Re: watchdog question.

2006-08-01 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- Efren Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've a freeBSD box and I've been seeing this message for several months: sis0 watchdog timeout. The box has two ethernet cards, sis0 (100mb) and vr0 (10mb). The messages isn't frequent but yesterday it got my attention. What

Re: Cheap terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-07 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- Nagy L�szl� Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees) will use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim. This site will be a

Re: Need help! Apache core dumps when running startssl

2006-08-08 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- Andreas Wider�e Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded one of my production servers to FreeBSD 4.11 p19 and then upgraded all ports. I'm now running Apache 1.3.36 mod_ssl and Php 4.4.2 . I had Squirrelmail running on https and now I can't start Apache with

Re: Need help! Apache core dumps when running startssl

2006-08-08 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- Andreas Wider�e Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/8/06, Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Andreas Wider�e Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded one of my production servers to FreeBSD 4.11 p19 and then upgraded all

Booting more than 4 OSes from a hard disk?

2006-08-08 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear all, I was wondering if the 4 primary parition booting limit still exists. Is it possible to have Windoze Linux FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD on the same box in such a way that we can boot into any of them? I am particularly interested in the x86 arch with IDE disks. I think this is possible on

Re: Playing Audio CDs

2006-08-10 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to BSD and have mplayer installed (Gmplayer) and I do not see the option to play an Audio CD, only CDs, files and DVDs. How do I get Audio CD's to play? Can they be mounted, if so how? Is there any specific audio alone CD player (GUI

Re: Bad system clock

2006-08-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- P.U.Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, for some time now my system clock really goes wrong (some hours per day). Is there some simple way to find out if this is caused by a hardware or software problem? By simple I mean without installing a different OS or buying a new

Re: Bad system clock

2006-08-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- P.U.Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Hello Girish! --- P.U.Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, for some time now my system clock really goes wrong (some hours per day). Is there some simple way to find out

Re: Improving Quake 3 frame rates in BSD

2006-08-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I managed to install Quake 3 but the frame rates and the mouse response is terrible. I am running the game on an intel integrated system 945g. While I know that this is not great for gamin, quake 3 is quite a old game and hence gives me pretty

Re: HP Deskjet 720C ...

2006-08-13 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot for the life of me get FreeBSD 6.1 to work with my HP Dekjet 720C printer. I've tried following the directions as given in the FreeBSD Handbook, but to no avail. Can anyone help me and/or offer tips where I can look? Did you try

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD 6.0? I'm looking for comments from people who may have done this. Sorry if I am side tracking but why bother about vmware when qemu can do a much better job? Please feel free to flame me if vmware can do

Re: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 cpu

2006-08-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- Johan Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to buy a pc from deltatronic.de with Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 cpu and mainbord Asus P5W. My boss says ok, if I can run FreeBSD on it. Can I? You have a good boss.:-) My boss used to make fun of me, What on earth are you running? Why

Accessing device files over the network

2006-08-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hi, I want to make a USB flash stick. But I have USB ports only on my linux box. Whereas I would have to run bsdlabel from my FreeBSD box connected over the Ethernet. Any way out for me? :-) TIA for your patience. regards, Girish __ Do You

Re: Accessing device files over the network

2006-08-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Grrr..Sorry for the faux pas! I want to make a USB flash stick bootable with FreeBSD on it! --- Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to make a USB flash stick. But I have USB ports only on my linux box. Whereas I would have to run bsdlabel from my FreeBSD box

Re: Accessing device files over the network

2006-08-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to make a USB flash stick. But I have USB ports only on my linux box. Whereas I would have to run bsdlabel from my FreeBSD box connected over the Ethernet. Any way out for me

Re: compress films

2006-08-25 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 8/25/06, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi BSDers, I am running freebsd 6.1/amd64. I sometimes download films and they are quite large, like 1.4GB or something. I want to make it smaller by using mencoder, the script I use is as such: mencoder ddd.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-26 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 8/27/06, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE audio mp3 files into much much smaller files? Say taking man mp3 files that are stored at 198k high fidelity and outputting these to 16k or 32k mp3

Re: User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-08-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 8/27/06, Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf 3) Created a

Making simple colorful block diagrams for presentations

2006-09-16 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
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, that is all. Please don't suggest openoffice or kde. I want something simple. Thanks. regards, Girish -- Whenever

Re: minimum requirements

2006-09-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:48:26AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: I don't know what the current absolute minimum to run values would be. So recommended minimums would be somewhat subjective and depend on the intended use of the machine and the number of ports and user accounts you might put

Re: sshd stalling upon login

2006-10-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:31:30PM -0700, Noah wrote: Wayne wrote: Noah wrote: I put that in there and that did not work. there is still a stall. any other clues? Are you running sshd by it self or trying to start it from inetd? sshd is run on its own without inetd. in fact I think

FreeBSD OpenSSL broken

2006-10-08 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hi, I have been seeing scp xfers failing mysteriously with a Corrupted MAC on input error. This occurred more or less sporadically but for huge files it was sure to occur. I suspected the ethernet card and got it changed. Next, I suspected RAM since I used to get failed

Re: Openssl 0.9.8c woes

2006-10-13 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 06:33:38PM +, Mark wrote: What is up with openssl 0.9.8c? Or rather, with me installing it. :) I compiled it, installed it, and everything went seemingly well.. until I used it: (recompiled) httpd core dumps the moment it tries and load a certificate; same with

Re: Openssl 0.9.8c woes

2006-10-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
I keep using my old certs, btw (the ones I paid good money for). Geez, I really hope I don't need to upgrade those. Still, that's no reason for Apache to core dump, right? Anyway, I appreciate your input. STFA Apache and ssh will go mad if the openssl symbols dont resolve... You don't have

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:35:13AM -0400, Andy Harrison wrote: On 10/15/06, William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back. Ah well, you have to experience it. No amount of convincing

Re: ' Openssl.cnf ' and ' .rand ' file

2007-11-10 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 11:22:10 Nov 10, White Hat wrote: openssl 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004 I have not been able to find an answer to this question on Google, so I figured I had better ask it here. In the '/etc/ssl/openssl.cnf' file, there is an entry for: RANDFILE= $dir/private/.rand# private

Re: Quick question about PF and ALTQ

2007-11-11 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 14:03:29 Nov 11, Peter Boosten wrote: Hi all, One quick question: is it possible to filter specific kinds of traffic with altq, traffic that is not bound to specific IP addresses, like online radio? Yes. Not altq(It is for QoS). But pf can of course. :) localip = www.shoutcast.com

Re: Quick question about PF and ALTQ

2007-11-11 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 18:49:37 Nov 11, Peter Boosten wrote: Thanks for your answer, although that's not quite what I'm looking for: Okay. Find my answer below. I know it's possible to 'shape' the traffic with altq, so it's possible in theory to shape certain kind of traffic to almost nihil. Smart devices

Re: Quick question about PF and ALTQ

2007-11-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 10:17:52 Nov 12, Peter Boosten wrote: Yu, it does. Very nice explanation, thanx. NP. Thanks. Well, it's actually quite simple: our internet access line, which is used by several people (directly, without a proxy server, but with a FreeBSD firewall). Our management wants to block

Re: Quick question about PF and ALTQ

2007-11-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 14:03:29 Nov 11, Peter Boosten wrote: Hi all, One quick question: is it possible to filter specific kinds of traffic with altq, traffic that is not bound to specific IP addresses, like online radio? Looks like I finally understood what you want. You want to block the protocol from/to

Re: PF, bridge, states and window scaling problem

2007-11-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:08:03 Nov 12, Alupului Costin wrote: I seem to have quite a problem with PF. I have set up a bridge to shape my upstream traffic. I use ALTQ with hfsc discipline; but that's not really important. My problem comes with the filter rules. I have to use keep state because of the speed

Re: PF, bridge, states and window scaling problem

2007-11-13 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 23:42:20 Nov 12, Erik Osterholm wrote: My understanding (and please correct me if I'm wrong) is that keeping state requires fragmented packet reassembly, which can break some applications. You mean that you cannot support broken applications if you do reassembly? Packet reassembly

Re: PF, bridge, states and window scaling problem

2007-11-13 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 18:57:34 Nov 13, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: I just read the post you linked. Thanks. :) I read the post once again and it looks as though I understood what is mentioned there. The 'no-df' in scrub rule clears the Don't fragment bit in the IP header. When a host wrongly sends fragmented

Re: PF, bridge, states and window scaling problem

2007-11-13 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 15:53:38 Nov 13, Alupului Costin wrote: When that client tries logging in to Yahoo Messenger I can see an increase in the number of state-mismatch reported by pfctl -si. There are states established, but after a while the packets simply do not match the states created. Also they will not

Re: master-backup CARP issue

2007-11-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 09:50:51 Nov 14, Eugene wrote: Hello freebsd, We have two FreeBSD boxes, each one has 4 CARP interfaces in preempt mode, without arp balancing. Backup without any reason preempts Master and after a while (an hour or two) it becomes Backup again. When Backup becomes Master on Master

Re: master-backup CARP issue

2007-11-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 15:23:49 Nov 14, Eugene wrote: No, actually i haven't tried to play with advskew and advbase parameters, and I'll give it a try, thanks. I'll report results if it helps. Yes, NIC's seemed to be reliable. If I should try a different NIC then which one should I switch, all 4? I dunno

Re: bash and strings

2007-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 03:43:24 Nov 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone, I'm sure this is easy, and I am making it harder than it is. I am being supplied a list of files, and need to create the files and directories to hold them, but I cannot figure out how to take the string apart. For example, I am

Re: bash and strings

2007-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 21:18:47 Nov 15, Garrett Cooper wrote: A better way would be to quote the string variables, i.e.: DIR=`/usr/bin/dirname $path` FILE=`/usr/bin/basename $path` /bin/mkdir -p $DIR touch $FILE Otherwise dirname and basename will choke on non-escaped characters (i.e. spaces), mkdir/touch

Re: multihome network

2007-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 00:18:42 Nov 16, alexus wrote: Hello, I have two NICs on my box, one (primary) connected to switch and have private IP. that IP also have a static route on Cisco PIX for accessing this box from outside. the other interface has public IP that is connected to another switch, i configure

Re: FreeBSD router and WCCP

2007-11-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 10:47:37 Nov 19, Steve Bertrand wrote: Essentially, I simply need a method to redirect layer 3/4 traffic destined for anything:80 from the router to the appliance. I've got a few options now, so I'll be testing all of them in the coming days. Including this one? rdr all port 80 to

Re: efficient terminal/console screencasting

2007-11-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 21:26:41 Nov 21, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: A while ago I needed to screencast a terminal to a class of students in real-time. It turned out to be quite straightforward with screen(1) in multiuser mode. screen(1) is really cool. :) Now I want to record screencasts and allow people to watch

Re: efficient terminal/console screencasting

2007-11-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 11:44:49 Nov 22, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: There are basically two ways the subtitles are encoded: bitmap and text. Both will require a full screen dump on every update. Neither allow for colors (there are html hacks though). AFAIK, there's no way to store activity in form of updates in

Re: efficient terminal/console screencasting

2007-11-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 02:09:11 Nov 23, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: I'm still hoping to get by with some hacks, but you might be right. It's a pity and almost a surprise there's no widely available text-based video codec. Maybe I just need to try my luck on mplayer-related mailing lists. Best of luck! P.S.

Re: Secure remote shell

2007-11-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 11:28:24 Nov 29, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, Part of (un)registerings users on my system consists in connecting to various servers to add the user account to some services: Registering users is done wia a web page, and the web server will remote execute a script on the mail server to add

Re: Problem with mkisofs -dvd-video

2007-12-02 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 21:42:47 Dec 02, Jeremy Gransden wrote: HI List, What is the correct procedure to create a dvd-video iso. I have tried the following and receive an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mkisofs -dvd-video -o ~/develip.iso -R ~/develop_spin/ Using PSA07000.VOB;1 for /PSA074781-2.VOB

Re: Problem with mkisofs -dvd-video

2007-12-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:23:50 Dec 04, Jeremy Gransden wrote: I say almost because the dvd will not play in my standalone dvd player, but will play on both my macbook, and freebsd machine. I will look into the dvdauthor, and mencoder docs to see if i can figure out why. If you have a problem with standalone

Re: CD/DVD writer no longer works

2007-12-06 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 11:34:25 Dec 06, Paul Schmehl wrote: [..] I can see the device using atacontrol. [EMAIL PROTECTED] atacontrol info ata0 Master: acd0 HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B/0D20 ATA/ATAPI revision 6 Slave: acd1 TSSTcorpCD-RW TS-H292B/DE03 ATA/ATAPI revision 5 [..] Drive buf size : 1016064 = 992 KB

Re: (postfix) SPAM filter?

2007-12-16 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 14:48:35 Dec 15, Jorn Argelo wrote: Greylisting only works so-so nowadays. There was a couple of months it was very effective, but that is long gone. Spammers aren't stupid, and they follow the development of anti-spam techniques as much as e-mail admins do. Greylisting is a start, but

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:05:08 Dec 17, Chad Perrin wrote: Are you suggesting I put the filesystem on another machine and use NFS to make it available to both OSes on this machine? I'm looking to have a filesystem on *this* machine that is available to both OSes, running one at a time. Chad, I saw your

Re: Redirecting STDOUT

2007-12-21 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 14:49:28 Dec 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of debugging a script and I would like to have the output of stdout redirected to a file. After reading about redirection on the Internet, I was under the impression the following would redirect stdout to a file, but I cannot

skype with garbled characters

2007-09-20 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hello all, I am not able to use skype with FreeBSD 6.2. It installs fine after a CVSup of the ports tree. But whenever I try to run it, I get a screen like this. http://koushikn.fastmail.fm/skype.png All my efforts at resolving failed. Please help. Best,

Re: skype with garbled characters

2007-09-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 07:37:42PM +0200, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Hello all, I am not able to use skype with FreeBSD 6.2. It installs fine after a CVSup of the ports tree. But whenever I try to run it, I get a screen like

Re: Photo organizer for FreeBSD?

2007-12-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 15:49:56 Dec 29, Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi, Can you tell me what kind of software should I use for organizing photos? Here are my requirements: - should be able to handle many photos (right now we are using Picasa on Ubuntu but for 100 000+ photos it is very slow and unstable) - should

Re: Photo organizer for FreeBSD?

2007-12-30 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 17:56:46 Dec 30, Peter Boosten wrote: You mean: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9696 ;-) I got my math wrong and my memory failed. ;) Thanks. -Girish ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 11:57:01 Dec 31, Victor Subervi wrote: Hi; Way OT here...but don't know where else to ask ;) I don't think so. I'm considering starting an open source project for language translation. Initially, I'll write this in python (with both MySQL and OpenLDAP for different needs). But the

Re: thankee, thankee!

2008-02-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 08:29:19 Feb 19, Tim Daneliuk wrote: You bet, Perl is terrific. But, Perl is also harder to maintain and less readable in the long run (IMHO and many others' too). Language wars are silly, of course, one uses the right tools for the right job. But as I said, having programmed fairly

Making .bash_history non writeable by user?

2008-02-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hello friends, My friend wants the user commands history file ~/.bash_history to be non writeable by user. He feels that the user should not able to erase the commands entered by him. A reasonable requirement. In case the ~/.bash_history file can also be written to another location that the

Re: gdm + xdmcp

2008-02-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 01:10:06 Mar 01, Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, people I installed FreeBSD using the 7.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso CD image. After I installed Gnome (pkg_add -r gnome2), I was able to start it on the FreeBSD and show it on my GNU/Linux workstation like this: 1) (Xnest :1 ) ; terminal

Re: rsync

2008-02-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 18:18:06 Feb 29, Gary Kline wrote: Is there a flag I can set to use with rsync to backup every file of /usr/home/* [here on my FBSD desktop] to my Ubuntu desktop that has only /home/*?? Of course, I could always create /usr/home on my other computers. ... Your question is not clear

Re: gdm + xdmcp

2008-02-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 04:37:58 Mar 01, Daniel Iliev wrote: Indeed. It is not my intention to use XDMCP like that (although it has some advantages in some cases), but since the remote host wasn't on the local XDMCP list I tried a more direct approach. Okay. Sorry, I forgot to mention that. nmap gives: PORT

Re: gdm + xdmcp

2008-02-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 07:56:29 Mar 01, Daniel Iliev wrote: How am I supposed to do that? I believe it's up to gdm to open the port it should be listening on. Just like Xorg did. If you mean I should allow access to this port in the firewall, I must say I've not (explicitly) enabled one on this system because

Re: rsync

2008-03-01 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 13:36:56 Mar 01, Gary Kline wrote: What does the --delete do?! I want to make a complete copy of, say, /usr/home/kline/* from here [tao] to my Ubuntu server, ethos, which has a /home mountpoint--- in otheer words: /home/kline/*. If the --delete /usr/home* /home syntax will let rsync

Re: Manually opening TCP ports

2008-03-07 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 07:47:19 Mar 07, Siraj Shaikh wrote: Hello I am just wondering if there is a utility (or any feature in FreeBSD) that allows me to manually open a TCP port on a machine. I am looking for a way that could either allow me to open ALL or many TCP ports on a machine. Also, is there any

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and pf

2008-03-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 07:56:48 Mar 19, Norman Maurer wrote: Hi all, im using freebsd 7.0 + gif interfaces + racoon + pf to filter stuff on my box. After upgrading to freebsd 7.0 I see some strange behavior. I see packets get dropped because of bad hdr length. The problems only seems to happen on traffic

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and pf

2008-03-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 10:30:38 Mar 19, Norman Maurer wrote: btw, if i remove pf all works fine :-/ Are you using any scrub rule? Comment those out and try. -Girish -- unix soi qui mal y pense UNIX to him who evil thinks +--+ | GnuPG key :

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:28:40AM -0700, Simon Gao wrote: Even though there are many Linux distributions, but Linux core pacakges are the mostly the same. The differences are mainly in window manager and GUI applications. No matter which Linux distribution, kernel 2.6.16 is always the same.

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:28:40AM -0700, Simon Gao wrote: Even though there are many Linux distributions, but Linux core pacakges are the mostly the same. The differences are mainly in window manager and GUI applications. No matter which Linux distribution, kernel 2.6.16 is always the same.

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 03:02:26PM -0800, Peter A. Giessel wrote: I don't mean to be rude, but if hardware support is your only criteria, why not just run Windows? If you don't care that its buggy or ineffective, and you don't want to check that it is supported before you buy it, you just

Re: Problem updating mplayer

2006-10-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:37:04PM -0500, ajm wrote: Try the following as root or su to root cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer make config then deselect from the menu the Win32 option make install clean note: you will not have win32 codecs support Normally with mplayer I just

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 max sockets

2006-10-20 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:24:30PM +0800, ke han wrote: I am writing a socket server deamon in C++ on FreeBSD 6.1 (or 6.2 if this matters to your answer). What this does is accept many sockets and does a little work with each. Each socket has low traffic but stay connected for long

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 max sockets

2006-10-20 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 04:17:52PM +0800, ke han wrote: Thanks for the reply. This app is intended to keep 20,000++ sockets alive at a time. These sockets are very long lived. I understand about kqueue. I will eventually write for this. What I need to understand are the various kernel

Re: Network Drivers for FreeBSD5.4

2006-12-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 09:57:17AM +0530, Abhijit Kumbhar wrote: Hi, I m writing a virtual ethernet interface for FreeBSD5.4.I went through the documentation on Writing FreeBSD Device Drivers and depending on the loopback interface code developved a code similar to loopback interface but

Re: [ot] can I have an account on your host? (so that I can edit wikipedia)

2006-12-21 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:59:59AM +0800, ? wrote: Hello. I am from China and I'd like to contribute to wikipedia, but this is not easy / possible because we cannot access wikipedia from inland (the great firewall) and my usual method accesssing wikipedia (through ssh -L

Re: [ot] can I have an account on your host? (so that I can edit wikipedia)

2006-12-21 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:32:03PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: I think you mean http://tor.eff.org/ Oops! Bummer! I usually check the links before the send button but ... Sorry about that. regards, Girish -- Linux is for folks who hate Windoze. FreeBSD is for folks who love UNIX. OpenBSD

Re: chroot, performance security

2006-12-27 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:16:31AM +0100, VeeJay wrote: Hi I have made partations on my web server like at very outer edges of the disks, I have /, then /var, /tmp, /usr and in the end /home. Since I read that Data modified used often should be placed at close to outer edges as

Re: which web mail / calendar to use

2007-01-02 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 11:43:33AM +0100, Michael Grant wrote: I'm looking for a web mail and calendar to install on my freebsd box. Ideally something web 2.0 like gmail and google calendar is what my users are after. In some searching around, I turned up Hula (http://hula-project.org) and

Re: Limiting Individual User Upload w/ PF+ALTQ

2008-03-27 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 18:18:09 Mar 27, Joe Ryan wrote: I am trying to setup traffic shaping on our network. I was wondering if it was possible to limit a users download bandwidth and upload bandwidth within the same state connection. For example, say a user connects to an external FTP site and does some