Date Ports Installed or Install Log

2011-09-04 Thread Richard Collyer
Hi all, I was trying to get CUPS working last night and installed gutenprint-cups but the make failed half way through - managed to get the printer working without it so no longer need it. As a result its installed a fair number of packaged (mostly X11 related) that I don't need on this headl

Re: Date Ports Installed or Install Log

2011-09-04 Thread Richard Collyer
On 04/09/2011 12:02, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 04/09/2011 11:05, Richard Collyer wrote: I was trying to get CUPS working last night and installed gutenprint-cups but the make failed half way through - managed to get the printer working without it so no longer need it. As a result its installed a

Re: wheel group & mkdir

2011-09-07 Thread Richard Collyer
hanks again No, once a users SSH session times out/is closed the root provledges are lost and you have to SU again. If they remain logged in they keep root privlidges (sp!) until they log out. Richard -- Richard Collyer Blue Apex Ltd 07900 997 380 Registered as a company in England and Wales

Re: Can't Download FreeBSD

2011-09-18 Thread Richard Collyer
downloading it? FTP / HTTP etc? Have you tried using a different server/mirror to download from. Richard -- Richard Collyer Blue Apex Ltd 07900 997 380 Registered as a company in England and Wales (Reg Number: 05982514). Registered Address: 42 King Richards Hill, Earl Shilton, Lei

Re: How can I disable hyperthreads, but NOT smp ?

2011-09-20 Thread Richard Collyer
uot;. Disabling hyperthreading it should see 2 LPs. Richard -- Richard Collyer Blue Apex Ltd 07900 997 380 Registered as a company in England and Wales (Reg Number: 05982514). Registered Address: 42 King Richards Hill, Earl Shilton, Leicester, LE9 7EY __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivi

Re: How to upgrade samba version to 3.0.22

2006-04-01 Thread Richard Collyer
Jeffrey wrote: Hi, I am using FreeBSD 6 and install samba from ports collection /usr/ports/net/samba3. The "make install" download and install samba 3.0.14a. I noticed samba has new version 3.0.22. How can I instal the new verion? Thanks, Jeffrey cd /user/ports/net/samba3 && make clean &&

Re: How to upgrade samba version to 3.0.22

2006-04-01 Thread Richard Collyer
Richard Collyer wrote: Jeffrey wrote: Hi, I am using FreeBSD 6 and install samba from ports collection /usr/ports/net/samba3. The "make install" download and install samba 3.0.14a. I noticed samba has new version 3.0.22. How can I instal the new verion? Thanks, Jeffrey cd /

Re: Video on webservers

2006-04-01 Thread Richard Collyer
Darryl Hoar wrote: "Darryl Hoar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings, I have my own freebsd box that is a webserver (running apache). My wife has a family oriented website on this server. She has videos that she has taken with dvd camcorder. She used Ulead on her windows machine to creat

Re: WAN setup help.

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Collyer
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid43_gci1069414,00.html?bucket=NEWS Google. Amazing isn't it. -- Richard Collyer [EMAIL PROT

Apache Symbolic Link Error

2004-12-29 Thread Richard Collyer
#Order allow,deny #Allow from all # # #Order deny,allow #Deny from all # -- Richard Collyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

PHP Installed (Was: No Subject)

2005-01-31 Thread Richard Collyer
yadmin, and phpbb? > > thanks in advance! > ken; > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send a

Re: OT: 3Ware RAID Controller ...

2005-02-01 Thread Richard Collyer
info/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Richard Collyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Crash When "make index" - Repair Needed?

2005-10-23 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, My box (5.4 Stable) has taken to crashing when I do a make index (in /usr/ports) after a cvsup ports upgrade. I think the problem may be down to overheating as it only does this when the server is put under considerable stress (I take it that make index is stressful on the PC) and has

Upgrading to 6.0 - Would this backup strategy work?

2005-11-10 Thread Richard Collyer
e of the drives and then do the upgrade if the upgrade was successful I could put the other drive in a build the array again. If it failedi could use the old drive to rebuild a working system quickly. Anyone see any issues with this? Cheers Richard -- Richard Collyer [

Re: Confirm your SecurityProNews subscription

2004-09-25 Thread Richard Collyer
ss from the links in the e-mails. -- Richard Collyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

PHP Install Options Problem

2004-09-26 Thread Richard Collyer
Found this: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-July/053077.html and followed what it said however when doing "make config" i only get 3 options Apache2, Debug and IPV4. Cheers in advance Richard -- Richard Collyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: rc.firewall (was no subject)

2004-10-02 Thread Richard Collyer
__ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Richard Collyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail

Re: DHCP Client

2004-10-04 Thread Richard Collyer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Richard Collyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ [EMAIL P

pkg_version: not found

2007-02-17 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, Having a small issue with a 5.4 box. When I do a make on a port I get a list of /usr/local/sbin/pkg_version: not found come up. Varies by the port. Surely enough there is no pkg_version in that dir but pkg_version -v works. Odd no? There are other pkg_info etc in there so I am assum

Re: pkg_version: not found

2007-02-18 Thread Richard Collyer
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Feb 17, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Richard Collyer wrote: there is no pkg_version in that dir but pkg_version -v works. Odd no? Try which pkg_version to find out the path of the one that is working. Also try whereis pkg_version Thanks, [EMAIL PROTECTED

pkg_version reporting wrong values

2006-12-26 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, When i do pkg_version -v it reports the wrong values. e.g. glib-2.10.3 < needs updating (port has 2.12.6) Now the versions are correct but if I upgrade that port it still thinks that 2.10.3 is installed The last line of the install text ===> Registering installation for glib-

Re: pkg_version reporting wrong values

2006-12-26 Thread Richard Collyer
Richard Collyer wrote: Hello, When i do pkg_version -v it reports the wrong values. e.g. glib-2.10.3 < needs updating (port has 2.12.6) Now the versions are correct but if I upgrade that port it still thinks that 2.10.3 is installed The last line of the install t

MySql Server Not Starting

2005-04-16 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, Done a google on this and come up with nothing. I had this problem a week ago and found the solution but I cant find it again and its bugging me. in rc.conf I have mysqld_enable="YES" also I have mysql-server.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh Upon boot or by running the script ma

Re: lost root passwd

2005-04-16 Thread Richard Collyer
Marty Landman wrote: I have a relatively new 5.2 installation and have forgotten the root pw, although I can log on as a member of group wheel. Not sure how to fix this situation. 1. /etc/master.passwd has perm's of 0600 so afaik can't change this except as root 2. rebooting from the instal

Raid Array Over 2Tb on Samba

2005-05-03 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, I plan on building a raid array of 8*400GB disks raid 5. Now as win2k cant support partitions over 2tb and I right in thinking that this is for the local machine only and that over samba (array in FreeBSD 5.4 machine [when it comes out]) it should be able to see all space or will I have

Re: Gmail vs FreeBSD

2006-04-16 Thread Richard Collyer
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: So what's up with gmail and freebsd sites? I haven't seen a single message delivered to my inbox since April 13. Not from mailing lists, not from gnats scripts - nothing. I told the lists to send mail to my other address, I then redirect from there back to gmail - and it

Re: Not receiving email from FreeBSD lists on Gmail for about 3 days

2006-04-16 Thread Richard Collyer
Joao Barros wrote: Hi all, I'm subscribed to several FreeBSD lists and I stopped receiving any email on my gmail account on the 13th. Anyone else experiencing this problem or the exact opposite, actually receiving mail on your gmail account? Please add me as a direct recipient for any response.

Re: server hardware

2006-04-17 Thread Richard Collyer
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm looking to move my bsd box to a 1u rack (running out of room under the desk) The least expensive one I came across at dell is 900, can someone suggest , a more cost effective alternative? Cost. Specs needed parts you can put in yourself. Need more info.

Re: A portupgrade question

2006-04-24 Thread Richard Collyer
make clean && make && make deinstall && make reinstall Never had a problem doing it that way. -- Richard Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-25 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, I've recently been getting a lot of trouble with SpamAssassin performing a lot of rDNS lookups which is causing network issues (timeouts etc to DNS servers). I am trying to install BIND (or djbdns) as a simple caching nameserver. Just to take some of the load off the networks DNS serv

Re: [PHP] Amazon WSDL

2006-04-25 Thread Richard Collyer
John Meyer wrote: > Nice, now I need to navigate the bloody Amazon web services. Is it just me, or does it look like, just by browsing Amazon itself, you have to use Alexis to do web queries. Specifically, I'm trying to find out how to query using an ISDN. Surely you mean ISBN? As in book ID

Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-26 Thread Richard Collyer
start" it tells me that it is not found. I'll do some more digging. Cheers -- Richard Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-27 Thread Richard Collyer
Denis R. wrote: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html Richard, besides simple you want a _secure_ caching name server. Yes, you can type "named_enable" in rc.conf and be done with it, just don't forget to periodically check the security updates web page for BIND exploits. Thanks for the advice

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Richard Collyer
Jim Stapleton wrote: Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad, Ugly? Should I use something else, or is the only good alternative pay/expensive (such as avast)? Am I better at leaving the antivirus stuff to the Windows machine (which has McAfee Enterprise)? Background: System lags occasion

Re: apache error

2006-05-02 Thread Richard Collyer
J.D. Bronson wrote: I have apache2.2 and running http only for now. All is running fine, but I noticed that once a page comes up..as soon as I click a link, I see this in the 'access.log' file for apache: www.wixb.com - - [28/Jan/2006:11:55:12 -0600] "GET /" 400 456 www.wixb.com - - [28/Jan/2006

Re: New freeBSD logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-10 Thread Richard Collyer
fbsd wrote: Thank you for making my point. This should have been announced on all lists. Just not the announcement list. Changing the logo is really a big thing. Yes. But the point of having a announce list is so that important announcements are not jumbled in with lots of "where can I downloa

Re: php5 and mod_php5 for apache?

2006-05-11 Thread Richard Collyer
Jonathan Horne wrote: well, i guess i figured it out. Makefile is not the same as previous versions. OPTIONS=APACHE "Build Apache module" off i changed it to on, and restarted my compile. im kind of curious if this is something that was intended, or did it slip through release man

Re: Please explain make -j to my little brain

2006-05-15 Thread Richard Collyer
Ashley Moran wrote: Hi I've read the following snippet out of the handbook hundreds of times and still don't understand it. I even asked one of the developers I work with and he was baffled too. It is now possible to specify a -j option to make which will cause it to spawn several simultan

Re: php5 port broken???

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Collyer
User Gandalf wrote: ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found ===> Found saved configuration for php5-5.1.4 => php-5.1.4.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. => Attempting to fetch from http://br.php.net/distributions/. fetch: http://br.php.net/distributions/php-5

Re: Kids from Indonesia

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Collyer
Dean Darmawan wrote: Assalamu'alaikum Wr. Wb. Hi there, I'm Dean Darmawan and still 18y/o. Well, i get interested with Fedora 5, but the main problem are "can this distro Linux recognize my internal modem 56k that I ussally use to get connected to the Internet?" For that kind of reason, i got

Re: i wish to buy your site

2006-06-04 Thread Richard Collyer
bill hunt wrote: dear webmaster. My name is Bill Hunt and I'm interested in purchsing your site. the price is nagotiable and I'm willing to pay as much as we can agree on. please let me know if it's ok by you and we'll start nagotiating. yours, Bill Wow. Microsoft in a if you can't beat 'em buy

Dial Up To ASDL Router

2006-06-06 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, I've been given a company laptop which is ok but they dont supply data cards. Instead I have been given a 0845 number to dial when at a place with no Internet. Instead I would like to use my mobile to dial my home phone number which is not 0845 therefore included in the thousands of f

Moving From NAT to Multiple IPs - Server Considerations

2006-06-17 Thread Richard Collyer
r still get given an internal IP address on the lan and then the router redirects the external IP to that machine or does the machine have to be told that it is now listening on IPs x, y and z. Any help appreciated. Cheers Richard -- Richard Coll

Easiest way to remove php5-extensions

2006-06-21 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, I'm moving from mod_php5 to php5 and need to remove php5-extensions in order for pkg remove to work. What is the easiest way to do this...can I just cd /php5-exten.. dir and make deinstall or will i have to go through them all one by one (I have a lot installed). I tried this last t

Using 3ware OCE and FreeBSD

2006-07-18 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, IN order to use the OCE feature of 3ware controllers would the pseudo way to do it be: 1) Un-mount the partition 2) install the new hdd (suppose this could be done before any of this) 3) tell the 3ware controller to expand the capacity 4) remount the partition Now that all seems easy e

Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller

2006-07-22 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, I recently installed a 3ware 9500S-12 along with 3 x 250GB Seagate 7200.10 Drives. I am getting very poor read/write performance on this array that I have set up (RAID5 - 64K stripe) Reading to the 2 mirrored drives that I have on a 3ware 7006-2 I can get 8MB/sec over samba which i

Re: Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller

2006-07-22 Thread Richard Collyer
Completely ignore me. Write caching wasnt turned on. Cheers Richard Richard Collyer wrote: Hello, I recently installed a 3ware 9500S-12 along with 3 x 250GB Seagate 7200.10 Drives. I am getting very poor read/write performance on this array that I have set up (RAID5 - 64K stripe

Re: Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller

2006-07-23 Thread Richard Collyer
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/22/06, Richard Collyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Completely ignore me. Write caching wasnt turned on. Even with write caching off you should be able to hit 50MB/s... did I missing something? Try running 'diskinfo -t /dev/diskname'. For refre

Re: Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller

2006-07-23 Thread Richard Collyer
Nikolas Britton wrote: That would be unacceptable in my book. Whats the load on the system? Is the 3ware 9500S in a regular PCI 33MHz/32-bit slot? Motherboard/CPU? The motherboard is an Intel N440BX running 2 PIII 600MHZ (feel the power). FreeBSD version is 5.4 32 bit PCI not sure if they ar

Re: Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller

2006-07-23 Thread Richard Collyer
Nikolas Britton wrote: Would moving the top card to the bottom slot and putting the 9500S-12 in the top slot screw with FreeBSD in anyway or will it just accept the changes and keep on going? I don't see any problem doing that... FreeBSD would only care if it was the boot drive AND if it also c

Re: Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller

2006-07-23 Thread Richard Collyer
Jonathan Horne wrote: ive been a 3ware fan for many years now. this pic was taken in 2001... http://www.dfwlp.org/~jhorne/pics/computerroom/raid01.jpg heh, you want to talk about pci placement based on fit of ide cables... lol try mine. in the end, after 5 years, im impressed mine is still chu

Re: Promise Technology RAID Controller

2006-07-27 Thread Richard Collyer
PATRICK CARTER wrote: Hey all, I was looking at getting a hardware RAID controller (that supports RAID 5) for my system and I saw the FastTrak SX4100 from Promise Technology. I didn't see FreeBSD listed under their list of supported operating systems and I was wondering if anyone knew weathe

Re: Using 3ware OCE and FreeBSD

2006-07-29 Thread Richard Collyer
On Sat, July 29, 2006 8:27 pm, Igor Robul wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 09:56:25PM +0100, Richard Collyer wrote: >> >> Now that all seems easy enough however wouldn't using OCE change the >> partition size (obviously) leading to the partition needing to be >> r

Re: mail at FreeBSD

2006-07-30 Thread Richard Collyer
Lionardo Sebben wrote: Hello friend. I and my friend have decided send this mail to make a single question,.. we wanna know if is possible two single person like me and he get an e-mail at FreeBSD.org? If is possible, the mail accounts are 'ajsouza' and 'lio' ... I know its stupid idea but, if w

S.M.A.R.T. HDD Protocal

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, Does anyone know where I can get the protocol used in SMART HDD diagnostics. My 3ware card puts out the following information and I am trying to write a program to decipher it into something more sensible. Cheers Richard Output from 3dm2 S.M.A.R.T. (Controller ID 1 - Port 0) 0A 0