Re: Quick question about http://www.freebsd.org/docs/books.html

2010-02-05 Thread Jason
Hi Cassandra, I certainly don't speak for FreeBSD, however I don't believe you would need to arrange any price to put a listing on this page. If you would be so kind to email the text and a pointer to the website, I, or many other capable documentation specialists, would be happy to add it to t

Re: NTP Stratum

2010-02-05 Thread Jon Radel
DAve wrote: Afternoon from Blizzard central in Indiana, I have three DNS servers across the state that I have installed and configured ntpd on. They seem to be working well except they are announcing themselves as Stratum 0 servers. As many times as I have read the man pages I can't seem to fig

Quick question about http://www.freebsd.org/docs/books.html

2010-02-05 Thread Cassandra Smith
Hello, I'm interested in placing a promotional link on your page: http://www.freebsd.org/docs/books.html. The link would be for a website which offers used college textbooks. I don't have the biggest budget, but hopefully there is a reasonable price we could arrange. Please let me know if yo

Re: best firewall for a web server

2010-02-05 Thread Aiza
Iv Ray wrote: We will be running a web server - - FreeBSD 8.x - Apache 2.x - php 5.x - PostgreSQL 8.x - Postfix 2.x - The server will run nearly 98% of the time below 25% load (no high performance firewall is needed). - Access to the server will be done only via ssh w/ key (there will be no p

allow-opts on a nat pass rule

2010-02-05 Thread Ludovico Cavedon
Hi all, I have a freebsd 7.2-RELEASE-p2 firewall with a configuration like this: BEGIN ### ext_if4="em0" # public interface int_if="em1" # private interface, to be source NATted nat pass log (to pflog2) on $ext_if4 inet from $int_if:network to ! ($ext_if4) -> ($ext_if4) block drop l

Re: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas.

2010-02-05 Thread Mark
--- On Fri, 2/5/10, Martin McCormick wrote: > From: Martin McCormick > Subject: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas. > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Friday, February 5, 2010, 2:22 PM >     After about a week > of trying, I don't think sysinstall > will  install FreeBSD when used wi

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

2010-02-05 Thread Modulok
>> Does gmirror consider one of the consumers to act as a "master" for the pair? No. The order doesn't matter. You could take out your hard drives and shuffle them like cards and it wouldn't matter. All metadata is stored in the last sector of the drives themselves. Cable order is irrelevant. -Mo

NTP Stratum

2010-02-05 Thread DAve
Afternoon from Blizzard central in Indiana, I have three DNS servers across the state that I have installed and configured ntpd on. They seem to be working well except they are announcing themselves as Stratum 0 servers. As many times as I have read the man pages I can't seem to figure out how I

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

2010-02-05 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 17 January 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote: > However, one of the really amazingly brilliant things about geom is > that just about any disk / storage related thing can be a geom > provider, and geom constructs will nest very happily.  Here's a howto > for setting up gmirror across a pair of

Re: best firewall for a web server

2010-02-05 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Hello, - Original Message > From: Iv Ray > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Sent: Fri, February 5, 2010 11:24:52 PM > Subject: best firewall for a web server > > We will be running a web server - > > - FreeBSD 8.x > - Apache 2.x > - php 5.x > - PostgreSQL 8.x > - Postfix 2.x > >

best firewall for a web server

2010-02-05 Thread Iv Ray
We will be running a web server - - FreeBSD 8.x - Apache 2.x - php 5.x - PostgreSQL 8.x - Postfix 2.x - The server will run nearly 98% of the time below 25% load (no high performance firewall is needed). - Access to the server will be done only via ssh w/ key (there will be no public ftp, etc.)

sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas.

2010-02-05 Thread Martin McCormick
After about a week of trying, I don't think sysinstall will install FreeBSD when used with mfsbsd. I launched mfsbsd from a CDROM and it works fine. I also used dd to feed the mfsboot.img file to the boot sector on the system's hard drive and that also worked fine. mfsbsd doesn't appear to

Netgear GA511 Cardbus Ethernet Problem

2010-02-05 Thread Kevin Wolf
I have a Netgear GA511 cardbus gigabit ethernet adapter based on a supported chipset (Realtek RTL8169) that is not getting detected by FreeBSD 8 for some reason. Here is the message that appears in dmesg whenever I insert the card: cbb0: Warning: Bus reset timeout The laptop I am trying to use th

Re: X11/freebsd problem

2010-02-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chuck Robey wrote: I have this problem with my built-under-freebsd-current Xorg, it gives me this following sort of error everytime it starts up: (pts/2):{14}% Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0

Re: Sendmail & Procmail

2010-02-05 Thread Clayton Scott Kern
on 01-29-2010, Matt Emmerton wrote: snipped > >I would like to get away from sendmail or any other MTA for that matter, > >but > >never found solution for handling the emails generated by the system. > > Check out DragonFlyBSD's dma(1). It's designed just for this purpose. > > -- >

Haiti Need Fund's Earth Quake Victims

2010-02-05 Thread Haiti Earth Quake Victims
[Feb 05 '10] Haiti Need Fund's Earth Quake Victims The Prosthetics Outreach Foundation (POF) shares the world's deep concern for the people of Haiti. The recent earthquake has robbed hundreds if not thousands of children and adults of their limbs. Emergency amputations add to this sad

Re: which java on 8-release

2010-02-05 Thread Chuck Robey
Rob Farmer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Steve Franks wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Tried to get any permutation of XYZ-jre or XYZ-jdk installed on 8-rc1 >> and gave up. I see still no diablo for 8. What is the best way >> forward (and how am I so dense that no one else has even asked this >> q

kdebase4 installation

2010-02-05 Thread Толстых Макисм
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-September/205859.html Hi Alain! If you fix this problem, tel me what is going wrong... Thank you. Best Regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?

2010-02-05 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 04 February 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: > Is it just me or is the flash plugin still not fully functional? I'm > running Firefox 3.5.7 with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 on > 8.0-RELEASE-p2, some flash videos work but many fail. For example BBC > iplayer always comes up with a message "Th

samba34 fails building on FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE: Compiling lib/memcache.c, lib/memcache.c:29: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'uint8'

2010-02-05 Thread O. Hartmann
Trying to compile SAMAB 3.4 on FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 STABLE ends up in the following error and it seems a bit sticky. Are there any solutions? Thanks, Regards, Oliver ===> Building for samba34-3.4.5 cd /usr/ports/net/samba34/work/samba-3.4.5/source3 && make pch rm -f /usr/ports/net/samba34/work/

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

2010-02-05 Thread krad
On 4 February 2010 18:14, Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) < svein-listm...@stillbilde.net> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04.02.2010 17:57, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 04/02/2010 15:35, Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) wrote: > > > >> On a monthly rotation the tape

specifying nfs root in loader.conf with vfs.root.mountfrom

2010-02-05 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: OK, I know I'm not doing this the easy way, don't try to convince me about other ways :) I'm doing PXE boot diskless, fetching the GENERIC kernel with TFTP. Problem is that since the kernel is fetched with tftp, there is no nfs root file system mounted when kernel finish loading. There