Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:12:46AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 1/10/07, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:01:51 -0600 > >"Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > FreeBSD is created and suppor

Re: /etc/make.conf CPUTYPE question (nacona vs. pentium4)

2007-01-10 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 10:46, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to write an appropriate CPUTYPE entry for > /etc/make.conf for the following machine: > > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2799.95-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1 > Features

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[irrelevant cruft removed] On Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 23:54:02 -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 1/9/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 17:08:45 -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: >>> Why should I continue using FreeBSD when the project never deliv

Re: NMap in FreeBSD Problem ...

2007-01-10 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 18:18, linux quest wrote: > Thanks ... I think the 'rehash' command does help a bit... at least now, > when I type 'nmap', I can see the help manual (before this, there was just > error msg). However, now, when I type 'nmap 192.168.1.10', (where > 192.168.1.10 is the PC t

Re: fsck report after crash...

2007-01-10 Thread Marwan Sultan
Okay try this, From single user mode, # umount -a # fsck -y # reboot and check if any error still present, You can run fsck again to make sure filesystm is clean now. but this time use mount -a instead of umount. Have fun Marwan Sultan. Ok..done it.now, can u explain me or point

Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds

2007-01-10 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 17:21, Jonathan Horne wrote: > i am finally looking at make.conf and how editing it could improve my > system(s). > > 1) does specifying a cpu architecture really help? It depends, but generally: yes. (although the perceived speed increase is probably marginal) It really

Re: filesystem size

2007-01-10 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 00:03, Simon Gao wrote: > I looked at the link. It seems that it's not desirable to make a > filesystem larger than 2TB with 5.2.1. How about 6.1/6.2? Are those > remaining issues resolved with 6.1/6.2? > > Simon I have no idea if this is up-to-date but see this: http:/

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread perryh
"Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe core needs to make it easier to direct are funds to the > sub-projects of are choice and still qualify it as a deductible > expense. For accounting/tax purposes, aren't salary and benefits just as deductible as "contributions"? Hire someone qu

Problems using autoconf/automake

2007-01-10 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I am using autoconf/automake to try to build portable makefiles for some software I wrote. I am a newbie in makefiles. If I don't add my man page, all works out fine. But as soon as I add my man page 2 problems arises. 1. I can't use make distcheck, I get the following error: make: don't k

How can we check that if a system is affected by a Bad User?

2007-01-10 Thread VeeJay
Hello Friends How can we check that if a system is affected by a Bad User? -- Thanks! BR / vj -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Problems using autoconf/automake (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:29:30 +0100 Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm, ./configure --mandir=/usr/local/man, when installed on freebsd. Didn't think of that. > Hi > > I am using autoconf/automake to try to build portable makefiles for some > software I wrote. I am a newbie in makefiles.

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, John Nielsen wrote: Apologies for top-posting. I've made some progress with this, but as I suspected, I'm screwed on "namespace collision". I.e. I am unable to load a version of twa.ko that supports my 3ware card because a previous version of twa.ko that does not support

How to check how many prcesses/dæmons are runni ng?

2007-01-10 Thread VeeJay
Hallo there How to check how many prcesses/dæmons are running? -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 05:24:26AM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, John Nielsen wrote: > > Apologies for top-posting. > > I've made some progress with this, but as I suspected, I'm screwed on > "namespace collision". I.e. I am unable to load a version of twa.ko tha

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [irrelevant cruft removed] On Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 23:54:02 -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 1/9/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 17:08:45 -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: >>> Why

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 05:24:26AM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, John Nielsen wrote: Apologies for top-posting. I've made some progress with this, but as I suspected, I'm screwed on "namespace collision". I.e. I am unabl

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe core needs to make it easier to direct are funds to the > sub-projects of are choice and still qualify it as a deductible > expense. For accounting/tax purposes, aren't salary and benef

Re: How to check how many prcesses/dæmons are running?

2007-01-10 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 11:28, VeeJay wrote: > Hallo there > > How to check how many prcesses/dæmons are running? Total number of processes: ps ax | wc -l For a specific user: ps xU | wc -l Hope this helps, Pieter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: /etc/make.conf CPUTYPE question (nacona vs. pentium4)

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write an appropriate CPUTYPE entry for /etc/make.conf for the following machine: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2799.95-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1 Features=0xbfebfbff F

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Dimitar Vasilev wrote: Dan, comment out the twa lines in the kernel. Rebuild it and include the new modules. should be easy. the module in the kernel it's conflicting with is on an INSTALL CD. But I don't think I'll have the namespace conflicts with the NEW module. -Dan

MySQL Port Question

2007-01-10 Thread Stan Halprin
Hello; I'm trying to build MySQL 5.0 (server) on FBSD 6.1 from port. I ran "make install clean" but now I'm lost. mysqld is not up. What is my username? Never asked me for one in the install. Tried this: # /usr/local/libexec/mysqld -umysql 070109 16:39:30 InnoDB: Operating system error number 1

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread Dimitar Vasilev
Dan, comment out the twa lines in the kernel. Rebuild it and include the new modules. should be easy. -- Димитър Василев Dimitar Vassilev GnuPG key ID: 0x4B8DB525 Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint: D88A 3B92 DED5 917E 341E D62F 8C51 5FC4 4B8D B525 __

Re: MySQL Port Question

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 1/10/07, Stan Halprin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello; I'm trying to build MySQL 5.0 (server) on FBSD 6.1 from port. I ran "make install clean" but now I'm lost. mysqld is not up. What is my username? Never asked me for one in the install. Tried this: # /usr/local/libexec/mysqld -umysql 07

Re: MySQL Port Question

2007-01-10 Thread George Vanev
Check if user mysql exists. If it doesn't - create it. # echo 'mysql_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf #cd /usr/local/mysql #bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql #chown -R root . #chown -R mysql var #chgrp -R mysql . #bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql & #bin/mysqladmin -u root password '' #bin/mysql grant all

How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-10 Thread VeeJay
Hi How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: /etc/make.conf CPUTYPE question (nacona vs. pentium4)

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 1/9/07, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to write an appropriate CPUTYPE entry for >> /etc/make.conf for the following machine: >> >> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2799.95-MHz 686-cl

Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday January 10, 2007 at 07:24:22 (AM) VeeJay wrote: > How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? Well, with a BFH and a sufficient supply of C-4 (cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine), he/she could be quite dangerous. -- Gerard Mail from '@gmail' is rejected and/or disc

Process List & Security??

2007-01-10 Thread VeeJay
Hi Can some good one at security side look into these running process? And see if there is a Process some is dangerous/ security breach which a Bad User has put? Thanks $ ps xa PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 0 ?? WLs0:00.00 [swapper] 1 ?? ILs0:00.00 /sbin/init -- 2 ?? DL

azureus abort

2007-01-10 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, my azuresu aborts when i try to add new torrent, i don't remember if i did anything but only that i might have played with swt version during make, but i have rebuild it with swt3.2.1, here is the error log: # # An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine: # # SIGSEGV (0

Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 VeeJay wrote: > Hi > > How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? Depends on a number of different factors. For example: 1. What you're running. 2. The number of users who have access to the machine. 3. The data being held. 4. How up-to

Re: How can we check that if a system is affected by a Bad User?

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 VeeJay wrote: > Hello Friends > > How can we check that if a system is affected by a Bad User? Define/clarify the question made above. There are many ways that a system can be "affected" by a "bad user" :). - -Garrett -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ve

Re: How to check how many prcesses/dæmons are ru nning?

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 VeeJay wrote: > Hallo there > > How to check how many prcesses/dæmons are running? Read man ps. sockstat and netstat are good items to use as well if your daemons are network dependent. - -Garrett -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1

Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 17:21, Jonathan Horne wrote: >> i am finally looking at make.conf and how editing it could improve my >> system(s). >> >> 1) does specifying a cpu architecture really help? > It depends, but generally

Re: Process List & Security??

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 VeeJay wrote: > Hi > > Can some good one at security side look into these running process? And see > if there is a Process some is dangerous/ security breach which a Bad User > has put? Thanks > > $ ps xa > PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND >0 ??

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread DAve
Jeff Mohler wrote: Fbsd needs SAN support before it can cope with virtualization..virtualization requires a lot of disk..spindles..and FCP/iSCSI is a great way to drive this condensation. I mean..when you have to read this list, and see people wonder which end of a SAN connection owns the respon

Re: MySQL Port Question

2007-01-10 Thread Stan Halprin
- Original Message From: George Vanev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> && From: Andrew Patyukhin Andrew: >/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start Worked. MySQL up! Thanks! George: Since MySQL is up, I don't know if the following matters any more, nonetheless... >Check if user mysql exists. If it does

Re: Process List & Security??

2007-01-10 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:12:53 +0100 VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if there is a Process some is dangerous/ security breach which a Bad User > has put? Thanks VJ, if you suspect a "bad user", then follow standard procedures to determine whether your security has been breached - the name of t

Re: How can we check that if a system is affected by a Bad User?

2007-01-10 Thread Bill Moran
In response to VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello Friends > > How can we check that if a system is affected by a Bad User? http://www.la-samhna.de/samhain/index.html It's in ports in various incarnations. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Huff
George Vanev writes: > It would be perfect if there is a way dhcpd to read the nameservers > from /etc/resolv.conf Check the "prepend" and "supercede" directives. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: libkrb5.so.8 - missing

2007-01-10 Thread Niclas Zeising
On 1/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vizion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone please tell me what package installs libkrb5.so.8 > for FREEBSD-6.1-RELEASE #0? On my 6.1 system, /usr/ports/INDEX contains an entry for krb5-1.5_1 but my /usr/ports/security/krb5/pkg-plist l

Is this homework? (was Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?)

2007-01-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 06:24, VeeJay wrote: > Hi > > How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? VeeJay, I may be wrong (and hope that I am), but your questions are starting to smack of the sort of questions a teacher would ask at the beginning of a class on operating systems

Simple DoS

2007-01-10 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hello, yesterday one of our clients did something interesting (stupid): they connected both ends of an UTP cable to the same switch, to which our FreeBSD server was also connected. The server was immediately completely unresponsive from yesterday evening until this morning, when our tech guy went

Re: Simple DoS

2007-01-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Nejc Škoberne wrote: > Hello, > > yesterday one of our clients did something interesting (stupid): they > connected both ends of an UTP cable to the same switch, to which our > FreeBSD server was also connected. The server was immediately completely > unresponsive from yesterday evening until this

Re: Simple DoS

2007-01-10 Thread Derek Ragona
Your client caused their own DOS by making it impossible to route network traffic. Basically causing an arp storm. In simple terms, don't do that. Not much you can do with dumb clients, except reward them with a bill for their actions. -Derek At 08:53 AM 1/10/2007, Nejc Škoberne w

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:51AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 1/9/07, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers. > >Seems like you just posted a nice list of things > >for you to get busy and contribute. > > > > I don't have time to c

Re: Simple DoS

2007-01-10 Thread Howard Jones
Nejc Škoberne wrote: > Any ideas how to prevent such situations in the future? (I would like > to do it on the server side, not on the "user side".) Get a switch that runs Spanning Tree Protocol. I don't think there's much you can do on the server about a problem in the switch.

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:59:20PM -0800, Jeff Mohler wrote: > Not all of us can program..but let me ask this question. > > Linux is all volunteer, how did it get so far ahead? It isn't. People in the know like FreeBSD as a server which is where it is mostly targeted - to the professional envir

Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds

2007-01-10 Thread Jonathan Horne
gentlmen, thank you for these answers, i think ill find them useful. i did a some much needed reading into the names of the pentium processors, and apparently my p4-540 is a Prescott, and my xeon is a Prestonia. i dont see anything in the eample-make.conf that mentions Prestonia.. what would the

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:12:46AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 1/10/07, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:01:51 -0600 > >"Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers. > >> > Seems like you just posted a

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Josef Grosch
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:08:03PM -0800, Jeff Mohler wrote: > Fbsd needs SAN support before it can cope with > virtualization..virtualization requires a lot of disk..spindles..and > FCP/iSCSI is a great way to drive this condensation. > > I mean..when you have to read this list, and see people wo

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Josef Grosch
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:51AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > On 1/9/07, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers. > > >Seems like you just posted a nice list of

Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds

2007-01-10 Thread Jonathan Horne
gentlmen, thank you for these answers, i think ill find them useful. i did a some much needed reading into the names of the pentium processors, and apparently my p4-540 is a Prescott, and my xeon is a Prestonia. i dont see anything in the eample-make.conf that mentions Prestonia.. what would the

WWW Proxy/Traffic Analyzer

2007-01-10 Thread Tom Grove
We have an employee who spends quite a bit of time on the net and currently have no way of analyzing where they go. Are there any decent proxy servers that I can put them on to see where they are going? -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Release info

2007-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:40:07PM -0800, Dale Johnston wrote: > Hey, so where's the release notes. what's been done/fixed/added in 6.2 vs > 6.1, what was done from 6.1RC to 6.1R, etc I don't think it has been "released" yet, so the release notes are probably not completely available yet. There

Re: Release info

2007-01-10 Thread Jonathan Horne
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:40:07PM -0800, Dale Johnston wrote: > >> Hey, so where's the release notes. what's been done/fixed/added in 6.2 >> vs >> 6.1, what was done from 6.1RC to 6.1R, etc > > I don't think it has been "released" yet, so the release notes > are probably not completely available

Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds

2007-01-10 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 1/10/07, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: gentlmen, thank you for these answers, i think ill find them useful. i did a some much needed reading into the names of the pentium processors, and apparently my p4-540 is a Prescott, and my xeon is a Prestonia. i dont see anything in the ea

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Huff
Nikolas Britton writes: > > For accounting/tax purposes, aren't salary and benefits just as > > deductible as "contributions"? Hire someone qualified as your > > own full- or part-time employee, and assign them to work on the > > projects that you want to support. As just one example, that'

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:35:12AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 1/10/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[irrelevant cruft removed] > > > >On Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 23:54:02 -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > >> On 1/9/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: LSI MegaRAID 1068 mfi(4) 6.1-RELEASE

2007-01-10 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
mfi(4) is the SAS driver for newer LSI/AMI controllers in the 9th gen Dell and probably some stand-alone boards on the market. It's relatively new. Be sure you're running a new RELENG_6 snapshot for quality support. Also, let me know if you can get the Linux Emulation based CLI in ports/s

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:17:21AM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:51AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > > On 1/9/07, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >FreeBSD is created

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Peter Giessel wrote: On Wednesday, January 10, 2007, at 01:22AM, "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am unable to load a version of twa.ko that supports my 3ware card because a previous version of twa.ko that does not support it is already in the gene

Re: Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE

2007-01-10 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Dell bumbed the DRAC5 like a shark. We use them on handful of 9th-gen PEs. The client support for Console and Remote Media completely sucks and requires VMWare + IE6. See [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more detail. Specifically the firefox drac5 threads. ~BAS On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Paul Schmehl

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Giessel
On Wednesday, January 10, 2007, at 01:22AM, "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am unable to load a version of twa.ko that >supports my 3ware card because a previous version of twa.ko that does not >support it is already in the generic kernel. Changing the name of the >

Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-10 Thread N.J. Thomas
* VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-10 13:24:22 +0100]: > How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? Like another poster mentioned, it depends on a variety of factors. Three things I can suggest to help you minimize security risks from local users: - keep your machine and soft

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Giessel
On Wednesday, January 10, 2007, at 01:22AM, "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, John Nielsen wrote: > >Apologies for top-posting. > >I've made some progress with this, but as I suspected, I'm screwed on >"namespace collision". I.e. I am unable to load a

Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: On 1/10/07, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: gentlmen, thank you for these answers, i think ill find them useful. i did a some much needed reading into the names of the pentium processors, and apparently my p4-540 is a Prescott, and my xeon is a Prestonia.

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Chris
On 10/01/07, Josef Grosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:51AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > On 1/9/07, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >FreeBSD is created and supported by volun

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:17:21AM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:51AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds

2007-01-10 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 1/10/07, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: > On 1/10/07, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> gentlmen, thank you for these answers, i think ill find them useful. >> >> i did a some much needed reading into the names of the pentium >> processors, >> an

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Vince
havent much to contribute here but... > 5 - journaling filesystem. > This exists in current, patches are available for 6-stable. I've not stress tested it too much but its been nicely stable for me so far on 6-stable (non root partition as i havent yet had time to set that up) see http://lists.fre

amarok lyrics: proxy and ruby?

2007-01-10 Thread Anna Vazquez Nikonova
Have some one resolve this problem with amarok lyrics with ruby behind a proxy? I need help.I have this same problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: WWW Proxy/Traffic Analyzer

2007-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Tom Grove wrote: We have an employee who spends quite a bit of time on the net and currently have no way of analyzing where they go. Are there any decent proxy servers that I can put them on to see where they are going? Squid is a popular proxy server, althoug

Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: Mine is EMT64, but I use i386. Could you please tell me why P4 would be better for MySQL server or apache? Crap, I can't find the article where Intel was comparing the Opterons to the Xeons that I was reading last night. It mentioned what the Intel guys used for GCC

Re: Simple DoS

2007-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 10, 2007, at 6:53 AM, Nejc Škoberne wrote: yesterday one of our clients did something interesting (stupid): they connected both ends of an UTP cable to the same switch, to which our FreeBSD server was also connected. [ ... ] Any ideas how to prevent such situations in the future? (I would

/usr/ports/databases/db42 >sudo make install clean

2007-01-10 Thread David Nicholas Kayal
===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found ===> Extracting for db42-4.2.52_4 => MD5 Checksum mismatch for bdb/db-4.2.52.tar.gz. => SHA256 Checksum mismatch for bdb/db-4.2.52.tar.gz. => MD5 Checksum OK for bdb/patch.4.2.52.1. => SHA256 Checksum OK for bdb/patch.4.2.52.1. => MD5 Checksu

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-01-10 00:48, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:07:08PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: >>> Why then? >> >> Various administrative delays, mostly. e.g. the main ftp distribution >> server had hardware f

Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds

2007-01-10 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 1/10/07, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: > Mine is EMT64, but I use i386. > > Could you please tell me why P4 would be better for MySQL server or > apache? Crap, I can't find the article where Intel was comparing the Opterons to the Xeons that I was reading

Re: /usr/ports/databases/db42 >sudo make install clean

2007-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 10, 2007, at 9:51 AM, David Nicholas Kayal wrote: [ ... ] FreeBSD intextual.switch.wordnetworks.net 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1- RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:42:56 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 I'm actually trying to install subversion, but am running into this p

Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: On 1/10/07, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: > Mine is EMT64, but I use i386. > > Could you please tell me why P4 would be better for MySQL server or > apache? Crap, I can't find the article where Intel was comparing the Opterons to th

Re: amarok lyrics: proxy and ruby?

2007-01-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 11:28 am, Anna Vazquez Nikonova wrote: > Have some one resolve this problem with amarok lyrics with ruby behind a > proxy? > I need help.I have this same problem. Which problem? -- Kirk Strauser pgpVMP2ovwrtO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Natd is not working as expected

2007-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Ross Penner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've configured my freebsd computer to be the gateway for my home network > using the guidelines in the handbook. All the required kernel options are > enabled and the entries in /etc/rc.conf have been added. I'm unsure what the > problem could be and I'

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"George Vanev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed isc-dhcpd and it is working fine. > But I don't want to hardcode the nameservers in the dhcpd.conf, > because my ISP is changing them sometimes. > It would be perfect if there is a way dhcpd to read the nameservers > from /etc/resolv.conf N

Re: Natd is not working as expected

2007-01-10 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello Ross, FreeBSD as a gateway is very easy and simple to setup, but a very small mistake could stop your box from acting as a gateway, 1) Please send the follow : the output of #ifconfg -a 2) output of #uname -a 3) copy of rc.conf file 4) Whats the lines you have changed in your kern

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-10 Thread Beni
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 08:21, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Tore Lund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 3:45 PM > Subject: Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life? > > > Robert Huff wrote: > > > (Personally, I

java plugin for firefox

2007-01-10 Thread eoghan
Hi Does anyone have a guide or advice for getting java plugin working for firefox? Im running 6.1 on amd. I have installed: diablo-jdk-5.0 diablo-jre1.5.0 linux-blackdown-jre1.1.8 linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 when i try to access a java app from firefox im always presented with the plugin missing page.

Re: 6.1 Freezes - Suspect SCSI Issue

2007-01-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Juergen Heberling wrote: Hi all Please suggest some way of diagnosing this problem: System freezes after being up in production and apparently stable for several weeks, no dump, no error message, nothing on the console - so I suspect hardware. > ... Here is my dmesg, long lines were wrapped

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Ivan Voras wrote: Well, I'll make my statement too... Two reasons AFAIK: 1. it simply doesn't even know how deal with the more modern features like GEOM & RAID, more advanced authentication mechanisms (nsswitch), and devices like sound cards (there are many more in this list...) Apart from

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Freminlins
On 10/01/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I think freebsd needs. 1 - To fix stuff that works in linux but goes to crap in freebsd, one such example is NFS. I don't actually have a problem with FreeBSD and NFS. This is using about 20+ clients and 2 NetApp filers. What problem are yo

Re: 6.1 Freezes - Suspect SCSI Issue

2007-01-10 Thread Jeff Royle
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Juergen Heberling wrote: Hi all Please suggest some way of diagnosing this problem: System freezes after being up in production and apparently stable for several weeks, no dump, no error message, nothing on the console - so I suspect hardware. > ... Here is my dmes

Re: 6.1 Freezes - Suspect SCSI Issue

2007-01-10 Thread Bob
I also have had the EXACT same problem. I have suspected the SCSI system as well. I have played with all the hardware settings IE transfer rate etc to no avail. I am not willing to disable the SMP, as this is my workstation, and I need the extra speed. === FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #2 c

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-10 Thread Howard Jones
Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Apart from that, I used to be able to sysinsall a machine booting via > PXE. This doesn't work anymore in recent versions :-( > Or maybe it is just my incompetence, but then, if someone managed > this, I'd like to hear about it. This definitely works with 6.1-RELEASE, as I

Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Hi, I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG 786432k above 4GB ignored Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this real memory = 3489300480 (3327 MB) avail memory = 341

Re: java plugin for firefox

2007-01-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
eoghan wrote: Hi Does anyone have a guide or advice for getting java plugin working for firefox? Im running 6.1 on amd. I have installed: diablo-jdk-5.0 diablo-jre1.5.0 linux-blackdown-jre1.1.8 linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 when i try to access a java app from firefox im always presented with the plugin

competing

2007-01-10 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Hello list, portaudit suggested me to update kdelibs. Ok I've done it via ports. Two days later I wanted to add the package de-koffice-i18n. The package de-koffice-i18n tried to install also my unsecure kdelibs again, if I hadn't stopped it I would now have two kdelibs on my harddrive... May i

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-10 Thread Apatewna
The only real drawback I see in sysinstall is that at several stages you cannot perceive what the previous part was and what the next step is. There are times that you have to "exit" in order to continue. Maybe an overall progress bar in plain text (eg Welcome - Select disk - Select partitions

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:54:11PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: >> On 1/9/07, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Don't know about some of the items, but... >>>-Flash support with Mozilla products is being done

Re: java plugin for firefox

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 eoghan wrote: > Hi > Does anyone have a guide or advice for getting java plugin working for > firefox? Im running 6.1 on amd. > I have installed: > diablo-jdk-5.0 > diablo-jre1.5.0 > linux-blackdown-jre1.1.8 > linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 > when i try to access

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Chris
On 10/01/07, Freminlins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/01/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I think freebsd needs. > > 1 - To fix stuff that works in linux but goes to crap in freebsd, one > such example is NFS. I don't actually have a problem with FreeBSD and NFS. This is using a

Re: java plugin for firefox

2007-01-10 Thread eoghan
On 10 Jan 2007, at 22:26, Vince Hoffman wrote: eoghan wrote: Hi Does anyone have a guide or advice for getting java plugin working for firefox? Im running 6.1 on amd. I have installed: diablo-jdk-5.0 diablo-jre1.5.0 linux-blackdown-jre1.1.8 linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 when i try to access a java app

Re: 6.1 Freezes - Suspect SCSI Issue

2007-01-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Jeff Royle wrote: I've had freezes as you describe on two different servers with ahd and SMP. The solution was to turn SMP off, unfortunately :( Are these Xeon's? If so you might want to try disabling Hyper-threading No. In my case one is an Athlon64 and the other an Opteron. FYI - I ha

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