Re: BASH as root shell (static linking)

2007-10-06 Thread andrew clarke
, but you can build a static version of bash from the Ports tree: cd /usr/ports/shells/bash make WITH_STATIC_BASH=1 You'll need to cp bash to /bin. Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: help with text-append over SSH ? - dd: unknown operand >>

2007-10-12 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 04:43:38PM -0700, Juri Mianovich wrote: > > --- Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On 2007-10-11 16:49, Juri Mianovich > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I have an account on a system where I cannot log > > in over SSH, but I > > > _can_ run a lim

freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2007-10-14 Thread andrew clarke
rceforge.net/documentation.php Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

FreeBSD hang without panic

2007-10-19 Thread Andrew Liles
On a FreeBSD 5.2.1 box that has been in production a long time, I have had a new type of hang on two days this week, the type of which I have not seen before. (No recent software/hardware changes). Symptom: The machine is a web/email server only. It stops receiving new SSH/HTTP/IMAP/POP connecti

Re: Xmodmap (or .xinitrc?) broken after xorg upgrade

2007-10-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 08:38:33PM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: > About a week ago, I updated my ports, including xorg. Now xmodmap isn't > running from ~/.xinitrc like it used to. > > My .xinitrc is the same as it's been for years, so it includes the lines > if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then > xmodmap

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 12:10:02PM -0700, Danielisz Laszlo wrote: > Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. > I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? rm /bin/sh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

rename file based on file's timestamp

2007-10-24 Thread andrew clarke
de to do this, but maybe there is another way, perhaps using a shell script. Any thoughts? Thanks, Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Recommended servers for FreeBSD

2007-10-28 Thread Andrew Wasilczuk
d why? I would really like to have the on-board RAID supported. Do HP servers play well with FreeBSD? If yes, which models would you recommend? Many thanks, Andrew. -- __/_/_ w: http://darq.com/ __/_/_ m: 07971 10 20 88 / / t: 020 7100 1447

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD

2007-10-28 Thread Andrew Wasilczuk
HP ProLiant servers are generally decent. The onboard RAID is usually > supported by the ciss driver. I haven't dealt with HP yet, but I'm starting to seriously consider them. How is good is their support when things go wrong? Cheers, Andrew. -- __/_/_ w: http

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD.

2007-10-29 Thread Andrew Wasilczuk
ervices. > Nice, I think those use the ServeRAID-8k controller. Have you tried hot-swapping the disks? Does it work on FreeBSD? Many thanks, Andrew -- __/_/_ w: http://darq.com/ __/_/_ m: 07971 10 20 88 / / t: 020 7100 1447 ___ freebs

Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Falanga
Well, at last I think it's botched. I really was following the directions (I have the script file as UPDATING suggests to prove it :-), but the upgrade didn't work as the X server failed to start after I rebooted. I'm hoping some kind person here will know the answer before I e-mail the list ment

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Nov 8, 2007 12:37 PM, Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: > > > Well, at last I think it's botched. I really was following the > directions > > (I have the script file as UPDATING suggests to prove it :-), but th

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Nov 8, 2007 8:03 PM, Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From UPDATING: > > "If you plan on keeping your current /etc/X11/xorg.conf, make sure you > change ModulePath to /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules prior to running X." > > Otherwise, just move /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart X you can the

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-10-29 20:50, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's been drawn to my attention not to use bash from the ports > > collection, because if one of it's dependencies (gettext or libiconv) > > fails or is updated sig

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Nov 9, 2007 7:00 AM, Adam J Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Falanga wrote: > Hi Andy, > > I botched my 6.9-7.2 upgrade too. It's easy to do even if you follow the > instructions. Can't remember what the problem was now, certainly it was >

Re: linux firefox

2007-11-12 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:38:22AM +, Tino Engel wrote: > Dear FreeBSD folks, > > I have a weird problem: > > linux-firefox and linux-firefox-devel behave the same way. > When I quit them, and try to restart them, they complain about beeing > already running. > > I have to manually delete >

Re: Neither linux-firefox nor linux-opera uses java plugin

2007-11-12 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 05:45:42PM +, Tino Engel wrote: > Dear all, > > Any help concerning the topic as follws would be very appreciated. > > freebsdangel# uname -a > FreeBSD freebsdangel.de 7.0-BETA2 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 #0: Sat Nov 10 20:15:45 > UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/sr

Re: Neither linux-firefox nor linux-opera uses java plugin

2007-11-13 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:06:29PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > Andrew Pantyukhin writes: > > > This dead body is beaten every other day. Personally, I download > > flash movies and watch them with mplayer. > > I know about youtube-dl; is there a generic method for

Re: linux firefox

2007-11-13 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:17:11PM +0100, Tino Engel wrote: > Andrew Pantyukhin schrieb: >> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:38:22AM +, Tino Engel wrote: >> >>> Dear FreeBSD folks, >>> >>> I have a weird problem: >>> >>> linux-firefox

Socket programming question

2007-11-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, My question has to do with how someone would find out if a call to socket(2) actually produced a socket. I know that the API works, I've programmed with it many times, but is there a way to find out if 's' returned by socket(2) is actually valid in whatever kernel structure it is stored? I u

Re: Socket programming question

2007-11-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Nov 14, 2007 4:55 PM, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry to say that, but it doesn't make sense as it's worded. The > descriptor > returned by socket(2) is valid if it's >= 0 (that's the API contract for > the > socket(2) C function), and remains valid until the program

Re: How to see UNICODE character number?

2007-11-15 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:27:21PM +0100, Nikola Lečić wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:51:06 -0800 > Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But it's still strange that there's no GUI utility in KDE or just X > > that would do it. > > There are at least two very convenient GUI ways do to this: > >

Re: FreeBSD router and WCCP

2007-11-18 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 12:48:52PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Does anyone know of a way to configure WCCP redirect support into a > FreeBSD based router without having to install squid? I've only used FreeBSD as a WCCPv1/v2 sink (receiver), but you can try sending out packets out of gre(4). Th

ACLs and tar(1) (bsdtar)

2007-11-19 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
Is there a reliable way to store ACLs in tar archives? I've tried to create with "tar cpf" and extract with "tar xpf" with no luck. Only flags are extracted correctly. Should I use another format (I've tried pax as per default and ustar)? Is it possible at all? I'll be glad to hear about any solut

Re: FreeBSD router and WCCP

2007-11-19 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:58:34AM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 12:48:52PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> Does anyone know of a way to configure WCCP redirect support into a > >> FreeBSD based router with

Re: FreeBSD router and WCCP

2007-11-19 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:10:43AM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > > ipfw forwarding is a very easy way to redirect traffic without > > changing it. PF has similar functionality. It all depends on what > > the appliance supports. If wccp is the only way it can eat > > packets, try playing with gr

Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers

2007-11-19 Thread Andrew Reilly
nt, either: something broke GNOME at the ORB level, seemingly, after I upgraded to RELENG_7... I'm fighting with portupgrade at the moment... Hopefully it'll all come good again once it's been re-built... Cheers, -- Andrew ___ freebsd-que

RE: who do I report this to?

2007-11-20 Thread Andrew Atrens
Are you on asymmetric DSL (ADSL) or some other residential connection s.t. the uplink pipe is considerably smaller than the downlink pipe? If so you could be seeing ACK starvation - it's a well understood problem, as is the solution - http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html --A

Re: Networker

2007-11-21 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:04:53AM -0500, Paul Urdanivia wrote: > The EMC Networker is supported in freebsd ? Not officially, but there are success reports from people using either old FreeBSD-native versions or newer Linux versions of the networker client. ___

efficient terminal/console screencasting

2007-11-21 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
A while ago I needed to screencast a terminal to a class of students in real-time. It turned out to be quite straightforward with screen(1) in multiuser mode. Now I want to record screencasts and allow people to watch them later. I'm looking at recordmydesktop, but the innefficiency strikes me: I'

Re: efficient terminal/console screencasting

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 03:29:55PM -0800, Kevin Downey wrote: > On 11/21/07, Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A while ago I needed to screencast a terminal to a class of > > students in real-time. It turned out to be quite straightforward > > with

lightly loaded php+mysql - high syscall/csw rates

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
We have a php+mysql web server. It serves 15-20 http requests per second, resulting in 100-200 sql qps. But according to vmstat(1), it all peaks at over 500k syscall/s and 100k cswitch/s. The peaks are quite frequent, even at this load. During the peaks top(1) shows 30-40k VCSW for mysql and around

Re: lightly loaded php+mysql - high syscall/csw rates

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:52:06PM +, Vince wrote: > Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > We have a php+mysql web server. It serves 15-20 http requests per > > second, resulting in 100-200 sql qps. But according to vmstat(1), > > it all peaks at over 500k syscall/s and 100k

Re: efficient terminal/console screencasting

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:00:48AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 21:26:41 Nov 21, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > A while ago I needed to screencast a terminal to a class of > > students in real-time. It turned out to be quite straightforward > > with screen

Re: efficient terminal/console screencasting

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:09:10AM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > I'm still hoping to get by with some hacks, but you might be > right. It's a pity and almost a surprise there's no widely > available text-based video codec. Maybe I just need to try my > luck on mplaye

Re: creation of tap interface

2007-11-23 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:33:48PM +0100, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:59:55PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:41:58PM +0100, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > > > I get the following error however when trying to create the ta

Re: creation of tap interface

2007-11-23 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:41:58PM +0100, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm setting up Qemu, have installed Ubuntu and Gentoo guests on > FreeBSD host but I would like to get the network interfaces to > work also. > > I get the following error however when trying to create the tap > interfac

Re: mysql ports

2007-11-23 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:23:01AM -0800, jekillen wrote: > Hello; > I have installed mysql51-client, mysql51-server, and mysql51-scripts. > I looked for pkg_message in mysql51-scripts but there is none. > Where do I get info on what this port has and what it does? > Thank you for info pkg_info

Having problems burning a DVD

2007-11-24 Thread Andrew Falanga
Ok, I've made copies of the DVDs I want to burn. I used the technique described in this thread, "duplicating a dvd video" started by a "Dave" back in July. Basically, the technique is nothing more than a copy of the disk, "cp /dev/acd0 /path/to/*.iso." I'm going off of the instructions in the Ha

Re: eyeOS

2007-11-27 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:04:48PM -0800, Tony Kivits wrote: > I have just installed eyeOS from the ports but have noticed > that the port is a little out of date. > > Has anyone had any success in updating to eyeOS 1.2 and if so, > what did you have to do to make it work? The developers have cha

Re: BSDs support for NTFS read-write (using ntfs-3g)

2007-11-27 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 05:33:24PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could you please advise me whether the ntfs-3g command can be > (ported) used in BSDs for read-write access to NTFS. http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs/ ___ freebsd-question

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread Andrew Reilly
c. Accuracy in dependant port installations 8 >d. Internal record keeping 4 (this is only a performance issue) >e. Granularity's of the port management system mu (without having seen the discussion, I don't understand the question.) > 12. Please rate your personal t

Re: Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?

2007-12-12 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:00:06PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I have scripts to add new users. However, after that any port that installs > a user creates it with a UID after the ones I made. > > For example I want all employees to have uids starting at 5000, but I would > like too port ins

Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-12 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm working on setting up a server for both WWW and e-mail. We're using apache 2.2 w/PHP support (for phpWebSite) and for e-mail I'd like to stay with sendmail for the MTA, but I've not used any servers that will allow for POP and IMAP. What in the ports would be good suggestions from those

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Dec 13, 2007 9:27 AM, Monah Baki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll 3rd it too, been using it for 2 years, amazing. > > > > Daniel Bye wrote: > >>> with sendmail for the MTA, but I've not used any servers that will > >>> allow for > >>> POP and IMAP. What in the ports would be good suggestions

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Dec 13, 2007 10:06 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The developer is very adamant about writing dovecot strictly to > > the letter of the IMAP specification. He's also discovered many > > of the popular clients have bugs, and are unable to work (or at > > least have issues)

Disk block size tuning - multiple questions

2003-11-10 Thread Boring, Andrew
dates, or what is the recommended choice when using real server-class SCSI RAID controllers? I am more concerned overall with higher-availability than higher-performance. Thanks in advance! (please Cc: me on all responses for this thread; I'm not subscribed) -- Andrew Boring Miller Zell Desk

Re: webcamera installation docs FreeBSD5.0

2003-12-03 Thread Andrew Boothman
y you go. Otherwise other than google I don't know what to suggest. I presume your camera is recognised as a ugen when you plug it in? Check it is listed by running usbdevs Hope that helps a little. Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list ht

Re: Spamassassin - uninitialized value in Bayes.pm

2003-12-05 Thread Andrew Boothman
initialised. But the warning is just a warning - it's not stopping the code from running, and as you point out it's not stopping your filter from working. It might be normal to get this warning - I have no idea. You should ask on a spamassassin list like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope that help

Re: SUNRays

2003-12-06 Thread Andrew Boothman
all! Also, you might want to ask on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, where more experienced Sun people hang out I'm sure. Good luck! Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: SUNRays

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Boothman
[CCed to -sparc: Can SunRay boxes be made to work with FreeBSD?] Chris Shenton wrote: Andrew Boothman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: They are *really* thin clients that really only consist of a monitor, mouse and keyboard and rely on their host server for everything else. That&#x

Re: FBSD built in FTP server

2003-12-09 Thread Andrew Boothman
m http://www.putty.org.uk/download.html along with PuTTY itself which is IMHO the best free windows SSH client available. Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Creating New FreeBSD CVS Server in Turkey

2003-12-11 Thread Andrew Boothman
/hubs/index.html and the associated mailing list for discussions between mirror admins is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best of luck! Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: Donation/Advertising

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Boothman
Commerical Vendors" pages on the site - http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/ Again, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see if this might be possible. Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

socket: no buffer space available

2003-12-14 Thread Andrew Thomson
I've got a perl script doing some p5-sybase stuff for me.. However after a while, it fails with the following error message: .."socket: No buffer space available"... I've seen other reports from other uses getting this problem however no clear responses on a fix. This script used to work find on

Re: socket: no buffer space available

2003-12-15 Thread Andrew Thomson
Just for the record, I fixed this problem by recompiling my kernel with MAXUSERS 512 :) ajt. On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 16:15, Andrew Thomson wrote: > I've got a perl script doing some p5-sybase stuff for me.. However after > a while, it fails with the following error message: > &

Re: Postfix and FreeBSD question

2003-12-16 Thread Andrew Boothman
Yes I believe the port does the correct things for you, but changing your MTA is also documented in the FreeBSD Handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html Cheers Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

port failures

2003-12-16 Thread Andrew Thomson
I've seen a couple of port failures.. I'm all cvsup'ed and have been trying daily the passed couple of days.. I've tried removing the distfiles frequently too.. Anyone else? ajt. 1011# make install clean >> Imlib2-Perl-1.0.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. >> Attempting t

Re: mutt in XFree86 under FreeBSD

2003-12-19 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Sheldon Hearn writes: > Hi folks, > > I can't get mutt-1.5.4 to respond to the "End" key in an XFree86-4.3.0 > xterm on FreeBSD 5.1-BETA. It's been happening ever since I started > with mutt a few months back, but it's only just pissed me off enough to > ask for help. [ sorry for restarti

Re: Bluetooth tools for BSD

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Boothman
be a starting point. Good luck! Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: netgear nic

2003-12-30 Thread Andrew Boothman
question for yourself by a simple google search. Hope that helps and good luck! Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
Patrick Mahan wrote: Andrew Falanga presented these words - circa 9/6/08 6:28 PM-> Hi, Well, my clients at church are still having issues and after working with George, a respondant to my original questions, I think that most, if not all, of my problems are related to DNS and how we

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
George Davidovich wrote: On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 07:28:28PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: Well, my clients at church are still having issues and after working with George, a respondant to my original questions, I think that most, if not all, of my problems are related to DNS and how we&#x

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
Sahil Tandon wrote: Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It doesn't take a rocket scientist, or a computer scientist, to figure out we've got DNS issues. What exactly is the problem though? What problems are you having on the mail server that lead you to the

Re: Kill NFS connection

2008-09-16 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Monday 08 September 2008 13:01:08 patrick wrote: > Is there a way to kill an NFS connection to a server that's stopped > responding? When I try to simply unmount it, I get a never-ending > stream of "server not responding" messages. (Using FreeBSD 6.2, BTW.) > > Thanks, > > Patrick > ___

Upgrading to 64 bit from a 32 bit installation on FBSD 7

2008-09-17 Thread Andrew Berry
benchmarks out there comparing performance on < 4GB hardware with 32 bit and 64 bit Freebsd? Thanks! --Andrew

Re: Auto blacklist ssh connections ...

2008-09-18 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-09-17 19:36:02 UTC-0400, Tom Marchand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Does anyone know of a utility that I can use with sshd to auto-block >> by IP if there are more then N failed attempts in a row? > Why don't you have sshd listen on a different port? I imagine that on some hosts wh

Re: Upgrading to 64 bit from a 32 bit installation on FBSD 7

2008-09-18 Thread Andrew Berry
On 18-Sep-08, at 2:37 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Andrew Berry wrote: Can I simply rebuild the world (or use freebsd-update), and portupgrade everything to rebuild for amd64? Or, will things break as libraries are upgraded which still have 32-bit dependancies on the system? This is a

Re: ipf filter by user/group

2008-09-19 Thread Andrew Gould
is logged in, pf does it's filtering based upon the authpf user's IP address. You can create a ruleset for each authpf user. authpf users without their own ruleset use the a default ruleset. I hope this helps. Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: kill -KILL fails to kill process

2008-09-19 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Steve Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which I thought was impossible. Neophyte question, no doubt, but > googling was less than helpful (which probably means I'm fubar, no > doubt). Anyway, I have a certain common X app (xmms) that likes to > hang (since my l

Re: Realtek 8111C?

2008-09-21 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Saturday 20 September 2008 12:14:57 Sebastian wrote: > Da Rock wrote: > > I have used the compiled driver on 6.3 with success- but then I've used > > the driver linked in a post to drivers list. 7.0 is a no go. > > I tried to compile the current OEM Realtek driver under (v176) on fbsd > 6.3, but

Re: Any way to play www.last.fm on FreeBSD?

2008-09-21 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2008-09-21 23:11:50 UTC-0700, Gary Kline ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I can't listen to last.fm with firefox2 or firefox3--and parts of > ff3 don't get loaded. With the KDE3 browser, same thing; it > won't recognize last.fm. Nutshell: what do I need to do to > play songs from last.fm here

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-09-23 17:17:21 UTC+0200, Andreas Davour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've bought a usb connected disk to use as backup, and I've been > thinking about trying to make the data as available as possible. Do > anyone here have any suggestion about what kind of filesystem would be > b

Re: Server - Linux Compat

2008-09-23 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-09-23 17:38:57 UTC-0400, Grant Peel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I was young, many many moons ago, and I installed FreeBSD 4.4 for > the first time, I enabled linux compatability ... > > Each build since, I have enabled it ... > > So not I am at the point of asking myself why? Y

Re: Server - Linux Compat

2008-09-23 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-09-23 14:54:30 UTC-0700, Nash Nipples ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > if there is no warning in the comments i think its harmless > nobody knows when you are going to need a linux binary to run > lsof maybe? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, but lsof builds from Ports as a nat

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-09-23 23:13:32 UTC+0200, Laszlo Nagy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> For making backups I would probably just use FAT32 and tar, because >> practically anything (not just FreeBSD & Linux) will mount FAT32 file >> systems, and tar should respect your file attributes (owner, group, >> crea

Can't build all in /usr/src/crypto/openssh

2008-09-25 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I've just updated my sources for 6.2-RELEASE. It took me from p11 to p12. The changes were quite minor. Only changes were to UPDATING (obviously), channels.c in the openssh directory and a newvers.sh file in /usr/src/conf. So, instead of rebuilding world, since the UPDATING notes say that

Re: Can't build all in /usr/src/crypto/openssh

2008-09-25 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:33:56 Andrew Falanga wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just updated my sources for 6.2-RELEASE. It took me from p11 to >> p12. The changes were quite minor. Only

Re: Can't build all in /usr/src/crypto/openssh

2008-09-25 Thread Andrew Falanga
> > Bad choice of words on my part. It won't rebuild openssl, if you still > have /usr/obj/usr/src/* from last time. But it will go through the motions to > see if stuff needs to be rebuilt. It will only rebuild libssh and anything > that uses libssh: > # find . -name 'Makefile' -exec grep channels

The consequences of turning off sendmail

2008-09-27 Thread Andrew Falanga
This question comes from complete ignorance about this stuff (what happens when turning off sendmail), but if I turn off sendmail will system messages still get delivered? Also, I'm going to be using this box as a web server and I'm using Joomla!. If I turn this off, will I still get the notifica

Re: The consequences of turning off sendmail

2008-09-27 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Sahil Tandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This question comes from complete ignorance about this stuff (what >> happens when turning off sendmail), but if I turn off sendmail will >>

Re: Realtek 8111C?

2008-09-30 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Falanga wrote: >> >> On Saturday 20 September 2008 12:14:57 Sebastian wrote: >> >>> >>> Da Rock wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I have used the compi

Setting up gmirror

2008-09-30 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I've just finished setting up a new web server, and if I get my DNS stuff correct hopefully an e-mail server too, for my church. Originally, the intention was to use RAID1 on the MOBO. However, the RAID controller on the MOBO consistently tried to make the SATA DVD drive part of the RAID arra

Re: USB mouse problems

2008-10-06 Thread Andrew D
Patrick Lamaizière wrote: Le Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:41:59 +0200, Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : I have one Razer Lachesis USB mouse attached to the rear usb ports of my pc. This mouse has never worked, however when I plug in another USB mouse in the front of my pc it works?! I wonder; how

multihomed fbsd7 router with nat

2008-10-06 Thread Andrew D
that comes with fbsd to do the auth side of things. My question is what should I use for NAT. Use the inbuilt NAT that comes with PPP or firewall based? TIA Cheers cya Andrew #!/usr/local/bin/bash FWRUL=1 # put main connection first # the names must match the config names in /etc/ppp/ppp

Re: has anyone actually received a bsdmag ?

2008-10-07 Thread Andrew Gould
rding Dragonfly; but version 1.12.2 is on the DVD. (FYI - DragonFly BSD version 2.0.1 was released on September 27.) The BSDMag website mentioned that it would be available at Barnes & Noble. I couldn't find it there; but I found it at Borders bookstores. Andrew ___

Re: update.FreeBSD.org / No mirrors remaining, giving up

2008-10-07 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2008-10-06 10:39:42 UTC+0200, Zbigniew Szalbot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am not sure why but whenever I do: > > $ freebsd-update fetch > Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > but if type: > $ portsnap fet

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread andrew clarke
ty, hence my point. Yes, my initial thought was "what, you don't use freebsd-update?". Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: has anyone actually received a bsdmag ?

2008-10-08 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 08:43:29AM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: > > > > The BSDMag website mentioned that it would be available at Barnes & > Noble. > > I couldn't find it there; but I f

Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?

2008-10-12 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2008-10-11 14:58:39 UTC-0400, Garance A Drosehn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It would be bad to change the default behavior, but there have > been several people who wished for some option for newsyslog > which would make it use some alternate naming scheme. There's > at least one PR abou

Re: port maintaining & pointyhat

2008-10-13 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2008-10-13 15:30:43 UTC+, Desmond Chapman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I need to contact whoever is in charge of the ports collection. It > concerns the status of a port. I'm new at this- maintaining ports, > that is. What is your concern? You should probably address your question to

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Andrew Gould
> please > > >explain to me in easy steps how to accomplish this ? > > > > If you use (or are willing to use) IPFirewall, this should help: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-natd.html Best of luck, Andrew __

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2008-10-18 09:47:51 UTC+0200, Peter Boosten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#CAD-REBOOT > > Hmmm, didn't know about the second one, and doesn't seem to be working > either (on both 7.0 and 6.3): > > sysctl hw.syscons.kbd_reboot

Re: calendar software wanted

2008-10-22 Thread Andrew Gould
her phone. When testing this feature, I would suggest starting with something like a dinner invitation rather than a grocery list. ;-) Have fun, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: MTA on non-standard port

2008-10-24 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2008-10-24 10:50:39 UTC-0500, Kevin Kinsey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > For various reasons, I find myself in need of an MTA accepting > submission on a port other than 587 (or 25). >From what I can tell Postfix can be configured to listen on any unused port (or multiple thereof) by editin

Re: Running legacy i386 binaries on a amd64

2008-10-24 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2008-10-24 14:03:42 UTC-0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a fresh install of FBSD 7 amd64, and I want to run some > legacy binaries from my old box (Fbsd 5.x i386). I don't run 64-bit FreeBSD but from what I've read elsewhere, you can install 32-bit binary suppo

Re: How to restore a lost root password...

2008-10-27 Thread Andrew D
ormal to change the password? Does root on yep. FreeBSD ask to verify the old password when trying to change its own? nope :) HTH cya Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-10-29 16:53:26 UTC+0800, joeb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well if you have this cluster build process why have some ports never been > built all the way back to release 5.0 like kdenetwork-kopete-0.12.8. That is > almost 3 years of waiting to get in the cluster build process. You nee

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-10-29 04:10:33 UTC-0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm not sure I got all the emails in this thread... maybe some just > haven't arrived yet. It began on freebsd-ports, then the OP started cross-posting to -questions, so I moved my replies to -questions. > Anywa

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread andrew clarke
to use portsnap (another brilliant tool). Also, if you're using the Ports system (to build and install software from source code) I also recommend using portmaster, which isn't talked about in the Handbook, but is leaps and bounds over portupgrade (my

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