Keyboard enabling in 5.X

2004-03-03 Thread den
Hi, I have a question about keyboard driver in FreeBSD 5.X. I want to have a possibility to boot my box without keyboard and attach keyboard after system already started. In FreeBSD 4.X we may remove flags with values from kernel config line : device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1 and after re

Illegal attachment type found in sent message "hi"

2004-03-03 Thread System Anti-Virus Administrator
Attention: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Illegal attachment type was found in an Email message you sent. This Email scanner intercepted it and stopped the entire message reaching it's destination. The Illegal attachment type was reported to be: PIF files not allowed per Company security policy Pleas

Re: one simple question

2004-03-03 Thread Chris Pressey
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:13:43 + chungwei Hsiung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello.. > I have a simple question, but I am not sure what the answer is. If > anyone can possibly help me, it is really appreciated. I compile a > test C file. I notice there are a few lines at the beginning of t

inetd[520] ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use ???

2004-03-03 Thread rfa
I rebooted my system and wondered why the commadn line said Mar 4 15:13:16 rfa inetd[520]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use I can still ssh onto this machine, and i can browse the pages it provides. from other computers on the lan. i can lynx the local website on our lan using this box, b

problems mounting swap on mfs

2004-03-03 Thread Mipam
Hi, Im running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 and i'm having trouble mounting some dirs on swap. pfstat -s yields: Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/amrd0s1b 15994880 1599488 0% When i put in /etc/fstab: /dev/amrd0s1b /try mfs rw,-s=65536 0 0 and the

Re: pkgdb problem!

2004-03-03 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:39:37 -0500 (EST) Tsu-Fan Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi BSDers, I run pkgdb -F and get this: > > ---> Checking the package registry database > [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 433 packages > found (-21 +58) (...)Cannot allocate memory: Cannot update the pkg

ASUS A7N8X LAN Dual LAN Support

2004-03-03 Thread David Averill-Pence
Greetings all. I have an ASUS A7N8X-E, which boasts dual LAN ports. As far as I can deduce, only one of the ethernet ports has a functioning driver (sk), while the other does not. Is there some configuration setting in rc.conf or elsewhere that I've failed to enable, or is this a known issue th

Re: backup

2004-03-03 Thread Toomas Aas
> From: Lucas Holt > Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:14:57 -0500 > On Mar 3, 2004, at 8:59 AM, Toomas Aas wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 9:32 am, Richard Beyer wrote: > >>> We're currently doing a back up of a FreeBSD 4.9 (2) server by > >>> plugging a USB external driv

Re: kernel compile Q - How to get the speaker to work?

2004-03-03 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
Hi thanks for the answer, but when I had Windows installed, the speaker did work, I mean I was able to hear music, in addition to the beeps. thx --- Johnson David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 02 March 2004 04:28 pm, Tadimeti Keshav > wrote: > > > I added to my kernel config file: > >

What's with ipfw

2004-03-03 Thread Peter Rosa
Hi all, after I cvs-uped my system from cvsup.cz.freebsd.org I can not use IPFW firewall. Make world, make kernel - everything seemed well, but after reboot (when firewall rules should load) I got errors something with Invalid argument. When I try ipfw add pass all from any to any I get "ipfw: ge

Starting Mailscanner/Sendmail

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello System: FreeBSD 4.9, Sendmail 8.12.9p2/8.12.8, Mailscanner from ports I've run into following troubles: If the system start it starts to much sendmail process (and there occurs error messages while the system starts). I stop both sendmail process by hand and start the script mta.sh by han

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-03 Thread Scott W
Stefan Cars wrote: Hi! Following up on this I'm also looking into buying some servers and have the almost the same scenario, a MySQL DB together with apache with mod_perl and embperl, (alot of SQL and dynamic content). Would we be better off with: Dual Xeon, 2.4 GHZ with 2GB of RAM or Xeon 3.0 GHZ

XFree86 4.4.0 - when

2004-03-03 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm not sure if this is the appropriate list to ask or not, but, does anyone have a rough idea when XFree86 4.4.0 will be committed to the ports tree? I've got an nVidia AGP card that is supported in 4.3.99 and 4.4.0 Thanks! -- Regards, Doug _

Re: /root file system full

2004-03-03 Thread Bob Johnson
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:51 pm, Ron Joordens > wrote: > Good Morning, > [...] > My / filesystem is full. 109%. I want to know what is on the / > filesystem, what I can get rid of, how to get rid of it and how to > make sure that it doesn't happen again. > > Any thoughts? > The / filesystem co

pkgdb problem!

2004-03-03 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi BSDers, I run pkgdb -F and get this: ---> Checking the package registry database [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 433 packages found (-21 +58) (...)Cannot allocate memory: Cannot update the pkgdb!] never has happened to me before, what's wrong? Best Regards, :-) Tsu-Fan Cheng [鄭祖帆]

Re: qmail revisited

2004-03-03 Thread Peter Schuller
> Mar 3 09:30:34 patriot qmail: 1078327834.990817 delivery 600: deferral: > Unable_ > to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ It can't access the maildir. Off the top of my head, check at least: * Is the entry in the .mail file correct? Don't forget the extra dot if you have opted for a name beginning w

Re: Video Card Compatibility

2004-03-03 Thread Dan Strick
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 08:06:51 -0500, bradford fligor wrote: >> > While on vacation last week, I decided to buy an ATI Radeon 9000 video > card thinking it's got to work. Well I can't get it to work and can't > find it on the list of cards during install. In fact no ATI cards seem > to be listed.

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-03 Thread Scott W
Stefan Cars wrote: Ok. In this case the costs isn't really a problem, so both read and write will be faster with two disks in a RAID1 vs. three disks in a RAID 5 ? I've read that RAID5 would be faster in read ? Short answer- it depends. Bear in mind that there are some controllers that will do RA

Re: sendmail: Operation timed out with

2004-03-03 Thread Justin
Well, after all it seems I was trying to relay through the wrong server. I changed that and seem to be able to send mail at least. Perhaps the firewall makes the most sense for explaining why I seem to NEED to use a relay server now. Thanks so much for the help! -Justin Brody > "MS" == Matth

Re: php script to count visitors to site

2004-03-03 Thread Marty Landman
At 07:57 PM 3/3/2004, fbsd_user wrote: I have an php script to read a file bump the counter and write it back. Need html sample code to jump to the php script and return with the counter value and display it. Just put those lines on your page file where you want the numbers to show up. This assu

Re: ipfw rules

2004-03-03 Thread Danny Pansters
On Thursday 04 March 2004 01:42, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: > I know this has probably been posted 1000's of times but i would like to > set up a ipfw firewall i run many services on this machine. It acts as a > gateway for my network > APACHE web server 80/TCP and perhaps 443/TCP > IMAP mail server

php script to count visitors to site

2004-03-03 Thread fbsd_user
I have an php script to read a file bump the counter and write it back. Need html sample code to jump to the php script and return with the counter value and display it. Any body have an little snippet of code they can share with me? Thanks ___ [EMAI

RAID1 vs RAID5 [ was Re: 1 processor vs. 2]

2004-03-03 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 23:20, Reko Turja wrote: > > RAID-1 will be about 50% faster than RAID-5 doing reads regardless of > > size, and will also be *much* faster doing small writes-- by a factor > > of 4, perhaps. > > The abovementioned figures seem more like comparing RAID-0 (striping) > to R

ipfw rules

2004-03-03 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
I know this has probably been posted 1000's of times but i would like to set up a ipfw firewall i run many services on this machine. It acts as a gateway for my network APACHE web server IMAP mail server SMTP mail server BIND name server FTP server also i would like to be able to forward packets

Re: what is my real address?

2004-03-03 Thread Robert Storey
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:13:40 + Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you need to find your external address quickly, then ssh into this > other machine and look at the variables that ssh sets in your > environment -- I'm assuming that the box you ssh into is running some > variety of O

Re: disk geometry issues during sysinstall of 5.2.1

2004-03-03 Thread Robert Storey
I have found that if you just hit "g", it will report the correct disk geometry and fix the problem without any further intervention. Ideally, it would be better if this disk geometry bug gets fixed, but for the time being, hitting "g" is a quick and dirty fix that works for most people. I wouldn't

Monitoring bandwidth usage by user

2004-03-03 Thread Roop Nanuwa
Hello all, Is there any way to get live (or even just logged) monitoring of bandwidth usage by user instead of just an aggregate amount for the entire machine/interface? Thanks --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Low Profile U320 RAID support

2004-03-03 Thread Robert Barten
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:36:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to build a newer, faster FBSD server to replace one running RAID 1 > with an Adaptec 2100s and have the following requirements for the RAID > card: > > 1 channel (2 preferable) > U320 SCSI > low profile (going into a 2RU b

Re: /root file system full

2004-03-03 Thread Asenchi
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:51:56 +1100 Ron Joordens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: +> Good Morning, +> My / filesystem is full. 109%. I want to know what is on the / filesystem,+> what I can get rid of, how to get rid of it and how to make sure that it+> doesn't happen again. +> +> Any thoughts? I hav

Re: downloading text files from apache

2004-03-03 Thread Asenchi
On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:55:46 + Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: +> I'm not advocating that. I'm advocating that you understand what this +> will do and why before thinking of doing it, and that in the meantime +> you compress any text files you want to make available for download, so +>

Re: latest security advisory and 5.1R

2004-03-03 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
[ please don't post on top, tnx ] On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:35:55 -0500 "fbsd_user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please expand on your comment about 4.10 being the next stable > release. I take this to mean that 5.2.1 is an long way off from > moving to the stable branch. Are you in the inter-circl

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-03 Thread Danny Pansters
(enough CCing, back to list only) On Wednesday 03 March 2004 22:36, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:26:43PM +0100, Stefan Cars wrote: > > Okey, but if you would compare RAID-1 on two disks compared to RAID-5 on > > three disks then ? What would be the faster ? > > RAID1 is going

Re: openoffice-1.1 question...

2004-03-03 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:12:27AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:03:07AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:20:34PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > > > On another server I'm trying to build openoffice-1.1. > > > Finally got the

Message at boot time "Liteon CDRW"

2004-03-03 Thread Maggio
I get this message at boot time for my LiteON CDRW device , on Freebsd 5.2.1 . With 4.X series I've never get this message or any other problems with the device : ata1-master: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE no interrupt interrupt acd0: CDRW at ata1-master BIOSPIO I get this two times

NFS not responding.

2004-03-03 Thread Lists
Hi all, I'm experiencing problems with a 4.9 server attached to a NetApp. Some background. There are several Solaris 8 machines connected to it, and (2) FreeBSD 4.9 machines. The Solaris servers and one FreeBSD machine have no issues connecting to the NetApp. However, the 4.9 server in que

one simple question

2004-03-03 Thread chungwei Hsiung
Hello.. I have a simple question, but I am not sure what the answer is. If anyone can possibly help me, it is really appreciated. I compile a test C file. I notice there are a few lines at the beginning of the assembly code. I want to know what it means, but can't figure out one of them. Can

Re: My ipfilter rules.

2004-03-03 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
I wrote: I was wondering if some of you, who are good at, would critique my rules. Here's the file: http://www.ste-land.com/rules.html So far, I've gotten these suggestions: Apply the bogon list to the outbound path. Compress my blocking of netbios junk to one rule. Move bad options & flags che

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-03 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 3, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Reko Turja wrote: RAID-1 will be about 50% faster than RAID-5 doing reads regardless of size, and will also be *much* faster doing small writes-- by a factor of 4, perhaps. The abovementioned figures seem more like comparing RAID-0 (striping) to RAID-5 (striping with ECC

sound i810 [ i82801AA (ICH) AC'97 Audio controller]

2004-03-03 Thread Luis Trimiño
Hello, my name is Luis and I am a new user of FreeBSD I had been having some troubles getting my sound to work. Doing some research and looking around the LINT file I found that I have to add the following lines to my kernel: device pcm #Required for i82801AA (ICH) device sm

Re: Tab Stops

2004-03-03 Thread Craig Wilson
Matthew, Thanks for the reply. Since posting this message I have discovered a 'set ts=4' option in vi and a -x4 in more. I have also discovered that the tab stops are hardwired at 8 columns in kern/tty.c therefore cat can only ever use 8 column tabs unless tty.c is changed. vi was the main area wh

RE: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-03 Thread Reko Turja
> RAID-1 will be about 50% faster than RAID-5 doing reads regardless of > size, and will also be *much* faster doing small writes-- by a factor > of 4, perhaps. The abovementioned figures seem more like comparing RAID-0 (striping) to RAID-5 (striping with ECC) than RAID-5 to RAID-1 (mirroring).

Re: apache log files rotation

2004-03-03 Thread Dejan Lesjak
fbsd_user wrote: > Can apache logs be rotated by /etc/newsyslog.conf? > If not, how is it normally done? > Hello, Apart from what has already been said, you might also want to check http://www.freebsddiary.org/rotatelogs.php for more details. Dejan _

disk geometry issues during sysinstall of 5.2.1

2004-03-03 Thread Goodleaf, John M
Hello, I have a fairly new test machine configured on an Intel 875 (yes, the ICH5 controller) board. I have a standard ATA-133 drive and two SATA drives, Maxtor 80GB. They are not configured as a RAID device. Here's the thing: When I try to install FBSD, I get the apparently common disk geometry pr

Re: /root file system full

2004-03-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:51:56AM +1100, Ron Joordens wrote: > My / filesystem is full. 109%. I want to know what is on the / filesystem, > what I can get rid of, how to get rid of it and how to make sure that it > doesn't happen again. > > Any thoughts? Check for core files (called 'foo.core'

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-03 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 3, 2004, at 4:26 PM, Stefan Cars wrote: Okey, but if you would compare RAID-1 on two disks compared to RAID-5 on three disks then ? What would be the faster ? RAID-1 will be about 50% faster than RAID-5 doing reads regardless of size, and will also be *much* faster doing small writes-- by

Re: Low Profile U320 RAID support

2004-03-03 Thread up
Thanks for your reply, Stefan. Unfortunately, that card is U160 and is not low profile. If I have to settle for U160, I'll probably go with another 2100 (the low profile is more important than 2 channels), but I figure there *has* to be a U320 RAID solution for FreeBSD, I just hope there's a low

Re: /root file system full

2004-03-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
> Good Morning, > > I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 and have thoroughly enjoyed my first > foray into the BSD world. Indeed my first foray into any non-windows OS. So > far I have encountered quite a few problems but have always managed to find > an answer in the handbook or by searching th

Re: Low Profile U320 RAID support

2004-03-03 Thread David Raistrick
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Adaptec 2200S would be ideal, but alas, there's no FreeBSD driver for > it. There isn't?!?!? Mine works fine: aac0: mem 0xf800-0xfbff irq 16 at device 1.0 on pci3 aac0: i960RX 100MHz, 48MB cache memory, optional battery present aac0: Ke

Re: /root file system full

2004-03-03 Thread Dan Rue
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:51:56AM +1100, Ron Joordens wrote: > Good Morning, > > I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 and have thoroughly enjoyed my first > foray into the BSD world. Indeed my first foray into any non-windows OS. So > far I have encountered quite a few problems but have always

Re: Low Profile U320 RAID support

2004-03-03 Thread Stefan Cars
Hi, i have been running with with Adaptec 3410S card on a box and it works very good. /S > > Hi: > > I need to build a newer, faster FBSD server to replace one running RAID 1 > with an Adaptec 2100s and have the following requirements for the RAID > card: > > 1 channel (2 preferable) > U320 SCSI

Re: scsi_da.c

2004-03-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:34:23PM -0400, Friso Gorter wrote: > My question is this, I read the manual for send-pr but I'm unclear if I should use > send-pr for such a minute little edit or if I should it send it to one of you > programmer geniuses Use send-pr -- that will help keep track o

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-03 Thread Stefan Cars
Ok. In this case the costs isn't really a problem, so both read and write will be faster with two disks in a RAID1 vs. three disks in a RAID 5 ? I've read that RAID5 would be faster in read ? / Stefan On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:26:43PM +0100, Stefan Ca

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:26:43PM +0100, Stefan Cars wrote: > Okey, but if you would compare RAID-1 on two disks compared to RAID-5 on > three disks then ? What would be the faster ? RAID1 is going to be faster, both reading and writing, but it will take a lot more raw disk space to provide the r

Low Profile U320 RAID support

2004-03-03 Thread up
Hi: I need to build a newer, faster FBSD server to replace one running RAID 1 with an Adaptec 2100s and have the following requirements for the RAID card: 1 channel (2 preferable) U320 SCSI low profile (going into a 2RU box, want to avoid a riser) supported by FreeBSD 4.9 I'm not particularly i

/root file system full

2004-03-03 Thread Ron Joordens
Good Morning, I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 and have thoroughly enjoyed my first foray into the BSD world. Indeed my first foray into any non-windows OS. So far I have encountered quite a few problems but have always managed to find an answer in the handbook or by searching through the ex

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-03 Thread Stefan Cars
Okey, but if you would compare RAID-1 on two disks compared to RAID-5 on three disks then ? What would be the faster ? / Stefan On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:53:49PM +0100, Danny Pansters wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 March 2004 14:05, Stefan Cars wrote: > >

Re: Size of variables in awk

2004-03-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 04), Wayne Sierke said: > On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 02:48, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Mar 03), Wayne Sierke said: > > > I'm using the printf function in awk but something ain't right: > > > > > > # jot 4 30 | awk '{ printf("%u\n", 2^$1-1) }' > > > 2147483648 >

php4 imp problem

2004-03-03 Thread RJ45
I ahe configured imp+mysql+apache+ssl on my Ultra 60 running FreeBSD 5.2.1/sparc64 the problem is that when I list my inbox and I click on one message the apache child process doign the imp stuff dies: [Wed Mar 3 21:51:15 2004] [notice] child pid 18104 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) I ah

DWL-650M1 / Realtek 8180L

2004-03-03 Thread Justin Smith
I'm having trouble getting my D-Link Air DWL-650 (M1) working. pciconf reports the chipset as "Realtek 8180L". As far as I can tell, there is no support for that chipset in freeBSD. Any plan to write a driver for this chipset? There is a linux driver available from the realtek website... than

scsi_da.c

2004-03-03 Thread Friso Gorter
Hello, I am like most of the people that probably email you guys a newbie freebsd'er, eventhough I have been playing with fbsd since 4.3 Anysnootch forgive me for using this to tell you that i have made an edit to scsi_da.c, or rather a quirk to get support for my USB memory stick. Its a Phi

My ipfilter rules.

2004-03-03 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
I've ported my iptables firewall rules to ipfilter. Since I'm new to firewalling under any *BSD, and because it never hurts to get a review, I was wondering if some of you, who are good at, would critique my rules. Rather than include the file here, I give a link to it, below. Feel free to crit

Re: Problem in starting GNOME

2004-03-03 Thread Roop Nanuwa
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 = On multi-user shell # gnome-session could not start 'GNOME. You need to start GNOME after you've started X. Go to a command prompt and type: echo 'exec gnome-session' > ~/.xinitrc Then type "startx" to run X & GNOME. Kindly advise how to make

Re: latest security advisory and 5.1R

2004-03-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:35:55PM -0500, fbsd_user wrote: > Please expand on your comment about 4.10 being the next stable > release. I take this to mean that 5.2.1 is an long way off from > moving to the stable branch. Are you in the inter-circle that > authorizes the movement of development bra

Re: Installing Squirrel Mail from the Ports

2004-03-03 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 3, 2004, at 1:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After running a make clean and removing the file from /usr/ports/distfiles It still downloads the file and shows it as being corrupt. Is there any way that i can specify a different server for it to download the bz2 from? "corrupt" meaning th

Re: Can Not ping Hosts by name when Underscores are Present.

2004-03-03 Thread Martin McCormick
Thank you very much. I run our domain name servers and this fits what I suspected was going on. bind Version 9 stopped checking names for illegal characters and I usually try to discourage people from using them in names, but I thought I had better check to make sure there wasn't somethin

Re: Installing Squirrel Mail from the Ports

2004-03-03 Thread Eric Pogroski
On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:05:17 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Delete /usr/ports/distfiles/squirrelmail-1.4.2.tar.bz2, and try again. > > > > The file you have by that name has been corrupted somehow and the ports > system is not happy with it. I just checked, and the tarball I > downloa

Re: Installing Squirrel Mail from the Ports

2004-03-03 Thread whizkid
> "make clean" is the most thorough procedure-- it will also clean > dependencies of the current port-- or you could simply delete the work > subdirectory... > > -- > -Chuck > After running a make clean and removing the file from /usr/ports/distfiles It still downloads the file and shows it as bei

Re: Apache

2004-03-03 Thread Marty Landman
At 01:35 PM 3/3/2004, Chuck McManis wrote: Look in /var/log/messages to see if its complaining, look in $LOGILES/httpd-access.log to see if it is complaining, look in $LOGFILES/httpd-error.log and see if it is complaining. Plus, what url are you trying? If http://fqdn and http://unqualifieddomain

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-03 Thread Chuck McManis
At 05:53 AM 3/3/2004, Danny Pansters wrote: RAID5 on 3 disks? That's useless. Its only mostly useless. You can't mirror (RAID-1) three drives, so if you want some resiliency you can use RAID-5 and give up one disk to parity and get two disks worth of data. You could even do RAID4 on three disks.

RE: latest security advisory and 5.1R

2004-03-03 Thread fbsd_user
Please expand on your comment about 4.10 being the next stable release. I take this to mean that 5.2.1 is an long way off from moving to the stable branch. Are you in the inter-circle that authorizes the movement of development branch versions to stable branch? Just what is the time line for 4.x s

Re: Strange behaviour in assembly language program

2004-03-03 Thread jan . muenther
> > pusheax ; Or any other dword Heh... that of course will work too ;) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Tar command and OpenOffice 1.1 question

2004-03-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi Jerry, > > Tks for your 2 emails and detail advice. > > - snip - > > > /home/user/Download/OpenOffice-1.1/ > > > en-ooodict-GB-1.2.tgz > > > openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz > > - snip - > > Suggest: > > cd /home/user/Download > > cp openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz /usr/local/. > > cd /usr/local > >

Re: Apache

2004-03-03 Thread Chuck McManis
Look in /var/log/messages to see if its complaining, look in $LOGILES/httpd-access.log to see if it is complaining, look in $LOGFILES/httpd-error.log and see if it is complaining. Generally its pretty good about telling you what is going on. If you left the httpd.conf file at most of its defaul

Re: Making gettext work by renaming/copying library?

2004-03-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:57:45PM +, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > I'm having a lot of difficulty with gettext. I can't find gettext-old, so > I'm trying to get 1.13 to work. Is there any problem with copying > libintl.so.6 to .5 and .4? Yes, why do you think they're different versions oth

Re: packages for 5.2.1

2004-03-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:45:41PM +0800, h0444lp6 wrote: > Dear list, > > The packages for 5.2.1_Release are the same as for 5.2_Release? > > So I can use the packages I downloaded for 5.2 with 5.2.1? 5.2.1 had a couple of security and serious bug fixes (e.g. XFree86 and KDE). Kris pgp0.

Re: Can Not ping Hosts by name when Underscores are Present.

2004-03-03 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 3, 2004, at 12:56 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: Does the ping utility do some sort of name checking when one wants to ping a particular host by name? Ping uses gethostbyname2() to resolve the target hostname. A person with an account on a FreeBSD system demonstrated to me that

Re: Installing Squirrel Mail from the Ports

2004-03-03 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 3, 2004, at 1:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what I can do to get the port downloaded again? or how can I clean up after a failed install? "make clean" is the most thorough procedure-- it will also clean dependencies of the current port-- or you could simply delete the work subdirectory.

Re: Installing Squirrel Mail from the Ports

2004-03-03 Thread whizkid
> Delete /usr/ports/distfiles/squirrelmail-1.4.2.tar.bz2, and try again. > > The file you have by that name has been corrupted somehow and the ports system is not happy with it. I just checked, and the tarball I downloaded from sourceforge is identical to the one I used the last time I updated squ

Making gettext work by renaming/copying library?

2004-03-03 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
I'm having a lot of difficulty with gettext. I can't find gettext-old, so I'm trying to get 1.13 to work. Is there any problem with copying libintl.so.6 to .5 and .4? NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. jm -- My other computer is your windows box. __

Can Not ping Hosts by name when Underscores are Present.

2004-03-03 Thread Martin McCormick
Does the ping utility do some sort of name checking when one wants to ping a particular host by name? A person with an account on a FreeBSD system demonstrated to me that one could successfully look up a given host using nslookup but if you pinged that host by name as in ping host

Re: Installing Squirrel Mail from the Ports

2004-03-03 Thread whizkid
> Delete /usr/ports/distfiles/squirrelmail-1.4.2.tar.bz2, and try again. > > The file you have by that name has been corrupted somehow and the > ports system is not happy with it. I just checked, and the tarball I > downloaded from sourceforge is identical to the one I used the last > time I updat

Re: IPTables - Netfilter

2004-03-03 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 17:00:35 -0500 "Michael Banta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > New here to FreeBSD. I wanted to install iptables(netfilter) but it > will not compile on FreeBSD. Is there a version fro FreeBSD? Thankfully there is not :P Look into ipfw and ipf. _

Re: production box: 4.9, 5.1, 5.2+ ???

2004-03-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > thanks Jerry for this detailed reply. i really appreciate it. > > from what you have said i think 4.9 might be indicated. > > but i have one more question. device drivers. > > i have kind of bleeding edge sound and ethernet cards. > in fact i've already had to put in an older NIC to get

Re: Installing Squirrel Mail from the Ports

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running FreeBSD 5.1, I Just ran CVSUP on my ports to bring them current. When I try to install Squirrelmail from /usr/ports/mail/squirrelmail I get the following error: If you are absolutely sure you want to override this check, type "make NO_CHECKSUM=yes [other arg

Re: hello

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
dimitar georgiev wrote: hello can you tell me what is the best freebsd version, also stable for web servers. The best is generally the latest. Confusion arises because there are two "branches" of development, -CURRENT (5.X) and -STABLE (4.X). For more information, see the FreeBSD Handbook, cha

Re: Apache

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Michael Banta wrote: Hello. I just installed Apache wilthout error. I started apache and did a ps aux. It appears to be running fine. However I cannot bring up the default webpage. Doing lynx localhost does not work. I set the Servername variable in the config file to localhost, just to test

Re: latest security advisory and 5.1R

2004-03-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:54:22AM -0500, fbsd_user wrote: > Are the security advisory fixes rolled into the .iso ftp download > images? No -- the iso images are produced at release time and not altered after that. However, binary patches are being produced by Colin Percival's FreeBSD-update serv

Re: Installing Squirrel Mail from the Ports

2004-03-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:59:50AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > >> Checksum mismatch for squirrelmail-1.4.2.tar.bz2. > ===> Giving up on fetching files: squirrelmail-1.4.2.tar.bz2 > Make sure the Makefile and distinfo file > (/usr/ports/mail/squirrelmail/distinfo) > are up to date. If

Re: Size of variables in awk

2004-03-03 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 02:48, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 03), Wayne Sierke said: > > On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 18:34, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > In the last episode (Mar 03), Wayne Sierke said: > > > > It seems I've run into the 32-bit signed number wall in awk > > > > (5.2-RELEASE). > >

Re: latest security advisory and 5.1R

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
fbsd_user wrote: Are the security advisory fixes rolled into the .iso ftp download images? Not sure, but certainly not put into -RELEASES. I imagine you'd have to grab a "snapshot" ISO Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

Re: production box: 4.9, 5.1, 5.2+ ???

2004-03-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I hesitate to ask this because it sounds stupid. > > I went down to the tech book store and bought freeBSD on CD's. > it happened to be 5.1. > I, a neophyte, assumed it was "kosher". > > I bought it and installed it on 2 machines and pretty much ok so far. > Now I've been reading about the

Re: latest security advisory and 5.1R

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:00:09AM -0500, Ed Budd wrote: I think what's confusing me here is that I assumed that 5.1R was still "officially supported" and every other advisory up to this one has been included, like last week's FreeBSD-SA-04:03.jail advisory, for example.

Re: Curious sound problem in 5.2.1-R

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Doug Poland wrote: Thanks Aaron, that's all I needed to do. If you don't mind, how does a mere mortal determine that the snd_ich.ko is the module for an Intel ICH5 82801EB sound chip? i'm quite sure i figured it out the "long" way. However, it was quick and dirty, and should work on any sys

Installing Squirrel Mail from the Ports

2004-03-03 Thread whizkid
Running FreeBSD 5.1, I Just ran CVSUP on my ports to bring them current. When I try to install Squirrelmail from /usr/ports/mail/squirrelmail I get the following error: SquirrelMail is installed into /usr/local/www/squirrelmail To use the old location /usr/local/squirrelmail define WITHOUT_WWWDIR

Re: downloading text files from apache

2004-03-03 Thread Peter Risdon
fbsd_user wrote: I got no info found for man mime.types No, my fingers were ahead of my brain... mime.types(5) is put there by cups and refers to its own mime.types file. Are you saying that if I delete the statement for .txt out of the /usr/local/etc/apache/mime.types file that apache will d

RE: latest security advisory and 5.1R

2004-03-03 Thread fbsd_user
Are the security advisory fixes rolled into the .iso ftp download images? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew Seaman Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:40 AM To: Ronald Clark Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: latest security advisory and

Re: Is the handbook no longer installed?

2004-03-03 Thread Randy Bush
> /usr/doc is the canonical place for the sources, which should get > installed into /usr/share/doc after a "cd /usr/doc;make install". close to bottom line: doc is not made with buildworld. i guess it's off-planet. or maybe just outta this world. one needs to cd /usr/ports/textproc/docpro

Keyspan USB Serial Adapter on FreeBSD 5.1

2004-03-03 Thread Gilles Celli
Hi, This is my very first posting on the freebsd-questions mailing list :) I tried to install a Keyspan USB Serial Adapter model: USA19 on FreeBSD 5.1. FreeBSD recognizes it with no problem (/var/log/messages) kernel: ugen0: Keyspan USA-19 serial adapter, rev 1.00/80.01, addr 2 However trying t

Re: phpnuke forbidden, how to install?

2004-03-03 Thread Simon Barner
Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >i wanted to install phpnuke for content but after cvsuping i found out that > > > >===> phpnuke-6.9 is forbidden: SQL injection vulnerability in Php-Nuke <= > >7.1.0. > > > >and i checked the phpnuke website, they have a patched version of p

Re: latest security advisory and 5.1R

2004-03-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:35:00AM -0600, Ronald Clark wrote: > I have what I hope is a simple question. If I cvsup my sources and > complete the makeworld and installworld processes, will that install the > patch, or do I need to apply manually and recompile the kernel? (I have > been under the i

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