quick question regarding jails.

2008-07-18 Thread Andrew D (Webzone)
Howdy all, Just wondering if a box has 2 Ethernet cards with each card going to a different gateway/network, is it possible to stick a jail on the machine listening on one network interface and routing data out one card/network/gatway while the rest of the system uses the other port and gatew

Re: pkgsrc vs ports

2008-07-18 Thread N. Raghavendra
At 2008-07-18T01:15:10-04:00, Ansar Mohammed wrote: > Is there some definitive comparison between the ports collection and > netbsd's pkgsrc? Perhaps this could be a starter: "FreeBSD and NetBSD's pkgsrc: A strategic synergy for awesomeness", http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007

Re: need help with boot forth

2008-07-18 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > I am setting up a jumpstart server for networked FreeBSD installation > (tftp only). My /tftpboot/boot/loader.rc is rather simple: > > load /boot/kernel > load /boot/acpi.ko > load -t mfs_root /boot/mfsroot > set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" > boot > > It works fi

Time and Date configuration Gnome 2.22.3 FreeBSD 7.0

2008-07-18 Thread Christopher Gregory
Hello Everyone, I am not sure if this is the correct mailing list to post this to, so my appologies in advance if it is not. I am requesting specific information here, so please respect this by NOT doing the following: 1) I do not want to read any me too replies in this thread, as they are point

Re: quick question regarding jails.

2008-07-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Just wondering if a box has 2 Ethernet cards with each card going to a different gateway/network, is it possible to stick a jail on the machine listening on one network interface and routing data out one card/network/gatway while the rest of the system uses the other port and gateway/network.

updating ghostscript-gpl with portupgrade

2008-07-18 Thread Ivaylo Bonev
Hi, I want to update ports and when I try I see this error # portversion -l '<' freetype2 < ghostscript-gpl < # portupgrade -arR ** Makefile possibly broken: print/ghostscript-gpl: "Makefile", line 132: warning: drivers incompatible with WITHOUT_X11 will be rem

Re: pseudoterminals question

2008-07-18 Thread Unga
--- On Fri, 7/18/08, Unga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) As per FAQ, > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html: > "10.19.1 > Build and install a new kernel with the line in the > configuration file: > device pty N > where N is the number of requested pseudoterminals." > O

Re: log size handling

2008-07-18 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Matthew Seaman: Do I have to rotate them myself via a script in crontab? There are several ways to do this. Here's three in addition to the script that someone else just posted: * Use the 'G' option to newsyslog. 'G' says that the filename field of newsyslog.conf actually contain

Re: log size handling

2008-07-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Matthew Seaman: Do I have to rotate them myself via a script in crontab? There are several ways to do this. Here's three in addition to the script that someone else just posted: * Use the 'G' option to newsyslog. 'G' says that the filename field of newsys

Re: log size handling

2008-07-18 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Matthew Seaman: Correct. Although you may want to add '30' as the 8th field -- that means 'send signal 30 (SIGUSR1) to apache instead of SIGHUP' -- SIGUSR1 causes apache to do a graceful restart rather than abruptly killing and restarting everything: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/sto

Re: pkgsrc vs ports

2008-07-18 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 09:38 18/07/2008, you wrote: At 2008-07-18T01:15:10-04:00, Ansar Mohammed wrote: > Is there some definitive comparison between the ports collection and > netbsd's pkgsrc? Perhaps this could be a starter: "FreeBSD and NetBSD's pkgsrc: A strategic synergy for awesomeness", http://lists.freebs

Re: log size handling

2008-07-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Matthew Seaman: Correct. Although you may want to add '30' as the 8th field -- that means 'send signal 30 (SIGUSR1) to apache instead of SIGHUP' -- SIGUSR1 causes apache to do a graceful restart rather than abruptly killing and restarting everything: http://h

Re: pkgsrc vs ports

2008-07-18 Thread N. Raghavendra
At 2008-07-18T13:41:08+02:00, Eduardo Morras wrote: > Ejem, it's the 1st April joke > >>Enjoy, >>Raghavendra. Indeed :-) I thought it could be enjoyed even now. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri

freebsd library loading question

2008-07-18 Thread Jim
I'm hoping this is the right place to ask: I'm working on something in FreeBSD 7.0 (i386) and GCC: I'm getting the following error when executing a program: dlerror -> Invalid shared object handle 0x0 the full context is: DEBUG: ../include/ctypeless_dyn_unix.h(00310) ->Loading library

disk encryption; hidden containers

2008-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
My preliminary searches on the subject suggest that neither GBDE nor GELI encryption offers hidden volume/container capabilities. Are there any plans for implementing this in the future? What disk encryption softoware would you recommend for use with FreeBSD to provide hidden containers? -- Cha

Re: USB pen drive quirk not working

2008-07-18 Thread Chris Whitehouse
David Gurvich wrote: I'm sure someone else knows better, but there is a Makefile in /usr/src/sys. Perhaps it's enough to 'make cam' there. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

> Subject: resizing partiton on FBSD-7.0 amd64

2008-07-18 Thread Darko Gavrilovic
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:52:45 -0300 > From: luizbcampos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: resizing partiton on FBSD-7.0 amd64 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I used all my disk with FBSD and now I need to lower the >partition with no data loss.

Sendmail rulesets [OFFTOPIC]

2008-07-18 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, Someone can tell me where can I find a dedicated book or material of sendmail's rulesets? Thanks in advance, Efren. ¿No te gusta tu dirección de correo? Consigue una que te guste de verdad - millones de direcciones de correo disponibles en Yahoo! http://es.docs.yahoo.com/mail/nuev

Re: disk encryption; hidden containers

2008-07-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
softoware would you recommend for use with FreeBSD to provide hidden containers? could you please explain what "hidden container" is? AFAIK geli do exactly that - hidden partition, unless you know to run geli and what is the password ___ freebsd-ques

"Invalid credentials" errors using pam_ldap on FreeBSD

2008-07-18 Thread Stephen Allen
Hello, I'm pretty sure I've done all the necessary steps to be able to ssh to my FreeBSD box using pam_ldap, but I'm getting "Invalid credentials" errors whenever I try (I can successfully perform an ldapsearch operation though). Here are snippets from my config: [/etc/nsswitch.conf]

Re: disk encryption; hidden containers

2008-07-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:56:24 -0600 Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My preliminary searches on the subject suggest that neither GBDE nor > GELI encryption offers hidden volume/container capabilities. Are you talking about steganography? ___ fr

Re: Sendmail rulesets [OFFTOPIC]

2008-07-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hola, Efren-- On Jul 18, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Efren Bravo wrote: Someone can tell me where can I find a dedicated book or material of sendmail's rulesets? http://www.sendmail.org/documentation/books The O'Reily _sendmail_ book is the most comprehensive about writing and debugging rulesets,

Re: quick question regarding jails.

2008-07-18 Thread David Allen
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Just wondering if a box has 2 Ethernet cards with each card going to a >> different gateway/network, is it possible to stick a jail on the machine >> listening on one network interface and routing data out one >> card

Re: Sendmail rulesets [OFFTOPIC]

2008-07-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 01:18:53PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hola, Efren-- > > On Jul 18, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Efren Bravo wrote: > > Someone can tell me where can I find a dedicated book or material of > > sendmail's rulesets? > >http://www.sendmail.org/documentation/books > > The O'Reil

FTP build of FreeBSD release 7 amd64 hangs

2008-07-18 Thread Desmond Chapman
It stops in docs and refuses to build. I'm behind a router. This error has occured six times in the past twelve hours. Any idea of what may be causing it? _ With Windows Live for mobile, your contacts travel with you. http://www.windo

Re: disk encryption; hidden containers

2008-07-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:06:57 +0100 RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:56:24 -0600 > Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My preliminary searches on the subject suggest that neither GBDE nor > > GELI encryption offers hidden volume/container capabilities. > > Are you

dump and restore

2008-07-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Hi all, My harddisk was failing and I wanted the data copied to another disk, but since my original wouldn't boot, I installed a minimal FreeBSD on the new disk, mounted the old partitions under /mnt and copied from the original to the new partitions by using: dump 0af - /dev/ad2s1[adef] | r

Re: FTP build of FreeBSD release 7 amd64 hangs

2008-07-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
Desmond Chapman wrote: It stops in docs and refuses to build. I'm behind a router. This error has occured six times in the past twelve hours. Any idea of what may be causing it? No, sorry. Could be anything. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: dump and restore

2008-07-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:21:26PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: > Hi all, > > My harddisk was failing and I wanted the data copied to another disk, > but since my original wouldn't boot, I installed a minimal FreeBSD on > the new disk, mounted the old partitions under /mnt and copied from the >

Re: USB pen drive quirk not working

2008-07-18 Thread David Gurvich
You need to remove the directory under /usr/obj that matches your source. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: dump and restore

2008-07-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
since my original wouldn't boot, I installed a minimal FreeBSD on the new disk, mounted the old partitions under /mnt and copied from the original to the new partitions by using: dump 0af - /dev/ad2s1[adef] | restore xf - (the partitions adef where done one by one) The /usr/ partition was 74G

Re: disk encryption; hidden containers

2008-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:01:54PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:06:57 +0100 > RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:56:24 -0600 > > Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > My preliminary searches on the subject suggest that neither GBDE nor > > > GELI en

Re: disk encryption; hidden containers

2008-07-18 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad Perrin wrote: | On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:01:54PM +0100, RW wrote: |> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:06:57 +0100 |> RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> |>> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:56:24 -0600 |>> Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>> |>>> My preliminar

Re: disk encryption; hidden containers

2008-07-18 Thread Duane Hill
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad Perrin wrote: | On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:01:54PM +0100, RW wrote: |> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:06:57 +0100 |> RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> |>> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:56:24 -0600 |>> Chad Perrin <[EMAIL

To Kris Kennaway and others::FreeBSD hangs on install; kernel crashes, machine freezes

2008-07-18 Thread Desmond Chapman
lock order reversal (sleepable after nonsleepable) 1st 0xfffe62dce040 bufwait (bufwait) @ /usr/src/sys/kern/ufs trap 0, rip = 0, rsp = 0xfffe4000dd30, rbp = 0 --- (About this time the machine hangs and is unresponsive) Stacj trace goes through the file systems before the above eror I have

Re: "Invalid credentials" errors using pam_ldap on FreeBSD

2008-07-18 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Quoting "Stephen Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I'm pretty sure I've done all the necessary steps to be able to ssh to my FreeBSD box using pam_ldap, but I'm getting "Invalid credentials" errors whenever I try (I can successfully perform an ldapsearch operation though). Here are sni

Re: To Kris Kennaway and others::FreeBSD hangs on install; kernel crashes, machine freezes

2008-07-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
Desmond Chapman wrote: lock order reversal (sleepable after nonsleepable) 1st 0xfffe62dce040 bufwait (bufwait) @ /usr/src/sys/kern/ufs trap 0, rip = 0, rsp = 0xfffe4000dd30, rbp = 0 --- (About this time the machine hangs and is unresponsive) Stacj trace goes through the file systems befor

Re: To Kris Kennaway and others::FreeBSD hangs on install; kernel crashes, machine freezes

2008-07-18 Thread Chris
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:25:31 + Desmond Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > lock order reversal (sleepable after nonsleepable) > 1st 0xfffe62dce040 bufwait (bufwait) @ /usr/src/sys/kern/ufs > trap 0, rip = 0, rsp = 0xfffe4000dd30, rbp = 0 --- > (About this time the machine hangs and

Video Card Info

2008-07-18 Thread Warren Liddell
im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card an was wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within FreeBSD with this particular video card ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Video Card Info

2008-07-18 Thread Robert Huff
Warren Liddell writes: > im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card > an was wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within > FreeBSD with this particular video card ? To the best of my knowledge is it hardware-copatible with the base system. H

Re: Video Card Info

2008-07-18 Thread George Hartzell
Warren Liddell writes: > im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card an was > wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within FreeBSD with this > particular video card ? I use an Nvidia 8800GT in a Mac Pro running -STABLE with the xf86-video-nv-2.1.8 driver fro

Re: dump and restore

2008-07-18 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:51 am, Peter Boosten wrote: > Hi all, > > My harddisk was failing and I wanted the data copied to > another disk, but since my original wouldn't boot, I installed > a minimal FreeBSD on the new disk, mounted the old partitions > under /mnt and copied from the original to the

freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2008-07-18 Thread Desmond Chapman
[This is all that I was able to write down]Debug message screen output: DEBUG: deviceTry: attempting to open /dev/cuad0 deviceTry: open of /dev/cuad1 failed [This pattern follows to number 15 for both messages. I am going to assume zero here because of the way the items are listed in grub from 0

Re: Problem in checking machine architecture

2008-07-18 Thread Tim Judd
Eitan Shefi wrote: I have a host with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (64 bit) installed. How do I check the host's architecture ? When I run: "uname -m" the output is: "amd64" When I run: "sysctl -a | less" and search for: "CPU" I see that: "hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU5140 @ 2.33GHz ..

Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2

2008-07-18 Thread Tim Judd
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Mark Boolootian wrote: Hi folks, I've done a couple of fresh installs on 7.0-RELEASE today, and subsequently run freebsd-update. freebsd-update reports: The following files will be updated as part of updating to 7.0-RELEASE-p3: /boot/kernel/kernel /boot/kernel/k

Re: dump and restore

2008-07-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:51 am, Peter Boosten wrote: The /usr/ partition was 74Gb, and it took (according to dump 52631 seconds (~ 14.5 hours) to copy. Both disks are IDE, in the same machine on different IDE controllers. The time for dump/restore normally depends more on the