvwm, xscreensaver, etc.) will still be there, but there is

Re: php failing to produce phpinfo()

2007-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:52:58 -0600 bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My business has been using PHP for years. Mysql outputs to my browser, where I can print invoices, bills and any business statitic. Suddenly, my browser started acting funny. I don't know how to use the repair disk to

Re: X on ThinkPad crashes after sleeping (zzz'ing)

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
If this has always been true then it is a known issue (happens on both desktops [p4 w/ 6.2 and dual-core w/ 7-current amd64] I have also) On 10/1/07, C Thala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hardware: IBM ThinkPad T41 OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 My laptop recently started exhibiting very weird

Re: Stress testing/burning in HDDs

2007-09-30 Thread Thodoris
O/H 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

Upgrade to imap-uw 2006j Breaks Logins

2007-09-30 Thread Tim Daneliuk
As part of a portupgrade, one of my servers just picked up the latest version of imap-uw (2006j). Now users can no longer login as imapd claims they are providing incorrect passwords. I manually copied the version I was using (2004g) to /usr/local/libexec/imapd, and all is well, so it is

/etc/fstab

2007-09-30 Thread Kuselan Sugumaran
Hi, What is the range of values in 5th and 6th column in /etc/fstab? What is the meaning for each value? I¡¯ve gone through man pages and lot of books. I couldn¡¯t get the answer. Can you help me? Thanks. - Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha!

Re: best spam filter port(s) for postfix?

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Hepworth
Mailscanner and postfix is perfect combination...no problems with the correct installation type. http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:mta:postfix:politics -- Martin On 9/30/07, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 September 2007 20:28:23 Derek Ragona

Re: /etc/fstab

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Sun 30 Sep 2007 19:09, Kuselan Sugumaran wrote: Hi, What is the range of values in 5th and 6th column in /etc/fstab? What is the meaning for each value? I��ve gone through man pages and lot of books. I couldn��t get the answer. Can you help me? Thanks. 0 - Do nothing 1

Re: Upgrade to imap-uw 2006j Breaks Logins

2007-09-30 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 23:50 -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: As part of a portupgrade, one of my servers just picked up the latest version of imap-uw (2006j). Now users can no longer login as imapd claims they are providing incorrect passwords. I manually copied the version I was using (2004g)