Re: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992)

yes, but guess what - FBSD 6.2 is now released, so just install that and the updated driver is already in the kernel Ted - Original Message - From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 15,

Re: avi/wmv/qt player on FreeBSD

Hi Alain, On 18/01/07, Alain G. Fabry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been trying to install different multimedia players (avifile/xine/etc) via the port, but they all fail on the win32-codecs dependency. Probably because of the security issue. Which is an avi/wmv/qt player that can be instal

DesktopBSD 1.6RC-1 is out

Hello, For Desktop and Laptop users, DestopBSD 1.6RC-1 is out and it's based on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE with KDE 3.5.5 http://desktopbsd.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=5582#5582 -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___

Re: Transport Mode IPSEC

Dan, You do realize, don't you, that since both of these hosts are on a switch, and are using unicast traffic to communicate with each other, that they cannot be sniffed, don't you? You might read up on ethernet switching technology a bit before answering that. Most people don't wear 2 con

Transport Mode IPSEC

Hey all, I see the handbook has a nice howto on tunnel mode ipsec. I just want to protect my NFS/NIS traffic between two hosts on a switch (neither NAT'd) -- is there a reference as to transport-mode ipsec anywhere, or has anyone done it that can outline it? I would imagine it would be drast

avi/wmv/qt player on FreeBSD

I've been trying to install different multimedia players (avifile/xine/etc) via the port, but they all fail on the win32-codecs dependency. Probably because of the security issue. Which is an avi/wmv/qt player that can be installed and works? Thanks, Alain

RE: What is this mean by this term

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dak > Ghatikachalam > Sent: Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:48 AM > To: freebsd-questions > Subject: What is this mean by this term > > I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , > > W

Re: Flash 9

В сообщении от Четверг 18 января 2007 09:15 Naim написал(a): > On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:17:21 -0500 > > "Chad Gross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I see it in linux compat layer > > > http://www.freshports.org/www/linux-flashplugin9/ ;) > > > > > > -- > > > Regards, > > > > > > -Abdullah Ibn Hamad

Re: Flash 9

and was wondering if anyone has tried it yet. I'm at work, not at a *BSD desktop. I get a segfault from linux-firefox when I try to play a video from youtube. It's been this way for the last few releases of the Linux Flash 9 player. Josh ___ freebsd-q

Re: Flash 9

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:17:21 -0500 "Chad Gross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I see it in linux compat layer > > http://www.freshports.org/www/linux-flashplugin9/ ;) > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri > > Arab Portal > > http://www.WeArab.Net/ > > ___

Subject: Re: Execute script every time a specified user logs in (FreeB SD 6.1)

A simple technique is to have /etc/profile check for user X and for him source another file (containing the commands which X can't modify). Have root own this file and allow all others to only read and execute it. sudo is unnecessary. This is inelegant in that it has a general and wi

mpt status report

I just ran across this URL: http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-oct-2006-dec-2006.html#MPT-LSI-Logic-Host-Adapters:-mpt and am wondering why you guys don't just port the mpi driver from OpenBSD. There is nothing in the mpt driver that doesn't work in mpi. We have mpi working on all platforms

Re: What is this mean by this term

On 1/17/07, Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007 15:48, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: > I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , > > What do we mean by "top-posting" > > do I pickup the last thread from that email thread and reply ? is that > right

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

On 1/17/07, Michael M. Press <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The flash plugin works great with linux-firefox; but how do you get the > java plugin to work with it? > . I don't know if there is a way to get a FreeBSD version of the Java plugin to work. If you have a Linux version of it sitting aro

Re: What is this mean by this term

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 15:48, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: > I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , > > What do we mean by "top-posting" > > do I pickup the last thread from that email thread and reply ? is that > right ? > > What if someone is emailing from a thread while I

Re: ATAPI CDROM Problem

Yes, the motherboard is Intel DP965LT (which uses P965) with a Core 2 Duo processor. Thanks, Serdar - Original Message From: Josh Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Serdar Ozler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 4:55:20 PM Subject: Re:

Re: What is this mean by this term

On 1/17/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Dak Ghatikachalam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , > > What do we mean by "top-posting" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting Thanks a lot Wiki information Rocks, Wow I learnt

Re: What is this mean by this term

SO This is "TOP-POSTING" -- Actually this is normal behavior of my google mail On 1/17/07, Chris Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: > I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , > > What do we mean by "top-posting" Top-posting i

Re: What is this mean by this term

"Dak Ghatikachalam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , > > What do we mean by "top-posting" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: What is this mean by this term

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , What do we mean by "top-posting" Top-posting is when you put your reply above the orginal message. The problem is evident when you get many people responding to each other; it rapidly

Re: ATAPI CDROM Problem

I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my new machine and have a problem. I boot using 6.2-disc1, but when I try to choose CD/DVD as installation media, the installer says: "No CD/DVD drives found". Is this by chance a newer Core 2 Duo system with a motherboard with an Intel p965 chipset? If so

What is this mean by this term

I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , What do we mean by "top-posting" do I pickup the last thread from that email thread and reply ? is that right ? What if someone is emailing from a thread while I am replying at the same time, would that not happen ? Would I be gettin

ATAPI CDROM Problem

Hi, I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my new machine and have a problem. I boot using 6.2-disc1, but when I try to choose CD/DVD as installation media, the installer says: "No CD/DVD drives found". I tried the solution in question 3.13 of FreeBSD FAQ, but it didn't work. I tried setting the

Re: How to install the 3945ABG Driver on a fresh FreeBSD 6.2 install?

Daniel Tourde wrote: Hello, I found the driver for my wireless card on: http://www.clearchain.com/~benjsc/download/20070106-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz but how is it supposed to be installed on a fresh FreeBSD 6.2? I hate to say this but this driver only seems to compile on -CURRENT as far as i ca

Re: Flash 9

On 1/17/07, Abdullah Al-Marrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/17/07, FreeBSD WickerBill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe this would be better asked on the ports list but I'm throwing it out > here first. Adobe released the linux version today (found > here< http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/ge

splunk on FreeBSD 6.1/AMD 64

I know that this isn't an officially supported configuration, but rumor has it that it's possible to run splunk 2.1 on a 64-bit FreeBSD 6.1 installation so I was wondering if anyone has it working. splunk 2.1.2 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #3 compat5x-amd64-5.4.0.8_7 A convenience package to install t

Re: How to install the 3945ABG Driver on a fresh FreeBSD 6.2 install?

Daniel Tourde wrote: Hello, I found the driver for my wireless card on: http://www.clearchain.com/~benjsc/download/20070106-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz but how is it supposed to be installed on a fresh FreeBSD 6.2? Daniel You will need to compile the driver then use kldload to load it into the kern

Re: duo core question

On 1/17/07, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:55 AM, pete wright wrote: > On 1/16/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> thank you guys for reply... very useful... :-) >> >> so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really >> "feel" it?? >>

Re: Disable syslogd 514..

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:33:13 +0500, Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi doing a netstat -an i see that syslog is listening in UDP port 514.i am trying to disable it, but no luck i checked the rc.conf but there is nothing there.what do u recommend? to

Re: Grep a file

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:52, Joshua Lewis wrote: > When I run: > sudo grep -v '^\;'extentions.conf > new_extentions.conf > > I get: > -bash: new_extentions.conf: Permission denied You're running grep via sudo, but the redirection is handled by the shell, wish is still running as you. Eith

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

The flash plugin works great with linux-firefox; but how do you get the java plugin to work with it? I don't know if there is a way to get a FreeBSD version of the Java plugin to work. If you have a Linux version of it sitting around: cd /usr/local/lib/linux-firefox/plugins ln -s /usr/local/

Is the new Qlogic QLA 2462 fibre channel card supported?

Hello I am curious if the new Qlogic QLA2462 fibre channel card is supported yet. I do not see it listed in the hardware support page, but since it's so new I was curious if it may just not have made it in yet. If it is not, what would it take to get a driver for this? I could likely get a c

Re: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?

On 1/15/07, Tuareg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sending again... it seems that the list dont want me to send mails from gmail... :( Well, after many suggestions from you on this topic last months/year... We have tried something that let us sent messages from this servers, but we would like the h

Re: Xorg/Gnome/KDE freeze on latest release

Forwarded Message From: "Gobbledegeek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:07:45 +0530 Subject:Re: Xorg/Gnome/KDE freeze on latest release Plain Text Attachment [ Scan and Save to Computer | Save to Yahoo! Briefc

Re: Launching a telnet session from a process

Hi Garret, Thanks for the info. -Kailas On 1/17/07, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jan 17, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 1/17/07, Kailas Ramasamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> How do I launch a telnet session from a process and tell that >> session to

Re: duo core question

On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:55 AM, pete wright wrote: On 1/16/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thank you guys for reply... very useful... :-) so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really "feel" it?? i think you really need to figure out how you are going to be

Re: Disable syslogd 514..

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:33:13 +0500, Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi doing a netstat -an i see that syslog is listening in UDP port 514.i am trying to disable it, but no luck i checked the rc.conf but there is nothing there.what do u recommend? to disable it or to leave i

Re: duo core question

On 1/16/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thank you guys for reply... very useful... :-) so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really "feel" it?? i think you really need to figure out how you are going to be using the system. if you are running a farm of machin

Re: Reread rc.conf....

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 16:23, Guido Demmenie wrote: > A little bit offtopic: > Only /etc/rc.d/mountd won't stop mountd on my 6.0 system. But to > restart my nfsd I use the next commands > > #killall mountd > #/etc/rc.d/nfsd restart > > This usualy works to restart and reread my /etc/export fi

Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE

Firas Kraiem Pro writes: > Problem solved. For some reason, my ~/.mozilla/ was owned by root > so just chown'ing it did the trick. Thanks for the help. In return, please file a PR with Firefox. This sounds like the kind of thing it ought to print an error message for.

How to install the 3945ABG Driver on a fresh FreeBSD 6.2 install?

Hello, I found the driver for my wireless card on: http://www.clearchain.com/~benjsc/download/20070106-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz but how is it supposed to be installed on a fresh FreeBSD 6.2? Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

RE: Load balancing outgoing mail relay

Hello: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of freebsd > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:34 AM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Load balancing outgoing mail relay > > Hi > I have a simple question but googling does not

Re: Reread rc.conf....

On Jan 17, 2007, at 9:55 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Kevin Downey wrote: On 1/17/07, Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks. I did some configs in my freebsd and realiza that i didnt have the inetd running. So i addesd inetd_enable="YES" to rc.conf. Now i

Re: Disable syslogd 514..

Agus wrote: > Hi > doing a netstat -an i see that syslog is listening in UDP port 514.i am > trying to disable it, but no luck > i checked the rc.conf but there is nothing there.what do u > recommend? to > disable it or to leave it? > I do not use the machine as a remote syslog serv

Re: SSH connection from within a jail

the solution and a brief discussion can be seen here in case you are interested: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-November/014450.html andras Greg Albrecht wrote: are you using the default /etc/ssh/sshd_config? i'm currently running jails with ssh and don't recall having

Re: Disable syslogd 514..

On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Agus wrote: Hi doing a netstat -an i see that syslog is listening in UDP port 514.i am trying to disable it, but no luck i checked the rc.conf but there is nothing there.what do u recommend? to disable it or to leave it? I do not use the machin

Re: Reread rc.conf....

On 1/17/07, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Kevin Downey wrote: > On 1/17/07, Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi folks. >> I did some configs in my freebsd and realiza that i didnt have the >> inetd >> running. So i addesd inetd_enable="YES" to rc.c

Re: Grep a file

try to 'sudo su' first, then run the grep. -g On 17/01/07, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I run: sudo grep -v '^\;'extentions.conf > new_extentions.conf I get: -bash: new_extentions.conf: Permission denied Sincerely, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:1

Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE

Problem solved. For some reason, my ~/.mozilla/ was owned by root so just chown'ing it did the trick. Thanks for the help. Firas On Wednesday 17 January 2007 21:16, you wrote: > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:37, Firas Kraiem wrote: > > Hi to all of you ! > > > > The title pretty much says it a

Re: Disable syslogd 514..

Agus wrote: Hi doing a netstat -an i see that syslog is listening in UDP port 514.i am trying to disable it, but no luck i checked the rc.conf but there is nothing there.what do u recommend? to disable it or to leave it? I do not use the machine as a remote syslog server so i

Re: console vesa mode switch needed earlier in boot phase

In the last episode (Jan 18), Gobbledegeek said: > Currently the allscreens flags from /etc/rc.conf is set at the > very last during bootup - much after most kernel boot messages are > logged to screen. Is there a way to make the switch to 1024x768 > console much earlier in the boot process? Yo

Re: Reread rc.conf....

On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Kevin Downey wrote: On 1/17/07, Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks. I did some configs in my freebsd and realiza that i didnt have the inetd running. So i addesd inetd_enable="YES" to rc.conf. Now im trying to reread the rc.conf to make the changes act

Re: Disable syslogd 514..

On 1/17/07, Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi doing a netstat -an i see that syslog is listening in UDP port 514.i am trying to disable it, but no luck i checked the rc.conf but there is nothing there.what do u recommend? to disable it or to leave it? I do not use the machine as

Re: Grep a file

When I run: sudo grep -v '^\;'extentions.conf > new_extentions.conf I get: -bash: new_extentions.conf: Permission denied Sincerely, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Greg Albrecht wrote: this might work: grep -v '^\;' originalfile > newfile -g On 17/01/07, Jos

Disable syslogd 514..

Hi doing a netstat -an i see that syslog is listening in UDP port 514.i am trying to disable it, but no luck i checked the rc.conf but there is nothing there.what do u recommend? to disable it or to leave it? I do not use the machine as a remote syslog server so i cant see the use.

Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE

Original Message From: Firas Kraiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:37:16 PM Subject: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE Hi to all of you ! The title pretty much says it all, when I install Firefox, the install seems t

Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:37, Firas Kraiem wrote: > Hi to all of you ! > > The title pretty much says it all, when I install Firefox, the install > seems to run without problems but when I try to run it, no joy. If I try to > run it from a terminal, I just get thrown back to the prompt withou

Re: Grep a file

this might work: grep -v '^\;' originalfile > newfile -g On 17/01/07, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a config file that uses ; as a comment character. Unfortunately there are s many comments I can't read the options that have been enabled. Can I use grep or another to

Re: Launching a telnet session from a process

On Jan 17, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 1/17/07, Kailas Ramasamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, How do I launch a telnet session from a process and tell that session to use console port (/dev/console) for stdin and stdout?. Appreciate your help. I read through fork() an

Grep a file

I have a config file that uses ; as a comment character. Unfortunately there are s many comments I can't read the options that have been enabled. Can I use grep or another tool to pull all the lines in this file that do not start with the ; and place them into another file so I c

Re: Execute script every time a specified user logs in (FreeBSD 6.1)

You can attach script to auth.info;authpriv.info in syslog.conf and listen for login events... man syslog.conf(5) - look for vertical bar(pipe) functionality On Jan 17, 2007, at 18:46 , George Vanev wrote: On 1/17/07, Pieter de Goeje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007

Re: Reread rc.conf....

On 1/17/07, Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks. I did some configs in my freebsd and realiza that i didnt have the inetd running. So i addesd inetd_enable="YES" to rc.conf. Now im trying to reread the rc.conf to make the changes active without restarting Is there a way to do it? or

Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE

Hi to all of you ! The title pretty much says it all, when I install Firefox, the install seems to run without problems but when I try to run it, no joy. If I try to run it from a terminal, I just get thrown back to the prompt without any output. This occurs with all the Firefox versions I've t

console vesa mode switch needed earlier in boot phase

Hiello Currently the allscreens flags from /etc/rc.conf is set at the very last during bootup - much after most kernel boot messages are logged to screen. Is there a way to make the switch to 1024x768 console much earlier in the boot process? For example if I boot into single user mode, I

Reread rc.conf....

Hi folks. I did some configs in my freebsd and realiza that i didnt have the inetd running. So i addesd inetd_enable="YES" to rc.conf. Now im trying to reread the rc.conf to make the changes active without restarting Is there a way to do it? or i have to start each server it from rc.dmanua

Re: Bridging console port to a telnet session

On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Kailas Ramasamy wrote: Hi Mike, Thanks a lot. This is what I was looking for. -Kailas On 1/17/07, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kailas Ramasamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Hi Mike, > I read through fork() and exec() man pages

Re: Xorg/Gnome/KDE freeze on latest release

PS: This can happen some 10-15 mins into an X session, not always immediately on login. Suspect applications are firefox 1.5.0.8 and firefox2.0 and Konqueror. Seems to happen soon after launching any of these applications. Regards On 1/18/07, Gobbledegeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello

Xorg/Gnome/KDE freeze on latest release

Hello All I've been seeing system freezes on freebsd 6.2 Release and also the older RC2. Absolutely No errors reported in logs. Suddenly the mouse cursor movement is reduced to a crawl, and the keyboard freezes. Mouse-clicks do not launch any applications or switch tasks. I cannot switch

Re: (6.2 install) Offering both install ISO's via nfs?

On Jan 17, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: At Wed, 17 Jan 2007 it looks like Garrett Cooper composed: On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, Hmm, in doing installs with more than one install iso (disk-1 and disk-2) via NFS I'm not clear on the instruct

FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE

Just wanna give a great thanks to all of you for the big effort and support to make it such a great OS and let me enjoy it on my servers. Bytes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Launching a telnet session from a process

On 1/17/07, Kailas Ramasamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, How do I launch a telnet session from a process and tell that session to use console port (/dev/console) for stdin and stdout?. Appreciate your help. I read through fork() and exec() man pages but it is not mentioned there. Personally

Launching a telnet session from a process

Hi, How do I launch a telnet session from a process and tell that session to use console port (/dev/console) for stdin and stdout?. Appreciate your help. I read through fork() and exec() man pages but it is not mentioned there. Thanks Kailas ___ freebs

Re: Flash 9

On 1/17/07, FreeBSD WickerBill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe this would be better asked on the ports list but I'm throwing it out here first. Adobe released the linux version today (found here) and wa

Re: (6.2 install) Offering both install ISO's via nfs?

At Wed, 17 Jan 2007 it looks like Garrett Cooper composed: > On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: > > >Hello Family, > > > >Hmm, in doing installs with more than one install iso (disk-1 and > >disk-2) via NFS I'm not clear on the instructions where it states to > >simply "copy th

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

- Original Message From: Michael M. Press <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dak Ghatikachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; FreeBSD WickerBill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:21:02 AM Subject: Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1 > I need to try the War

Re: md5sum is missing, but not entirely

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:36:30 - "Martin Tournoij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The command to calculate md5 sums is 'md5', not 'md5sum', and it is > part of the base. > > On my system (6.2-RC2) > apropos md5 | grep sum: > md5(1), sha1(1), sha256(1), rmd160(1) - calculate a message-digest > fi

Re: Load balancing outgoing mail relay

On 1/17/07, Charles Trevor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What happens if you do multiple dig/nslookups for smarthost.domain.tld. Are the records returned in a different order each time? If not the problem may be at the NS. Nope. Postfix shuffles equal-weight MX records internally, so it doesn't

Re: Load balancing outgoing mail relay

freebsd wrote: This (multiple A records) works for me, at least approximately. Both Bind and MS DNS will round robin when multiple A records exist for the same hostname. What is your setup? FreeBSD 6.2 with Sendmail (initially) and now postfix. MS DNS with round robin (and TTL set to 0 on the r

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

I need to try the Warren's method to see if that is going to help me, first of all I need to read man portupgrade to perform the upgrade from 6.1to 6.2 , as i am new into this freebsd world. The really easy way out is to install the linux-firefox port. If you do this, flash should "just work".

Flash 9

Maybe this would be better asked on the ports list but I'm throwing it out here first. Adobe released the linux version today (found here) and was wondering if anyone has tried it yet. I'm at work, not at

Re: Execute script every time a specified user logs in (FreeBSD 6.1)

On 1/17/07, Pieter de Goeje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007 11:49, George Vanev wrote: > Every time user X (for example) logs in the system > I want to be executed some script. > The user must not have the permission to > change this behavior. > Also the script must be ru

Re: Load balancing outgoing mail relay

FreeBSD 6.2 with Sendmail (initially) and now postfix. MS DNS with round robin (and TTL set to 0 on the records). Resolving with nslookup gives something like: smarthost.domain.tld 192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3 If I kill 192.168.0.1 then it goes on the second one. But this is failover, a

Re: Contributing to FreeBSD documentation (was: Re: no ath0 on new system with good card)

On 1/16/07, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-01-16 15:47, Steve Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, this is what I have so for. It was a bit late at night, so I appologise > if my tone is a bit silly at times...where do we go from here? Steve [snip nicely written stuff

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: On 1/16/07, FreeBSD WickerBill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: or, look in /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins/ and make sure the plugin or a symlink exists. 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1 I have these files in $ pwd /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins $ ls -lrt total

Re: regexp [. .]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:15:34 +0500, Parker Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a certain match you are trying to pattern? From the looks of it, [ch]* would match a similar set of characters, but it isn't as strict about which pattern they should be in. I need 'some[^[.pattern.]]' w

Re: firefox performance on Freebsd

Have you disabled the IPv6? in about:config set 'network.dns.disableIPv6' to true. Greetz. Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: Hi All I am noticing singnificant performance degradation in firefox in Freebsd , I would say right from the beginning, I have other partition where I run XP. for compari

Re: Problem upgrading from 6.1-RELEASE to 6.2-RELEASE

I would like to perform the same update , but I would like to know how to rollback if this has failed as it happened here. We should be able to rollback to exact current state. Do you have an idea Thanks Dak On 1/17/07, Amarendra Godbole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I run 6.1-RELEASE, an

firefox performance on Freebsd

Hi All I am noticing singnificant performance degradation in firefox in Freebsd , I would say right from the beginning, I have other partition where I run XP. for comparison purpose I notice the same page when I load on Freebsd partition it is slow on Windows XP it loads real quick. Is thi

Re: md5sum is missing, but not entirely

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:29:57PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Both the executable and the manpage for md5sum seem to be missing > from this 6.1-RELEASE system, making it difficult to check the > downloaded 6.2-RELEASE and FreeSBIE ISOs. Isn't md5sum supposed > to be part of the base? > > M

Re: Load balancing outgoing mail relay

This (multiple A records) works for me, at least approximately. Both Bind and MS DNS will round robin when multiple A records exist for the same hostname. What is your setup? FreeBSD 6.2 with Sendmail (initially) and now postfix. MS DNS with round robin (and TTL set to 0 on the records). Resolvi

Re: Load balancing outgoing mail relay

freebsd wrote: Hi I have a simple question but googling does not lead to a valid/usable answer. I need to load balance OUTGOING emails. I have serveral smart hosts. I need my internal SMTP server to send mail using ALL of the smart hosts together, making some kind of load balancing (no need fo

Re: Execute script every time a specified user logs in (FreeBSD 6.1)

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 11:49, George Vanev wrote: > Every time user X (for example) logs in the system > I want to be executed some script. > The user must not have the permission to > change this behavior. > Also the script must be run as root. > Something like crontab, but depending on logi

Re: Sysinstall: No Floppy Devices Found

Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Kevin Kobb wrote: I have found that when I do an install with an install.cfg file on a floppy, I must insert the floppy right after the system begins to boot from CD. If I don't when I tell sysinstall to read the floppy I get an error. I

Re: Balancing outgoing SMTP relay

In response to "freebsd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi > I have a simple question but googling does not lead to a valid/usable > answer. > I need to load balance OUTGOING emails. I have serveral smart hosts. I need > my internal SMTP server to send mail using ALL of the smart hosts together, > making

Re: What have you done for me lately !!!

Kris Kennaway wrote: Besides, apple has and does contribute code back to FreeBSD. Kris Yes but... they took Jordan and they didn't give him back, did they? He wasn't BSD licensed, was he? They can't just do whatever they want with him. Those bastards! So phooey on Wilfredo Sanchez and

Balancing outgoing SMTP relay

Hi I have a simple question but googling does not lead to a valid/usable answer. I need to load balance OUTGOING emails. I have serveral smart hosts. I need my internal SMTP server to send mail using ALL of the smart hosts together, making some kind of load balancing (no need for wheighted one). S

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance - Solved

Problem solved, I believe. Here is the results from Bonnie++ with the raid card set to "writethru" which writes directly to disk. Version 1.93c --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine

Load balancing outgoing mail relay

Hi I have a simple question but googling does not lead to a valid/usable answer. I need to load balance OUTGOING emails. I have serveral smart hosts. I need my internal SMTP server to send mail using ALL of the smart hosts together, making some kind of load balancing (no need for wheighted one)

Execute script every time a specified user logs in (FreeBSD 6.1)

Every time user X (for example) logs in the system I want to be executed some script. The user must not have the permission to change this behavior. Also the script must be run as root. Something like crontab, but depending on logins, not time Any ideas?! -- George Vanev

Re: CRON Script not working right.

Always use full pathnames to commands in cron scripts. Change the lines to include the full paths for chown and chmod. -Derek At 09:31 PM 1/16/2007, Don O'Neil wrote: Anybody have any clues why a shell script run from root's CRON would act differently then when run directly from the

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