Re: Java/Tomcat

2004-12-02 Thread Dick Davies
* alex bustamante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1206 18:06]: > > > alex bustamante wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I need to serve .jsp's with jakarta. Read somewhere that compiling the > >> jdk > >> and getting it to work with jakarta isn't the eaysiest thing to do. Is > >> Linux prefered for this task, or will

Re: fsck: broken file system with background check remains broken after bootup

2005-01-04 Thread Dick Davies
* Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0123 10:23]: > This scared me. What if /usr was such broken that even single user mode > would hang!?! That won't happen, since /usr isn't mounted in single user mode. -- 'common sense is what tells you that the world is flat.' -- Principia Discordia

firefox port

2005-02-17 Thread Dick Davies
Is there a fix for the firefox advisory that portaudit keeps popping up? ===> firefox-1.0_7,1 has known vulnerabilities: => web browsers -- window injection vulnerabilities. Reference: => Please update your po

Re: firefox port

2005-02-18 Thread Dick Davies
* David Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0202 01:02]: > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Dick Davies wrote: > > > > > Is there a fix for the firefox advisory that portaudit keeps popping up? > > > > ===> firefox-1.0_7,1 has known vulnerabilities: > > =&g

pf and http (ebay)?

2005-04-08 Thread Dick Davies
I have pf running on my laptop with a config including: pass out on $ext_if proto { tcp, udp } all keep state (there's a 'block in log all' and a couple of services allowed in too further up, but that's the gist of it.) which works well for some sites but not all. In particular, going to 'my

Re: virtual machines

2005-04-12 Thread Dick Davies
* Nick Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0405 11:05]: > I run FreeBSD as my main desktop, but occasionally have to develop, > build, or test software on a variety of other x86 operating systems > (mainly Windows NT 4, Windows XP Pro, and Red Hat Linux). At the > moment I have a row of mini-towers and a

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Dick Davies
* Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0428 18:28]: > At 11:20 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: > > >Ah. Packages and /stand/sysinstall. Yeah. I haven't installed a package from > >sysinstall in YEARS so I probably wouldn't have noticed that. Getting > >security updates for packages using sysinstall is

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-18 Thread Dick Davies
* Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0401 21:01]: > Dick Davies wrote: > > >All the grief with 'x depends on y and z, z needs i' and all that rubbish go > >away with portupgrade in my experience - I tend to hook openldap into > >everything, > >and

grub on 5.4

2005-04-22 Thread Dick Davies
Am I missing something obvious? The HDD is'nt write protected or anything, the freebsd loader went in fine # ls /boot/grub/ device.map fat_stage1_5iso9660_stage1_5 menu.lst reiserfs_stage1_5 stage2 vstafs_stage1_5

Re: pf and http (ebay)?

2005-04-22 Thread Dick Davies
* Max Laier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0415 18:15]: > On Friday 08 April 2005 18:41, Dick Davies wrote: > > > > 'waiting for include.ebaystatic.com' > > > > message on the status bar. > > > > pflog looks like: > > > > root$ tcpdump

Re: grub on 5.4

2005-04-22 Thread Dick Davies
* Uli Middelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0447 20:47]: > Dick Davies schrieb: > >grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 > > (hd0,0,a) > > > >grub> setup (hd0) > > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes > > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage

Re: VIA M1000 mini-itx system installation woes - WRITE_DMA error - cabling?

2005-04-27 Thread Dick Davies
* Bruce M Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0440 11:40]: > However, I agree, this is *annoying*; I don't know of 80 + 4 conductor cables > for 2.5" ATA drives. If anyone knows of such things then please do let me > know, as I've had significant problems with a development system at work which > is Mini-

installing on headless boxes

2005-05-16 Thread Dick Davies
Is it possible to install using only a serial console? I didn't think so, so thought I might roll my own 5.4 cd to enable that. Is there anything else that needs doing about from echo '-h' >> /wherever/release/got/built/boot.config (or possibly '-P' to do serial if there's no keyboard attached)

Re: installing on headless boxes

2005-05-16 Thread Dick Davies
* Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0543 11:43]: > Dick Davies wrote: > > Is it possible to install using only a serial > > console? > > I didn't think so, so thought I might roll my own > > 5.4 cd to enable that. Is there anything else that > > needs doing abou

Re: cron stops silently

2005-05-27 Thread Dick Davies
* Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0538 15:38]: > On Friday 27 May 2005 08:05, Dean Strik wrote: > > > I just filed PR 81555 about this. For me, it appears that cron(8) exits > > after a SIGPIPE when an LDAP-user does a crontab -e. Are you also using > > LDAP here? See also the PR (hasn't appear

Re: filesystems not properly unmounted

2005-06-02 Thread Dick Davies
* Yuval Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0647 15:47]: > > > Is it possible to fix this issue? from the description it seems to me > that the issue got worse since freebsd 5.3 (assuming Maxi's root > partition is ufs2). If it's a pain to remeber, maybe try sticking something in rc.shutdown? -- 'Ugh,

Re: filesystems not properly unmounted

2005-06-02 Thread Dick Davies
* yuval levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0656 21:56]: > --- Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would you feel if your car dealer would tell you > that the car is just fine, you only have to remember, > every time before you start it, to chew a gum and > stick the

Re: What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine?

2005-06-06 Thread Dick Davies
* Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0616 23:16]: > > Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 00:11:14 +0200 > > From: Claus Guttesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > What are people using for remote X displays on amd64 machines? > > > > What about 'ssh -X remote-machine'? > > 'ssh -Y r

Re: What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine?

2005-06-06 Thread Dick Davies
* Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0626 23:26]: > > Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:20:41 +0100 > > From: Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0616 23:16]: > > > > Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 00:11:1

Re: CONSPEED=19200 broken/changed on 5.4?

2005-06-08 Thread Dick Davies
* Michael W. Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0603 15:03]: > Hi, > > I'm building a nanobsd image on i386 5.4-stable for a Soekris net4801. > My kernel includes > > options CONSPEED=19200 > > so that the serial console "just works". (Soekris hardware defaults > to 19200; having the BIOS at 1920

marking ports as 'cleaned' in portaudit.conf ?

2005-06-24 Thread Dick Davies
I just manually patched up my ruby18 install and tried to tell portaudit that the local port is now clean, but it doesn't want to know: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rasputnik # portaudit Affected package: ruby-1.8.2_3 Type of problem: ruby -- arbitrary command execution on XML

Re: marking ports as 'cleaned' in portaudit.conf ?

2005-06-27 Thread Dick Davies
* Simon L. Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0652 20:52]: > On 2005.06.24 10:58:36 +0100, Dick Davies wrote: > > > > I just manually patched up my ruby18 install and tried to tell > > portaudit that the local port is now clean, but it doesn't want to > > know: &

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-23 Thread Dick Davies
* Dan Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0705 21:05]: > Is there a jumpstart (solaris), kickstart (redhat linux), roboinst (irix), > or ignite (hpux) like auto-installer for BSD? > > If there was, then I wouldn't image the disk at all, I'd instead setup up > custom network images that I could blast to a

802.11g on RELENG_5 ?

2005-07-29 Thread Dick Davies
Does anyone have any recommendations for good 802.11g cards ? Looks like ath(4) is the way to go, so obviously I won't bother getting anything that isn't listed there, bt are any better than the others? Also, has anyone managed to use WPA yet? I suppose IPSEC is always an option if not -- '

Re: 802.11g on RELENG_5 ?

2005-07-29 Thread Dick Davies
* Pierre-Luc Lesperance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0745 14:45]: > Hi > > I've just bought a WG311T from netgear > http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WG311T.php > > The card works with ath(4) driver and with the ndis(4). > > (I use the ndis driver) > > WPA is not currently supported for 5.x but i