Re: Backup using dump and restore from dvd - restore cd loaded to ram?rive?

[Igor Robul]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Yes, I know. However FreeSBIE mounts its bootable CD as root directory
(/) and then creates few RAM drives for /etc /usr etc. But I need the
CD-ROM drive to read the CDs with backup files...
  

Frenzy (http://www.frenzy.org.ua/en/) can free CD drive.
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Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Armin,

Tks for your advice.

> There are two files that control which windowsmanager shall be used
> (depending on whether you use a login manager or just startx)
> One is called .xinitrc the other one .xsession - they are both in
> your
> home directory - create them (you can create one of them and symlink
> the
> other one) and add the start command to the file (full path) - and
> make
> sure they are set executable (chmod 755 )
> eg. for kde:
> exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
> eg for gnome:
> exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session

Done as per your advice.

$ cat ~/.xsession
exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session

$ ls -al ~/.xsession
-rwxr-xr-x  1 satimis  wheel  62 Feb 27 07:59 /home/satimis/.xsession

$ startkde

ksplash: cannot connect to X server
kdeinit: Aborting, $DISPLAY is not set
Warning: Connect() failed: No such file or directory
ksmserver: Cannot connect to Xserver !
startkde: shutting down ...
Warning: Connect() failed: No such file or directory
Error: Can't contact kdeinit !
startkde running shutdown script
startkde : Done

Still failed.


B.R.
satimis

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Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome

[Jonathan Chen]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:26:41PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> FreeBSD-6.2-amd64
> 
> This is a test, I insalled aprox >80% of the packages on Disc 2
> After installation completed PC rebooted to runlevel 3.  Login as user
> and run;
> 
> $ startkde
> warning:
> Kpersonalizer : Cannot connect to Xserer
> - repeated-
> 
> $ gnome-session
> (gnome-session 1968) gtk-Warning  ** cannot open displayed
> 
> $ startx
> 3 xterm windows started.  On xterm I can start KDE with a lot of
> warning displayed on xterm windonw.  But I can't start Gnome on xterm.
> 

If you're going to use "startx" you will need a ${HOME}/.xinitrc with
the following contents:

#/bin/sh
startkde

Make sure the file is 755 permissions. This will start up X with KDE.
I would suggest you configure /etc/ttys to start up KDM instead of
using "startx"

Cheers.
-- 
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Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome

[Jonathan Chen]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:23:37PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Armin,
> 
> Tks for your advice.
> 
> > There are two files that control which windowsmanager shall be used
> > (depending on whether you use a login manager or just startx)
> > One is called .xinitrc the other one .xsession - they are both in
> > your
> > home directory - create them (you can create one of them and symlink
> > the
> > other one) and add the start command to the file (full path) - and
> > make
> > sure they are set executable (chmod 755 )
> > eg. for kde:
> > exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
> > eg for gnome:
> > exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session
> 
> Done as per your advice.
> 
> $ cat ~/.xsession
> exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
> exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session

You didn't follow his instructions. You only need *ONE* of the lines
in there - either "startkde" or "gnome-session".

> $ ls -al ~/.xsession
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 satimis  wheel  62 Feb 27 07:59 /home/satimis/.xsession
> 
> $ startkde

You will need to use "startx" instead.
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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

- Original Message - 
From: "Josh Tolbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;

Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 7:30 AM
Subject: Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP


> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:16:58AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >> > How do I use the Cram-MD5 passwords with Outlook?
> > >> > Or do I have to go plain text?
> > >>
> > >> Off-topic for FreeBSD-Questions but I don't believe
> > >> Outlook supports CRAM-MD5 out of the box.
> > >
> > > *Not* off-topic, the context being how best to configure Outlook
> > > for use with FreeBSD IMAP.  One hopes something more secure than
> > > plain-text passwords can be made to work.
> > >
> > > My answer is "Don't use Outlook.  For anything.  Period."
> > > but the OP may be stuck with it for some reason.
> > >
> >
> > Thank You, if I was talking about Anna Nichole Smith or something, that
> > would be *OFF* topic. ;o).
> >
> > I am stuck with outlook if I want to synch my PDA phone to my e-mail.
It
> > seems to work ok with gmail pop3.  Maybe I can just have sendmail
foreward
> > a copy of all my mail to gmail.
> >
> > Thanks Guys,
> >
> > Chris Maness
>
> I run imap-uw. Outlook 2003 works just fine with my mail server. However,
I
> haven't been able to get Outlook 2002 to work properly.

If your using self-signed certificates the secret is you create a
self-signed CA
certificate, then import a copy of that into Internet Explorer, and then
when
you create the CSR for the imap server, sign it with your self-signed root
CA
certificate.  This same restriction existed for all prior Outlook clients.

In outlook 2003 MS finally got rid of that and allowed you to use
self-signed
imap certificates directly.

Ted

Outlook Express also
> works fine for me.
>
> My (quite popular) page about running both sendmail and imap-uw with
SSL/TLS
> and authentication can be found here:
> . The page
states
> that one of the goals of the described mail setup is compatibility with
> Microsoft e-mail clients.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
> -- 
> Josh Tolbert
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  ||  http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/
>
> Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor
> do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger
> is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either
> a daring adventure, or nothing.
> -- Helen Keller
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Re: Patches in FreeBSD

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

- Original Message - 
From: "Jerry McAllister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: Patches in FreeBSD


> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:53:20AM -0800, Josh Carroll wrote:
>
> > >My question is:   How do I respond to this?
> > >I have seen the word patch used in security update messages - but
> > >didn't follow that path.   Is that real?   Does it cover kernel
> > >things essentially on the fly or is a 'time consuming' rebuild
> > >still needed?
> >
> > 6.2 now official supports binary patches via freebsd-update(8). From
> > the 6.2-RELEASE announcement
> > (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html):
> >
> > "freebsd-update(8) provides officially supported binary updates for
> > security fixes and errata patches"
> >
> > So there's your response. :)
>
> Thank you.
> I didn't realize my question is to cutting edge - so to speak.
> I saw a few posts mentioning update, but didn't take the time to
> follow them and didn't realize their possible relevance.
> So, good news!
>

No, it isn't.

They will just find some other excuse to try to switch you over to Linux.
The
patch excuse was one of the lamest.  Even in the "pre binary" patch days it
didn't require the entire system to be rebuilt just to patch a daemon.

Ted

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self-signed certificates in outlook

[Zbigniew Szalbot]

hello,

Following a recent discussion I have a question whether there is a way for
outlook not to complain when it comes to using self-signed certificates?

Thank you in advance!

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Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Jonathan Chen,

Tks for your advice.

 
> If you're going to use "startx" you will need a ${HOME}/.xinitrc with
> the following contents:
> 
>   #/bin/sh
>   startkde
> 
> Make sure the file is 755 permissions. This will start up X with KDE.
> I would suggest you configure /etc/ttys to start up KDM instead of
> using "startx"

Your advice worked here starting KDE.

What I'm trying to do is running;

$ startkde
will start K desktop

$ gnome-session
will start Gnome desktop

Tks.


B.R.
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Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Jonathan,

> I would suggest you configure /etc/ttys to start up KDM instead of
> using "startx"

I'm prepared running this box building servers for test.  I don't
expect the box booting straight to login page.  X is only for
communicating outside World.  I'm not used to running elinks, the text
broswer.

Tks.


B.R.
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Re: insufficient resources for HD video

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> > Starting playback...
> > VDec: vo config request - 1440 x 1080 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
> > VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
> > Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> > VO: [sdl] 1440x1080 => 1920x1080 Planar YV12
> [...]
> 
> hmmm should be VO: [xv] ...
> 
> try mplayer -vo xv ...
> 
> I tried with whitedogpassingby.m2t, no problem with both mplayer and
> vlc.
> Here, xvinfo | grep XvImage
> gives me
> maximum XvImage size: 2046 x 2046
> 
> Your problem sounds like a X11 config issue (card using shared memory?),
> try to add
> 
> Option "LinearAlloc" "8192"
> 
> (or more instead of 8192) in your xorg.conf device section and restart
> X.  Well it concerns i915 and i810 chipsets, for other chipsets you
> have to play with Videoram parameter (I'm not sure of the result in that
> case...).
> Increading kern.ipc.shmmax may also help.
> 
> 

Any news?

-- 
Marc


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Description: PGP signature

freebsd 6.2 oracle php php-oci8 core dump

[Dan Cojocar]

Hello all,
I have oracle-xe, lang/php5,
databases/linux-oracle-instantclient-basic,
databases/linux-oracle-instantclient-sdk, databases/oracle8-client and
databases/php5-oci8
following this howto: http://mrtenente.infosys.lt/blog/?p=22 all are
installed without errors.
But when I connect to oracle from php i get a core dump that i cannot access.
I mention that I have compiled php with debug enabled.
Can somebody suggest another setup? Or how to investigate this?
Thank you,
Dan

gdb php php.core
  12:07:12
GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...
Core was generated by `php'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypt.so.3...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libcrypt.so.3
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.4...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.4
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.5...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.5
Reading symbols from /lib/libz.so.3...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libz.so.3
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/oci8.so...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/oci8.so
Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
#0  0x48b2116c in ?? () from /usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/oci8.so
[New LWP 100042]
(gdb) bt
#0  0x48b2116c in ?? () from /usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/oci8.so
Cannot access memory at address 0x196
(gdb)
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Re: Effectively detaching 'less' from a pipe

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Matthew Seaman wrote:


Kelly Jones wrote:

 


Once I'm convinced, though, I'd like to "get rid" of less, and just
have the rest of stdout spewed to the terminal (and/or /dev/null
and/or to a file I specify).

In other words, I want to stop hitting 'space' until my program terminates.
   



Hit F

Makes less work rather like tail(1).  Once your inferior process has
finished you need to hit Ctrl-C and then q to quit from less(1).
 


You learns something new every day...

In a similar vein, I use G which jumps to the end-of-file.  If there is 
a lot of output less does nothing until it hits EOF and then just shows 
you the end of the output.  I suspect that of being quicker since it 
won't spend any time scrolling output to the screen.


--Alex


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Re: Effectively detaching 'less' from a pipe

[Ian Smith]

In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 167, Issue 5
At Message: 19
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:27:41 -0700, Kelly Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 > I often run commands piped to 'less', to make sure the command is
 > working OK by looking at the first few lines of output.
 > 
 > Once I'm convinced, though, I'd like to "get rid" of less, and just
 > have the rest of stdout spewed to the terminal (and/or /dev/null
 > and/or to a file I specify).
 > 
 > In other words, I want to stop hitting 'space' until my program terminates.

What Matthew said about using 'F' to follow output tail is very handy. 

 > How can I do this?
 > 
 > My current kludges (both ugly):
 > 
 > 1. do "command > file" and then "tail -f file | less" (this mostly
 > works, but takes a while to get started because of buffering issues)
 > 
 > 2. do "command | less", and once I'm happy w/ the output, hit 'q' to
 > quit less (and thus terminate program) and then do "command >
 > /dev/null" (works, but wastes time, since I have to run the command
 > once just to look at the first few lines and then abort it)

When you've piped something to less that you want to save, or save some
part of, press 'g' to go to top of file (or position the top of what you
want to save at top of screen), press 'm' and some letter (I mostly use
'mm' for speed) to mark that spot, press 'G' to go to bottom of file (or
otherwise position the end of what you want at bottom of screen), then
press '|' then (as prompted for) the letter of your mark (eg here '|m')

Then at the '!' command prompt offered, type 'cat - >somepath/filename'
to capture the file, or snippet.  If you use >> instead of > you can cat
interesting sections of your output to a file; using up/down arrow at
'!' you can recall commands used, for each mark/move/pipe/cat sequence.

Cheers, Ian

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.lesshst

[J.D. Bronson]

I have noticed since I installed 6.2, that anyone that uses csh has 
these files created in their ~home dir.


Even root.

Anyone have a .profile/.cshrc/.login that can shut this off?





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Re: .lesshst

[Christian Walther]

On 27/02/07, J.D. Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I have noticed since I installed 6.2, that anyone that uses csh has
these files created in their ~home dir.

Even root.

Anyone have a .profile/.cshrc/.login that can shut this off?


Excerpt from man less:

  LESSHISTFILE
 Name  of  the  history  file used to remember search commands and
 shell commands between invocations of less.  If  set  to  "-",  a
 history  file  is  not  used.  The default is "$HOME/.lesshst" on
 Unix systems, "$HOME/_lesshst" on DOS  and  Windows  systems,  or
 "$HOME/lesshst.ini" or "$INIT/lesshst.ini" on OS/2 systems.
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Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

- Original Message - 
From: "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Joe Auty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kip Macy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
; 
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

> > and do a "make deinstall" followed by downloading and compiling the
program
> > the "old fashioned way"  I shoot for a min of 3 years on the OS before
even
> > thinking about updating, and when it's time to update the hardware has
> > generally reached the old rag stage anyway.
>
> This works great for servers, that don't have any real users on them,
> and is pretty much how I do things. I'll try updating the ports tree
> and installing from that rather than building the old fashioned way,
> because that works a surprising percentage of the time.
>
> On desktop and development systems, the users tend to get pissed if I
> let things get that old. So I do upgrade them more often.

That depends on who's paying for it.  If your in-house support your screwed
of course, since all of them think your labor hours are inexhaustable.

But if the users are in a small business or whatever that has to actually
pay
real money to have their systems updated, then they are usually a lot less
enthusiastic about new updates (at least, their owners are)

> There are a
> couple of things you can do to make reinstalling to a clean disk a bit
> less painfull.
>
> 1) Intelligent file system layout. I put all the things that aren't
> installed from the FreeBSD disks on their own partitions (/home and
> /local). I can then wipe and reinstall /, /var and /usr without
> clobbering the non-system data.
>
> 2) Mirrored disks. Disks for consumer systems are cheap. Throwing a
> second one in a system and mirroring the system disk is a cheap way to
> improve the reliability of the system. When it's time to upgrade, take
> a drive out of the mirror, and install to that drive. You can reboot
> to the old system if you need to interrupt the process and run the old
> system for some reason. With a file system layout as per #1, you can
> even mount the users files under both versions of the OS. When you're
> happy with the new system, mirror the new system drive to the old one.
>

I do the mirroring thing too but the one thing you have to watch is
inadequate
cooling in some of these minitowers.  Stacking the disks on top of each
other
with no cooling fan blowing air on them is not a good idea.

Ted

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video/x-ms-asf-plugin for firefox

[Oğuz ULUVARDAR]

> Hi did you had an answer on this plug in?
> I am getting crazy and can find no answer...

I don't know about a plugin, but mplayer (and probably other video
applications, but that's the first one I checked) claims to be able to
play it, so you should be able to set it as an external helper
application for firefox.
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kerberos how to reinstall?

[Vizion]

I found that kerberos5 had been deleted from my system and NO_KERBEROS=TRUE was 
in my make.conf file.

Kerberos was originally installed on this sytem.

pkg_info |grep crypt 
shows:
 
libdvdcss-1.2.9._2
libgcrypt-1.2.3_1 

are installed

can I safely reinstall kerberos by using make  in /usr/src/kerberos5?

Is there anything I need to check in preparation?

Thanks

David


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Re: video/x-ms-asf-plugin for firefox

[Vince]

Oğuz ULUVARDAR wrote:
>> Hi did you had an answer on this plug in?
>> I am getting crazy and can find no answer...
> 
> I don't know about a plugin, but mplayer (and probably other video
> applications, but that's the first one I checked) claims to be able to
> play it, so you should be able to set it as an external helper
> application for firefox.
Missed the original thread, but if mplayer plays it then
/usr/ports/www/mplayer-plugin
should play it in firefox as a plugin.

Vince

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Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS *SOLVED!*

[Lowell Gilbert]

Joe Auty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I guess the trick here was not considering that user space apps would  
> be trying to do a kldload, and that calling upon a module that is  
> either missing in /boot/kernel or /boot/modules or resides outside  
> of /boot can trigger these panics.

That is because they are *not* user-space applications.  They are
kernel-space code.

There is a "PORTS_MODULES" variable documented for make.conf(5) which
is intended for just this problem.  I haven't used it, though, and
offhand I can't find the macro definition for it.
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Re: Using source control to manage system configs

[Rob]

On 27/02/2007, at 5:16 AM, David Robillard wrote:


If you simply want to track changes and be able to roll back your
configuration files, then  go with a more simple approach like using
RCS locally. RCS is part of the base FreeBSD system.


David & Chuck,

I'm already using RCS, and I've built a somewhat clunky mechanism  
around it.


One machine holds the master copies of
- site-wide files (/etc/ntp.conf, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/syslog.conf)
- host-specific files (/etc/hosts, /etc/passwd, /etc/rc.conf) for  
each server


At install time, both sets of files are tarred up and copied to the  
new server. If there's a conflict, the host-specific files win.


Problem:

It's a good system for installs, but then I update the files on the  
working server. I always mean to merge the changes back to the master  
copy, but it never quite happens.


Solution:

CVS with a remote repository looks good - updates on the server, and  
a central record of all changes. Reinstalling a server should be as  
easy as 'cvs co $HOST'.


Problem:

I don't want 6 identical copies of /etc/ntp.conf under version  
control, so the site-wide files and host-specific files should be in  
separate modules. But they have the same working directory, and this  
is where I run into problems with CVS - it's impossible to check them  
both out to the same server.


Is there some way to do this with Subversion? Or can a file be shared  
by different modules? Or am I going about this all wrong?



Now if you want to keep your changes on another machine, then it's
just a simple question of running a backup of your machines. (you do
backup right? ;)


Absolutely - I dump /home from each server to an old iPod (it's a  
small network).


But backups are for preserving entire filesystems. I want my system  
configs to be version controlled, as well as saved.



Have fun,


Of course - that's why I do this :-)

Rob.
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Re: named not starting during boot

[Wojciech Puchar]

named is not starting when I reboot a FreeBSD 6.2 server and I cant figure 
out why.

there are no error mesasges in /var/log/messages during the boot process.

even when I manually start there are no error messages.

# grep named /etc/rc.conf
named_enable="YES"
# pkg_info | grep bind
bind9-9.3.4 Completely new version of the BIND DNS suite with updated



why you are installing bind from ports - there is bind9 in base system. 
and it's controlled with named_enable.



have you configured right version in right (/etc/namedb) directory?
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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Wojciech Puchar]

providing data recovery services etc...

people are allowed to be stupid. it's natural. no need to worry


Sometimes managing calendars and corporate schedules can be a pain in the 
ass. I don't see how groups like Intel could do it any other way..


fortunately it's not my pain :) and i'm not interested in groups like 
Intel which naturally support windows and microsoft every place.

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Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

[DAve]

Christian Baer wrote:

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:46:08 -0500 DAve wrote:


Or am I missing the issue here?
Not at all, I am thinking my next staff meeting I am going to propose 
just that solution.


Now it might be that I think about a few things a little 'differently'
but as far as I can remember running a Unix box (which one that *only*
runs a Unix-like OS) on UTC is the usual default and i also recomended
as such.

I am actually a little surprised that there are whole server-farms out
there (stimm) running on local time.



An ISP starts out with one mail server and a management server, they 
create tools that automate and report on the system. It is all in local 
time.


Go forward ten years and now we have 15+ servers, all still using the 
same admin framework. When I came on board they did not have the time or 
resources to rewrite or change the management system. We still don't, 
but we are building out a new one under the radar, 30 minutes here, two 
hours there, etc. Meanwhile we have an old system which relies  on local 
time. We have local users who do not require a "world view" in their use 
of the internet (local office to local office connections, local client 
base, local local local) and they want their mail headers and web 
reports in local time. So the servers run local time. No more reason 
than that.


We will convert them, but it takes and plan, and a reason.

DAve


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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Wojciech Puchar]

Outlook has some good features:


most important of them:

1) inability to work right with imap, for eg. when deleting mail.
2) inability to properly handle THEIR OWN FORMAT mail (these huge files in 
which it keeps mail) when there is a lot of mail on disk. after shorter or 
longer time it will start to fail, and finally fail completely, making 
mail recovery near impossible.


IMAP keeps mail on mailserver, but see point 1

3) inability to handle big amount of mail (like half milion e-mails 
getting ca 10-20GB space) at all without waiting whole night.



thats very good features if you

a) selling computers. it will help you sell new super-ultra-fast machine 
every year or less.

b) provide data recovery services to recover effects of point 2
c) like to offer better solutions than outlook.

points B and C makes me happy often :)
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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Wojciech Puchar]

how usable Outlook is with IMAP.

The UW uses uw-imap (whatever the latest version is) because they
develop that mailserver.


As you say the U.W. would have a hard time using anything but uw-imap
(where do you thing the uw in uw-imap comes from :-).



use dovecot with Maildir. IMHO it's the best for mail service now. at 
least for me

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Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

[DAve]

Christian Baer wrote:

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:18:39 -0800 Bill Campbell wrote:


Or am I missing the issue here?

I think the issue is how localtime displays dates.

This whole ``problem'' is a typical example of brainless
politicians (but I repeat myself) doing things that cause far
more problems then they ostensibly solve.


This is geting a little OT here, but could someone explain this to me
please?



For as long as I have been voting Indiana has proposed switching to 
daylight savings time because it would "save money" and create new jobs. 
Every year it got defeated, every year Hoosiers spent countless dollars 
debating the issue, every year Hoosiers told the legislature no.


They finally changed it last year, after an extensive campaign which 
claimed Indiana lost billions of dollars and thousands of jobs a year 
because we did not have DST. Of course after much prodding, no one could 
manage to justify those numbers or explain where they came from.


It must have worked, because we have considerable increase in traffic 
caused by the money trucks rolling through town and the bus loads of new 
workers arriving to fill the waiting jobs ;^)


Personally, I think someone just wanted on extra hour on the tee during 
the week after work.


DAve


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Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome

[Armin Pirkovitsch]

Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Jonathan Chen,
> 
> Tks for your advice.
> 
>  
>> If you're going to use "startx" you will need a ${HOME}/.xinitrc with
>> the following contents:
>>
>>  #/bin/sh
>>  startkde
>>
>> Make sure the file is 755 permissions. This will start up X with KDE.
>> I would suggest you configure /etc/ttys to start up KDM instead of
>> using "startx"
> 
> Your advice worked here starting KDE.
> 
> What I'm trying to do is running;
> 
> $ startkde
> will start K desktop
> 
> $ gnome-session
> will start Gnome desktop

This won't work since those are just the windowmanagers - you need an X
server to start them.
However you could solve it with some small scripts:


start-gnome.sh:

#!/bin/sh
rm -f ~/.xinitrc
ln -s ~/.xinitrc_gnome ~/.xinitrc
startx



.xinitrc_gnome:

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session



start-kde.sh:

#!/bin/sh
rm -f ~/.xinitrc
ln -s ~/.xinitrc_kde ~/.xinitrc
startx



.xinitrc_gnome:

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/startkde



make sure all of these files are executable (chmod 755 )
the .xinitrc* files have to be in your home directory - start-gnome.sh
and start-kde.sh in any directory in your PATH (eg. ~/bin if it's only
for one user)

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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Igor Robul]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:



use dovecot with Maildir. IMHO it's the best for mail service now. at 
least for me

Does dovecont support shared forders?
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Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

[Gerard]

On Tuesday February 27, 2007 at 09:06:07 (AM) DAve wrote:


> Personally, I think someone just wanted on extra hour on the tee during 
> the week after work.

Actually, I had not thought about that. So maybe this daylight savings
thing is not such a bad idea after all. :*)

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and rode on Ruthlessly.
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Re: how to run root cmds when starting xorg?

[Kirk Strauser]

On Saturday 24 February 2007 17:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> how do i exec a kldload script when starting ttyv8 kdm (or xorg) ?

Another idea not yet mentioned is to create two wrapper scripts like so:

$ cat /usr/local/bin/loadsound
#!/bin/sh
kldload whatever.ko
$ cat /usr/local/bin/unloadsound
#!/bin/sh
kldunload whatever.ko

and the install sudo and configure it to give your user the ability to run 
those two commands without entering your password.  Finally, add "sudo 
loadsound" and "sudo unloadsound" to your startup and exit scripts.
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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Gerard]

On Tuesday February 27, 2007 at 08:56:19 (AM) Wojciech Puchar wrote:


> fortunately it's not my pain :) and i'm not interested in groups like 
> Intel which naturally support windows and microsoft every place.

I think it could be more accurately stated that Intel, among others,
follow the money. I am sure if Intel could be shown a comparable
business design that would generate a similar bottom line, they would
seriously consider it. Nobody is going to throw resources at a losing or
revenue neutral venture.


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I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."

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Colored output of "make search" in /usr/ports

[Nejc Škoberne]

Hello,

I just realized that having a colored output of "make search" command
issued in /usr/ports would be very helpful. So that different fields
would be colored differently and thus easier to read.

What do you think?

Bye,
Nejc


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Re: named not starting during boot

[Derek Ragona]

In the newer versions of bind you need to add to /etc/rc.conf:
named_uid="username"
you want to run named as.

-Derek

At 07:24 PM 2/26/2007, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:

Hi there,

named is not starting when I reboot a FreeBSD 6.2 server and I cant figure 
out why.

there are no error mesasges in /var/log/messages during the boot process.

even when I manually start there are no error messages.

# grep named /etc/rc.conf
named_enable="YES"
# pkg_info | grep bind
bind9-9.3.4 Completely new version of the BIND DNS suite with 
updated D




# grep BIND messages
Feb 26 11:50:53 access2 named[1704]: starting BIND 9.3.3
Feb 26 14:07:19 access2 named[990]: starting BIND 9.3.3
Feb 26 17:19:59 access2 named[966]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf
Feb 26 17:20:07 access2 named[974]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf
Feb 26 17:20:19 access2 named[981]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf

# /etc/rc.d/named stop
# /etc/rc.d/named start
# grep BIND messages
Feb 26 11:50:53 access2 named[1704]: starting BIND 9.3.3
Feb 26 14:07:19 access2 named[990]: starting BIND 9.3.3
Feb 26 17:19:59 access2 named[966]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf
Feb 26 17:20:07 access2 named[974]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf
Feb 26 17:20:19 access2 named[981]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf
Feb 26 17:23:46 access2 named[1005]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf


any clues please?

Cheers,

Noah
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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Wojciech Puchar]

fortunately it's not my pain :) and i'm not interested in groups like
Intel which naturally support windows and microsoft every place.


I think it could be more accurately stated that Intel, among others,


i think i was accurate in what i said :)

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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Wojciech Puchar]

use dovecot with Maildir. IMHO it's the best for mail service now. at least 
for me

Does dovecont support shared forders?


what are "shared folders"? is it some standard or some M$-standard?

if some e-mails has to be shared, i simply create e-mail account for them, 
and more that one person gets IMAP access to it. that's all, folders are 
shared

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Re: named not starting during boot

[Noah Garrett Wallach]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:

named is not starting when I reboot a FreeBSD 6.2 server and I cant

figure 
  

out why.
there are no error mesasges in /var/log/messages during the boot


process.
  

even when I manually start there are no error messages.

# grep named /etc/rc.conf
named_enable="YES"
# pkg_info | grep bind
bind9-9.3.4 Completely new version of the BIND DNS suite with


updated


why you are installing bind from ports - there is bind9 in base system. 
and it's controlled with named_enable.
  


because there are security exploits and keeping upto date version is 
important to me.

http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php


have you configured right version in right (/etc/namedb) directory?
  


I will check that.
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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Joe Holden]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:
use dovecot with Maildir. IMHO it's the best for mail service now. at 
least for me

Does dovecont support shared forders?


what are "shared folders"? is it some standard or some M$-standard?

As in shared namespaces?  I'm sure thats an IMAP standard, rather than 
just an MS thing?


Dovecot is brilliant also, especially with kqueue support now!  Pretty 
sure it does "shared folders."


Ta,
Joe
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Re: Effectively detaching 'less' from a pipe

[Jerry McAllister]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:27:41PM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:

> I often run commands piped to 'less', to make sure the command is
> working OK by looking at the first few lines of output.
> 
> Once I'm convinced, though, I'd like to "get rid" of less, and just
> have the rest of stdout spewed to the terminal (and/or /dev/null
> and/or to a file I specify).
> 
> In other words, I want to stop hitting 'space' until my program terminates.

You got several good suggestions.
Along a somewhat different path, have you checked out  script(1).
It isn't quite what you are asking, but might also be helpful.

Just type 'script some_file_name'
and it will dump all screen output to that file until you exit script
with a CTRL-D.

jerry

> 
> How can I do this?
> 
> My current kludges (both ugly):
> 
> 1. do "command > file" and then "tail -f file | less" (this mostly
> works, but takes a while to get started because of buffering issues)
> 
> 2. do "command | less", and once I'm happy w/ the output, hit 'q' to
> quit less (and thus terminate program) and then do "command >
> /dev/null" (works, but wastes time, since I have to run the command
> once just to look at the first few lines and then abort it)
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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Duane Hill]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Joe Holden wrote:


Wojciech Puchar wrote:
use dovecot with Maildir. IMHO it's the best for mail service now. at 
least for me

Does dovecont support shared forders?


what are "shared folders"? is it some standard or some M$-standard?

As in shared namespaces?  I'm sure thats an IMAP standard, rather than just 
an MS thing?


Dovecot is brilliant also, especially with kqueue support now!  Pretty sure 
it does "shared folders."



According to http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders it does.
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Re: named not starting during boot

[J.D. Bronson]

At 09:23 AM 02/27/2007, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:



Wojciech Puchar wrote:

named is not starting when I reboot a FreeBSD 6.2 server and I cant


figure

out why.
there are no error mesasges in /var/log/messages during the boot


process.


even when I manually start there are no error messages.

# grep named /etc/rc.conf
named_enable="YES"
# pkg_info | grep bind
bind9-9.3.4 Completely new version of the BIND DNS suite with


updated


why you are installing bind from ports - there is bind9 in base 
system. and it's controlled with named_enable.




because there are security exploits and keeping upto date version is 
important to me.

http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php


I actually rolled my own version of Bind (9.4.0) and have it working 
perfectly and starting under rc.conf


(I had to edit /etc/rc.d/named though)

-JD 


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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Mikel King]

I know this is a little bit of a tangent, but does anyone have a good  
comprehensive command list, for testing an IMAP server via telnet?


Thanks,
Mikel
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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Mikel King]

On Feb 27, 2007, at 12:38 AM, Bill Campbell wrote:



I glad I didn't know that after dropping my last cell phone in
the crapper.  The display was toast, but it was alive enough that
I could use iSync on my OS X box to grab all the phone info and
load it into my new phone.  If I had known that OS X didn't have
this capability, I couldn't have done this.  FWIW, this was about
three years ago.

Bill



That's a really unpleasant visual. Thanks...
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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Duane Hill]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Mikel King wrote:

I know this is a little bit of a tangent, but does anyone have a good 
comprehensive command list, for testing an IMAP server via telnet?



I would think you should be able to use this:

  http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501.html

I use it when I need to get IMAP syntax for a command. Examples are shown 
on command usage and can be executed via a telnet session.

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Re: [lug:7827] Effectively detaching 'less' from a pipe

[Ryan Graham]

Check the man pages for tee and head. From your description, they may
work better. If nothing else, you can probably figure out something
better than what you're doing now.

And please don't cross-post. I highly doubt everyone on all those
lists/groups is subscribed to all the others.

~Ryan

On 2/26/07, Kelly Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I often run commands piped to 'less', to make sure the command is
working OK by looking at the first few lines of output.

Once I'm convinced, though, I'd like to "get rid" of less, and just
have the rest of stdout spewed to the terminal (and/or /dev/null
and/or to a file I specify).

In other words, I want to stop hitting 'space' until my program terminates.

How can I do this?

My current kludges (both ugly):

1. do "command > file" and then "tail -f file | less" (this mostly
works, but takes a while to get started because of buffering issues)

2. do "command | less", and once I'm happy w/ the output, hit 'q' to
quit less (and thus terminate program) and then do "command >
/dev/null" (works, but wastes time, since I have to run the command
once just to look at the first few lines and then abort it)


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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
how usable Outlook is with IMAP.

The UW uses uw-imap (whatever the latest version is) because they
develop that mailserver.
>>
>>As you say the U.W. would have a hard time using anything but uw-imap
>>(where do you thing the uw in uw-imap comes from :-).
>
>use dovecot with Maildir. IMHO it's the best for mail service now. at 
>least for me

I haven't looked at dovecot.  Does it maintain a group of listeners,
similar to apache's, to handle incoming requests as courier-imap does?

So far we have had excellent performance with courier-imap at sites with
about 10,000 mail clients hitting a single server (most of whom are using
the POP interface as these are ISP sites).

Bill
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named not starting on reboot

[Noah]

Hi there,

I am having troubles with named not starting on boot nor am I am able to 
start it manually.  I thought I have my chrootdir set correctly.


here are my settings in my rc.conf

s nip 

named_enable="YES"
named_uid="bind"
named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
named_chrootdir="/var/named"

 snip---


here are the /var/log/messages error:


Feb 27 09:07:46 access2 named[2058]: /etc/named.conf:6: change directory 
to '/var/named/etc/namedb' failed: file not found

Feb 27 09:07:46 access2 named[2058]: /etc/named.conf:6: parsing failed
Feb 27 09:07:46 access2 named[2058]: loading configuration: file not found
Feb 27 09:07:46 access2 named[2058]: exiting (due to fatal error)


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Re: named not starting during boot

[Vince]

>>
>> because there are security exploits and keeping upto date version is
>> important to me.
>> http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php
> 

Patched and available to via freebsd-update (and cvs and cvsup and the
links in FreeBSD-SA-07:02.bind) since 9th but thats by the by.

> I actually rolled my own version of Bind (9.4.0) and have it working
> perfectly and starting under rc.conf
> 
> (I had to edit /etc/rc.d/named though)
hmm there's a port for 9.4, but since it doesnt have the options for DLZ
which i hear is now integrated i guess you need to roll your own for
that stuff. you could probably have got away with just setting some
configure options (like --sysconfdir=/etc/namedb) and the named_program
variable in /etc/rc.conf rather than hacking /etc/rc.d/named though.


Vince
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Re: named not starting during boot

[Noah Garrett Wallach]

Hi there,

I dont have a user name named.  I have a user named bind.  so bind is 
what I am going with.


named_enable="YES"
named_uid="bind"
named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
named_chrootdir="/var/named"


cheers,

Noah


Derek Ragona wrote:

In the newer versions of bind you need to add to /etc/rc.conf:
named_uid="username"
you want to run named as.

-Derek

At 07:24 PM 2/26/2007, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:

Hi there,

named is not starting when I reboot a FreeBSD 6.2 server and I cant 
figure out why.
there are no error mesasges in /var/log/messages during the boot 
process.


even when I manually start there are no error messages.

# grep named /etc/rc.conf
named_enable="YES"
# pkg_info | grep bind
bind9-9.3.4 Completely new version of the BIND DNS suite with 
updated D




# grep BIND messages
Feb 26 11:50:53 access2 named[1704]: starting BIND 9.3.3
Feb 26 14:07:19 access2 named[990]: starting BIND 9.3.3
Feb 26 17:19:59 access2 named[966]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf
Feb 26 17:20:07 access2 named[974]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf
Feb 26 17:20:19 access2 named[981]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf

# /etc/rc.d/named stop
# /etc/rc.d/named start
# grep BIND messages
Feb 26 11:50:53 access2 named[1704]: starting BIND 9.3.3
Feb 26 14:07:19 access2 named[990]: starting BIND 9.3.3
Feb 26 17:19:59 access2 named[966]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf
Feb 26 17:20:07 access2 named[974]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf
Feb 26 17:20:19 access2 named[981]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf
Feb 26 17:23:46 access2 named[1005]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf


any clues please?

Cheers,

Noah
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Re: named not starting on reboot

[Karol Kwiatkowski]

Noah wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am having troubles with named not starting on boot nor am I am able to
> start it manually.  I thought I have my chrootdir set correctly.
> 
> here are my settings in my rc.conf
> 
> s nip 
> 
> named_enable="YES"
> named_uid="bind"
> named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
> named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
> named_chrootdir="/var/named"
> 
>  snip---
> 
> 
> here are the /var/log/messages error:
> 
> 
> Feb 27 09:07:46 access2 named[2058]: /etc/named.conf:6: change directory
> to '/var/named/etc/namedb' failed: file not found
  ^^
Here is a mistake. Is a 'directory' in /etc/namedb/named.conf set to
'/var/named/etc/namedb'?

"/var/named/etc/namedb" is a global path, named starting in chroot won't
be able to see it. Just change it back to "/etc/namedb".

HTH,

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Re: named not starting during boot

[Derek Ragona]

I was using "username" as an example.  You can use bind, root, or any valid 
user.  That user should own the directory you plan to use for the chroot, 
or the namedb starting point.


Most likely you have a chroot problem, you need to be sure you have that 
file tree setup correctly.


-Derek

At 11:21 AM 2/27/2007, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:

Hi there,

I dont have a user name named.  I have a user named bind.  so bind is what 
I am going with.


named_enable="YES"
named_uid="bind"
named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
named_chrootdir="/var/named"


cheers,

Noah


Derek Ragona wrote:

In the newer versions of bind you need to add to /etc/rc.conf:
named_uid="username"
you want to run named as.

-Derek

At 07:24 PM 2/26/2007, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:

Hi there,

named is not starting when I reboot a FreeBSD 6.2 server and I cant 
figure out why.

there are no error mesasges in /var/log/messages during the boot process.

even when I manually start there are no error messages.

# grep named /etc/rc.conf
named_enable="YES"
# pkg_info | grep bind
bind9-9.3.4 Completely new version of the BIND DNS suite with 
updated D




# grep BIND messages
Feb 26 11:50:53 access2 named[1704]: starting BIND 9.3.3
Feb 26 14:07:19 access2 named[990]: starting BIND 9.3.3
Feb 26 17:19:59 access2 named[966]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf
Feb 26 17:20:07 access2 named[974]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf
Feb 26 17:20:19 access2 named[981]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf

# /etc/rc.d/named stop
# /etc/rc.d/named start
# grep BIND messages
Feb 26 11:50:53 access2 named[1704]: starting BIND 9.3.3
Feb 26 14:07:19 access2 named[990]: starting BIND 9.3.3
Feb 26 17:19:59 access2 named[966]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf
Feb 26 17:20:07 access2 named[974]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf
Feb 26 17:20:19 access2 named[981]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf
Feb 26 17:23:46 access2 named[1005]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
/etc/namedb/named.conf


any clues please?

Cheers,

Noah
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Re: named not starting on reboot

[Vince]

Noah wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am having troubles with named not starting on boot nor am I am able to
> start it manually.  I thought I have my chrootdir set correctly.
> 
> here are my settings in my rc.conf
> 
> s nip 
> 
> named_enable="YES"
> named_uid="bind"
> named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
> named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
> named_chrootdir="/var/named"
> 
>  snip---
> 
> 
> here are the /var/log/messages error:
> 
> 
> Feb 27 09:07:46 access2 named[2058]: /etc/named.conf:6: change directory
> to '/var/named/etc/namedb' failed: file not found
> Feb 27 09:07:46 access2 named[2058]: /etc/named.conf:6: parsing failed
> Feb 27 09:07:46 access2 named[2058]: loading configuration: file not found
> Feb 27 09:07:46 access2 named[2058]: exiting (due to fatal error)
> 
> 
What are your permissions on /var/named  ?  how about
/var/named/etc/namedb ? by default i think the chroot stuff expects or
wants /etc/namedb  to be a symlink to /var/named/etc/namedb, is this the
case ?

What is line 6 of your /etc/named.conf and why is named looking for this
rather than /etc/namedb/named.conf as specified.

I have the portsversion of 9.3 with DLZ on my laptop as a testbed and it
works fine with
named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
named_chrootdir="/var/named"
named_enable="YES"

So my guess is permissions or configuration file issue


Vince

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Re: named not starting on reboot

[Noah]

Vince wrote:

Noah wrote:
  

Hi there,

I am having troubles with named not starting on boot nor am I am able to
start it manually.  I thought I have my chrootdir set correctly.

here are my settings in my rc.conf

s nip 

named_enable="YES"
named_uid="bind"
named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
named_chrootdir="/var/named"

 snip---


here are the /var/log/messages error:


Feb 27 09:07:46 access2 named[2058]: /etc/named.conf:6: change directory
to '/var/named/etc/namedb' failed: file not found
Feb 27 09:07:46 access2 named[2058]: /etc/named.conf:6: parsing failed
Feb 27 09:07:46 access2 named[2058]: loading configuration: file not found
Feb 27 09:07:46 access2 named[2058]: exiting (due to fatal error)




What are your permissions on /var/named  ?  how about
/var/named/etc/namedb ? by default i think the chroot stuff expects or
wants /etc/namedb  to be a symlink to /var/named/etc/namedb, is this the
case ?

What is line 6 of your /etc/named.conf and why is named looking for this
rather than /etc/namedb/named.conf as specified.

I have the portsversion of 9.3 with DLZ on my laptop as a testbed and it
works fine with
named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
named_chrootdir="/var/named"
named_enable="YES"

So my guess is permissions or configuration file issue


Vince
  


acutally karol's post helped a great deal:

Here is a mistake. Is a 'directory' in /etc/namedb/named.conf set to
'/var/named/etc/namedb'?

"/var/named/etc/namedb" is a global path, named starting in chroot won't
be able to see it. Just change it back to "/etc/namedb".

HTH,


Karol


  

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Invalid argument on accept(2)

[Duane Hill]

I have an issue where I'm getting periodic errors in /var/log/messages and 
/var/log/maillog where it states:


  Feb 27 18:23:33 smtpgate postfix/smtpd[68480]: fatal:
  accept connection: Invalid argument

I've been to the Postfix list and have received a number of responses. One 
of the developers is stating:


  "Erroring out with EINVAL would still be a kernel bug."

This server is running FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE-p9 amd64.

Perhaps someone could enlighten me on what I can do to debug some socket 
connections to see what's going on.

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Squirrelmail Calendar Broken After Upgrade?

[chris]

I just upgraded php due to a security issue, so I have upgraded
squirrelmail too.  The calendar no longer has administration options and
all of the entries we have added disappeared.  I looked on their site for
documentation of this issue, but no luck.  Maybe it is a specific issue
with the ports anyone else experiencing the same problem?

Chris Maness

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Re: Squirrelmail Calendar Broken After Upgrade?

[Kevin Kinsey]

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I just upgraded php due to a security issue, so I have upgraded
squirrelmail too.  The calendar no longer has administration options and
all of the entries we have added disappeared.  I looked on their site for
documentation of this issue, but no luck.  Maybe it is a specific issue
with the ports anyone else experiencing the same problem?



Just guessing, but it seems kind of likely that upgrading Squirrelmail 
overwrote your config file?  I've not used SM for a while (RoundCube 
now) but most PHP apps have a "config.php" or similar which might 
contains such things at database authentication information ... the lack 
of which would, most likely, cause just the sort of effect you describe.


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mysql50-server on FreeBSD 6.2 w/ LINUX_THREADS?

[patrick]

Is it still advisable to build the mysql50-server on FreeBSD 6.2 using
the LINUX_THREADS option? I'm using the SMP kernel on an older dual
1.0GHz Pentium III. This page 
suggests that the libthr library in FreeBSD 6.x is optimized for MySQL
and perhaps better than using linuxthreads.

Any thoughts?

Patrick
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pkg_add problems

[Don Munyak]

I am having trouble using pkg_add -r . I keep getting
the following error.
---
p0069# pkg_add -r bash
Error: FTP Unable to get
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/bash.tbz:
Network is unreachable
pkg_add: unable to fetch
'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/bash.tbz'
by URL
p0069#
-

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but
- I have rebuilt the kernel successfully
-
p0069# uname -a
FreeBSD p0069.bm.local 6.1-RELEASE-p12 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p12 #0: Thu
Feb  8 13:55:26 EST 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WEBSERVER  i386

- And there is no ports tree installed.. ie /usr/ports does not exist.
- I can ping ftp.freebsd.org
- I can also ftp>open ftp.freebsd.org

Any thoughts on trouble shooting this would be appreciated.

Thanks
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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Wojciech Puchar]

I haven't looked at dovecot.  Does it maintain a group of listeners,
similar to apache's, to handle incoming requests as courier-imap does?


you can set listening IP in config or *, not much more. if i do understand 
your question. no such many options like apache.




So far we have had excellent performance with courier-imap at sites with
about 10,000 mail clients hitting a single server (most of whom are using
the POP interface as these are ISP sites).


mine has 500-1000 clients, but makes unnoticable load. looks like both are 
OK.

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[OT] any ideas why Maven 2.0.4 can not connect to any external repositories?

[Michael E Mercer]

Hello,

I finally got around to updating to 5.5-Stable from about a 6-9 months
before its last update.
Since then, I've been unable to connect with Maven 2.0.4 and Limewire
for that matter.

Any ideas, a config file I need to change now? 

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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Wojciech Puchar]

As in shared namespaces?  I'm sure thats an IMAP standard, rather than just 
an MS thing?


Dovecot is brilliant also, especially with kqueue support now!  Pretty sure 
it does "shared folders."



According to http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders it does.


nice. actually i never needed this so don't know.

anyway such feature (not in dovecot, but generally) is strange thing for 
me.

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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Wojciech Puchar]

As in shared namespaces?  I'm sure thats an IMAP standard, rather than just 
an MS thing?


Dovecot is brilliant also, especially with kqueue support now!  Pretty sure 
it does "shared folders."


it works fast with IMAP with Maildir folders having tens of thousands of 
e-mails. don't ask me why i have such large folders, rather ask my users 
:) but it works well that case.

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Re: Squirrelmail Calendar Broken After Upgrade?

[Wojciech Puchar]

I just upgraded php due to a security issue, so I have upgraded
squirrelmail too.  The calendar no longer has administration options and
all of the entries we have added disappeared.  I looked on their site for


Maybe OT, but check sqwebmail. it runs without PHP, mysql and other such 
things, just requires Maildir folders and it works well.


no bugs and VERY fast.
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Getting errors while trying to use new Mysql 50 port and pkg

[Nicole Harrington]

Hello,
 I have 2 database servers running as slaves from a
Master database. One (db2) is running FreeBSD
6.2-PRERELEASE from October. The other, (db3) on a new
build of FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. Both are AMD64. 

 Db2 is running mysql 5.0.24a and has been working
fine.
 Db3 however, running mysql 5.0.33 keeps giving an
error 127 after awhile, for a couple of our tables.
The tables all check as ok.

 070227 11:24:48 [ERROR] Got error 127 when reading
table './user_info'

 We had this problem before with the ports built
version on db2, but when we switched to the pkg build
it went away. Now none of the build options seem to
work and sadly I do not have the old copy of mysql
5.024a to try on this server.  (forgot to use -K)

 I have tried the Ports build with and without various
optimizations, the Pkg build and a downloaded binary 
from mysql. (5.0.27) All produced the errors within an
hour of running. 

 perror shows this to mean:
 MySQL error code 127: Record-file is crashed.

 When the error is reported, the query that caused it
responds with an error, but all other queries work.
 Running a repair on the tables shows everything ok.


 Any suggestions greatly appreciated!


 Thanks!

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Re: Squirrelmail Calendar Broken After Upgrade?

[chris]

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I just upgraded php due to a security issue, so I have upgraded
>> squirrelmail too.  The calendar no longer has administration options and
>> all of the entries we have added disappeared.  I looked on their site
>> for
>> documentation of this issue, but no luck.  Maybe it is a specific issue
>> with the ports anyone else experiencing the same problem?
>>
>
> Just guessing, but it seems kind of likely that upgrading Squirrelmail
> overwrote your config file?  I've not used SM for a while (RoundCube
> now) but most PHP apps have a "config.php" or similar which might
> contains such things at database authentication information ... the lack
> of which would, most likely, cause just the sort of effect you describe.
>
> Kevin Kinsey
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Thanks, it wasn't the config file, but you clued me in on the fact that
the calendar plugin that comes with the distribution overwrote the 3rd
party shared calendar.  I just untared back over it and it is fine.

Chris Maness

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Re: Wireless card not being detected

[Coleman Kane]

On 2/24/07, DAK GHATIKACHALAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I wonder  why these fraudulent scam artists/spammers abusing  our freebsd
lists.

They are in wrong place with wrong people.

I am not buying  your  idea anyway. dude, you chose a wrong person.

Thanks
Dak

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Date: Feb 24, 2007 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: Wireless card not being detected
To: DAK GHATIKACHALAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Hello,



I want to know if you can sent a Message by Bank Coded Fax or MT Series
Swift. I am desperate in need of it as soon as possible, you can as well
link me with someone who can do it..



In case you can, please send me mail through [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Thank you



Regards,



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From: DAK GHATIKACHALAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Sent: Monday, 19 February, 2007 3:56:56 AM
Subject: Wireless card not being detected

Hi Freebsd


I have an issue with new card I need to make it work with freebsd,


on /var/log/messages I get


Feb 18 20:51:55 DAK kernel: pccard0:  (manufacturer=0x0192,
produc
t=0x0710, function_type=6) at function 0
Feb 18 20:51:55 DAK kernel: pccard0:CIS info: Sierra Wireless, AC860,
3G
Net
work Adapter, R1


For some reason  I dont understand why I get unknown card error

Does any one has idea


Thanks
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I think that I've exhausted my expertise in the area. You may wish to try a
more specific list, like
freebsd-mobile,
freebsd-hardware,
or freebsd-driversfor
more specific help. There are likely a number of people on those lists
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Re: Wireless card not being detected

[DAK GHATIKACHALAM]

On 2/27/07, Coleman Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On 2/24/07, DAK GHATIKACHALAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I wonder  why these fraudulent scam artists/spammers abusing  our
> freebsd
> lists.
>
> They are in wrong place with wrong people.
>
> I am not buying  your  idea anyway. dude, you chose a wrong person.
>
> Thanks
> Dak
>
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> From: wale qazim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Feb 24, 2007 2:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Wireless card not being detected
> To: DAK GHATIKACHALAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I want to know if you can sent a Message by Bank Coded Fax or MT Series
> Swift. I am desperate in need of it as soon as possible, you can as well
>
> link me with someone who can do it..
>
>
>
> In case you can, please send me mail through [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Julio Munento
>
>
> - Original Message 
> From: DAK GHATIKACHALAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
> Sent: Monday, 19 February, 2007 3:56:56 AM
> Subject: Wireless card not being detected
>
> Hi Freebsd
>
>
> I have an issue with new card I need to make it work with freebsd,
>
>
> on /var/log/messages I get
>
>
> Feb 18 20:51:55 DAK kernel: pccard0: 
> (manufacturer=0x0192,
> produc
> t=0x0710, function_type=6) at function 0
> Feb 18 20:51:55 DAK kernel: pccard0:CIS info: Sierra Wireless,
> AC860, 3G
> Net
> work Adapter, R1
>
>
> For some reason  I dont understand why I get unknown card error
>
> Does any one has idea
>
>
> Thanks
> Dak
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I think that I've exhausted my expertise in the area. You may wish to try
a more specific list, like 
freebsd-mobile,
freebsd-hardware,
or 
freebsd-driversfor 
more specific help. There are likely a number of people on those lists
who don't subscribe to -hackers, and they may have more experience in the
problem.



Thanks a lot Coleman.

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Re: pkg_add problems

[Kevin Kinsey]

Don Munyak wrote:

I am having trouble using pkg_add -r . I keep getting
the following error.
---
p0069# pkg_add -r bash
Error: FTP Unable to get
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/bash.tbz: 



The file does or doesn't exist? (I've not checked, we'll leave it in 
your court) ;-)



Network is unreachable


Network troubleshooting...?


pkg_add: unable to fetch
'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/bash.tbz' 


by URL
p0069#
-

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but
- I have rebuilt the kernel successfully
-
p0069# uname -a
FreeBSD p0069.bm.local 6.1-RELEASE-p12 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p12 #0: Thu
Feb  8 13:55:26 EST 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WEBSERVER  i386

- And there is no ports tree installed.. ie /usr/ports does not exist.
- I can ping ftp.freebsd.org
- I can also ftp>open ftp.freebsd.org


So, some network troubleshooting is done.  Can you actually download 
anything from the server, though?  FTP runs on two "channels", and needs
to connect to a CONTROL port and a DATA port.  Possible that CONTROL is 
open and DATA is blocked?



Any thoughts on trouble shooting this would be appreciated.

Thanks


Those are mine.  Good luck!

Kevin Kinsey
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Re: mysql50-server on FreeBSD 6.2 w/ LINUX_THREADS?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:47:07AM -0800, patrick wrote:
> Is it still advisable to build the mysql50-server on FreeBSD 6.2 using
> the LINUX_THREADS option? I'm using the SMP kernel on an older dual
> 1.0GHz Pentium III. This page 
> suggests that the libthr library in FreeBSD 6.x is optimized for MySQL
> and perhaps better than using linuxthreads.
> 
> Any thoughts?

I think lunixthreads is no longer needed, but try it and see, if
you're interested.

Kris
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Linux Compat

[Jerry]

Hi,

I just did a 6.2 scratch install and missed one thing.  
I am sure I remember from previous version installs that it
asks if I want to install the Linux Compatibility stuff.
But, this got all the way done without mentioning it at all.
I normally check the All selection on these boxes.   I went
back and looked and didn't notice any additional place to
check this.

Am I missing something, or is this now just a standard part of
the base?I rummaged through the Release notes and didn't 
see anything mentioned. 

jerry
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Re: Linux Compat

[Peter A. Giessel]

On 2007/02/27 12:24, Jerry seems to have typed:
> Am I missing something, or is this now just a standard part of
> the base?I rummaged through the Release notes and didn't 
> see anything mentioned. 

Did you try the handbook?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html
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Re: Linux Compat

[Joe Holden]

Jerry wrote:

Hi,

I just did a 6.2 scratch install and missed one thing.  
I am sure I remember from previous version installs that it

asks if I want to install the Linux Compatibility stuff.
But, this got all the way done without mentioning it at all.
I normally check the All selection on these boxes.   I went
back and looked and didn't notice any additional place to
check this.

Am I missing something, or is this now just a standard part of
the base?I rummaged through the Release notes and didn't 
see anything mentioned. 


jerry


You'll still need to kldload linux and install a base from ports as per 
usual.


Ta,
J
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Re: input/output error on hd

[Marty Landman]

On 2/26/07, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:49:46PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
>
> Firstly, Marty, you should run dumpfs(8) on your ad1s1a.



Well this didn't raise my spirits too much:

%sudo dumpfs /dev/ad1s1a
dumpfs: /dev/ad1s1a: could not read superblock to fill out disk
%

So I can get to all but my  "dead" blocks via the DD command and work with
it in hex; used to do mainframe assembler programming and don't particularly
mind the workout, so to speak.

Only with a road map it's not possible. Maybe I should write Ian Dowse and
see if he can point me in the right direction (pun intended).

Marty  :--\



With the -m

> switch, this produces a single line suitable for feeding into newfs with
> all parameters, and is probably worth saving for all slices in case of
> any subsequent emergencies.  I've just done that for mine, anyway, along
> with fdisk and boot0cfg -v output, and bsdlabel output for UFS slices.

Yes.  Good call.
I couldn't think of the dumpfs command the other evening when
I was writing, but that is the place to start.   Definitely run
that output to a file.   It will take some learning to understand
how to follow it out.   There are tables somewhere that tell what
each of those things mean and what fields to look in in the raw
data to find each thing - and to write it back if that is what you
will want to do.

Note that it will tell you in the first line if your filesystem if UFS2
or something else.

Good luck - maybe if you are successful, you can write a paper on it
and post it to a web page somewhere.   I probably should have way back
when and then I would remember more now.

jerry

>
> Without the -m switch, feed the output to a file, or less, as it's very
> voluminous.  For a 240GB drive, it'll likely be huge.  However the data
> at the head is probably what's needed, though I can't make much of it.
>
> This post by Ian Dowse explains how to compute where the superblocks
> are, for a quoted example dumpfs: http://noc.caravan.ru/faq/SBLOCK.html
>
> Note however that Ian is talking about UFS1 (where the superblock offset
> was 32) but if you consult fsck_ffs(8) you'll see (under -b) that for
> UFS2, which you almost certainly would have used, it's at 140 .. I
> gather that's the offset from the start of each cylinder group?
>
>
>  > >   Also assuming my bad sectors really are
>  > > totally bad, wouldn't fsck allow me to mark them as unusable and
move on?
>  >
>  > No, fsck does not do that.   Marking blocks bad happend below the
>  > level of the OS - generally in the disk controller itself.   It
remaps
>  > sectors until it runs out of spares and when it runs out, it starts
>  > reporting unrecoverable errors.   This is not even reported to the OS
>  > until it runs out of spares.
>  >
>  > The only thing you can do with those bad sectors is to try and figure
>  > out if any of them are superblocks.  If they are, you can probably
>  > rebuild it from other superblock clones.   If it is not, it is
probably
>  > lost data.  In that case try to overwrite the bad sector.  If that
>  > works, then the sector itself is OK, but the data that was there is
>  > gone.   If it doesn't work, then it is bad and there is a good chance
>  > that more than data got nuked in the power failure - eg, it damaged
>  > the disk or controller in some way.
>
> Seeing if fsck_ffs will use any discovered alternate superblocks would
> be the first step, and if so, whether that helps to get it mounted.  I'd
> certainly be careful to mount it read-only before trying data recovery!
>
> Since Marty has already been bravely using dd :) rewriting those sectors
> should be easy enough, bearing in mind the apparent off-by-one numbering
> difference between the sectors dd found bad and those fsck reported bad.
>
>  > But, the next thing seems to be learning about how to follow the file
>  > chains and how to find and read and write superblocks.  Alternatively
>  > you can decide it isn't worth the effort to recover and try and write
>  > over the drive completely - just totally trash it - and see if those
>  > bad sectors will write.  If you did that, then you would have to
rebuild
>  > the slice and partition table and do a newfs before you could again
>  > use the drive and everything previously on it would be lost.
>
> Well if a dd rewriting those specific contiguous sectors failed, I doubt
> that newfs would do any better, so the dd is definitely worth a try, but
> I wouldn't write anything further to the fs until all else has failed.
>
>  > Good luck.
>
> I can only echo that, again.
>
>  > Maybe someone who has some experience in tracking file chains can
>  > respond and give you more helpp than can I.
>
> Ditto for that .. I'm now very thoroughly out of my depth here, though
> I've learned a few new things through the exercise.
>
> Maybe mailing Ian Dowse with circumstances and the dumpfs head might be
> worth a try, Marty?  See the website committers' page for his add

Re: Linux Compat

[Jerry McAllister]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:49:07PM -0900, Peter A. Giessel wrote:

> On 2007/02/27 12:24, Jerry seems to have typed:
> > Am I missing something, or is this now just a standard part of
> > the base?I rummaged through the Release notes and didn't 
> > see anything mentioned. 
> 
> Did you try the handbook?
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html

Maybe I didn't ask my question well.   What I meant to ask is - is this
a change that I missed somewhere.   I used to get asked during the
installation process for a yes/no and I did not see it this time.   I think 
that got some runtime libraries installed along with the linux_enable="YES"
plunked in the rc.conf for me.

I am aware that I can do it myself later - say I had said no during
sysinstall or whatever.

Anway, I didn't see it mentioned that this question was removed from
sysinstall and I wondered if I missed something - either during the install
or in the documentation somewhere.

jerry
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pf.conf and cable modem

[J.D. Bronson]

I am converting from DSL to RoadRunner this week and wondering if 
there is anything special I need to do to my pf.conf for passing DHCP 
into my NIC?


From what I can tell...the NIC comes up *then* pf comes up.
But if I dont permit the periodic DHCP stuff in, I am wondering if 
that will cause an issue.


I think if I just permit everything OUT my NIC hooked up to RR I will 
be ok...but wanted to ask the group:


pass out quick on $ext_if from ($ext_if) to any keep state

-JD

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Re: pf.conf and cable modem

[Josh Carroll]

I am converting from DSL to RoadRunner this week and wondering if
there is anything special I need to do to my pf.conf for passing DHCP
into my NIC?


I think all you'll need is:

pass in quick on $ext_if proto udp from any port 67 to any port 68 keep state

Thanks,
Josh
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Re: self-signed certificates in outlook

[Norberto Meijome]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:04:07 +0100 (CET)
"Zbigniew Szalbot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Following a recent discussion I have a question whether there is a way for
> outlook not to complain when it comes to using self-signed certificates?

Have you tried importing the  CA's cert into IE/windows' list of known
and accepted authorities? 

_
{Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome

If it's there, and you can see it, it's real.
If it's not there, and you can see it, it's virtual.
If it's there, and you can't see it, it's transparent.
If it's not there, and you can't see it, you erased it.

I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet.
Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been
Warned.
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Re: pkg_add problems

[Kelly D. Grills]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:26:30PM -0500, Don Munyak wrote:
> 
> I am having trouble using pkg_add -r . I keep getting
> the following error.
> ---
> p0069# pkg_add -r bash
> Error: FTP Unable to get
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/bash.tbz:
> Network is unreachable
> pkg_add: unable to fetch
> 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/bash.tbz'
> by URL
> p0069#
> -
>
> I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but
> - I have rebuilt the kernel successfully
> -
> p0069# uname -a
> FreeBSD p0069.bm.local 6.1-RELEASE-p12 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p12 #0: Thu
> Feb  8 13:55:26 EST 2007
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WEBSERVER  i386
> 
> - And there is no ports tree installed.. ie /usr/ports does not exist.
> - I can ping ftp.freebsd.org
> - I can also ftp>open ftp.freebsd.org
> 
> Any thoughts on trouble shooting this would be appreciated.
> 

Perhaps verbose output (-v argument) might yield a clue: pkg_add -rv some_pkg

Are you behind a firewall? You might try using passive mode ftp. See
pkg_add(1) 

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Description: PGP signature

flashplugin on amd64

[Andriy Babiy]

Hi all.
Simple question:

=
# make install clean
===>  linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_7 is only for i386, and you are running 
amd64..
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper.

=

Is there another way to get it working on amd64? I checked the plugin for 
Konqueror, but it still needs the pluginwrapper, which is distributed in a 
binary form for i386 platform.
Thanks to everyone in advance!

Andriy
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Question on bug

[Tmp List Guy]

Hello everyone!
Hopefully this is the right area for posting this problem.  Here it is:
I've been running freebsd servers for some time now and a bug started 
appearing roughly the time that the new /usr/ports/ports-mgmt tree 
appeared and the old /usr/ports/sysutils was removed.  I've been trying 
to fix this for days, but I'm not sure how to and I think it might be a 
bug.

Here is what I do to get a bug:
server1: cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
server1: make deinstall package

A new package gets created in /usr/ports/packages/All.

server1: scp /usr/ports/packages/All/portupgrade-2.2.2_4,2.tbz 
server2:/usr/ports/packages/All


I then go to server2
server2: cd /usr/ports/packages/All
server2: pkg_add -v portupgrade-2.2.2_4,2.tbz

Here's the output I get:
extract: Package name is portupgrade-2.2.2_4,2
extract: CWD to /usr/local
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/pkg_deinstall.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/pkg_fetch.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/pkg_glob.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/pkg_sort.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/pkgdb.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/portcvsweb.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/portsclean.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/portsdb.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/portupgrade.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/portversion.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man5/pkgtools.conf.5.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/pkg_which.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/portinstall.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/ports_glob.1.gz
extract: execute '/bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg'
extract: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_deinstall
extract: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_fetch
extract: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_glob
extract: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_sort
extract: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_which
extract: /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb
extract: /usr/local/sbin/portcvsweb
extract: /usr/local/sbin/portinstall
extract: /usr/local/sbin/ports_glob
extract: /usr/local/sbin/portsclean
extract: /usr/local/sbin/portsdb
extract: /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade
extract: /usr/local/sbin/portversion
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkg.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdbtools.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkginfo.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgmisc.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtsort.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgversion.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portinfo.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ports.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb
extract: /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.sample
extract: execute '[ -f /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf ] || cp 
/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf'

extract: /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.status-pkg.sh
extract: /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_pkgtools
extract: /usr/local/share/examples/pkgtools/bash/complete.sample
extract: /usr/local/share/examples/pkgtools/tcsh/complete.sample
extract: /usr/local/share/doc/pkgtools/ChangeLog
extract: /usr/local/share/doc/pkgtools/NEWS
extract: /usr/local/share/doc/pkgtools/README
extract: execute '/sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg'
extract: CWD to (null)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Note that it is trying to CWD into a null directory and that causes the 
core dump.


The same thing happens on my dovecot packages as well.  I'm sure that 
others have the same problem.  I don't have the option to build the port 
on the remote system, otherwise I would do that.  I have to use a 
package to perform the task.  Is this a bug or something in my 
environment that I am not seeing?


My system is a 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD system.

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Marketing & Recruiting Opportunity at UC Berkeley

[MAtkins]

Hi,

I am writing you today to inform you of an opportunity in which your 
company can share and market its products to college students here at UC 
Berkeley.  I represent the Computer Science and Business Association; we 
are currently planning our annual Technology Exposition, to be held on 
March 15th from 11-4, and were hoping that your company might be 
interested in participating.  Modeled after the Consumer Electronics 
Show in Las Vegas, the Technology Exposition allows small and large 
firms alike to share their latest products, from computers to video 
games, with students and faculty at UC Berkeley.  Last year, several 
thousand visited the event; participants include such notable firms as 
Adobe, Microsoft and Dell. 

The event consists of self-governed booths similar to those found at 
Comdex and the CES.  At your booth, you may display technologies, offer 
promotions, present videos and/or conduct surveys and market research. 
We would like to focus on featuring new consumer products and 
technologies for the university-level target audience. However, we also 
recommend companies to present brochures, placards or presentations on 
relevant topics. Additionally, many firms find it worthwhile to use the 
Technology Exposition as a means of recruiting future employees.


This year's Technology Exposition will be held on Thursday, March 15, 
2007, from 11 am - 4 pm.  Companies will be provided with 2 tables, 
electricity, a parking space, lunch and custodial services.  The 
registration fee for this event is $400; the registration deadline is 
next Wednesday, March 7, 2007.  For each additional parking space and 
company representative beyond two, there will be an added charge of $25 
and $20, respectively.


If your company is interested in taking advantage of this opportunity 
and participating in this year's Technology Exposition, please inform me 
as soon as possible so that I may provide you with the necessary 
paperwork for you to meet the March 7 deadline.  Also, feel free to ask 
me any questions you may have regarding this event, CSBA, etc.  I look 
forward to hearing from you soon.


Regards,
Matthew Atkins

Technology Exposition Committee
Computer Science and Business Association
University of California, Berkeley

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why can't i turn off fast_time?

[spellberg_robert]

greetings, all ---

as long as folks are paying attention to
  this whole time zone foolishness
  foisted on us by congress
  [ as if they don't have --real-- work to do; but, i digress ],
  it seems to be a good time to inquire about my pet peeve.

please note:
  this is the --one-- thing about freebsd
  that --really--, and i mean --really--, hacks me off.

i have yet to figure out
  how to turn off the warm_weather fast_time bug^h^h^hfeature.

i am outside chicago, so i am six hours earlier than london.

i choose to not observe fast_time any more than absolutely necessary.
twice a year,
  these nimrods in washington actually expect me to
  drop what i am doing and
  go around everywhere and
  change the clocks.
to put not too fine a point on it, i refuse.
[ quite by accident,
i discovered that this eliminates what i call "solar_shock".
  now, when others grumble on monday
about the sun not being where it was on friday,
i laugh.
]

the first thing i did was to rtfm.
then, i selected a box on which to experiment.

the method that seems to work most successfully is
  to tell the box it's in arizona.
this would be great if i were in, say, laramie, but,
  i haven't moved there, yet.
so, it's a little irritating.

then, i thought i would be exceedingly clever
  by creating the missing file
  that would be logically found between arizona and indiana,
  using those files as templates.
surprise, surprise, they're in binary; just like --windoze--.
having read eric raymond's "art of unix programming",
  i agree completely that
  configuration files should be in human_readable form,
  not encoded in binary, mega_corp style.
i have put off playing with this approach.

last, i tried the environment variable trick,
  both for the local zone and for utc
  [ surely, i can make the box do everything in utc, i thought ].
sha_ZAM!!!
i thought i had struck the mother_lode.
everything was working just as i wanted.
i smiled smugly to myself.

euphoric,
  i arose from my throne [ no, silly, the other one ],
  outstretched my arm and commanded "shutdown -h now".

alas, logged messages were timestamped off by one hour.
i was crestfallen.

this suggests that the mobo clock is on utc [ or something ],
  fbsd is kloodging this into local fast_time and, then,
  the environment variable is re_kloodging the kloodge
  to display what i want to see,
  but shutdown doesn't honor the re_kloodge.
or some such.

this is the point where i gave up.

i recount the above from memory.
the last time i tried to get this right was about a year ago.

windoze gets this right
  [ this is one of the few times when i prefer windoze;
  think about this
  ].
i cam select a time_zone, then uncheck the "observe fast_time" box.
no problem.
but, my 'nix boxen have their own agenda.

i solved this by setting them to what displays as utc and
  what produces the right epoch_offset,
  then i calculate the correct timestamps myself in my apps.
i simply accept that my timestamps are right and
  some of the system generated timestamps are wrong.
c'est la guerre.

--

i wouldn't bother writing except that congress decided to meddle,
  so some really_smart_people are paying attention.

all i want is
  to be able to set my boxes to utc, with no fast_time, and
  to have my apps and all of the other apps agree on what the clock says,
  at --all-- times.

it would be a plus if
  there were binary files for the 4 contiguous us time_zones
  [ 2 of these already exist ],
  --if-- that's the trick to getting what i want.
[ i suspect that
it would be considered a plus by others elsewhere on the planet if
such files existed for all 25 hourly zones and
the several whose offset is not a multiple of 60 minutes.
  unlike mowing the lawn,
this job well done would not have to be done again.
]

it would be a really big plus if
  non_textual config files were eliminated, but
  i suspect that this is a bigger project than
  most folks have time for right now.
[ if there is interest,
since, at least, --i-- care about this,
perhaps i could take this on,
but i'm full_up for the next several months.
  however,
it strikes me that this might make a useful project for
some one or more of my students.
  any thoughts?
]

---

thanks for letting me inquire.

if anyone thinks this sufficiently worthy of
  either positive or negative response,
  please cc me as i am not subscribed to -questions.



rob spellberg
woodstock, illinois

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Backspace key "<-" not mapping to ^H

[Gary Kline]

I'm not sure whether this just in Ubuntu or in the Gnome desktop
or what, but for days, when I type mail in vi in mutt, sometimes
I get a "^?" when I hit the backspace.  ^H still works to back up
and correct my typos, but that's lots more work that what my
fingers are accustomed to.  It may be when I'm ssh'd across
servers.  I thought I'd ask here before I dig into this.  I think
a new xterm was recently updated in ports; not  sure if tat is a
factor or not.

xev understands that the b'space key is a backspace and tells me
the keycode.  Should I just us xmodmaprc to fix this?  thanks
for any clues!!

gary



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Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Jeffrey Goldberg]

On Feb 27, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Mikel King wrote:

I know this is a little bit of a tangent, but does anyone have a  
good comprehensive command list, for testing an IMAP server via  
telnet?



The UW IMAP tool kit contains a number of scriptable command lines  
tools for talking to imap servers.  Maybe something in there will help.


-j


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Ports after upgrade

[Atilla Gosterisli]

Please help,

After perl upgrade 5.8 my apache didn't start giving "/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: 
Shared object "libexpat.so.4" not found"  error 
and couldn't make install for apache I upgrade the all ports with cvsup 
After successfull upgrade, ports are not working  I can not make index with 
"make index" either.


"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2292: warning: String comparison operator 
should be either == or !=
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2292: warning: String comparison operator 
should be either == or !=
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2292: Malformed conditional (((${OSVERSION} < 
504105 || (${OSVERSION} >= 60 && ${OSVERSION} < 600103) || (${OSVERSION} >= 
70 && ${OSVERSION} < 700012)) && ${PKGORIGIN} != "ports-mgmt/pkg_install") 
|| exists(${LOCALBASE}/sbin/pkg_info))
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2293: warning: String comparison operator 
should be either == or !=
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2293: warning: String comparison operator 
should be either == or !=
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2293: Malformed conditional ((${OSVERSION} < 
504105 || (${OSVERSION} >= 60 && ${OSVERSION} < 600103) || (${OSVERSION} >= 
70 && ${OSVERSION} < 700012)) && ${PKGORIGIN} != "ports-mgmt/pkg_install")
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2308: if-less else
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2308: Need an operator
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2322: if-less endif
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2322: Need an operator
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5987: if-less endif
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5987: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
===> accessibility/at-poke failed
*** Error code 1
2 errors
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Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome

[Armin Pirkovitsch]

Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> FreeBSD-6.2-amd64
> 
> This is a test, I insalled aprox >80% of the packages on Disc 2
> After installation completed PC rebooted to runlevel 3.  Login as user
> and run;
> 
> $ startkde
> warning:
> Kpersonalizer : Cannot connect to Xserer
> - repeated-
> 
> $ gnome-session
> (gnome-session 1968) gtk-Warning  ** cannot open displayed
> 
> $ startx
> 3 xterm windows started.  On xterm I can start KDE with a lot of
> warning displayed on xterm windonw.  But I can't start Gnome on xterm.
> 
> I can start "firefox" on xterm.  Now I'm posting on "firefox" browser.
> 
> Please advise where I have to check fixing the problems.  TIA

There are two files that control which windowsmanager shall be used
(depending on whether you use a login manager or just startx)
One is called .xinitrc the other one .xsession - they are both in your
home directory - create them (you can create one of them and symlink the
other one) and add the start command to the file (full path) - and make
sure they are set executable (chmod 755 )
eg. for kde:
exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
eg for gnome:
exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session


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Re: Quanta+ freezes after upgrading

[dgmm]

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 01:46, Rico Secada wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:33:02 +
>
> dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Monday 26 February 2007 05:32, Rico Secada wrote:
> > > Since I upgraded KDE to 3.5.5 Quanta+ always freezes when I try to
> > > start it up. It doesn't do anything. No errors, just a freeze, and a
> > > CPU usage of 97%.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else experienced problems with Quanta+ since KDE 3.5.5?
> >
> > No, as I've not upgraded yet, but to help those who might be able to help
> > you, open a shell window and run quanta from there so you can see all the
> > output as the program loads up.  Odds are you'll see it stuck in a loop
> > of some kind looking for files or trying to find backups.
>
> I wish! :-) There is no output.

Odd.  If I run quanta from a shell window I see all sort of status info etc 
scrolling up the window including output from various KDE modules, Kate and 
Quanta.  I installed from ports with the default settings.

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Re: Linux Compat

[Chris Hill]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote:


On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:49:07PM -0900, Peter A. Giessel wrote:


On 2007/02/27 12:24, Jerry seems to have typed:

Am I missing something, or is this now just a standard part of
the base?I rummaged through the Release notes and didn't
see anything mentioned.


Did you try the handbook?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html


Maybe I didn't ask my question well.  What I meant to ask is - is this 
a change that I missed somewhere.  I used to get asked during the 
installation process for a yes/no and I did not see it this time.


You are very diplomatic.

Last time I ran sysinstall - installing a new system about a month ago, 
in late January 2007 - it *did* ask me the Linux question. This was 
probably from the 6.1R CD set.


  I think that got some runtime libraries installed along with the 
linux_enable="YES" plunked in the rc.conf for me.


Did you run sysinstall after installing a working system, or was this a 
new install on bare hardware?



I am aware that I can do it myself later - say I had said no during
sysinstall or whatever.


Not everyone bothers to read your entire message throughly. Been there.

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Are there ways of limiting user resources when a user process is run via suexec, rathern than via logon?

[Brett Davidson]

Obviously I could use the features in logon.conf to partially restrict
user activitity if users actually logged on.
Instead, the app concerned runs under suexec where (as I understand
things) logon, per se, is not involved.
 
Is there anything in FreeBSD equivalent to Solaris Resouce Manager? ie.
a different share-weighted scheduler for instance?
 
What I want is that all processes running under either a particular uid
range or a particular gid range could be restricted to a certain amount
of CPU and/or memory. Other systems (such as the Solaris product
mentioned above) do this by implementing a different scheduler that
weights allowed activity according to a set number of "shares" that that
user's "Resource group" have had allocated to them.
 
Cheers,
Brett.
 
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Re: why can't i turn off fast_time?

[Matthew Seaman]

spellberg_robert wrote:
> greetings, all ---
> 
> as long as folks are paying attention to
>   this whole time zone foolishness
>   foisted on us by congress
>   [ as if they don't have --real-- work to do; but, i digress ],
>   it seems to be a good time to inquire about my pet peeve.
> 
> please note:
>   this is the --one-- thing about freebsd
>   that --really--, and i mean --really--, hacks me off.
> 
> i have yet to figure out
>   how to turn off the warm_weather fast_time bug^h^h^hfeature.
> 
> i am outside chicago, so i am six hours earlier than london.
> 

cd /etc
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT+6 localtime

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: Backspace key "<-" not mapping to ^H

[Jordan Gordeev]

Gary Kline wrote:

I'm not sure whether this just in Ubuntu or in the Gnome desktop
or what, but for days, when I type mail in vi in mutt, sometimes
I get a "^?" when I hit the backspace.  ^H still works to back up
and correct my typos, but that's lots more work that what my
fingers are accustomed to.  It may be when I'm ssh'd across
servers.  I thought I'd ask here before I dig into this.  I think
a new xterm was recently updated in ports; not  sure if tat is a
factor or not.

xev understands that the b'space key is a backspace and tells me
the keycode.  Should I just us xmodmaprc to fix this?  thanks
for any clues!!

gary




See stty(1) and termios(4). You should modify the erase or erase2 values.
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