Re: Skipping "F1 FreeBSD" prompt on boot

2007-05-17 Thread David Landgren
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Thanks, David Hmm, I've never heard any beeps on shu

Re: Skipping "F1 FreeBSD" prompt on boot

2007-05-17 Thread David Landgren
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Sam Lawrance wrote: On 14/05/2007, at 10:41 AM, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Sam Lawrance wrote: On 13/05/2007, at 6:15 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: [...] the drive, and likely to remain that way until the

Re: Skipping "F1 FreeBSD" prompt on boot

2007-05-13 Thread David Landgren
Sam Lawrance wrote: On 13/05/2007, at 6:15 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Sam Lawrance wrote: On 12/05/2007, at 8:59 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Landgren wrote: I have a disk that has only

Skipping "F1 FreeBSD" prompt on boot

2007-05-12 Thread David Landgren
List, I have a disk that has only FreeBSD on it, and so I would like to skip the initial F1/FreeBSD prompt. boot0cfg -v ad0 says: options=nopacket,update,nosetdrv default_selection=F1 (Slice 1) ... what do I have to do to say JFDI instead of prompting? This is not the sort of thing I want to

Re: Problème avec le floppy disk.

2007-01-05 Thread David Landgren
Tribal, Grégory wrote: Bonjour, Nous avons un problème au moment de l'installation d'un de nos logiciel: Lorsque que nous insérons une disquette et lançons notre commande d'installation, le message suivant apparait: /dev/fd0: Cannot read :Input/Output error At Beginni

Re: sparc64 and perl 5.8.8 port test failures?

2007-01-03 Thread David Landgren
Steven D. Yee wrote: I'm seeing multiple errors from make test and I can't seem to figure out how to get rid of them. As far as I can tell it builds correctly. [...] ../lib/integer..NOK 10 # Failed test 'left shift' # in ../lib/integer.t at line 49. #

Re: sparc64 and perl 5.8.8 port test failures?

2007-01-03 Thread David Landgren
Steven D. Yee wrote: I'm seeing multiple errors from make test and I can't seem to figure out how to get rid of them. As far as I can tell it builds correctly. [...] ../lib/integer..NOK 10 # Failed test 'left shift' # in ../lib/integer.t at line 49. #

cyrus imap: seems Ok, but can't connect with mutt on localhost

2006-12-05 Thread David Landgren
List, I have recently set up cyrus IMAP (from ports) and it seems to be behaving itself: % imtest localhost S: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 SASL-IR] example.com Cyrus IMAP4 v2.3.7 server ready C: C01 CAPABILITY S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID AUTH=

Re: Connection refusal for an NFS mount

2006-07-21 Thread David Landgren
David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 07:43:16PM +0200, David Landgren wrote: David Kelly wrote: For starters try "showmount -e the.freebsd.ip.address" on the Linux box to see if the Linux box sees the NFS daemons on the FreeBSD machine. Hrm. # showmount -e 172.17.

Re: Connection refusal for an NFS mount

2006-07-20 Thread David Landgren
David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:16:16PM +0200, David Landgren wrote: List, On an old Redhat box (address 172.17.0.18), I'm trying to mount an NFS export from a FreeBSD (5.2.1-RELEASE) box. Both machines are on the same network segment, and neither have any onboard firewa

Connection refusal for an NFS mount

2006-07-20 Thread David Landgren
List, On an old Redhat box (address 172.17.0.18), I'm trying to mount an NFS export from a FreeBSD (5.2.1-RELEASE) box. Both machines are on the same network segment, and neither have any onboard firewalling rules. I run the following command (on the redhat, bechet is the FreeBSD box): mou

Re: php_XML_ParserCreate error

2006-06-16 Thread David Landgren
David Landgren wrote: Mike Sacauskis wrote: Hi I'm trying to install mambo on a 5.4 release. I'm running into a problem with the mambo editor. I've traced it to an error in the apache log: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/php/20020429/xml.so: Undefined symbol "

Re: php_XML_ParserCreate error

2006-06-16 Thread David Landgren
Mike Sacauskis wrote: Hi I'm trying to install mambo on a 5.4 release. I'm running into a problem with the mambo editor. I've traced it to an error in the apache log: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/php/20020429/xml.so: Undefined symbol "php_XML_ParserCreate" Hello Mike, I have j

Adding an extra Apache DSO module after 'make install'

2006-05-31 Thread David Landgren
want the new .so file to cause a segfault because of some sort of API mismatch. Thanks, David Landgren -- Much of the propaganda that passes for news in our own society is given to immobilising and pacifying people and diverting them from the idea that they can confront power -- John P

Re: Apache not building its own modules (e.g. mod_alias)

2006-05-30 Thread David Landgren
David Landgren wrote: Hello list, I wasn't exactly thinking things out, and just posted the following message to freebsd-ports, whereas it's probably better here. More eyeballs in any case. So sorry if you're seeing this for the second time. I'm having great difficulty t

Apache not building its own modules (e.g. mod_alias)

2006-05-30 Thread David Landgren
Hello list, I wasn't exactly thinking things out, and just posted the following message to freebsd-ports, whereas it's probably better here. More eyeballs in any case. So sorry if you're seeing this for the second time. I'm having great difficulty tracking what's going wrong here. I'm trying

Re: After upgrading Perl, cannot reinstall modules - Cwd.so: Undefined symbol "perl_get_sv

2005-11-30 Thread David Landgren
Mark Kane wrote: Hi everyone. I finally did a big portupgrade on a 4.9-RELEASE system today and I'm having some problems with Perl. I got it updated to 5.8.7 (was 5.6.x before), ran "use.perl port", and ran the perl-after-upgrade script which were all said in UPDATING. Now it's time to force upg

Re: Fuser equivalent

2005-07-04 Thread David Landgren
Crucis wrote: Hi, Is there a BSD equivalent of the Linux "fuser" command? fuser is used to identify processes using files/sockets. Thanks in advance lsof? Available in ports David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-14 Thread David Landgren
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: [...] It's all about what connotation you put on the word. E.g. to make a file world read-writable you would type "chmod 666 file". Ah, but you are talking in octal! % perl -le 'print oct 666' 438 No evil here :) Even though the number 666 is the number of the devil,

Re: Default security: other users can ACCESS MY HOMEDIR?!

2005-03-01 Thread David Landgren
Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: hey i didn't realize all my users had full access to my homedir! that kinda sucks, me who thought i had everything private and locked down what chmod should i set my homedir to then? chmod 700 $HOME and how do i set my system to chmod all new homedirs to that chmod? umas

Re: Anyone running Trend Micro IWSS in linux-compat mode?

2005-02-24 Thread David Landgren
David Landgren wrote: Hello List, I'm running a squid proxy on FreeBSD. The big problem today is web-borne viruses, spyware and other crap. The general feeling on the Squid users mailing list is that Trend Micro's InterScan Web Security Suite product is the way to go. Having loo

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-24 Thread David Landgren
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Mike Hauber writes: [...] Well... There's a lot of options available. Personally, I prefer something like blackbox for administrative logins. It's _very_ lightweight and (like all things should be), you pretty much build it from the ground up. What do you mean by buil

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-22 Thread David Landgren
Robert Kim, Wireless Internet / Wifi Hotspot Advisor wrote: Different OS's? Marketshare... any idea how many major OS's are out there today and what market share they have? i think WIN 70% Lin 20% Apple 5% Where did you get these numbers? so who is the other 5 % ??? Well, other than *BSD, nam

Re: samba as wins-server

2005-02-22 Thread David Landgren
Florian Hengstberger wrote: I'm not the admin, I own a normal workstation. I just wanted to know if setting up samba as an wins-server improves the speed of netbios resolution. It seems to me that I'll get in trouble when other XP boxes are around, because I've heard that the first win XP box on t

Re: samba as wins-server

2005-02-22 Thread David Landgren
Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! I'm working in an office with several win hosts of all flavours (98,2000,eXPerience). Unfortunatly the resolution of computers takes sometimes up to half an hour (approx.) until they are accessible after booting up. In near future I'll have the chance to switch to Fr

Anyone running Trend Micro IWSS in linux-compat mode?

2005-02-22 Thread David Landgren
Hello List, I'm running a squid proxy on FreeBSD. The big problem today is web-borne viruses, spyware and other crap. The general feeling on the Squid users mailing list is that Trend Micro's InterScan Web Security Suite product is the way to go. Having looked at the various incomplete, non-fun

Re: perl and ports

2005-01-25 Thread David Landgren
Kris Kennaway wrote: I will start with the cvsup developer :P cvsup itself doesn't require perl to build (as you can see from the lack of mention in the makefile), it's one of the other build dependencies. Well I think Modula-3 is find totally useless and even obsolete and dead as far as language

Creating your own FreeBSD install CD-ROM

2005-01-15 Thread David Landgren
List, how does one go about creating a FreeBSD install CD-ROM? I'd like to be able to build my own CD-ROM with as much as possible of the install process done automatically. For instance, what parts of FreeBSD to install: X or not, games or not, etc. etc. And which ports to install straight awa

Re: SSH & 5.3 Problems

2005-01-04 Thread David Landgren
Brian McCann wrote: Hi all. On 5.3 and 5.3 RC1 I have this problem where when I ssh in using either a FreeBSD 4.3 box or an older PuTTY client (0.52 is one I experienced it with), I cannot connect. On PuTTY, it asks for a username, then just exits. On FreeBSD when I put the ssh client into verbos

Large file on a DVD-ROM showing -ve size

2005-01-04 Thread David Landgren
Folks, I know FreeBSD deals with files larger than 2Gb, but I have a large file on a DVD I can't copy. This is on 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD, compiled Tue Oct 5 09:42:59 CEST 2004 ls -l gives: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel -2131373162 Nov 17 01:05 bas1.bas The fact that ls itself gets it wrong makes me ne

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-20 Thread David Landgren
Joshua Lokken wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:29:37 +0100, David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Leave /bin/sh as your shell. 'Leave' /bin/sh as your shell makes it sound like /bin/sh is the default root shell. Did this change in FreeBSD 5.x? It appears that in 4.x, t

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-20 Thread David Landgren
Dick Davies wrote: * Gerhard Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1207 12:07]: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0200, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote: I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2. I have installed bash from ports. How is possible to use bash in root account ? Do not change the shell of

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread David Landgren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? Available to purchase, I dunno. With older HP laptops I had no success with 5.2, but 4.10 was fine. I haven't tried 5.3 yet. When I say "no success", I meant that the

Re: Change "Bash-3.00#" Prompt???

2004-12-20 Thread David Landgren
Adam wrote: I installed bash shell and now my prompt says "bash-3.00#" How do I change the text before the #? I'd like it to say bash# instead of bash-3.00#. Edit .bashrc or .bash_profile. Run 'man bash' and look at the FILES section. David ___ [EMAIL PR

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-20 Thread David Landgren
Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote: Hi, I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2. I have installed bash from ports. How is possible to use bash in root account ? Thanks a lot Don't. Leave /bin/sh as your shell. If you want to run bash as root, log in as usual and then run 'exec bash' to replace

Re: CVSUP Routing question

2004-11-30 Thread David Landgren
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Good day! Is it possible to tell cvsup to use another machine's global access in fetching the freebsd source updates?? Here's my office workstation setup: (private ip) (pri/pub ip) (all public) workstation > router >proxy server--->internet

Re: squid-downloads

2004-11-26 Thread David Landgren
metallarch wrote: >-- >How can i deny downloads from squid? Here's a novel idea, how about reading the documentation? http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-10.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: Finding options for ports

2004-11-25 Thread David Landgren
[cc list trimmed] Lowell Gilbert wrote: Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: --On Monday, November 15, 2004 06:46:42 PM -0600 "Conrad J. Sabatier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a useless use of "cat". You could accomplish the same thing with: grep WITH Makefile When there are ten differe

Re: can't get rid of this file with trailing backslash?

2004-11-19 Thread David Landgren
Bart Silverstrim wrote: [...] I'm too paranoid that I know what *should* work wouldn't or would still end up deleting the original file I wanted, so I'd have to make a backup of the file and do it that way rather than play with escapes and quotes. Cant' you escape the \ with a \? rm named.conf\\ ?

Sluggishness on a 6 CPU HP-6000 Netserver

2004-10-08 Thread David Landgren
Hello, I have just installed an HP-6000r Netserver with 2Gb RAM and 6 P-III 700MHz processors. I cvsupped src (4.10-STABLE) yesterday and built the world and kernel. I've stripped out just about everything else I can from the kernel: usb, firewire, apm, serial port, //l port, PCMCIA, other RAID

Sluggishness on a 6 CPU HP-6000 Netserver

2004-10-08 Thread David Landgren
Hello, I have just installed an HP-6000r Netserver with 2Gb RAM and 6 P-III 700MHz processors. I cvsupped src (4.10-STABLE) yesterday and built the world and kernel. I've stripped out just about everything else I can from the kernel: usb, firewire, apm, serial port, //l port, PCMCIA, other RAID

Re: max group name length

2004-09-24 Thread David Landgren
David Bear wrote: was just trying to determine the maximum string length of a group name. found struct group { char*gr_name; /* group name */ but no size. any pointers (with limits)? Hmm, I had a browse through the kernel source for a while but didn't find anything definit

Re: Is there a Complete "Package"(NOT Ports) for: [Apache+PHP+MySQL+Mod_SSL+Mod_Perl] ?? - newbie+3

2004-07-28 Thread David Landgren
Henrik W Lund wrote: DK wrote: Hi all, I just wanted to know if there is available anywhere a Complete "Package" that is Ready to Go for a FreeBSD Server imlementation that contains: Apache PHP MySQL Mod_SSL Mod_Perl ... & before anyone flames, yes I know you can just d/l the ports & compile fro

'closed stream' on portupgrade, pkgdb -F

2004-07-28 Thread David Landgren
List, I'm having trouble bringing a machine up to par. I migrated from 4.8-RC2 to 4.10-STABLE this morning. No problems there. When I do a pkg_version -vL= I get a couple of dozen things to upgrade. I've synched my ports tree, run pkgdb -Uu. I have rebuilt ruby18 % ruby --version ruby 1.8.1 (200

Re: Increase Inodes

2004-07-15 Thread David Landgren
Rus Foster wrote: No. Changing the number of inodes means recreating the filesystem, and that implies wiping out the contents. I thought as much. Time to start doing a backup.. Either that or see if there isn't a pile of cruft hidden away in some directory that you forgot about. Such a thing hap

Re: mail daemon(s) recomendation request

2004-05-28 Thread David Landgren
Mike Maltese wrote: I'm looking for an smtp daemon that is less complex than sendmail, can use procmail and has some virtusertable equivalent features. Allowing relay based on mx is going to be a requirement for some of the boxes as well. Sendmail is working ok for me, but I'm intersted in finding

failure installing 5.2.1: cbb0: Unsupported card type detected

2004-05-28 Thread David Landgren
Hello, I have an old laptop, an HP XE3 OmniBook. Nice machine from an ergonomical point of view, and I was thinking of recycling it by installing FreeBSD. I downloaded the ISO for 5.2.1. It starts to boot just fine, but during the kernel load it dies with the message cbb0: Unsupported

Re: ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory

2004-01-07 Thread David Landgren
David Landgren wrote: I recently rebooted a server that had been running for many months. I haven't touched the kernel or userland programs since it went into production. The server was rebooted with 'shutdown -h now', powered down, and then later restarted. I've sin

ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory

2004-01-06 Thread David Landgren
I recently rebooted a server that had been running for many months. I haven't touched the kernel or userland programs since it went into production. The server was rebooted with 'shutdown -h now', powered down, and then later restarted. I've since noticed that cron didn't restart, which is odd

Re: Problems with ssh

2003-11-03 Thread David Landgren
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Hi! I can't ssh into one of my machines anymore. The only possible reason I can think of is that I played around with it's IP. Does it have to be reset somehow? Delete any references to it in ~/.ssh/known_hosts on any machine from which you wish to connect to the machi

Re: buildingworld & sysctl -w kern.securelevel=2 help??

2003-10-20 Thread David Landgren
Lowell Gilbert wrote: is it safe to reboot the system with the sysctl -w kern.securelevel variable set to -1 ..AFTER the OS has just done a make buildworld ? and then just pickup where i left off ?? The buildworld should work fine in raised securelevels. Installing (kernels or the rest of the "

Re: exe order in /usr/local/etc/rc.d

2003-10-16 Thread David Landgren
Konrad Heuer wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, RJ45 wrote: I have never understood in which order are execurted the scripts which are in /usr/local/etc/rc.d most port applications like mysqld, cyrus-imapd, spamd etc. put their startup scripts into /usr/local/etc/rc.d but they are not ordered by a num

Re: Increasing per-process memory limits?

2003-10-15 Thread David Landgren
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2003-10-14 23:51, njc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm currently using Zope's Plone application which relies heavily on python. When uploading large files (>65 megs, possibly higher), the python process is bombing out with a 'memory exceeded' error. I'm using 4.8-

Re: FreeBSD & SPAM

2003-10-06 Thread David Landgren
Robert Huff wrote: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg writes: SpamAssissin can hog a lot of CPU if you handle a lot of emails, so make sure you are running it in daemon mode, that helps quite a bit. SpamAssassin is Perl, so of ourse it's a hog. I seem to remember someone trying to write a versi

Re: cvsup -> down?

2003-09-25 Thread David Landgren
Bill Moran wrote: Hey all. This seems like a really dumb question to me, but I'm having such a rough last two weeks that I'd rather be sure by sounding stupid, than by looking stupid. What I'm doing is upgrading a machine to RELEASE_5_1 (to take care of the recent arp problems) and I wasn't paying

Re: Deleting/Filtering mail from POP3 server before its download?

2003-09-24 Thread David Landgren
ekrem _ wrote: [...] I'd like to be able to delete my emails from my ISP's POP3 server, especially to avoid the recent bombardment of the W32.swen.A virus which come with a 150kb+ attachment. So I'm looking for such a filter or spam detector which will delete from spam directly from the POP serv

Re: Deleting/Filtering mail from POP3 server before its download?

2003-09-23 Thread David Landgren
ekrem _ wrote: Hi people, I'd like to be able to delete my emails from my ISP's POP3 server, especially to avoid the recent bombardment of the W32.swen.A virus which come with a 150kb+ attachment. So I'm looking for such a filter or spam detector which will delete from spam directly from the PO

Emulating gmake functionality in make

2003-09-23 Thread David Landgren
Hello list, gnu's make (a.k.a gmake) has a nifty piece of functionality that, while it may be possible to perform with make, for the life of me I can't figure out the syntax. Let's say you have a list of files a b c d that get transformed by program foo into a.x b.x c.x and d.x Further, let u

Re: Can I disable HTT in 4.8-STABLE?

2003-09-23 Thread David Landgren
Kent Ketell wrote: Is there a way to disable the hyperthreading in 4.8-STABLE or 4.9-PRERELEASE? I'd like to be able to test with and without HTT enabled to see whether it's actually helping or not. You have to compile a kernel with and without the options SMP, APIC_IO and HTT. You can test if y

Re: FW: Spam mail warning notification! (MS-Update)

2003-09-22 Thread David Landgren
Schalk Erasmus wrote: It is interesting to see that some of our colleagues belonging to the FreeBSD Mailing List, are infected with the Worm.Swen virus! Sven forges envelope senders; that you receive messages purporting to come from FreeBSD lists means nothing. I'm leaving this list, since I get

Re: OT: finding a callers number

2003-09-22 Thread David Landgren
Jonas wrote: Sorry for the OT but I have an urgent question and don't really know how else to ask. We have some hostile issues in our planned community against our kids and need to find out who called us between 5-8PM Sunday evening. My 3 1/2 year old picked up the phone call and I need to find ou

"Hmm! I couldn't move the old kernel over!" during upgrade

2003-09-22 Thread David Landgren
Hello, I'm trying to recover a machine that failed to upgrade from 4.8 to 5.1 (the make installworld failed with a sh core dump half way through :( The restore program is hosed, so I can't restore from tape. I don't have a recent backup of /home either (it's a hardware RAID-1, so I'm slacker t

Re: postfix, MailScanner, and SpamAssassin on fbsd 5.1

2003-09-17 Thread David Landgren
dave wrote: Hello, I've read the installation howto on the MailScanner home page and have got postfix and MailScanner to talk to each other. The problem is whenever i enable the use spamassassin option and restart MailScanner i start getting errors in my maillog about messages being found but

Re: *how to obtain a better result from this list*

2003-09-12 Thread David Landgren
Paredes Sánchez Martín A. wrote: Hi: I am looking for a mail that says how to obtain a better result from this list. Does someone can send to me? I forwarded "How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions", so there's no need to spam him with 10 copies :) David __

Re: Sendmail is sleepy

2003-09-04 Thread David Landgren
Charles Howse wrote: Did you enter your hostname and ip address in /etc/resolv.conf? I don't if it will fix your problem; but is helps when many applications complain about the hostname. I think you mean /etc/hosts, something like 10.0.0.1 larry.domain.tld larry Andrew Gould Uh, no I did

Huge processes (was: Re: Large memory issues)

2003-09-03 Thread David Landgren
Irvine Short wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, David Landgren wrote: Irvine Short wrote: I then found that this: options MAXDSIZ="(2048*1024*1024)" options MAXSSIZ="(128*1024*1024)" (and also 64MB) options DFLDSIZ="(512*1024*1024)" worked fi

Re: File permissions suddenly change for /dev/null.

2003-09-02 Thread David Landgren
Ed Alley wrote: I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get mysteriously changed by some unknown process to: crw--- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null This has a devastating effect on user processes that want to open /dev/null. Whenever my system starts acti

Re: How to run PostgreSQL on boot?

2003-09-01 Thread David Landgren
Alex Zivenko wrote: Hi all! I need to run Postgresql server on startup. It means, that I need to start postmaster every boot. How can I do this? Sorry for my english. I have the following file on the servers that run Postgresql, named /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql.sh: #! /bin/sh su postgres -c

Re: Newer names

2003-09-01 Thread David Landgren
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 04:13:20PM +0200, Hendrik Hasenbein wrote: Vitali Malicky wrote: What about DRAGON? There is also such a term as DRAGON. Yes, I'm all serious. cron is a DRAGON, for example. DRAGON is a process which may run other processes periodically under a user s

Re: System very slow to boot

2003-08-28 Thread David Landgren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Since reloading my system I find that it is very slow to boot. It looks like it hangs while trying the load the sendmail and sendmail-client daemons. It eventually boots after 20 minutes or so. I tried disabling sendmail but it still boots very slow. The initial bootup r

Re: Setting sysctl variables BEFORE the kernel boots and runs init?

2003-08-28 Thread David Landgren
Micheal Patterson wrote: - Original Message - From: "Donald Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeBSD Questions List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 6:11 PM Subject: Setting sysctl variables BEFORE the kernel boots and runs init? I would like to be able to set certai

Re: Off Topic RegEx Question

2003-08-27 Thread David Landgren
Roger Williams wrote: > I know thins is not the place but I know one of you know this one off the > top of your head. > > I have: > > $list = "dog 1 1 1 cat 2 1 snake 111" > and I want to end up with: > dog 1 cat 2 snake 1 > I thought > $list =~ s/ \d \d/ \d/g; > would do the trick, but that gives

Re: Large memory issues

2003-08-27 Thread David Landgren
Irvine Short wrote: [...] and then later it says on the console something like: 256MB of RAM over 4GB ignored. Seems silly to waste 256MB RAM so any hints would be appreciated here too. How can you address more than 2^32 bytes of RAM with a 32 bit processor? :) Yeah, I know about PAE, but it's a

Re: Large memory issues

2003-08-27 Thread David Landgren
Irvine Short wrote: Hey All [snip] and it was slightly better - managed to boot halfway with everything running out of memory. I then found that this: options MAXDSIZ="(2048*1024*1024)" options MAXSSIZ="(128*1024*1024)" (and also 64MB) options DFLDSIZ="(512*1024*1024)" work

Re: SSH Daemon not running

2003-08-27 Thread David Landgren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a standard install of 4.7 the ssh daemon isn't running even though it shows enabled in rc.conf, could it be something else I'm missing. It was my understading that ssh got installed by default. I did go into /etc/ssh/sshd_config and made sure I uncommented the port 2

Re: no root login after changing shell

2003-08-27 Thread David Landgren
thomas may wrote: Hi, i wanted to change the shell for user root to bash. This is not a good idea. You don't want to use a shell on a partition other than / (e.g. /usr, /usr/local) for root. If those partitions, or shared libraries like libc, get trashed, you are in a world of pain. Much better

Re: National Security Backdoor in telnetd - all versions.

2003-08-26 Thread David Landgren
Joshua Oreman wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:22:12PM -0400 or thereabouts, Kevin shampoo Nadeau wrote: Hello [ ... ] telnetd is infected with a national security backdoor in all non-source compiled versions of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. If you download the source code for telnetd and compi

A DLT unit on /dev/sa0 is really slow

2003-08-26 Thread David Landgren
List, I have an external DLT tape (a COMPAQ DLT VS 40/80 5133 according to camcontrol). It seems glacially slow to me. Last night I backed up many gigabytes of files from a remote machine over NFS. It took over five hours to do it. My overworked Sun E-450 will do this in a shade over three hou

Re: Need help with a strange mail/domain problem!

2003-07-07 Thread David Landgren
Thomas Beutler wrote: Hi everyone! I'm a total stranger to the Unix world... too long have I dwelled in the Windows area, and now I'm searching for new horizons and worlds to explore... the Unix world. I looked around and found FreeBSD interesting enough to install... and here I am with a strange

Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD

2003-07-01 Thread David Landgren
Johan Paul wrote: Hi all, This might be kind of a newbie question - I apologize for that. This is my first time I use a hardware RAID card on a server. I was wondering if there are any issues with FreeBSD (4.8R) regarding these cards? Will FreeBSD see the RAID1 as a single hard drive that I ju

Re: max group name length

2003-06-26 Thread David Landgren
David Bear wrote: was just trying to determine the maximum string length of a group name. found struct group { char*gr_name; /* group name */ but no size. any pointers (with limits)? Hmm, I had a browse through the kernel source for a while but didn't find anything defin

Re: Need a little help with a proof of concept cgi.

2003-06-25 Thread David Landgren
Dragoncrest wrote: hi all. I've got a little proof of concept idea I want to do and I was looking to get some advice from some of the CGI experts on this list to help me with it. What I want to do is simple. I have like 3 users I want to track and retrieve the following stats on. 1.

Re: Eliminating "noise" from secondary MX

2003-06-25 Thread David Landgren
Karl Pielorz wrote: [...] Or, secondly - as was cleverly suggested to me a while ago - setup a 3rd MX that has a IN A PTR to your primary MX, and make it the highest priority... e.g. mx0.mydomain.com PRI 20 mx1.mydomain.com PRI 30 mx2.mydomain.com PRI 40 (Which is really just a diff

Re: softupdate and squid-cache ?

2003-06-25 Thread David Landgren
User Frankb wrote: Hi I'm setting up a Squid cache running on latest 4.8 release and I wondering about disk write performances as it is a crucial point on that kind on machine. My question : does softupdate slow down disk writes ? What you *really* want to do is put the disk cache on a second di

Re: BTX halted when installing on a HP Proliant DL360 G3

2003-06-23 Thread David Landgren
David Landgren wrote: Replying to myself, for the sake of the archives. List, I just received a new batch of servers to deploy. Among the lot I have 3 HP Proliant DL360 G3 servers that refuse to run the installation CD. I think this is because HP have switched to Ultra 320 drives and I don&#

Re: How to close port 22 ?

2003-06-13 Thread David Landgren
Olivier Nicole wrote: But I strongly suggest that you use SSH instead of telnet to allow remote connection to your machine. uh, maybe he doesn't want any remote connections to his machine? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: List of popular DNS blacklists for spam?

2003-06-13 Thread David Landgren
Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi all - I'm testing the use of some DNS blacklists to cut down on my spam and there are a lot of servers to choose from. I was wondering if there is a list of popular servers. I've seen comparison lists, but I'm hoping for more of a survey of sysadmins and what t

BTX halted when installing on a HP Proliant DL360 G3

2003-06-11 Thread David Landgren
List, I just received a new batch of servers to deploy. Among the lot I have 3 HP Proliant DL360 G3 servers that refuse to run the installation CD. I think this is because HP have switched to Ultra 320 drives and I don't think FreeBSD has caught up with that. I have two 18Gb 15000rpm drives mo

Re: restore over ssh hangs (solved)

2003-05-28 Thread David Landgren
David Landgren wrote: List, I've implemented backups with dump/restore over ssh to a remote server. The backups work just fine, basically doing something like dump -0au -f - / | bzip2 | ssh remote.host \ dd of=/backup/root.bz2 Now backups are only useful if you can restore from them...

Re: Which Processor and motherboard is better (new to FreeBSD)

2003-04-01 Thread David Landgren
Paredes Sánchez Martín A. wrote: I found in the intel web site that the Hyper-Threading has this requirements: Hyper-Threading Technology requires a computer system with an Intel Pentium 4 processor at 3.06 GHz or higher, a chipset and BIOS that utilize this technology, and an operating system that

Re: Which Processor and motherboard is better (new to FreeBSD)

2003-04-01 Thread David Landgren
Paredes Sánchez Martín A. wrote: Hi: I want to build a new PC with FreeBSD, which processor is best for FreeBSD. Intel builds processors and motherboards, which gave me a feel of good performance between this two elements. Intel has something called Hyper-Threading Technology, Which turbo charges

Re: Software Watchdog?

2003-04-01 Thread David Landgren
Lasse Laursen wrote: Hi, Are there any apps. like 'watchdog' - http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/watchdog.html - for FreeBSD? I have been searching the ports tree and freshmeat but was unable to locate anything usefull. What are you trying to do? Dan Bernstein's daemontools will look after

Re: perl help

2003-03-27 Thread David Landgren
Kenzo wrote: [resend. I sent this yesterday but it doesn't appear to have turned up on the list.] I don't know how to write anything in perl and will eventually learn it. but I was wondering if anyone would help write a quick perl script for me. You really ought to try a different forum. Perl M

Re: bge network driver not loaded on a HP (Compaq) Proliant DL380G3

2003-03-26 Thread David Landgren
Nicolas Kowalski wrote: David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am in the process of installing FreeBSD 4.7 on an HP Proliant DL380 G3. At the moment I am blocked by the fact that the kernel does not recognise the network card (or rather, does not load the bge driver). I fac

Re: bge network driver not loaded on a HP (Compaq) Proliant DL380G3

2003-03-26 Thread David Landgren
Nicolas Kowalski wrote: David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am in the process of installing FreeBSD 4.7 on an HP Proliant DL380 G3. At the moment I am blocked by the fact that the kernel does not recognise the network card (or rather, does not load the bge driver). I fac

bge network driver not loaded on a HP (Compaq) Proliant DL380 G3

2003-03-26 Thread David Landgren
Hello, I am in the process of installing FreeBSD 4.7 on an HP Proliant DL380 G3. At the moment I am blocked by the fact that the kernel does not recognise the network card (or rather, does not load the bge driver). It is a Broadcom BCM5703X Gigabit Ethernet adapter. (In fact there are two). Wh