query cdrw tray

2004-12-17 Thread Ed Stover
Ok, this a good one for experts. How to I ask the CD burner if it's tray is open or closed? I am creating a automagical shell script to do semi-unattended backups and need to figure out how to make sure there is a cd in the tray before I start burning. Any help would be greatly appreciated. [EMAI

Re: Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ?

2004-12-18 Thread Ed Stover
Have you run the low level disk tools from Maxtor on your failed drives? One day out of the blue my 80Gig maxtors started giving out hard error failures, so I downloaded a floppy image from maxtor and used it to scan and repair my drives. I rebooted in single user mode and fscked my drives and resc

build fails courierpassd-1.1.0-RC1

2005-03-31 Thread Ed Stover
I have been trying to compile courierpassd-1.1.0-RC1 on FreeBSD4.11 I have courier-authlib-0.51 from packages. from my make of courierpassd-1.1.0-RC1 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 -c courierpassd.c In file included from courierpassd.c:38: courierpassd.h:24: courierauth.h: No such fil

Re: imminent disk failure ?

2005-04-24 Thread Ed Stover
Forgive my top post SMART tools are in ports /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools I would also try going into single user mode and running fsck on the drive. If that presents unrepairable errors then try low level tools from your drive's manufacturer. I have brought many of drives back long enough t

Squid, SquidGuard, FreeBSD

2004-04-30 Thread Ed Stover
Has any one successfully done squid with squidGuard on a FreeBSD later then 4.5 ? I have made it work on 4.5 but nothing later because of the berkly db changes after 4.5, if you have made contentent filtering work on FreeBSD-current can I get some tips? I like 4.5 but 4.9 has better hardware cover

help with poppassd

2004-10-22 Thread Ed Stover
Problems with poppassd on 4.10, I can talk to poppassd 106 from telnet both on and off localhost. but for some odd reason i can't get it to change my password. ok, here are the steps that i have taken all ready cd /usr/ports/mail/poppassd/ && make install (it install perfectly) (added this line t