Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD?

2007-04-18 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri said: > On 4/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 17/04/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: . . . > > > > > Porting Flash to more OSes will sure will make adobe beats MS > > > when it comes to w

Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD?

2007-04-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: On 4/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 17/04/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . > Porting Flash to more OSes will sure will make adobe beats MS when it > comes to web media. I hope they kill each other and tak

FW: IBM / FreeBSD - Install Update - Seems to be ACPI

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
In our initial posts, we stated that we seemed to be having issues getting the machine to boot with the 4 processors, so to bypass this we disabled ACPI on boot. This allowed us to get past the CPU error and continue to boot. However down the track we noticed things like the ethernet adapater not

Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD?

2007-04-18 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 4/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 17/04/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . > Porting Flash to more OSes will sure will make adobe beats MS when it > comes to web media. I hope they kill each other and take the whole retch-media enhanced web

Re: BSD make vs. GNU make

2007-04-18 Thread Kevin Brunelle
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 13:15:08 Bill Campbell wrote: > The gmake program has many extensions which tend to be used in > the gnu automake, autoconf, libtools system. > > I suspect that gmake will work with most non-gnu Makefiles, but > the reverse is not true. This suspicion is not necessarily tr

FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more part 2

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
BTW we have also successfully booted the 'offending box' with FC4 and it all came up ok. This should rule out hardware issues I hope. Is there a way to force a (re)scan of the other PCI busses ?? Or is there a hint.??? line I can add? mjt -Original Message- From: Murray Taylor Sent

FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set acpi_load=NO boot -v However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output of

Re: dhcpd assign duplicated IP address

2007-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 18, 2007, at 9:24 PM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: I am not sure if I understood DHCP correctly. I have this configuration in my /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf (Using FreeBSD 6.1): subnet 218.193.55.192 netmask 255.255.255.192 { range 218.193.55.194 218.193.55.254; option routers 218.193.55.193;

dhcpd assign duplicated IP address

2007-04-18 Thread Zhang Weiwu
I am not sure if I understood DHCP correctly. I have this configuration in my /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf (Using FreeBSD 6.1): subnet 218.193.55.192 netmask 255.255.255.192 { range 218.193.55.194 218.193.55.254; option routers 218.193.55.193; } [snip] host sappho.realss.com { hardware ethern

Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On 4/19/07, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Let's assume the old disk is ad0 and the new one is ad1 and MS occupies the first slice (called primary partition) of each disk. So, FreeBSD then is currently in /dev/ad0s2 and you want to put it in /dev/ad1s2. [...] Thanks all for the rep

[solution] Re-installing Windows *after* FreeBSD

2007-04-18 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi, I recently came across a problem where I had to re-install Windows XP on my laptop, which already had FreeBSD on the second slice. I am sure many must have faced this issue, and hence I am posting this solution that I adopted to re-install Windows (okay, here I already have two slices, first

Re: Why is dmidecode failing?

2007-04-18 Thread Bruce Burden
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:15:16AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 18), Bruce Burden said: > > > > ===> Installing for hal-0.5.8.20070403 > > ===> hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/share/pciids/pci.ids > > - found > > ===> hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /

RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:34 PM To: Murray Taylor; FreeBSD Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem At 07:

FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more part 2

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
BTW we have also successfully booted the 'offending box' with FC4 and it all came up ok. This should rule out hardware issues I hope. Is there a way to force a (re)scan of the other PCI busses ?? Or is there a hint.??? line I can add? mjt -Original Message- From: Murray Taylor Sent:

IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set acpi_load=NO boot -v However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output off

Re: Chrooting Apache 2, PHP 5 and MySQL 5

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Moran
"Lubomir Matousek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, can anybody direct me to the subjected topic? I tried to google it out, > but only chrooting of old versions is explained. This isn't exactly the answer to your question, but as an alternative you could jail Apache and whatever else you wanted

Chrooting Apache 2, PHP 5 and MySQL 5

2007-04-18 Thread Lubomir Matousek
Hi, can anybody direct me to the subjected topic? I tried to google it out, but only chrooting of old versions is explained. Regards Lubos --- avast! Antivirus on Lubnet Server: Odchozi zprava cista. Virova databaze (VPS): 000734-2, 18.04.2007 Testovano: 18.4.2007 23:57:13 avast! (c) co

IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) CPU X 4: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes t

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Roland Smith wrote: >> --8<-- >> ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames >> DIRECTORY CORRUPTED I=93409222 OWNER=1002 MODE=40755 >> SIZE=512 MTIME=Feb 10 00:49 2007 >> DIR=? >> >> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY > > Did these problems start after a crash? It's possible, but I cannot be absolutely ce

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Jerry McAllister wrote: >> Smart says that the drives are fine, as does the manufacturer's disk >> fitness tools. All the files that are readable contain correct data, but >> the files that are corrupt are totally not readable, and cannot even be >> removed manually: > > Given that, I would try to

Re: Best Open Source software to backup Cisco switches and routers

2007-04-18 Thread Eric Crist
On Apr 18, 2007, at 1:18 PMApr 18, 2007, Sean Murphy wrote: I am looking to automate the process of backing up my Cisco routers and switches config files and have come across RANCID. Is this what I should use on my FreeBSD server or is there something better? Thanks I don't know anything

Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:23:41AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > FreeBSD 6.x AMD64 runs for more than a year on my 'AMD Athlon 3000+' now. > > It runs very stable with one exception: accessing ext2/ext3 filesystems > often hang the system completely. > That is a phenomenon that I did

Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread wanderingidea
Hi, FreeBSD 6.x AMD64 runs for more than a year on my 'AMD Athlon 3000+' now. It runs very stable with one exception: accessing ext2/ext3 filesystems often hang the system completely. That is a phenomenon that I did not see with FreeBSD 6.x x86. Apart from that I am very happy with it. Regards

Re: Attempts to run 'fsck' fail can't stat device

2007-04-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:05:45PM -0700, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote: > > My server lost power earlier today and now it doesnt boot. > > Any clues what I can do to recover from the following errors: > > > s nip > > Server '' fails to mount /dev/da0s1g (/usr). > > Attempts to run 'fsc

Re: Working xorg.conf for Dell Latitude D820 laptop (NVidia Quadro NVS 120M GeForce Go 7400 512MB)?

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Matt Kosht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 4/12/07, Matt Kosht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have a working xorg.conf for this combo working with FreeBSD > > 6.2? > > > > Specifically I would like the onboard LCD on the laptop to display at > > 1920x1200 and an attached ex

Re: Working xorg.conf for Dell Latitude D820 laptop (NVidia Quadro NVS 120M GeForce Go 7400 512MB)?

2007-04-18 Thread Matt Kosht
I have a semi-working configuration of xorg now running FBSD 6.2 on the Dell Latitude D820 (NVidia Quadro NVS 120M GeForce Go 7400 512MB). I am able to run the laptop's built in display at the correct resolution and 24 bit color (forget my mindless request for 32 bit color). I copied/modded a ubu

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:09:22PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > >> Sorry if I wasn't clear. Most all of the data is readable and complete > >> if I mount the filesystem read-only. It just panics the box when mounted > >> read/write, and fsck can't fix the damage. > > > >

Re: Working xorg.conf for Dell Latitude D820 laptop (NVidia Quadro NVS 120M GeForce Go 7400 512MB)?

2007-04-18 Thread Matt Kosht
On 4/12/07, Matt Kosht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have a working xorg.conf for this combo working with FreeBSD 6.2? Specifically I would like the onboard LCD on the laptop to display at 1920x1200 and an attached external LCD at 1280x1024 both at 32 bit color at the same time. I think

Re: FreeMat 3.0 doesn't call functions and help

2007-04-18 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Il Sunday 15 April 2007 22:11:12 Thierry Thomas ha scritto: > Le Lun 9 avr 07 à 16:39:49 +0200, Vittorio De Martino > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > écrivait : > > P.S. By the way, launching FreeMat as root the "Help on line" works > > whilst inv still doesn't work. Ciao Vittorio > > Hello, > > I have j

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:09:22PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > >> Sorry if I wasn't clear. Most all of the data is readable and complete > >> if I mount the filesystem read-only. It just panics the box when mounted > >> read/write, and fsck can't fix the damage. > > > >

Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:41:46PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Michael S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or > > tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with > > the reliable x86 or try the AMD64 port. > > > > Any performance penalt

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Roland Smith wrote: >> Sorry if I wasn't clear. Most all of the data is readable and complete >> if I mount the filesystem read-only. It just panics the box when mounted >> read/write, and fsck can't fix the damage. > > That might be worth filing a PR for, especially the panics. > > Exactly what

Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 21:30:14 Michael S wrote: > Good day all. > > I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or > tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with > the reliable x86 or try the AMD64 port. I'd try it but ... > Any performance penalties when running x86 FreeBSD on >

Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Michael S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or > tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with > the reliable x86 or try the AMD64 port. > > Any performance penalties when running x86 FreeBSD on > a 64-bit machine? Performance is equiva

Re: mmap on freebsd vs linux

2007-04-18 Thread Danny Pansters
I'm not really an expert on this but here goes... On Wednesday 18 April 2007 18:05:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > i am looking into implementing a piece of the V4L interface. this > involves mmap'ing from userspace into kernelspace. > > in mplayer, this is what is called: > > tvi_v4l2.c

Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:46:50PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: > On 18/04/07, Amarendra Godbole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The > >harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to > >Windows. I have re

Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD?

2007-04-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I hope they kill each other and take the whole > retch-media enhanced web experience with > them flaming into the pit of hell from which > they came. > > But that's just my opinion. And this is the problem! Were it not your opinion, but something likely to happen, it w

Attempts to run 'fsck' fail can't stat device

2007-04-18 Thread Noah Garrett Wallach
My server lost power earlier today and now it doesnt boot. Any clues what I can do to recover from the following errors: s nip Server '' fails to mount /dev/da0s1g (/usr). Attempts to run 'fsck' fail (can't stat device /dev/da0s1g) snip --- cheers, Noah __

Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, > Hi, > > I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The > harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to > Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a > bigger capacity one - 80G. I have to move the existing FreeBSD system >

Re: sendmail with dovecot with nologin account

2007-04-18 Thread David Robillard
I am using dovecot imap and I am having a problem directing mail to go to users in Maildir format when they do not have a login shell. It seems that the .procmailrc file is ignored and the mail is put in mbox format into /var/mail For mail-only users with-out a shell, what is the best way to dir

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-18 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:51:18PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Doug Poland wrote: > >I just used the "Drive Fitness Test" for IBM ATA drives on a > >particular disk and it finished without detecting errors. However, I > >see messages like this: > > > >Apr 16 22:51:44

Re: program/binary ip filtering

2007-04-18 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 3:46p -0400 18 Apr 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Kevin Hunter wrote: At 2:42p -0400 18 Apr 2007, Bill Moran wrote: Are you saying that you want to have the packet filter check to see what application is listening on a particular port, then allow/deny access based

AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Michael S
Good day all. I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with the reliable x86 or try the AMD64 port. Any performance penalties when running x86 FreeBSD on a 64-bit machine? Also what are the common problems, i.e. drivers, applications that

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Doug Poland wrote: I just used the "Drive Fitness Test" for IBM ATA drives on a particular disk and it finished without detecting errors. However, I see messages like this: Apr 16 22:51:44 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying reques

Re: program/binary ip filtering

2007-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Kevin Hunter wrote: At 2:42p -0400 18 Apr 2007, Bill Moran wrote: We are in the process of setting up a bastion host. One of the things we'd like to do is to filter packets not only at the ip layer, but by what program is listening on a particular port. Is th

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-18 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:06:53PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello, > > > > I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd > > like to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free > > of errors and suitable

Re: program/binary ip filtering

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Kevin Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 2:42p -0400 18 Apr 2007, Bill Moran wrote: > >> We are in the process of setting up a bastion host. One of the > >> things we'd like to do is to filter packets not only at the ip > >> layer, but by what program is listening on a particular

Re: mt command questions

2007-04-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:10:30AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Sean Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am learning about backing up to tape and have made quite a bit of > > progress with the mt command. I understand what the fsf option does. > > There are other options however and wou

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-18 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:46:50AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 17/04/07, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >At 11:56 AM 4/17/2007, Doug Poland wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd > >>like to quickly and efficiently test each

Re: program/binary ip filtering

2007-04-18 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 2:42p -0400 18 Apr 2007, Bill Moran wrote: We are in the process of setting up a bastion host. One of the things we'd like to do is to filter packets not only at the ip layer, but by what program is listening on a particular port. Is this a possibility? Are you saying that you want to

Re: Is FTP install broken?

2007-04-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:01:06AM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > On 17 Apr 2007 at 17:18, Kris Kennaway boldly uttered: > > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:45:44PM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > > Re: Kris's assertion, I guess I could have lived with that if it > > > weren't for the fact tha

Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread N.J. Mann
On Wednesday, 18 April, 2007 at 12:16:28 -0600, Ray wrote: > Hello all, > I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection. > I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried > #make deinstall > but a subsequent > #make install > doesn't give me the options screen. make rm

Re: program/binary ip filtering

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Kevin Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > This may not be the correct list to ask this question, so please > point me in the right direction in that case. > > We are in the process of setting up a bastion host. One of the > things we'd like to do is to filter packets not only at t

Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread John Webster
Look in /var/db/ports. Removing the postfix directory or the options file in that directory should do the trick. jw --On Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:16:28 -0600 Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection. > I need to rebuild

Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Gerard
On Wednesday April 18, 2007 at 02:16:28 (PM) Ray wrote: > Hello all, > I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection. > I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried > #make deinstall > but a subsequent > #make install > doesn't give me the options screen. > what is

RE: Best Open Source software to backup Cisco switches and routers

2007-04-18 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Murphy > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:19 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List > Subject: Best Open Source software to backup Cisco switches and routers > > I am

Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Josh Carroll
what is the way to either remove the stored configuration file, or to manually pass the parameters to make. A look at the Makefile and the other files in /usr/ports/mail/postfix didn't turn up any hints. You can either: make rmconfig or just: make config Then re-build/install it. Josh

Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Noel Jones
On 4/18/07, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection. I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried #make deinstall but a subsequent #make install doesn't give me the options screen. try "make config" __

Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection. > I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried > #make deinstall > but a subsequent > #make install > doesn't give me the options screen. "make config" > what is the way to either rem

Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 4/18/07, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection. I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried #make deinstall but a subsequent #make install doesn't give me the options screen. make rmconfig Thanks, Ray -- Pi

Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 18), Ray said: > Hello all, > I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection. > I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried > #make deinstall > but a subsequent > #make install > doesn't give me the options screen. > what is the way to either

RE: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:16 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: completly remove (or modify) a port > > Hello all, > I have been trying to work with

Best Open Source software to backup Cisco switches and routers

2007-04-18 Thread Sean Murphy
I am looking to automate the process of backing up my Cisco routers and switches config files and have come across RANCID. Is this what I should use on my FreeBSD server or is there something better? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Ray
Hello all, I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection. I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried #make deinstall but a subsequent #make install doesn't give me the options screen. what is the way to either remove the stored configuration file, or to manually p

Re: Execute command upon interface initialization?

2007-04-18 Thread J65nko
On 4/17/07, Ido Admon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello list, I couldn't find any way to execute an arbitrary command upon network interface initialization. My situations is that I have and ethernet card that takes DHCP from a cables provider (not a fixed IP address) and I need to update a DynDNS

Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD?

2007-04-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 17/04/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . Porting Flash to more OSes will sure will make adobe beats MS when it comes to web media. I hope they kill each other and take the whole retch-media enhanced web experience with them flaming into the pit of hell from whic

Re: ftpd and chmod

2007-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 18, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: manual page says that ftpd do support SITE CHMOD. what's wrong? From the manual: Note: SITE requests are disabled in case of anonymous logins. thanks. no way to change it? Permitting anonymous remote users to change permissions seems t

Re: ftpd and chmod

2007-04-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
manual page says that ftpd do support SITE CHMOD. what's wrong? From the manual: Note: SITE requests are disabled in case of anonymous logins. thanks. no way to change it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 17/04/07, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 11:56 AM 4/17/2007, Doug Poland wrote: >Hello, > >I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd like >to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of >errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical w

Re: Why is dmidecode failing?

2007-04-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 18), Bruce Burden said: > >Hi gang, > > I am attempting to update the ports on my system. To that >end: > > /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -aruv > >fails: > > ===> Installing for hal-0.5.8.20070403 > ===> hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/loc

program/binary ip filtering

2007-04-18 Thread Kevin Hunter
Hi All, This may not be the correct list to ask this question, so please point me in the right direction in that case. We are in the process of setting up a bastion host. One of the things we'd like to do is to filter packets not only at the ip layer, but by what program is listening on

mmap on freebsd vs linux

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Huff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > does mmap work on freebsd as it works on linux? ie: can i mmap > any device? are there constraints on the device which should be > met? U ... "man 2 mmap"? Robert Huff

Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Amarendra Godbole wrote: I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a bigger capacity one - 80G. I have to move the e

mmap on freebsd vs linux

2007-04-18 Thread usleepless
Hi All, i am looking into implementing a piece of the V4L interface. this involves mmap'ing from userspace into kernelspace. in mplayer, this is what is called: tvi_v4l2.c: " priv->map[i].addr = mmap (0, priv->map[i].buf.length, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARE

Why is dmidecode failing?

2007-04-18 Thread Bruce Burden
Hi gang, I am attempting to update the ports on my system. To that end: /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -aruv fails: gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.8.20070403/po' Making all in policy gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/ha

Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 18/04/07, Amarendra Godbole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a bigger capacity one - 80G. I ha

Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Christian Walther
On 18/04/07, Amarendra Godbole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a bigger capacity one - 80G. I ha

Re: every two weeks

2007-04-18 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:54:33PM +0100, Joe Holden wrote: > John Haig wrote: > > > >Every two weeks my Freebsd 5.3 box goes down. > > Sounds like a potential PSU issue, is there anyone at the facility to > test/replace it? How about a BIOS issue? Seems there is an option for periodic shutdown

Re: every two weeks

2007-04-18 Thread Joe Holden
John Haig wrote: Hi Every two weeks my Freebsd 5.3 box goes down. I'm running a webserver, databaase. No mail. Unfortunately it's 1100 miles from where I am and is quite the pain for my contact to go and start it up again. He says it's turned off and cold by the time he gets there.

every two weeks

2007-04-18 Thread John Haig
Hi Every two weeks my Freebsd 5.3 box goes down. I'm running a webserver, databaase. No mail. Unfortunately it's 1100 miles from where I am and is quite the pain for my contact to go and start it up again. He says it's turned off and cold by the time he gets there. It's an old box f

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:07 AM 4/18/2007, Murray Taylor wrote: Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) CPU X 4: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the RAID controller. As

Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi, I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a bigger capacity one - 80G. I have to move the existing FreeBSD system from the old to the

Re: ACLs in a jail ... not usable?

2007-04-18 Thread Anish Mistry
On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > --On Tuesday, April 17, 2007 22:38:45 -0400 Anish Mistry > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> Just want to make sure there isn't something I'm missing, but it > >> apears ACLs aren't settable

Re: PPP and resolv.conf

2007-04-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Richard Simmonds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > -Original Message- > From: RW [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:11 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: PPP and resolv.conf > > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:48:25 +0800 >

Re: mt command questions

2007-04-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sean Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am learning about backing up to tape and have made quite a bit of > progress with the mt command. I understand what the fsf option does. > There are other options however and would like to understand them as > well. I am looking at the man page and hav

Re: pf message on dmesg

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "J.D. Bronson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > pfr_detach_table: refcount = 0. > > > I am starting to see these at times. > What do they mean? - My pf is not overworked and I have added > sufficient table entries: I'm no expert, and the pf source code is painfully devoid of comments, but

Re: Migrating from i386 to AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Huff
Wojciech Puchar writes: > you have to reinstall completely. BUT > > - make a list of installed ports > - make backup of all configuration files and data files > - install FReeBSD/AMD64 AND this ports > - THEN put all your config files and data files. The easiest way to do this is t

pf message on dmesg

2007-04-18 Thread J.D. Bronson
pfr_detach_table: refcount = 0. I am starting to see these at times. What do they mean? - My pf is not overworked and I have added sufficient table entries: set optimization aggressive set state-policy if-bound set timeout tcp.established 600 set timeout tcp.opening 30 set skip on lo0 set blo

IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) CPU X 4: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes t

Re: Configuring Network In FreeBSD 6.2 Release

2007-04-18 Thread Victor Engmark
On 4/18/07, Dhananjaya hiremath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We have problem with how to configure the internet in FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE and how to usr internet in this OS.Please guide us sir, The excellent FreeBSD Handbook should provide the information you need: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US

Configuring Network In FreeBSD 6.2 Release

2007-04-18 Thread Dhananjaya hiremath
Hello sir, We have problem with how to configure the internet in FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE and how to usr internet in this OS.Please guide us sir, THank U Regarda Dhananjaya Hiremath - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Y

slightly OT | Non-Matching MP processors...

2007-04-18 Thread Modulok
This isn't really a FreeBSD specific problem, but this list has a number of people who administrate multi-CPU servers, so I thought it a logical place to ask. Does anyone else experienced this: Somewhat infrequently, the CPUs of a multi-socket system get out of synch and the BIOS complains about

Re: Fwd: umass device produces errors /var/log/messages

2007-04-18 Thread David Southwell
I originally posted this in error to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where I have marked it as IGNORE. The question properly belongs here. On Wednesday 18 April 2007 03:35:22 David Southwell wrote: > > Some help would be appreciated: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/run]# camcontrol devlist >at scbus0 t

Fwd: umass device produces errors /var/log/messages

2007-04-18 Thread David Southwell
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: umass device produces errors /var/log/messages Date: Wednesday 18 April 2007 From: David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some help would be appreciated: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/run]# camcontrol devlist at scbus0 ta

Re: BSD make vs. GNU make

2007-04-18 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 17:28 +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: > Hi, > > This might be a dumb question, but would like get a clear idea about > the differences between BSD make and GNU make. Why do I have to do > 'gmake' in some cases instead of just plain 'make'? > > What's the differences? > > Thanks

Re: ftpd and chmod

2007-04-18 Thread Mike Bristow
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i use ftpd for anonymous read/write access using -l -m options in inetd.conf chmod isn't allowed (ftp clients says SITE CHMOD not supported), ftpd manual page says that ftpd do support SITE CHMOD. what's wrong? From the manual: Note: SITE requests are disabled in

RE: PPP and resolv.conf

2007-04-18 Thread Richard Simmonds
-Original Message- From: RW [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:11 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PPP and resolv.conf On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:48:25 +0800 "Richard Simmonds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >How can I stop

Re: "who" is showing impossible things (small update)

2007-04-18 Thread Niclas Zeising
[re-add CC] On 4/18/07, Joel V. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yep I had screen running. You think it could just be a zombified screen from 2006? I have irssi running in screen and it worked fine, and never before it had shown up like that with "who"... Changed passwords and restarted the server and

Re: Migrating from i386 to AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Now.. Can I just use the same SMP kernel I have currently (assuming the correct drivers are loaded) for the X2 processor if I just want to run it in 32 bit mode? Or do I need to do a complete re-install/upgrade to the AMD64 platform version of FreeBSD? you have to reinstall completely. BUT - m

ftpd and chmod

2007-04-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i use ftpd for anonymous read/write access using -l -m options in inetd.conf chmod isn't allowed (ftp clients says SITE CHMOD not supported), ftpd manual page says that ftpd do support SITE CHMOD. what's wrong? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

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