The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-10-29 - 2006-11-18

2006-11-19 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the maili

Sendmail and network aliases

2006-11-19 Thread Evgeniy Belomestnov
Hello! I have FreeBSD-6.1 machine with two network interfaces: one for private network, one for internet. Network interface for internet has some aliases. I need to configure mail relay for some domains at this computer. Can I configure my MTA (Sendmail) to send e-mail for different domai

sysutils/coreutils upgrade error

2006-11-19 Thread Beni
Hi, When doing an "portmaster -a -i -v", the sysutils/coreutils port needs to be updated. But I'm getting the following error. How do I get past this ? Thanks, Beni. www# pkgdb -F ---> Checking the package registry database [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 499 packages found (-12 +11

error in portupgrading audio/amarok

2006-11-19 Thread Beni
Hi, When trying to portupgrade amarok, I'm getting the following error. I did already a "make config" and unchecked the iPod option cause I don't need the iPod support. But the upgrade still fails. Any hints on how to get audio/amarok upgraded please? Thankx, Beni. [...] Making all in ipod gma

Installworld Problem... Please help!!!

2006-11-19 Thread VeeJay
Hello, Please help!!! I have CVSup'ed my 6.1 Fresh Install. No problems with buildworld or kernel build, but I am getting failures during installworld. When I give this command in single user mode: # make installworld A Partial output of the Screen Dump cd /usr/src/etc; make distr

Re: Installworld Problem... Please help!!!

2006-11-19 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 19 November 2006 06:47, VeeJay wrote: > Hello, > > Please help!!! > I have CVSup'ed my 6.1 Fresh Install. No problems with buildworld or kernel > build, but I am getting failures > during installworld. When I give this command in single user mode: > > # make installworld > > A Partial out

Re: error in portupgrading audio/amarok

2006-11-19 Thread Andy Harrison
On 11/19/06, Beni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, When trying to portupgrade amarok, I'm getting the following error. I did already a "make config" and unchecked the iPod option cause I don't need the iPod support. But the upgrade still fails. Any hints on how to get audio/amarok upgraded please?

Xircom XE2000 card problem

2006-11-19 Thread jvk-list
Asked this question a couple of days ago in freebsd-mobile, but haven't heard anything. I'm reposting here to, hopefully, a wider audience... I have an Inspiron 7000 laptop I've set up as a FreeBSD server running Version 6.1. I have a Xircom XE2000 ethernet card I'd like to use.

dvd extractor

2006-11-19 Thread eoghan
Hi Im looking to extract some of my dvd's, not convert to mpeg4 or anything... simply extract the video_ts and audio_ts... Is there any application in the ports tree that can do this for me? I tried dvdrip but it stopped with an error installing mplayer... Thanks Eoghan __

Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output

2006-11-19 Thread Bill Moran
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:42:31 + Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Bill writes: > > Bill> My guess would be that your process blocked on stdout. > Bill> You don't mention what you're doing with stdout from the program, are > Bill> you just letting it scroll on the terminal, or redirec

Re: dvd extractor

2006-11-19 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 19 November 2006 10:20, eoghan wrote: > I tried dvdrip but it stopped with an error installing mplayer... what exactly was the error with mplayer? i had to deselect a few codecs to get mine to install, in the end, i still had a working media player. might be worth your time to play w

Re: Modifying gcc34 makefile to compile with java

2006-11-19 Thread David Pratt
Hi Kris. This is a libgcj in gcc issue and have posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. I see that there is a similar reference to something similar on Darwin platform which has FreeBSD roots. It seems that unwind symbol may be getting introduced into libgcj (so that when compiled produces the error)

How to install security patches from http://www.freebsd.org/security?

2006-11-19 Thread VeeJay
Hi How to install security patches from http://www.freebsd.org/security? Thanks for your time... -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

maxusers ??? (Building Kernel)

2006-11-19 Thread VeeJay
Hi I am just building Kernel for my Web Server which do have a pretty heavy traffic. Just wondering that what should I set MAXUSERS in Kernel config file? -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: dvd extractor

2006-11-19 Thread 文鳥
> Im looking to extract some of my dvd's, not convert to mpeg4 or > anything... > simply extract the video_ts and audio_ts... Hallo Eoghan, how about vobcopy (/usr/ports/sysutils/vobcopy)? It works fine for me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Install

2006-11-19 Thread Ramesh Subrahmaniam
Hi Where should I be asking questions regarding install ? If this is the correct forum I have a Sis648-FX motherboard. I have two hard drives; one Hitachi and one Western Digital. I also have a BTC DVD-ROM. In addtition to this I have two Sil 3112 SATA Controllers on which I have four d

chpass -p dilema

2006-11-19 Thread David McCord
Dear list, I made a error that changed the root password to something unknown. Experimenting, I intended to change the password of pjones, but instead changed the root password since I gave no user argument. As root, I said: chpass -p pjones I logged out then logged back in as my username, then s

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Re: chpass -p dilema

2006-11-19 Thread Gabriel O'Brien
David, I doubt there's much you're going to be able to do other than reset the password. 'pjones' doesn't look like a valid password hash of any kind so I can't think of a way to crack it even if you wanted to do something like that. Of course I will bow to anybody who has superior knowledge

Re: maxusers ??? (Building Kernel)

2006-11-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/19/06, VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I am just building Kernel for my Web Server which do have a pretty heavy traffic. Just wondering that what should I set MAXUSERS in Kernel config file? Short answer: it depends. Long answer: 0 -- --

Re: maxusers ??? (Building Kernel)

2006-11-19 Thread Christian Jung
On 11/19/06, VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I am just building Kernel for my Web Server which do have a pretty heavy traffic. Just wondering that what should I set MAXUSERS in Kernel config file? Short answer: it depends. Long answer: 0 -- --

Mistake: Re: maxusers ??? (Building Kernel)

2006-11-19 Thread Christian Jung
Christian Jung schrieb: On 11/19/06, VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I am just building Kernel for my Web Server which do have a pretty heavy traffic. Just wondering that what should I set MAXUSERS in Kernel config file? Short answer: it depends. Long answer: 0 Hello, please forgive

Re: firefox2 - core dump

2006-11-19 Thread Simon Phoenix
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Andriy Babiy said the following on 03.11.2006 10:05: > Hello everybody, > > After last upgrade of Firefox, it dumps core when I run it. I am not sure, > but > the problem might be caused by the additional optimization that I enabled > during conf

Something wrong with the files in /usr/local/include/subversion-1/ ?

2006-11-19 Thread Frank Staals
Hey, Today I tried manually building anjuta2, after getting rid of some errors by fixing FreeBSD specific includes in the anjuta-source files At some point I got this kind of errors: /usr/local/include/subversion-1/svn_io.h:28:17: apr.h: No such file or directory /usr/local/include/subversio

Re: Modifying gcc34 makefile to compile with java

2006-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 01:04:23PM -0400, David Pratt wrote: > Hi Kris. This is a libgcj in gcc issue and have posted to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. I see that there is a similar reference to > something similar on Darwin platform which has FreeBSD roots. It seems > that unwind symbol may be getti

Re: How to install security patches from http://www.freebsd.org/security?

2006-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 06:04:59PM +0100, VeeJay wrote: > Hi > > How to install security patches from http://www.freebsd.org/security? The instructions are right there in the advisories. Kris pgpQtadqDBtwD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: flink_elf_lookup_symbol:missing symbol hash table

2006-11-19 Thread Keith McKenzie
(Digest, Vol 156, Issue 20, msg 18) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:42:29 -0600 From: David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: link_elf_lookup_symbol: missing symbol hash table The most unusual thing about my system configuration would be /boot/ loader.conf: geom_vinum_load=YES # either load these

Re: devfs creates unwanted devices in jail after ruleset applied

2006-11-19 Thread Steve Brown
If no one has any ideas, suggestions on perhaps a better place to pose this question? Steve On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:52:55 -0500, "Steve Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I am running a DNS server in a jail and have setup a devfs mount in the > jail to have null and random devices. > > The set

make.conf FreeBSD 6.2 RC1

2006-11-19 Thread Gelsema, P \(Patrick\) - FreeBSD
Hi, I've recently installed 6.2-Beta3 and got KDE working with Xorg. As RC1 is now released I want to upgrade to this version as I have been witnessing some kernel errors and also want to 'play' with the system. I've installed Xorg and KDE from the ports. I am currently creating a make.conf file

Re: system updates, as affected by securelevel

2006-11-19 Thread Darrel
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: Darrel wrote: With OpenBSD securelevel=2 I can install a kernel, make build, and install programs which are compiled using Systrace. What is the highest securelevel that I can configure on RELENG_6_2 which will not affect compiling and installing; e.g.,

Re: make.conf FreeBSD 6.2 RC1

2006-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:58:06PM +0100, Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently installed 6.2-Beta3 and got KDE working with Xorg. As RC1 is > now released I want to upgrade to this version as I have been witnessing > some kernel errors and also want to 'play' with the syst

Re: make.conf FreeBSD 6.2 RC1

2006-11-19 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick)
On Sunday 19 November 2006 23:06, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:58:06PM +0100, Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've recently installed 6.2-Beta3 and got KDE working with Xorg. As RC1 > > is now released I want to upgrade to this version as I have been > >

Re: Qmail & Vpopmail From Ports

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Best Hardware Choices

2006-11-19 Thread Rachel Florentine
8080Hi; I need to buy new h/w that I'm going to use specifically to build an experimental server...one that I can screw up with without crashing clients' sites ;) What motherboard, chip, hard drive and firewall pci card do you guys recommend for FBSD? I'm rebuilding a standalone box connected to

Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output

2006-11-19 Thread Dieter
> > The machine has 2 GB. I wonder if the process is getting its fair share? > > I have been observing other problems where disk activity to one disk > > will make an unrelated process reading data from a different disk *very* > > unresponsive. > > Sounds like a hardware problem to me. If you've

RE: chpass -p dilema

2006-11-19 Thread Wood, Russell
> Are you able to login to Single User Mode? On a vanilla installation it doesn't ask for the root password, so you should be able to mount the system and run chpass again. Regards, Russell Wood DISCLAIMER: Disclaimer. This e-mail is private and confidential. If you are not the intended reci

RE: Install

2006-11-19 Thread Wood, Russell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramesh Subrahmaniam > Sent: Monday, 20 November 2006 1:33 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Install > > > Hi > > Where should I be asking questions regarding install ?

RE: Xircom XE2000 card problem

2006-11-19 Thread Wood, Russell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 20 November 2006 12:08 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Xircom XE2000 card problem > > >Asked this question a couple of days ago i