Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Hepworth
That's quite alot of messages to shift - you don;'t mention message size either. BUT you'll local caches of any URI-RBLs you want to use. A local DCC server. I'd ask on the spamassassin users list, but you prob looking at multiple machines just for the scanning never mind the local zone files etc

Re: installation

2005-12-07 Thread Doug Hawkins
Gayn Winters wrote: I use Linux, but for a project I am doing it involves the BSD port system so now I want to experience it for myself. As I said I have Linux and Windows with GRUB. If I try and install FreeBSD will it detect I already have grub, a swap drive? Will it also give me an option to

Re: Copying kernel and OS

2005-12-07 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 07:02:01AM +0100, Jack Raats wrote: > Is it also possible to scp both directories to the slow machine? Of course. -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- "If everything's under control, you

Re: Changing maximum number of groups in FBSD - is it feasible?

2005-12-07 Thread Ian Moore
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 17:41, Ian Moore wrote: > Hi, > > I'm toying with the idea of increasing the maximum number of groups a user > can belong to on one of my servers - we have a rather complex organisation > and we're hitting the 15 group limit for some people. > > There seems to be diffe

Re: Copying kernel and OS

2005-12-07 Thread Jack Raats
Is it also possible to scp both directories to the slow machine? JAck - Original Message - From: "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jack Raats" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; "FreeBSD Stable" Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:29 PM Subject: Re: Copying kernel and OS

Re: console characters/keyboard

2005-12-07 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 07:17 PM 12/7/2005, Aaron Peterson wrote: I have been working with a database recently that contained values with special characters. A lower case "n" with a tilde over it for instance. Anyway, during the conversion of the database from mysql to sqlite these special characters got corrupted.

Re: FreeBSD on ASUS P5S800 fails to boot

2005-12-07 Thread Jack L. (sent by Nabble.com)
Yance Kowara wrote: > > Hi, > > I tried to install FreeBSD 5.3R, 5.4R and 6.0R on ASUS > P5S800 motherboard and it fails to reboot. > Anyone has similar experience? Any hints? Or just > replace the motherboard? > > Kind regards, > > > Yance > > > > _

Re: simple shell script

2005-12-07 Thread Beecher Rintoul
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 07:33 pm, Martin Cracauer wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote on Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:52:55PM -0600: > > In the last episode (Dec 07), Beecher Rintoul said: > > > I'm trying to write a simple shell script that will launch a program > > > (in this case lynx), wait 60 seconds a

MD5 discrepancy in 6.0-RELEASE/src/CHECKSUM.MD5

2005-12-07 Thread James Long
When I go to ftp.freebsd.org and download /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.0-RELEASE/src/CHECKSUM.MD5 and run md5 against it, I get the checksum MD5 (CHECKSUM.MD5) = d0dc2749908246ee8e91de602bb422b2 Inside the CHECKSUM.MD5 file, however, it says that its own checksum should be MD5 (CHECKSUM.MD5) =

RE: installation

2005-12-07 Thread Gayn Winters
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jon freddy > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:43 PM > I use Linux, but for a project I am doing it involves > the BSD port system so now I want to experience it for > myself. As I said I have Linux and Windows with GRUB. > If I try and install FreeBSD w

Re: simple shell script

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Cracauer
Dan Nelson wrote on Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:52:55PM -0600: > In the last episode (Dec 07), Beecher Rintoul said: > > I'm trying to write a simple shell script that will launch a program > > (in this case lynx), wait 60 seconds and then kill it. I can get it > > to launch the program, but it seems

Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Cracauer
I made a little guide about why and when to make seperate partitions here: http://cracauer-forum.cons.org/forum/partitions.html This is starting from the assumption that as few partitions as possible is the way to go, it lists reasons why you would want additional ones. Martin -- %%

Re: can't find "libc.so.6"

2005-12-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:43:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > umame -a FreeBSD localhost 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD-RELEASE #0 Wed Aug 31 > 10:24:01 UTC 2005 root@/;/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/VILi386 > ---

Re: simple shell script

2005-12-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 07), Beecher Rintoul said: > I'm trying to write a simple shell script that will launch a program > (in this case lynx), wait 60 seconds and then kill it. I can get it > to launch the program, but it seems to ignore anything after that. I > am not a programmer so does anyon

Re: can't find "libc.so.6"

2005-12-07 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 19:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > umame -a FreeBSD localhost 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD-RELEASE #0 Wed Aug 31 > 10:24:01 UTC 2005 root@/;/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/VILi386 > --- >

simple shell script

2005-12-07 Thread Beecher Rintoul
I'm trying to write a simple shell script that will launch a program (in this case lynx), wait 60 seconds and then kill it. I can get it to launch the program, but it seems to ignore anything after that. I am not a programmer so does anyone have a suggestion on this script? Any help would be app

installation

2005-12-07 Thread jon freddy
I use Linux, but for a project I am doing it involves the BSD port system so now I want to experience it for myself. As I said I have Linux and Windows with GRUB. If I try and install FreeBSD will it detect I already have grub, a swap drive? Will it also give me an option to partition it? _

can't find "libc.so.6"

2005-12-07 Thread service
umame -a FreeBSD localhost 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD-RELEASE #0 Wed Aug 31 10:24:01 UTC 2005 root@/;/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/VILi386 - I have FreeBSD-5.4 installed on a Pentium 4 computer. I

Re: probing devices on a pentium-s 90mhz.... installation can't

2005-12-07 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Michael S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As a last measure, you could always try NetBSD as it is friedly to old hardware. Hmmm.. we have two machines, 1 newer (can absolutely install freebsd 6.0) and this old one. Currently, both of them are running IPVS, heartbeat, Redhat7. I will be replacing

probing devices on a pentium-s 90mhz.... installation can't

2005-12-07 Thread Michael S
As a last measure, you could always try NetBSD as it is friedly to old hardware. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

console characters/keyboard

2005-12-07 Thread Aaron Peterson
I have been working with a database recently that contained values with special characters. A lower case "n" with a tilde over it for instance. Anyway, during the conversion of the database from mysql to sqlite these special characters got corrupted. I ended up fixing them by hand since there we

probing devices on a pentium-s 90mhz.... installation can't continue because it takes forever..

2005-12-07 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, We have an old pentium-S 90mhz machine running Redhat7 used for LVS load balancer and I would like to replace it with FreeBSD6.0. The motherboard have two IDE socket but it doesn't seem to detect the cdrom at all. No problem, I downloaded the floppy images and then reboot it. However, on the f

Can't Mount Windows NT From FreeBSD 6.0 Stable

2005-12-07 Thread RdBSD
Dear All, This is my third email to freebsd-questions with the same question. Why i can't mount my nt share from my freebsd 6.0 stable. it was stabilized to 6.0 about 2 weeks ago. when i have 5.4 stable there's no such error and all fine and worked. Would you allhelp me please ? Error : [EMA

Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?

2005-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I > plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have > 512MB RAM. > > According to this page: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html > > I should us

Re: pkgdb format

2005-12-07 Thread Kent Stewart
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 12:55 pm, eoghan wrote: > Hello > Ive recently upgraded to 6.0 and I decided to upgrade my ports... So > I ran a: > portupgrade -af > Its running fine, but each time its upgrade a port I get: > [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... Failed > `Inappropriate file type o

web content filtering with 6.0

2005-12-07 Thread Dave
Hello, I've got a 6.0 box running squid as a transparent proxy. I want to implement web content filtering, popup blocking, add blocking, porn site blocking and selective filtering etc. I've read some howtos on a package called dansguardian and another squidguard and adzap that linked in to s

Video Conferencing Server Software ... Recommendations ... ?

2005-12-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Basically, I'm looking for something to run on a remote server, that other parties to connect to, create conferences, invite other users into, etc ... including full video / audio and, if possible, whiteboard ... Does anyone have any recommendations that work under FreeBSD? Thanks ...

Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

2005-12-07 Thread jdow
From: "Alex Zbyslaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jdow wrote: http://www.surl.org/. You mean http://www.surbl.org/ The other URL works but isn't very useful :-) I did indeed mess up and leave out the b. Mea culpa. {^_^} ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

2005-12-07 Thread jdow
You are going to have to trim numbers of messages before you get to SpamAssassin, I am afraid. Is this number after any greylisting you may have operational? If not then do look into greylisting. It is a very powerful technique to prefilter your incoming email at the connection level. If the addre

Re: postfix help

2005-12-07 Thread Michael Sherman
No, just postfix: /etc/rc.conf sendmail_enable="NO" sendmail_submit_enable="NO" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" and ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix.sh lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23 Dec 4 20:41 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix.sh -> /usr/local/sbin/postfix ps aux | gr

RE: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

2005-12-07 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Thanks Joanne , Exactly I red Spamassassin FAQ and they said that 20-30 MB memory must for each child process also iowait and CPU is really important but mailn purpose is RAM, you are right ... And sorry I heared but I did not use exactly spamc & spamd , also I will care about y

Rhine VT6102 problems

2005-12-07 Thread Urban
Hi, we have used VIA MS1 mini-itx boards with the VT6102 network controller the last 6 moth with FreeBSD 5.4 great succeess. Now we received a new batch and now the network controller is not working properly (for all units). After changing the line in rc.conf to "vr0_ifconfg ... media 100ba

Re: postfix help

2005-12-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-07 18:01, Michael Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all. > > I am trying to get postfix to relay mail through my ISP, without much > luck though. > > I installed postfix with sasl compiled in: > ldd /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd > libsasl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libsasl.

Re: postfix help

2005-12-07 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, December 07, 2005 18:01:30 -0500 Michael Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: relay=smtp-rog.mail.yahoo2.akadns.net[206.190.36.18], delay=0, status=bounced (host smtp-rog.mail.yahoo2.akadns.net[206.190.36.18] said: 530 authentication required - for help go to http://help.yahoo.com/

Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

2005-12-07 Thread jdow
From: "Vahric MUHTARYAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Everybody , I think too many people know too many appliance choosing freebsd for OS, also they are hardening FreeBSD and specialize for they works . Anybody know or Did this like hardening on FreeBSD for getting better performans, I'm

postfix help

2005-12-07 Thread Michael Sherman
Hello all. I am trying to get postfix to relay mail through my ISP, without much luck though. I installed postfix with sasl compiled in: ldd /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd libsasl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libsasl.so.8 (0x280be000) libpam.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpam.so.3 (0x280cb000)

Re: Disk write caching, hw.ata.wc and atacontrol disagree

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Cracauer
Dieter wrote on Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:05:40PM +: > I'm trying to turn off the evil data corrupting on-disk write cache. > > I added hw.ata.wc=0 to /boot/loader.conf and rebooted. > > # sysctl hw.ata.wc > hw.ata.wc: 0 > > So far so good. But! atacontrol cap ad4 says: > > Feature

Re: Re[2]: FreeBSD 6.x / GRE / WCCP / Squid

2005-12-07 Thread Alan Garfield
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 23:55 +0200, Cezar Fistik wrote: > Hello Alan, > > Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 5:46:41 AM, you wrote: > > > ipfw conf > > - > > > ipfw add 50 fwd 127.0.0.1,3128 tcp from any to any 80 > > Sorry for missleading you with wccp version2, my mistake. No problem. > No

hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

2005-12-07 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi Everybody , I think too many people know too many appliance choosing freebsd for OS, also they are hardening FreeBSD and specialize for they works . Anybody know or Did this like hardening on FreeBSD for getting better performans, I'm using FreeBSD closer 2 year I didn't see any p

VLC: core dumped

2005-12-07 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Trying to run VLC after a portupgrade on FreeBSD 6 and I get this: VLC media player 0.8.4 Janus Segmentation fault (core dumped) Is there a way to find out what's causing it? EJC www.only7bucks.com ___ Y

Re: kde hangs at first start...

2005-12-07 Thread RW
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 21:04, Javier Matos wrote: > Hi, I install FreeBSD 6.0 in my box and create the file xorg.conf.new with > rights values. Then I try it with Xorg -config ... (and it works fine)... > but when I try to start kde (writing "kdm" in the console as root) the > screen change

Re: Thanks for FBSD6

2005-12-07 Thread Dominique Goncalves
> > You can use in /etc/rc.conf: > > > > ifconfig_ath0="DHCP ssid your_ssid" > > That's FreeBSD 5.X and prior way of doing it. The suggested way to > config your wirerless is with wpa_supplicant(8). In rc.conf add: > > wpa_suplicant_enable="YES" > ifconfig_ath0="DHCP" > > and create wpa_supplicant.

Re: Copying kernel and OS

2005-12-07 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:12:27PM +0100, Jack Raats wrote: > I've two machines running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. > One very fast machine and one very very slow machine. On the fast > machine I can compile a new kernel and OS very quickly and easily. Is > it possible to transfer the compile world and ke

Disk write caching, hw.ata.wc and atacontrol disagree

2005-12-07 Thread Dieter
I'm trying to turn off the evil data corrupting on-disk write cache. I added hw.ata.wc=0 to /boot/loader.conf and rebooted. # sysctl hw.ata.wc hw.ata.wc: 0 So far so good. But! atacontrol cap ad4 says: Feature Support EnableValue Vendor write cache

Re: motion detection software

2005-12-07 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Actually there is no such thing as motion detection using any camera. Its the calculation of deference between two images/snaps. so should I say "logic motion detection" There are so many of them in /usr/ports/graphics based on this theory. gspy is one of them I can recall. -Jahan At 09:

Re[2]: FreeBSD 6.x / GRE / WCCP / Squid

2005-12-07 Thread Cezar Fistik
Hello Alan, Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 5:46:41 AM, you wrote: > ipfw conf > - > ipfw add 50 fwd 127.0.0.1,3128 tcp from any to any 80 Sorry for missleading you with wccp version2, my mistake. Now, is it a mistake or you changed the port squid listens on? First time it was 8080. Could

Re: Wireless networking in ad-hoc mode?

2005-12-07 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
> I used some ascii2hex converter that I found online to turn the wep key > "1n4te" > into "316E3474410D0B". >From ifconfig(8) manual page (my emphasis): wepkey key|index:key Set the selected WEP key. If an index is not given, key 1 is set. A WEP key will be eith

Re: Thanks for FBSD6

2005-12-07 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Dominique Goncalves wrote: You can use in /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_ath0="DHCP ssid your_ssid" That's FreeBSD 5.X and prior way of doing it. The suggested way to config your wirerless is with wpa_supplicant(8). In rc.conf add: According to this documentation http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/e

Re: sendmail local-host-names

2005-12-07 Thread Eric F Crist
On Dec 6, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, I want to collect mail for FreeBSD user charles on my Mac. The hostname of my FreeBSD box is: moe.local User charles has an account, has been added to the qpopper authentication database, and sendmail_enable="NO" is in /etc/rc.conf. In

Re: PowerEdge 2850 AMD64 panics

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi this is 'known' issue with the 5.x versions, it kernel panics under high file I/O. I've had this myself while testing a new email server. I've no idea if 6.0 fixes this issue, but it can't any worse to probably worth a go to upgrade to the 6.0 release. -- Martin On 12/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wireless networking in ad-hoc mode?

2005-12-07 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hello! I need to connect my laptop to the wireless NIC on my FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE gateway. It's ral0, and I've set it to ad-hoc mode. My laptop, running Windows XP, can see the network "bsd" but not ping it / connect to it. I used some ascii2hex converter that I found online to turn the wep key

Re: Copying kernel and OS

2005-12-07 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Jack Raats wrote: I've two machines running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. One very fast machine and one very very slow machine. On the fast machine I can compile a new kernel and OS very quickly and easily. Is it possible to transfer the compile world and kernel to the slow machine. If yes whart director

Re: Copying kernel and OS

2005-12-07 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Jack Raats wrote: I've two machines running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. One very fast machine and one very very slow machine. On the fast machine I can compile a new kernel and OS very quickly and easily. Is it possible to transfer the compile world and kernel to the slow machine. If yes whart director

Re: thunderbird file locations

2005-12-07 Thread RW
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 11:36, eoghan wrote: > On 7 Dec 2005, at 11:24, Erik Norgaard wrote: > > Have you looked in ~/.thunderbird? > > > ... > this is in /root/.thunderbird I can't think of any good reason to run thunderbird as root. ___ freebsd

Copying kernel and OS

2005-12-07 Thread Jack Raats
I've two machines running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. One very fast machine and one very very slow machine. On the fast machine I can compile a new kernel and OS very quickly and easily. Is it possible to transfer the compile world and kernel to the slow machine. If yes whart directories etc... do i hav

Re: Thanks for FBSD6

2005-12-07 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Erik Nørgaard wrote: and create wpa_supplicant.conf: network={ ssid="MyWireless" mode="11g" } ofcourse there are more options see wpa_supplicant.conf(5), I just now see that I've used 11g incorrectly. Well, another thing that maybe someone can highlight: Say you configure two (or

kde hangs at first start...

2005-12-07 Thread Javier Matos
Hi, I install FreeBSD 6.0 in my box and create the file xorg.conf.new with rights values. Then I try it with Xorg -config ... (and it works fine)... but when I try to start kde (writing "kdm" in the console as root) the screen change his resolution trying to start kde but when appear the screen

Re: Thanks for FBSD6

2005-12-07 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Dominique Goncalves wrote: basically the meat of the script looks like: ifconfig ath0 ssid "my wireless network" dhclient ath0 if someone can tell me what /etc/rc.conf options i need to set to duplicate that, that would be cool. i played around with it for a while but never got it to work wi

pkgdb format

2005-12-07 Thread eoghan
Hello Ive recently upgraded to 6.0 and I decided to upgrade my ports... So I ran a: portupgrade -af Its running fine, but each time its upgrade a port I get: [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb in /var/db

Re: Thanks for FBSD6

2005-12-07 Thread Dominique Goncalves
Hi, On 12/7/05, Jon Drukman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a note to say thanks to all the hard working people who created > FBSD6. I spent an annoying week trying to get some minimal > "lightweight" Linux distros to work "out of the box" on an ancient > laptop that I had lying around. They a

6.0 STABLE install locks up within a few minutes

2005-12-07 Thread Brown, Steve
Hello everyone, I'm trying to get v6.0-STABLE installed on a PC that is running Windows (XP Pro) now. The hardware is very stable with Windows, it's just bogged down with all the updates and third-party apps you need to keep it that way. I'm running FreeBSD in other systems but haven't tried th

Re: Unable to start Webmin

2005-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Gerard Seibert wrote: Webmin has suddenly refused to start. This is the message displayed: Starting webmin. Segmentation fault (core dumped) A humongous 'perl.core' file is produced. I tried removing and reinstalling webmin, but that failed to alleviate the problem. I am open to any suggestio

Re: Unable to start Webmin

2005-12-07 Thread Subhro
Gerard Seibert sat at his 'puter and typed on 12/8/2005 0:51: Webmin has suddenly refused to start. This is the message displayed: Starting webmin. Segmentation fault (core dumped) A humongous 'perl.core' file is produced. I tried removing and reinstalling webmin, but that failed to alleviate

Thanks for FBSD6

2005-12-07 Thread Jon Drukman
Just a note to say thanks to all the hard working people who created FBSD6. I spent an annoying week trying to get some minimal "lightweight" Linux distros to work "out of the box" on an ancient laptop that I had lying around. They all had various problems, such as: unable to recognize/confi

PowerEdge 2850 AMD64 panics

2005-12-07 Thread bsd
This is my first post to the FreeBSD mailing list, and unfortunatley its because I've been having a vexing problem with one of my servers. The machine in question is a Dell PowerEdge 2850 w/2 3Ghz EMT64 Xeons, 2gbs of ram, a Perc 4e/Di w/6 300GB drives. This machines primary function is as a mail

Unable to start Webmin

2005-12-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
Webmin has suddenly refused to start. This is the message displayed: Starting webmin. Segmentation fault (core dumped) A humongous 'perl.core' file is produced. I tried removing and reinstalling webmin, but that failed to alleviate the problem. I am open to any suggestions. -- Gerard [EMAIL

Acer Altos G5350

2005-12-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Anyone tried this HW? Does it work with 6.0 AMD64? Or i386? Does anyone know what kind of SCSI controller it has? Does the NIC work? bye & Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

RE: not rebooting on panic 5.4

2005-12-07 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
Never mind, swap=ram. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ruben Bloemgarten Sent: December 07, 2005 4:18 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: not rebooting on panic 5.4 Hi all, I was hoping someone could tell me how to enable

Re: PC-BSD and Request Tracker

2005-12-07 Thread Will Maier
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:38:02PM -0600, Rory Schmitz wrote: > I'm fairy new to Linux and I'm in the process of installing > Request Tracker (RT) for trouble tickets with staff members. The > RT website stated I needed to be running PERL 5.8.3 or higher on > my BSD box. With that,a couple questi

Re: Changing maximum number of groups in FBSD - is it feasible?

2005-12-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/7/05, Ian Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm toying with the idea of increasing the maximum number of groups a user can > belong to on one of my servers - we have a rather complex organisation and > we're hitting the 15 group limit for some people. Have you considered cascading g

X error: [drm] failed to load kernel module "i915"

2005-12-07 Thread raz5
Hello I have problem with running X. I have tried to run it on FreeBSD 6.0 with LG 1730s and intel integrated card 82865G. after I had read previous posts I have tried to change the Xorg.conf.new and test it but I still getting the errors: [drm] failed to load kernel module "i915" (EE) I810(0):

PC-BSD and Request Tracker

2005-12-07 Thread Rory Schmitz
Hi, I'm fairy new to Linux and I'm in the process of installing Request Tracker (RT) for trouble tickets with staff members. The RT website stated I needed to be running PERL 5.8.3 or higher on my BSD box. With that,a couple questions: 1) Can RT be ran from PC-BSD if you are familiar with RT

Re: Changing maximum number of groups in FBSD - is it feasible?

2005-12-07 Thread Jon Falconer
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Ian Moore wrote: > Hi, > > I'm toying with the idea of increasing the maximum number of groups a user > can > belong to on one of my servers - we have a rather complex organisation and > we're hitting the 15 group limit for some people. > > There seems to be differing opi

Re: odd problem with firewall server

2005-12-07 Thread Nathan Vidican
Matt Singerman wrote: Hi all, This probably isn't a FreeBSD-specific problem, but it's vexing nonetheless. So we have our servers accessing the outside world through their own firewall on a FreeBSD machine. Nothing too fancy, just routing traffic and shutting off unused ports. However, this m

Re: gnome2

2005-12-07 Thread Louis J. LeBlanc
On Wed, December 7, 2005 12:21 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:13:45 -0500 "Louis J. LeBlanc" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >>> >>> Edit /etc/ttys like this: >>> ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/sbin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure >>> >>> And gnome will start when you boot

odd problem with firewall server

2005-12-07 Thread Matt Singerman
Hi all, This probably isn't a FreeBSD-specific problem, but it's vexing nonetheless. So we have our servers accessing the outside world through their own firewall on a FreeBSD machine. Nothing too fancy, just routing traffic and shutting off unused ports. However, this morning the ethernet jack

Error Building ICU

2005-12-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
I am unable to build the devel/icu port. Everything goes fine until the end when this error message is displayed: /custrtrn/ ---[OK] ---/custrtrn/Test_UChar_UTF32_API ---[OK] ---/custrtrn/Test_UChar_UTF8_API ---[OK] ---/custrtrn/Test_UChar_WCHART_API ---[OK] ---/custrtrn/Test_wi

Re: Pxeboot for nfs installation woes.

2005-12-07 Thread Christopher McGee
Erik Norgaard wrote: Christopher McGee wrote: Hi all, I have a lot of servers on order, so I want to be able to just network boot them as a jumpstart into the installation (which will then be scripted). I am most of the way there. I have tested my NFS shares and if I boot a boxe off a cd,

Re: schedule a script at "system startup"

2005-12-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/4/2005 6:14 AM Werther Pirani wrote: Ian Lord wrote: I guess there might be a way to put a script in /etc/rd.d/ but I don't know how to run it under a specifid uid Create a script (name is not important as long as it ends in .sh) Although customary, it does not have to end in ".sh"

Re: Detecting new hardware

2005-12-07 Thread Fabian Keil
"Keith Bottner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any kind of a utility that I can run to detect a new network > card that I just installed into an existing FreeBSD 5.4 box? pciconf -lv Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: gnome2

2005-12-07 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:13:45 -0500 "Louis J. LeBlanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Edit /etc/ttys like this: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/sbin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure And gnome will start when you boot. Actually, don't the docs suggest turning OFF ttyv8? IIRC, the more recen

Re: Pxeboot for nfs installation woes.

2005-12-07 Thread Erik Norgaard
Christopher McGee wrote: Hi all, I have a lot of servers on order, so I want to be able to just network boot them as a jumpstart into the installation (which will then be scripted). I am most of the way there. I have tested my NFS shares and if I boot a boxe off a cd, I can do the nfs install

Detecting new hardware

2005-12-07 Thread Keith Bottner
Is there any kind of a utility that I can run to detect a new network card that I just installed into an existing FreeBSD 5.4 box? Thanks, Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Current state of AFS in freeBSD or alternatives.

2005-12-07 Thread Craig Ryhorchuk
Hi folks, Is there a working version of AFS server/client for 5.4 ? I found openafs-1.4.0 for FreeBSD 6. Currently we're running 5.4 here and are not sure that we want to move to 6 yet for production. The only option for 5.x appears to be Arla, but I don't know what the stability of that is and

Pxeboot for nfs installation woes.

2005-12-07 Thread Christopher McGee
Hi all, I have a lot of servers on order, so I want to be able to just network boot them as a jumpstart into the installation (which will then be scripted). I am most of the way there. I have tested my NFS shares and if I boot a boxe off a cd, I can do the nfs installation without fail. I ha

Re: gnome2

2005-12-07 Thread Louis J. LeBlanc
> --On Wednesday, December 07, 2005 16:28:59 +0200 spen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> I have installed freebsd 6.0 STABLE in an ACER laptop recently. I would >> like to have gui, so I tried to install from the ports gnome2. >> I have *updated *my ports. >> I tried to run dm, gdm

Re: gnome2

2005-12-07 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, December 07, 2005 16:28:59 +0200 spen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, I have installed freebsd 6.0 STABLE in an ACER laptop recently. I would like to have gui, so I tried to install from the ports gnome2. I have *updated *my ports. I tried to run dm, gdm but none worked. W

Re: gnome2

2005-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
spen wrote: Hello all, I have installed freebsd 6.0 STABLE in an ACER laptop recently. I would like to have gui, so I tried to install from the ports gnome2. I have *updated *my ports. I tried to run dm, gdm but none worked. When I run startx, x windows start but not gnome2. I have added to ~/

Re: Memory limit issue (malloc) for PHP script under Apache

2005-12-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Olaf Greve wrote: Hi all, A colleague of mine has run into a weird issue, for which we hope someone knows a solution (or otherwise: if someone knows there's no (easy) solution, that's also good to know. The issue: when running a script that will consume a large amount of memory (under Free

not rebooting on panic 5.4

2005-12-07 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
Hi all, I was hoping someone could tell me how to enable 5.4 to reboot automagically on panics. It just hanging there isn't helping. Thanks, Ruben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: Memory limit issue (malloc) for PHP script under Apache - solved!

2005-12-07 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi guys, Well, my colleague has done some more RTFM-ing and Googling, and he found the following solution: Put kern.maxdsiz="1073741824" in /boot/loader.conf (see the example in /boot/defaults/loader.conf), and then reboot. That way a new kernel compilation was not required. Tnx for thinking

Re: ee(1): why Backspace doesn't work as expected if $TERM=xterm?

2005-12-07 Thread James Bailie
Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > They map it perfectly fine as 127, it's only FreeBSD's ee(1) that has > this problem, tcsh and others work fine. ee does not do this on the console on my 5.4 machine, nor does it do this in an XTerm over an ssh connection to my 4.11 machine, therefore I would susp

Re: Newbie: Ports upgrade, CVSup, and disk space problems

2005-12-07 Thread Ashley Moran
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 14:43, Charles Haynes wrote: > Hi, all. I'm new to FreeBSD. > > I'm setting up a machine to act as a webserver using: > > FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p12-jc2 (jail18) #0 > > Tonight I added the package: > > cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2 > > and ran: > > # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/cvs-

Newbie: Ports upgrade, CVSup, and disk space problems

2005-12-07 Thread Charles Haynes
Hi, all. I'm new to FreeBSD. I'm setting up a machine to act as a webserver using: FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p12-jc2 (jail18) #0 Tonight I added the package: cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2 and ran: # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/cvs-supfile After it ran (which took over an hour), I realized I used the "cv

Re: ee(1): why Backspace doesn't work as expected if $TERM=xterm?

2005-12-07 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 07 Dec 2005 09:27:48 -0500, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Constantine A. Murenin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, > > > > When I ssh my FreeBSD 4.8 machine and try to use ee(1), I always > > notice that Backspace erases the following character, not the previous > > one. O

gnome2

2005-12-07 Thread spen
Hello all, I have installed freebsd 6.0 STABLE in an ACER laptop recently. I would like to have gui, so I tried to install from the ports gnome2. I have *updated *my ports. I tried to run dm, gdm but none worked. When I run startx, x windows start but not gnome2. I have added to ~/.xsession the

Re: ee(1): why Backspace doesn't work as expected if $TERM=xterm?

2005-12-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Constantine A. Murenin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > When I ssh my FreeBSD 4.8 machine and try to use ee(1), I always > notice that Backspace erases the following character, not the previous > one. On the contrary, I've noticed that it does not do that when I > login via console. >

Re: libstdc++.so.5 howto ...

2005-12-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Kiffin Gish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess what I was trying to say is that I am very confused about all this > linux compatible stuff. I noticed there are many emulator ports for red hat, > suse, etc. and it is not clear to me which strategy to use. There's even an > Xfree linux compat i

Memory limit issue (malloc) for PHP script under Apache

2005-12-07 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi all, A colleague of mine has run into a weird issue, for which we hope someone knows a solution (or otherwise: if someone knows there's no (easy) solution, that's also good to know. The issue: when running a script that will consume a large amount of memory (under FreeBSD 5.2.1-release i3

Re: update from ports

2005-12-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Pablo Allietti wrote: hi i have a simple question. i was installed spamassasin from /usr/ports how is the procedure to upgrade this package? i need to deinstall and install again or have any way to only upgrade like yum in fedora? If you are doing installations by hand then, yes, you need to

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