Re: system admin question...

2007-10-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Gary Kline skrev: This is for the system admins out there; I brought up this question last weekend, (re xsysstats, an *old* app), but got no answers, so again: What are the best tools, graphical or otherwise, that I can use on a dedicated Gnome [or CWTM, KDE, Whatever] workspace

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-24 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Jerahmy, Assuming you want to connect from the outside to your VPN. Have you made sure that port 2401 is open for inbound traffic in your ipf.rules? You might also want to do 'ipnat -C -f '. Man ipnat ;^) Greeting from Sweden /Roger Jerahmy Pocott skrev: Hello, I recently decided

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-24 Thread Roger Olofsson
p1 proto tcp/udp from any to any port = 2401 # Logged Blocking Rules # # Block nmap OS fingerprint attempts block in log first quick on fxp1 proto tcp from any to any flags FUP # Block all other in coming traffic block in log first quick on fxp1 all Thanks for the help! J. On 25/11/2007, a

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-25 Thread Roger Olofsson
cked?! Thanks! J. On 25/11/2007, at 9:09 AM, Roger Olofsson wrote: Hello again Jerahmy, I would suggest that you verify what port(s) and protocol(s) 'Sonic Wall Global VPN Client' needs to work. I would also suggest that you look in the logfile from ipf to see what it's blockin

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-25 Thread Roger Olofsson
Jerahmy Pocott skrev: On 26/11/2007, at 1:00 AM, Roger Olofsson wrote: Hello Jerahmy, (sorry for top-posting, btw). Gre is protocol 47. In your firewall rules you only allow/block protocols tcp/udp/icmp. If you want to use PPTP you will need to allow both the port and the protocol for it

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-25 Thread Roger Olofsson
Jerahmy Pocott skrev: On 26/11/2007, at 4:47 AM, Roger Olofsson wrote: Hello Jerahmy, Some progress it seems? Why not set it to allow gre from VPN server only? Ie pass in quick on fxp1 proto gre from to any? The way you ask your question, 'make it work without static ip or allowin

gconcat question

2008-10-18 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, What are the steps to bring back gconcatenated disks if doing an upgrade from FreeBSD6 to FreeBSD7 like this? As-is situation: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE ad0 has FreeBSD ad1, ad2 and ad3 are gconcatenated using 'gconcat label -v data /dev/ad1 /dev/ad2 /dev/ad3'. Planned upgrade: Rebo

Re: gconcat question

2008-10-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
<-Ursprungligt Meddelande-> >From: John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 19/10/2008 3:39:00 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: gconcat question > >On Saturday 18 October 2008, Roger Olofsson wrote: >> What are the

Re: gconcat question SOLVED

2008-10-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
<-Ursprungligt Meddelande-> >From: John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 19/10/2008 5:52:51 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: gconcat question > >On Sunday 19 October 2008, Roger Olofsson wrote: >> <-Urspr

Re: CUPS wont print inside GNOME

2008-10-31 Thread Roger Olofsson
Sean Cavanaugh skrev: I have the latest GNOME installed from ports and have the odd issue of CUPS not wanting to work with it right. If i access the CUPS web configuration page, i can print test pages just fine and not a single issue, but if i try and print a test page from inside GNOME, in

Re: CUPS wont print inside GNOME

2008-10-31 Thread Roger Olofsson
Sean Cavanaugh skrev: Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:58:06 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS wont print inside GNOME Sean Cavanaugh skrev: I have the latest GNOME installed from ports and have the odd issue of CUPS not wantin

Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?

2008-11-07 Thread Roger Olofsson
Wojciech Puchar skrev: may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. To pose my questions to the developers in the FreeBSD community: 1. What programming language(s) do you deploy on FreeBSD? whatever i need. i personally

Re: CUPS: cannot see printer from various program

2008-11-28 Thread Roger Olofsson
Laszlo Nagy skrev: The printer is Epson Stylus Photo R265. I'm using gutenprint 5 and CUPS. The test page prints well from CUPS. I can also print images and web pages from firefox, because the "CUPS/R265" printer can be selected in the print dialog of firefox. However, when I open an image

Re: XMing and FreeBSD

2008-11-28 Thread Roger Olofsson
Pieter Donche skrev: I have - in the same subnet - a WinXP PC and a multi-boot PC with a) OpenSuse10.3, b) FreeBSD-7.0 (and c) WinXP) I installed the free X-Windows server Xming on the WinXP PC, and I can connect to the other PC when it is booted in OpenSUSE 10.3: Xming is configured for 'open

please confirm - possible bug in isc-dhcpd?

2008-12-01 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, 7.1-PRERELEASE isc-dhcp30-server-3.0.7_3 When configuring failover and using FQDN instead of ip address, isc-dhcpd says failover peer can't find address. It does however start and will not, of course, work properly. The behaviour is that the very first client might get add

mount_nfs from fstab with -L option?

2008-12-03 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, What would be the correct way to do the following: mount_nfs -L server:/path mnt when using the /etc/fstab file? Greetings from Sweden /Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: mount_nfs from fstab with -L option?

2008-12-03 Thread Roger Olofsson
Steve Polyack skrev: Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear mailing list, What would be the correct way to do the following: mount_nfs -L server:/path mnt when using the /etc/fstab file? Greetings from Sweden /Roger Any options passed to mount(8)may be added (comma separated) to the Options

Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...

2008-03-20 Thread Roger Olofsson
Donald Laniohan skrev: My task is to build a BSD server and do something with it. That is all the information he gave me, that, and any questions I have to make Google my best friend, which I have. i remember building my first whitebox, it was a 386 with windows 3.1. I remember when I built my

Re: Quick+easy port redirect

2008-03-29 Thread Roger Olofsson
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET skrev: Hi, Is there a quick/easy (cookbook?) way to do port redirects. Basically I want that anything that leaves a specific interface to any ip on port 80 go to 192.168.0.1 port 87. I'm using ipfw for some other things so it has to work and play well wit

Re: simple network traffic query tool

2008-04-25 Thread Roger Olofsson
Tobias Kirschstein skrev: hi, i'm looking for a small tool to query the current network traffic (kb IN and OUT) per interface. is there any sysctl or tool which gives me a similar output to "systat -ifstat": /0 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7 /8 /9 /10 Load A

Re: How to fix this error?

2008-05-24 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Moshiur, 1. Fetch the file php-5.2.6.tar.bz2 from (for instance) http://karakurty.odessa.ua/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ 2. Put the file in /usr/ports/distfiles 3. Run the portmanager command again. Good luck! /Roger Moshiur Rahman Khan skrev: Dear all, I need to update some

FreeBSD can't find HD adapter Tekram dc-395

2003-03-28 Thread Roger Olofsson
he HD fine and it is low level formatted and formatted. I can install win95 on same HD. The Tekram adapter is in the hardware compability list and the chipset is correct. Please help! Med vänlig hälsning Roger Olofsson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

IBM HDs vanish on warm-boot?

2007-07-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, I have 2 IBM HDs and one WD HD (ata) in an old pc and for some reason FBSD 6.2 can't find the IBMs on a warm-boot. Cold-boot is fine and, the WD is fine. The motherboard is an old Aopen AX34 and all settings are default except for ACPI that's off. The first thought that

Re: IBM HDs vanish on warm-boot?

2007-07-17 Thread Roger Olofsson
Norberto Meijome skrev: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:54:19 +0200 Roger Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The first thought that came to mind was that one of the IBMs are going bad, but, I find it very unlikely that both HDs are doing it. One is a 120 and one is an 80gigger but both '

Re: IBM HDs vanish on warm-boot?

2007-07-17 Thread Roger Olofsson
your problem, but it caught me off-guard and it's worth looking at. Steve On 7/16/07, Roger Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear mailing list, I have 2 IBM HDs and one WD HD (ata) in an old pc and for some reason FBSD 6.2 can't find the IBMs on a warm-boot. Cold-boot is fine and,

Re: Remote Desktop tool for FreeBSD

2007-07-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
nks, Simon Roger Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Steve Franks skrev: I just had this problem this week - drives are fine until you access one and then disappears. Checked my bios monitor page and 12V was only 11.8V. Changing from a 300W to a 500W power supply magically fixed th

Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

2007-07-26 Thread Roger Olofsson
John Nielsen skrev: On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Josh Tolbert wrote: I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as one big file system. What's the appropriate tool for this? gstripe doesn't seem like

Cleartype-similar?

2007-08-01 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, Is there something similar to cleartype for FreeBSD? Grateful for any replies! Greetings /Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mai

Re: LAN failover redundandcy?

2007-08-03 Thread Roger Olofsson
Ewald Jenisch skrev: Hi, I'm looking for a way to configure failover redundancy for one of my servers. To be specific: The server in question has one IP-address but two LAN interfaces each of them connecting to a different switch. Traffic normally runs only through one of the two interface

Re: Gnome & FreeBSD

2007-08-22 Thread Roger Olofsson
Michael S skrev: Good day all, I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. The reason is that most of my favorite applications use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get

FreeBSD and ImageMagick crashes OS?

2007-08-24 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, The other day I encountered a strange phenomena. Having run FreeBSD since 3.x I have never had a server crash on me until now. I completely blame the FreeBSD developers for spoiling me like that. Now, when I get spoiled, it's hard to go back so when my webserver tried to h

Re: php5-mysql?

2007-02-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Alain Wolf skrev: On 12.02.2007 11:52, * Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear Mailing List, As usual I would like to thank the replies I go to my earlier questions and I will try and step up and answer the ones I can. Now for my question, After a recent buildworld/portupgrade everything seems to be

Re: php5-mysql?

2007-02-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello, Config.log was attached to the originating mail and that mail was cc:ed to the maintaner. /Roger Greg 'groggy' Lehey skrev: On Monday, 12 February 2007 at 20:45:16 +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: Alain Wolf skrev: On 12.02.2007 11:52, * Roger Olofsson wrote: After a recent

Re: DJBDNS missing from ports?

2007-02-13 Thread Roger Olofsson
RW skrev: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:43:43 +0100 Roger Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Mailing List, After a recent buildworld (6.2-STABLE FreeBSD) and portsnap fetch portversion reported djbdns as being in need of an upgrade, however portupgrade just exits like so: # portupgra

Re: [SOLVED] php5-mysql? (with added bonus for snort)

2007-02-14 Thread Roger Olofsson
Roger Olofsson skrev: Dear Mailing List, As usual I would like to thank the replies I go to my earlier questions and I will try and step up and answer the ones I can. Now for my question, After a recent buildworld/portupgrade everything seems to be up to date except a few and among those

How to display .png?

2007-02-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, As usual, thanks alot for all answers to my previous questions! I will try and step up and answer the ones I can. I'm still fiddling around with a machine that's upgraded to 6.2 and have encountered a small thing. Apache refuses to display .png pictures. This is probably s

Re: How to display .png?

2007-02-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Roger Olofsson skrev: Christian Walther skrev: On 16/02/07, Roger Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Mailing List, As usual, thanks alot for all answers to my previous questions! I will try and step up and answer the ones I can. I'm still fiddling around with a mac

Re: Best partitioning scheme for my HDD? Please advise.

2007-02-20 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Joe, May I suggest a small trick that really makes your life alot easier. Go with the default values when you install the FreeBSD, ie accept the sysinstall generated autos. (Make sure to make / and swap the first partitions though). Now, whenever a partition gets filled up, just do a s

Re: Best partitioning scheme for my HDD? Please advise.

2007-02-20 Thread Roger Olofsson
drive takes care of that. Joe Vender skrev: On Tuesday 20 February 2007 13:50, Roger Olofsson wrote: Hello Joe, May I suggest a small trick that really makes your life alot easier. Go with the default values when you install the FreeBSD, ie accept the sysinstall generated autos. (Make su

Re: sshd attempting to start twice?

2007-02-26 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello, Without knowing more, could sshd be listening to more than one interface in your machine? If so, try setting 'ListenAddress your.ip.adress.here' in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Greetings /Roger Noah skrev: Hi there, any clues why sshd is attempting to start twice? sshd[836]: error: Bind

Re: Backup procedure question / theory

2007-03-01 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Dave, May I suggest that you try rsync for this? For windows cwrsync works fine as client for Windows XP. It's rather easy to setup and can be triggered by the windows machine since it runs as a .bat or .cmd. For FreeBSD rsync is in ports. With some nifty scripting you can setup the Fr

Re: Starting MySQL with different database directory

2007-03-05 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Dr. Nussbaum, I do this quite alot but I prefer to do it like this: 1. stop mysqld. 2. copy the /var/db/mysql to 3. rename /var/db/mysql to keep the original (just in case) 4. create a symlink in /var/db that points to You create a symlink by issuing the following command (in /var/db)

Re: Starting MySQL with different database directory

2007-03-05 Thread Roger Olofsson
w line: mysql_dbdir="/mysql/db/location" See please /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh Thats exactly what i did, if you look at what i wrote above. But when i do that i cant start the server. (And as i said i also would like to have this in my MySQL configuration file, not in a Free

Re: Advice on IDS & co.

2007-03-10 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello David, I've been using chkrootkit and it's fairly simple. Aide is a more free version of Tripwire and you might want to look at Snort. Both are in the ports tree. I suppose you have a firewall like IPFilter or PF already? I've been keeping an eye out for a really slick syslogfile analyz

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Jonathan, I had great help from this mailing list setting up wdm+fluxbox recently. They're minimalistic and slick to use. If you should need to connect with a windows box there's Xming. Look in the archives! Good luck! Jonathan Horne skrev: ive been a KDE user for as long as i can re

Re: Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install

2007-03-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Alexander, There's /var/db/ports/ for the result of make configure, if that is what you mean? Otherwise most ports should have their .conf and other settings in /usr/local/etc. Good luck! Alexander Schlichting skrev: On a server I have a package installed using ports and now I ha

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Wojciech, ..."If you should need to connect with a Windows box"...(to a FreeBSD machine running X). A part of Xming is a remote desktop client for Windows. You will find more information at -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming. Good luck! Wojciech Puchar skrev: They're minimali

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Wojciech, May I suggest that you redirect these questions to the Xming forum? The link to the forum is at -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming. Wojciech Puchar skrev: the one i was looking for very long! as i don't have windoze anywhere close now could you tell me if: 1) this X

Re: How Do I Find Find?

2007-03-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Drew, As an alternative may I suggest using locate? You update the database by issuing /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb from shell. Then just locate what you want. Good luck! Drew Jenkins skrev: I built a home server to prepare to build a new production server. Well, the latter is buil

Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!

2007-03-13 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Pieter, I hope this might be helpful for you. It's a forum for FreeBSD using nvidia. You can also find it from www.nvidia.com. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=47 I found alot of helpful information there when setting up my OpenGL programming environment. Good luck!

Re: Need a good Unix script that..

2007-03-14 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Bruce, Without knowing more, may I suggest that you take a look at awk for doing this? You can combine awk and sed if you like. There's a good starting point at http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/September1999/article103.html Good luck! [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Hello, I'm trying to

Re: Corrupted OS

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Drew, The procedure is described in the handbook chapter 21. May I suggest that you look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html In your case, if you don't want to upgrade your source code, you could probably skip to chapter 21.4 and also skip th

Re: DNS configuration at FreeBSD

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello there hiding behind an anonymous email account whoever you are, Not knowing what you really ask for, since you don't provide much information I assume that you want to setup a small dns for LAN with forwarding to your ISP? If this is correct may I suggest that you have look at djbdns fr

Re: Rsync w/ Windows

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Chris, May I suggest that you take a peek at http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=6&MMN_position=23:23 As example I have the following syntax in my cwrsync.cmd (In this example I backup documents and settings from pc to FreeBSD by using

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

2007-03-21 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Don, I got the following tips when I asked the same question a while back: "Consider something like the valgrind port or dlmalloc. ---Chuck " I ran them and gdb and I'm still hunting that memory leak. In my case I first suspected threads (software) to be the cause however as the chase

Re: log rotation recommendations

2007-03-24 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Jeffrey, I am not familiar with logrotate but my newsyslog.conf rotates whatever I want just fine. As an example I have this for a small almost unused apache: /var/log/httpd-access.log 644 7 1000 24B /var/run/httpd.pid 30 /var/log/httpd-error.log6

Re: Copy/move files between Windows and FreeBSD

2007-03-26 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Laszlo, Going off on a tangent here, may I suggest that you try rsync (FreeBSD) with cwRsync (Windows) for this? It can use ssh and be fully automated. You will need rsync as client on both machines and to create the appropriate keys on respective machines. Rsync is in ports and cwRsyn

What's the #-number from uname -a?

2007-04-15 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, Yesterday I csup:ed 2 machines to latest using same cvsup-server for both. After the standard procedure of doing: make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel reboot make installworld ..on both machines, one says 'FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2' and the other says 'FreeBSD 6

FreeBSD 5.5 port vlc-devel core dump

2006-11-30 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, Sorry for this rather lengthy post. I am not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question. I have posted the same question to the vlc forum with the hope that someone will help. If this isn't the right place to post, please let me know. If anyone has a clue, poin

[Fwd: Re: FreeBSD 5.5 port vlc-devel core dump]

2006-12-01 Thread Roger Olofsson
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:51:33PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: It is I that should say thanks ;^) I have tried using libmap.conf to remap libpthread to lib_r but that had no effect. Vlc reproduces the core dump exactly. I am not sure that creating libmap.conf in /etc and just entering as

Re: Backing up FREEBSD

2006-12-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello, If you have a spare machine with the diskspace neeeded then you might want to consider rsync over ssh. Rsync can do incremental backups, which can be nice and timesaving. There's plenty to read about it if you Google for "Freebsd backing up rsync ssh ports". Tony Shadwick skrev:

X server remote login and sound

2006-12-21 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, First of all, thanks you for the thread "X server remote login" I read it and configured a FreeBSD as follows: # cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make install clean # cd /usr/ports/x11/wdm && make install clean # cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/fluxbox-devel && make install clean Then I conf

Re: cron not running

2006-12-28 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello, Make sure to use full path in the cron command file, like so: /usr/sbin/ntpdate time.server.anywhere Derek Ragona skrev: Check the clock. Often older systems have dead batteries so the clock is so far out of whack cron jobs don't run. -Derek At 08:18 AM 12/28/2006, steve

How to catch a memory leak?

2007-01-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, The application vlc (found in ports) when run on FBSD 5.x and 6.x behaves as if there's a memory leak somewhere hidden in it. This is appearing when starting vlc from shell playing a playlist and streaming video over udp to LAN like so: vlc --loop playlist.m3u --sout '#tr

FreeBSD6.2 DIY wireless AP?

2007-02-02 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, One of the many ideas, inspired by FreeBSD, that passed through my head is the one about making my own wireless access point using an old computer with FreeBSD and a wireless nic. First question, will a Fujitsu USB D1075 wireless nic work for this purpose? Second question,

NFS or Samba? What performance could be expected?

2007-02-09 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, First of all, thanks to everyone that took the time to answer my previous questions to the list, I will try and do the same for the questions I am able to help with. Now, over to this weeks project. Basically it's about a web server (apache) that runs a php application. Th

export command not found?

2007-02-10 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD just made world. # export VARIABLE value export: Command not found. What happened to export? Grateful for any answer! Greetings from Sweden /Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: export command not found?

2007-02-10 Thread Roger Olofsson
Yes, of course. I am sorry, I will go stand in the corner now. ;^) Thanks! Erik Trulsson skrev: On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:23:16PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear Mailing List, 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD just made world. # export VARIABLE value export: Command not found. What happened to

DJBDNS missing from ports?

2007-02-11 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, After a recent buildworld (6.2-STABLE FreeBSD) and portsnap fetch portversion reported djbdns as being in need of an upgrade, however portupgrade just exits like so: # portupgrade -Rr djbdns-ipv6 # ie, nothing happens. A quick locate djbdns | grep ports gave the results t

Re: DJBDNS missing from ports?

2007-02-11 Thread Roger Olofsson
Sorry, it's found in the search at freebsd.org, don't know why it show up at first. However, portupgrade is treating it as if it's not there. I'll try another portsnap fetch. Roger Olofsson skrev: Dear Mailing List, After a recent buildworld (6.2-STABLE FreeBSD

php5-mysql?

2007-02-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, As usual I would like to thank the replies I go to my earlier questions and I will try and step up and answer the ones I can. Now for my question, After a recent buildworld/portupgrade everything seems to be up to date except a few and among those are php5-extensions and t

Re: remote x session

2007-12-26 Thread Roger Olofsson
Jonathan Horne skrev: i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little easier to configure and get going) ?

Re: Setting Variables in expect Scripts From Shell Output

2008-02-25 Thread Roger Olofsson
Martin McCormick skrev: While running an expect script, is it possible to set an expect script variable to the string kept in a shell variable? I can generate the shell variable just fine but when I try to export it to the expect script for later use with something like: set L

Re: Mirroring / Cloning FreeBSD System

2008-02-28 Thread Roger Olofsson
FreeBSD-Utah skrev: I have a question on how to mirror a FreeBSD installation / system. This environment will have two identical / separate systems referred to as “System A” and “System B” - I want to install FreeBSD on to “System A” - Once that installation is complete with selec

Re: rsync

2008-03-01 Thread Roger Olofsson
Gary Kline skrev: On Friday 29 February 2008 19:25:50 Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On 18:18:06 Feb 29, Gary Kline wrote: Is there a flag I can set to use with rsync to backup every file of /usr/home/* [here on my FBSD desktop] to my Ubuntu desktop that has only /home/*?? Of course, I could al

Re: faster booting

2008-03-05 Thread Roger Olofsson
Martin McCormick skrev: I second the statement about BIOS checks taking a long time. After working with many FreeBSD boxes, mostly Dells and a few IBM servers, they can take forever (2 to 3 minutes) which seems like forever when one is trying to get back on line quickly. If one

Re: eclipse install

2009-08-06 Thread Roger Olofsson
Coert Waagmeester skrev: Hello all, What is the best way to install eclipse on FreeBSD 7.2? On Linux I installed java, and downloaded the newest eclipse. Regards, Coert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Canonical way for DHCP->IP->/etc/hosts

2008-12-14 Thread Roger Olofsson
Roger Olofsson skrev: Dear mailing list, I am sorry if this question has been asked over and over again - however the htdig search interface for the lists is somewhat shaky and gives referrer errors for me. Pre-conditions. Dualhomed firewalled FreeBSD7.1. One nic is LAN and the other

Canonical way for DHCP->IP->/etc/hosts

2008-12-14 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, I am sorry if this question has been asked over and over again - however the htdig search interface for the lists is somewhat shaky and gives referrer errors for me. Pre-conditions. Dualhomed firewalled FreeBSD7.1. One nic is LAN and the other dynamical IP from ISP. Ques

Re: Canonical way for DHCP->IP->/etc/hosts

2008-12-14 Thread Roger Olofsson
Jeff Laine skrev: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:00:12PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear mailing list, I am sorry if this question has been asked over and over again - however the htdig search interface for the lists is somewhat shaky and gives referrer errors for me. Pre-conditions

Re: Quite Stumped here, need suggestions

2008-12-14 Thread Roger Olofsson
Robert Richards skrev: Hi All: I am running: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p5 #3: Sun Oct 5 15:31:05 EDT 2008 On a Sager 8800 Laptop. I have had FreeBSD installed for about a year, and all is working perfectly. I can bring up KDE, run many apps, all without a problem, except for ONE recent development.

Re: Canonical way for DHCP->IP->/etc/hosts

2008-12-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Greg Larkin skrev: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Olofsson wrote: Jeff Laine skrev: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:00:12PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear mailing list, I am sorry if this question has been asked over and over again - however the htdig search interface

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
Gary Hartl skrev: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Any suggestions, Cheers, Gary ___ freebsd-ques

Re: general question about setting up gateway

2008-12-20 Thread Roger Olofsson
Richard Yang skrev: hi, i am trying to use freebsd as my home network gateway to the internet. any good reference i should know besides what's in the handbook? thanks rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-22 Thread Roger Olofsson
Nerius Landys skrev: I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well. Now I'd like to extend my wired network to include wireless. I

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-23 Thread Roger Olofsson
Nerius Landys skrev: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless router to "pass everything through" to the internal LAN that I

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-23 Thread Roger Olofsson
Corey Chandler skrev: Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. Good man! I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless router to "pass everything

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Roger Olofsson
Corey Chandler skrev: Roger Olofsson wrote: Corey Chandler skrev: Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. Good man! I will need to figure out how to configure

Re: Nice web interface or music?

2009-01-01 Thread Roger Olofsson
stan skrev: I's like to set up my MP3's so that I can access them from the web server on my Free-BSD 7.1 machine. Is there a port, that provides a nice interface to this? I'd like something better than just letting Apache display the directories. Sugestins? -

Re: Memory Usage

2009-01-03 Thread Roger Olofsson
Grant Peel skrev: Hi all, Does anyone have scripts they may be willing to share the parses any FreeBSD utility (top, w, etc) suitable for using the output to use mrtg to show memory and disk usage? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: looking for a fail over system

2009-01-22 Thread Roger Olofsson
Buck Jones skrev: MY web server just died and It's taking some time to get back up . I want to find a fail over device so when one computer dies another automatically takes over. of course letting me know this happened would be a good thing too. __

Re: Keeping FreeBSD updated (the binary way)

2009-01-23 Thread Roger Olofsson
Svein Halvor Halvorsen skrev: Hi, list! I have just acquired a new computer to replace an old server. This older server has been running FreeBSD 5.3 since 2004 and most of its packages are way out of date. I've been scared of changing something in fear of rendering the machine unbootable,

Re: xdm doesn't run as daemon

2009-02-06 Thread Roger Olofsson
Anton Shterenlikht skrev: After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working: # xdm # ps ax|grep xdm 75632 p1 S+ 0:00.01 grep xdm # cat /var/log/xdm.log # So no xdm daemon. My system: FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE alpha, xdm-1.1.8_1. Any ideas? ---

Re: having trouble with OpenOffice

2009-02-07 Thread Roger Olofsson
af300...@gmail.com skrev: Hi, Tonight I finally took the bull by the horns and got OpenOffice installed. However, I'm not having a problem that I haven't found an answer to yet but seems to be related to the X server (from searches on the net). So, I do this: [a...@sniper /usr/home/andy]$

Re: freebsd 7.1 and high avalalibity

2009-02-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
gahn skrev: Hi all: What kind of options do I have for HA software in terms of Freebsd 7.1? I have two servers that need to work in symphony so that in case one down then we have another replica to work with. Thanks in advance ___ freebs

Unlimited storage?

2009-03-14 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, What would this look like for FreeBSD? --- Many servers with local HDs One (1) storage for all servers using local HDs on all servers (RAID) File system that allows growth (also negative growth) --- What components and software would be required? /R ___

Re: [OT] - Best Practices(TM) for Configuration File Changes

2009-03-29 Thread Roger Olofsson
Glen Barber skrev: Hello, list. Before I pose my question, I am not intending to start a flame-war of any sort -- I'm just searching for "different" ways of doing things. With so many different version control systems available (aside from the traditional "keep current backups" solution), I a

Newsyslog mode on /var/log/security?

2009-03-29 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, I seem to have forgotten something about /var/log/security and newsyslog.conf. I get wrong mode after the trim. Excerpt from /etc/newsyslog.conf: /var/log/security 644 7 5000 * JC Output from newsyslog -vn: chmod 600 /var/log/security.0.bz2 W

Re: Newsyslog mode on /var/log/security?

2009-03-29 Thread Roger Olofsson
Garance A Drosehn skrev: At 10:48 PM +0200 3/29/09, Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear mailing list, I seem to have forgotten something about /var/log/security and newsyslog.conf. I get wrong mode after the trim. Excerpt from /etc/newsyslog.conf: /var/log/security 644 7

Re: analyzing httpd-error.log

2009-03-31 Thread Roger Olofsson
Charles Howse skrev: On Mar 28, 2009, at 11:51 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, Webalizer is doing what it's supposed to with httpd-access.log, but when I give it the error log to process is coughs, spits and spills out errors with no data processed. My research hasn't turned up a good solut

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