On Sun, July 1, 2007 2:25 pm, kalin mintchev wrote:
> and which port do i exactly install to be able to whach flash video?
> i did the /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-mozilla - didn't work. the other
> one
> is marked as broken...
> now that cnn moved to that i can't watch it anymore and i have never
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Richard Lynch wrote:
>> Thanks to the fine folks here, I've gotten periodic.conf to only
>> output messages I need to know, *except* for this one:
>>
>> Security check:
>> (output mailed separately)
Thanks to the fine folks here, I've gotten periodic.conf to only
output messages I need to know, *except* for this one:
Security check:
(output mailed separately)
I've looked through /et/defaults/periodic.conf, Google a fair amount,
and am still coming up empty with a setting to suppress that
On Sun, June 10, 2007 7:49 pm, James liu wrote:
> i use ports to default setup...
>
> web£ºlighttpd
>
> php: php5+php5-extensions
>
>
> cp /usr/local/etc/php.ini-recommended /usr/local/etc/php.ini
>
> restart lighttpd and phpinfo don't know php.ini.
>
> now i wanna config php moudel, but if no php.
On Fri, June 8, 2007 2:10 am, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> On Thursday 07 June 2007 20:26, Richard Lynch wrote:
>
>> Or some way to get periodic to only tell me stuff I *need* to know,
>> instead of telling me every time it cleans the damn toilet.
>
> Have you looked at the m
So, I found it in 'man hier' as "for historical reasons" but just what
is /var/preserve and why is it getting cleaned out every day and why
am I getting yet another line in a too-long email about it?...
I'm also looking at doing something like this:
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/h/5238
but wondering
On Thu, March 1, 2007 3:35 pm, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Steve Franks wrote:
>> How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find
>> anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an
>> issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so?
I've been told that most mo
[I've tried to snip away a lot of stuff, without losing any context...]
On Tue, February 6, 2007 2:50 am, Ian Smith wrote:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 164, Issue 1
> At Message: 19
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 01:13:31 -0600 (CST) Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
I thought the security/denyhosts port looked good, even if just to
slim down that report I get every day about the hundreds of SSH
attempts...
And, hey, reporting back to denyhosts HQ and letting them notify the
sysadmins of hacked boxen is a lot better than me doing it by hand.
Only problem is,
On Tue, January 16, 2007 3:21 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:
>> I know the messages below mean the hard drive or IDE cards are
>> having
>> problems. But is this like RED ALERT or more like YELLOW or what?
...
>> +ad1: TIMEO
On Sun, February 4, 2007 12:45 am, Gary Kline wrote:
> This is getting sranger and strangr. (BTW, I'll check the
> pkg-plist files; I forgot that; thanks.)
>
> On my ThinkPad, I have cloned my web files and php works.
> There is a different apache/httpd.conf file on my lapt
On Sun, February 4, 2007 3:53 pm, Aloha Guy wrote:
> Thanks for the input. You do have good points. The only issue with
> swap partitions is that it seems like you need to increase it
> everytime you increase the physical memory. Is there a swap partition
> size limit that pretty much will handl
On Sun, February 4, 2007 2:47 pm, Chris wrote:
> Heya folks -
>
> Every 6 months (sometimes longer) I ask about either a port, or a
> Wine
> config that allows the playing of iTune-purchased music.
>
> Last I seen, Banshee comes close (Under Linux) and of course I opted
> to
> give Wine
Sounds like flaky/cheap network card to me...
[But I'm no expert]
Perhaps, however, just doing a cron job every day to do the ifconfig
down/up would be a simple work-around.
On Sun, January 21, 2007 9:12 pm, David Schulz wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> every once in a while i have a machine (6.1) that ou
I know the messages below mean the hard drive or IDE cards are having
problems.
But is this like RED ALERT or more like YELLOW or what?
And what do I do about it?
umount and fsck everything a lot?
swap cards/drives around until it stops?
Ignore it and pray?
All the content is already copied t
On Thu, January 4, 2007 10:46 am, Stan Halprin wrote:
> What is a snapshot? I could just make a backup copy of it, which is
> what I was thinking of doing, and revert if necessary. Of course, that
> supposes I remember to do that :/ I was hoping for some program
> smarter than me.
Jumping into the
On Thu, January 4, 2007 12:56 pm, Peter aka SweetPete wrote:
> I think that more specifically, I would like and lots of users in the
> *nix
> community probably would not mind, if sysinstall could handle
> installing to
> a partially used HDD. Can sysinstall do that? *naive looks*
>
> I have heard
On Thu, January 4, 2007 1:42 am, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 January 2007 22:20, Richard Lynch wrote:
>> Due to some hardware issues (not really relevant here) I've
>> re-installed FreeBSD about 6 times in the last couple days.
>>
>> On one of those occa
Due to some hardware issues (not really relevant here) I've
re-installed FreeBSD about 6 times in the last couple days.
On one of those occasions, I managed to go through a sequence not
unlike this:
1. Standard fdisk/label stuff.
2. Custom install of base, kernel, ports tree (only)
3. Choose some
Hello again!
I am having an issue with FreeBSD 6.1 on a laptop, a Dell Inspiron 700m.
You may remember me from Autumn of 2004 trying this with 5.2.1 and
having troubles... Or not.
Anyway, I was told that 6.x was working on this hardware, and I tried
it, and it was great!
Until I put in the 2nd
PS
I found the Release Notes for 6.1 with this being a known issue that
was FIXED:
http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/6.1-RELEASE/relnotes-i386.html
Doesn't seem fixed here...
I'm happy to help debug, alter C code, and run trials, etc...
Or perhaps I've just been really stupid and missed
Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 06:53 am, Richard Lynch wrote:
>> I have a situation where NIC code printf's out stuff.
>>
>> I'd *LIKE* to collect that output.
>>
>> Under Linux, I'd use 2&>1
>
> I think (hope) you mean
I have a situation where NIC code printf's out stuff.
I'd *LIKE* to collect that output.
Under Linux, I'd use 2&>1
I read somewhere that under FreeBSD, I could do:
(xxx > log.out) &> log.err
This works fine for xxx == make buildkernel
If fails miserably for xxx == ifconfig, however.
I can sor
Alan Curtis wrote:
> 7. followed the instructions at
> http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> and added
>
> foreach ($_REQUEST as $k => $v) $$k = $v;
At this point, you might as well use .htaccess to turn register_globals
back "ON" for phpwiki, since you have effectively
John Oxley wrote:
> has gallery setup on his webpage and the albums directory is chmod
> 707'd so that httpd can write to it.
Does that user realize that everybody else on the server can use PHP to
write web content to that directory?...
Perhaps if a defacement example were demonstrated, he'd mov
Jason Barnes wrote:
> While running an mpirun job on my dual-processor SMP system
> (FreeBSD 4-STABLE from August 28), my program (initiated with the command
> line 'mpirun -np 2 ../sphagr') periodically dies, leaving a process that I
> can't kill -9. Here's the top:
>
> The 550 proces
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
> Hi,
> I wan't to access my pc at work from home through
> freebsd's sshd. Is it possible?, knowing that it
> doesn't have a public ip address? That workstation of
> mine is only gaining internet access through LAN
> servers and routers. Will it help if I know the
> ga
Brian McCann wrote:
> Hi all...I'm having a conceptual problem I can't get around and
> was hoping someone can change my focus here. I've been backing up
> roughly 6-8 million small files (roughly 2-4k each) using dump, but
> restores take forever due to the huge number of files and directori
Newton wrote:
> Dear Friends : I'm having problems, with a 5.21 version install. After
> XFree86 troubles, finally I could see KDE. All, except internet , it's
> OK. My system is an Atlhon 1000 (T-Bird), Soyo K7-VTA-B, 256 Mb RAM, 32
> Mb Savage 4 (Savage Generic driver), Sound Blaster Live, Realte
Gary Schenk wrote:
> I cannot print from either X or the command line. It was working
> fine until a few hours ago. Any suggestions on where to start
> on this would be much appreciated.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> bash-2.05b$ lpr test.txt
> /usr/bin/lpr: line 12: */5: No such file or directory
> /
Since so many people gave me on -mobile and -questions gave me so much
help, I'd like to *TRY* to continue working on adding support for the
Broadcom 4401-B0 to FreeBSD.
Here's where I came from:
None of my CardBus, NIC, WiFi, etc devices were getting register memory:
http://phpbootcamp.com/art
Nico Meijer wrote:
> Hey Bill,
>> Are you saying that it's better for users not to know that their mail
>> has been delayed?
>
> Unfortunately, yes. That is what I am saying.
>
> On a technical level, I totally disagree with myself. On a practical,
> day-to-day operations level I have to admit I'd
Joseph Koening (jWeb) wrote:
> I got up this morning and discovered that someone sent some spam through
> one of my servers. The messages were sent from the 'www' user on
> localhost, which is leading me to think somewhere someone has an insecure
> php or perl script that is allowing someone to des
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You installed the CGI port.. You need to install the apache module. CGI
> doesn't allow embedded php in the page.
Just for the record:
Unless the FreeBSD port does something really really really bogus, the
above statement is 100% wrong. :-)
Perhaps you are thinking of
Andrew wrote:
> I have a production FreeBSD box. My friend is starting to learn Unix
> essentials and is asking me for an account. He doesn't require any
> special rights, but he certainly wants to be able to use shell and read
> most manual pages. He'll access the server via Internet, SSH.
A slig
kinux wrote:
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function: preg_replace() in
> /usr/local/www/acid/acid_signature.inc on line 194
You have managed to install PHP *without* the PCRE module (module of PHP).
http://php.net/pcre
should lead you to something useful about how/where to get PCRE.
alden.pierre wrote:
> /etc/rc.conf contains the following:
>
> ntpdate_enable="YES"
> ntpdate_flags="timex.cs.columbia.edu"
> xntpd_enable="YES"# Run ntpd Network Time Protocol
>
> /etc/ntpd.conf contains the following:
>
> driftfile/etc/ntp/drift
> server 65.211.109.1
> server 65.211.1
Glenn Sieb wrote:
> But I'm having a dickens of a time finding something that will let me
> author DVDs. Any pointing in directions or help would be greatly
> appreciated!
By 'author' you mean 'burn', right?...
Or are you talking about compiling your mpeg files into a DVD file system?
I *THINK*
susmit sarkar wrote:
> I know that the question I am asking might sound very stupid. But it has
> me really perplexed. It relates to Unix mail. I use the d command to
> delete mails. Like
> d
> or
> d
> But sometimes I find that the mails get deleted and sometimes not. I want
> the mails that I d
Richard Lynch wrote:
> I have installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Dell Insprion 700 m, dual boot with
> the existing XP Home Edition (blech).
>
> Have begun posting my experience at
> http://phpbootcamp.com/articles/inspiron700m.htm
>
> The built-in LAN NIC is a Broadcom 440x.
>
Choy Kho Yee wrote:
> On 2004/09/15, at 12:58, esmaeel pashapouri wrote:
>
>> Now as in subject line, have to figure a way to split
>> the hard drive which short sitedly by the hp was
>> patitioned in 1 big chunk and formated in ntfs
>> format.
>> According to freebsd docs I am out of lock for now
Anthony Philipp wrote:
> Well I did insert the paper clip into the drive,
Sometimes, you have to bend that clip a bit, in order to hit the trigger.
You'll also often meet considerable resistance -- It's a manual over-ride,
and you gotta push way harder than you might think...
About as hard as th
FreeBSD 5.2.1
I am attempting to add support for the built-in network device in my
laptop, a Dell Inspiron 700m, by altering the C source code in /usr/src/
Bear with me -- This is roughly equivalent to a plumber doing brain
surgery :-)
Windows reports this device as a Broadcom 440x, and the docs
> also when KDE first starts up, although my "Starting
> KDE" system event sound is clearly cut short. Beyond
> that, no sound works either from X or from the
> console.
Just for fun, turn *OFF* the KDE sound effects.
Perhaps, just maybe, whatever sound effect is getting played has some kind
of
Ryan Sommers wrote:
> First problem I ran into. I'm attempting to send the mail via `which
> mail`. I first was going to attempt to concatenate the message via
> "message=${message}$'\n'" However, this strips the newlines
> out of the variable (both sh and bash). I then tried using the < redirectio
Kenneth A. Bond wrote:
> I am trying to update my source using CVS, as CVSup is not an option in my
> current environment. I am running FreeBSD 4.10.
> Below are the commands that I am entering in order to perform the update,
> but for some reason, I am getting the following error when attempting t
Subhro wrote:
>> #1. How do I test that bfe (man bfe) is built-in to the kernel versus
>> loaded as a module?
>>
> Check the config file. I believe the GENERIC kernel has it built in.
This is gonna sound stupid, but I spent a good 10 minutes using locate and
find and whatnot trying to find somethi
So, I'm having trouble because my laptop is not recognizing the built-in
LAN/NIC during boot.
I've been reading manuals furiously, but I'm at the stage where I have a
laundry list of things to try, but am not running across the docs on how
to do them...
Of course, sometimes it's that I can't actu
Christophe Asselin wrote:
> I want to install FreeBsd 5.2.1 but when i boot from the install i386 cd
> an error occur.
>
> Some text appear and it froze (stuck at these lines)
> "pcibo: port oxcf8-oxcff on acpi0
> pci0: on pcibo
> pcibo: slot 2 INTA is routed to irq 10"
>
> in windowsxp, if I wat
Mark wrote:
>> MS/Windows98. After F1 key win98 boot just hung there doing nothing.
Forgive me if this is silly, but...
In *MY* setup, F1 points to a teeny tiny partition that Windows XP Home
Edition created with, err, looks like some kind of boot-strapping stuff in
it.
And *F2* is what gets me
FreeBSD Mail Lists wrote:
> Richard,
> Thanks for your reply. I thought there was something terribly wrong with
> that logic. So I thought I would ask in this mail list since people have
> been great here in the past about everything else I wanted to know.
> Are there any security lists in relati
Subhro wrote:
> Could I have a look at your whole dmesg?
http://phpbootcamp.com/articles/inspiron700m/
> Also tell us something about your other hardware. Did you try popping
> out the NIC and fixing it in another slot?
It's a Dell laptop...
I'm not unwilling to open her up and poke at it, but
I originally posted to -hardware, but no response yet...
The Broadcom 440x NIC in my new Dell Inspiron 700m is not being recognized
during boot.
FreeBSD 5.2.1 downloaded several days ago.
Install was pretty straightforward, though the post-installation only lets
me configure ppp and slip, and th
FreeBSD Mail Lists wrote:
> I would like to see how other people are updating backend databases
> (postgresql on FreeBSD, internal network) from a webserver (apache,php on
> FreeBSD, dmz network) through a firewall. Pretty much what I am trying to
> learn is how to take private information (credit
Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
> month. If you later switch to DSL and want to use your ISDN line(s)
> for that, you're still paying for an extra line (in my case I was
> paying for two ISDN lines). If you use DSL, you can use your
As a guy who has not one, not two, but THREE (3) defunct (or never worke
> cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord 2.00.3 (I386 .
> cdrecord: Operation not permitted. Error opening /dev/pass0 Cam error
> 'camreal_
> opendevice: coundn't open passthr. Cannot open SCSI driver.
I dunno about all this other stuff, but to me, *THIS* looks like you don't
have the IDE-SCSI module in
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