Re: MAC address change?

2003-08-28 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > My colo location has recently done some software upgrades on thier routers > and switches. Would this cause the following messages in my > /var/log/messages file? > > > Aug 27 05:48:17 enterprise /kernel: arp: 65.39.193.154 moved from > 00:0a:41

Re: MAC address change?

2003-08-28 Thread Micheal Patterson
Yes. Especially if they swapped out IP's on a router or replaced a nic. -- Micheal Patterson Network Administration Cancer Care Network 405-733-2230 - Original Message - From: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 6:30 PM Subject: MAC

MAC address change?

2003-08-28 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, My colo location has recently done some software upgrades on thier routers and switches. Would this cause the following messages in my /var/log/messages file? > Aug 27 05:48:17 enterprise /kernel: arp: 65.39.193.154 moved from 00:0a:41:07:94:80 to 00:06:5b:ee:40:32 on fxp0 TIA, -Grant

Re: how to use firewall ?

2003-08-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"ZaiD Dashti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i got DoS attack > how i can use the firewall ? > i have tried to understand (man ipfw) but i didn't understand it > any easy way to learn and understand firewall (ipfw) The first thing you need to understand is what a firewall does, and what you're pro

-CURRENT buildworld dies

2003-08-28 Thread Robert Huff
Running 5.0, I cvsup and build -CURRENT every night. (Build, not install.) Recently, the buildworld has been bombing with: ===> gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/doc ===> gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/libtxi cc -O -pipe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/l

Re: usbdevs

2003-08-28 Thread Alan Batie
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:37:01AM +0200, Hendrik Hasenbein wrote: > Is the mouse a logitech optical mouse with forcefeedback? I got one to > get able to distinguish my mouses by colour, but it caused a lot of > trouble on the UHCI onboard controller. As soon as I put it on a OHCI it > worked fi

Mozilla and linebreaks

2003-08-28 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
How do I force mozilla to break at 72 or 80 chars? Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Scroll back in console

2003-08-28 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Jerry McAllister wrote: Generally hitting Scroll Lock and then PageUp works for me. The amount you can see depends on the amount of space reserved for it that is configured. I don't remember the parameter or place right off hand. You can configure options for the sc in the kernel (taken from 4.

Re: usbdevs

2003-08-28 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Alan Batie wrote: I've just installed FreeBSD 4.8 Release from the cd's. There's a 4 port USB card plugged in, with a Logitech USB mouse, a USB Serial port and a Belkin USB/IDE case with a Maxtor 30G IDE drive in it. Is the mouse a logitech optical mouse with forcefeedback? I got one to get able

Re: Necessary code or trash?

2003-08-28 Thread Marc Ramirez
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 28), Marc Wiz said: > > Sticking with /bin/sh is a good idea. > > > > What I have done is build a static version of bash and put it /bin > > > > I changed root's shell to /bin/bash and run just fine. > > > > Has anyone noticed what

RE: Scroll back in console

2003-08-28 Thread Charles Howse
> > Familiarity breeds contempt, I guess. > > I realize this is supposed to be a heretical, insulting suggestion, > but you could always try reading the manual. syscons(4) describes > it quite clearly, in a section titled "back scrolling." I take *SERIOUS* exception to the terms "heretical, in

Re: Necessary code or trash?

2003-08-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 28), Marc Wiz said: > Sticking with /bin/sh is a good idea. > > What I have done is build a static version of bash and put it /bin > > I changed root's shell to /bin/bash and run just fine. > > Has anyone noticed what a pain it is to build bash statically and > install

Re: Necessary code or trash?

2003-08-28 Thread Alan Batie
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:33:45PM -0400, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > > rm - 410 268 bytes, > > mv - 407 568 bytes, > > date - 423 748 bytes. > > As others explained these commands and others are statically linked so that > they do not depend on libraries that live in /usr. Once upon a time

Re: Necessary code or trash?

2003-08-28 Thread Marc Wiz
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:33:45PM -0400, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > > As others explained these commands and others are statically linked so that > they do not depend on libraries that live in /usr. Since these are very > basic commands, it's a bad idea to have them depend on a library that might

Re: Help Required

2003-08-28 Thread Bob Collins
At 03:53 PM 8/28/2003, Ahmad Memon wrote: Hello.. We are having presentations on different OS in our class.. and i chose the Unix freeBSD for my group to do a presentation on.. i would like some info - if possible - on this system, or anything that could help me with that presentat

Re: Necessary code or trash?

2003-08-28 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On 00:52 Tue 29 Aug , Denis Troshin wrote: > Hi! > > I have FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE. > > Why most of bin (sbin) utilities are so big. > > For example, > > rm - 410 268 bytes, > mv - 407 568 bytes, > date - 423 748 bytes. > > Do they really contain only necessary code or > have more than

Re: Scroll back in console

2003-08-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Charles Howse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, Duuh! > The reason I didn't think about scroll lock is that it is the key that > is mapped to my kvm. I hit Scroll Lock twice and the number of the > computer I want to switch to. > > Familiarity breeds contempt, I guess. I realize this i

Re: Help Required

2003-08-28 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On 19:53 Thu 28 Aug , Ahmad Memon wrote: > >Hello.. > >We are having presentations on different OS in our class.. and i chose >the Unix freeBSD for my group to do a presentation on.. i would like >some info - if possible - on this system, or anything that could help >me wi

European software patents law !!!

2003-08-28 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
http://petition.eurolinux.org/ sign the petition against the new patents law. find more about this law at http://swpat.ffii.org/ and mirror their website (for load purposes). close your website as did www.gimp.org and protest with banners, and in any other way. God bless the virus industry. Yo

Re: Help Required

2003-08-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > >Hello.. > >We are having presentations on different OS in our class.. and i chose >the Unix freeBSD for my group to do a presentation on.. i would like >some info - if possible - on this system, or anything that could help >me with that presentation. So i thought maybe u

Re: Disable PING command

2003-08-28 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On 12:21 Thu 28 Aug , vkennon wrote: Why would you want to disable the ping command? Are you trying to prevent others from pinging you? If so, you need to filter out incoming ICMP packets. There are some other threads on the list pertaining to firewalling; you might want to search them. -- M

Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs

2003-08-28 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On 20:49 Thu 28 Aug , Scott Ballantyne wrote: > You can always set the NO_MAILWRAPPER=true and NO_SENDMAIL=true flags > in /etc/make.conf. I thought you were supposed to also set sendmail_enable="NONE" in /etc/rc.conf as well. -- Matthew Graybosch http://www.starbreaker.net "The best way to

usbdevs

2003-08-28 Thread Alan Batie
I've just installed FreeBSD 4.8 Release from the cd's. There's a 4 port USB card plugged in, with a Logitech USB mouse, a USB Serial port and a Belkin USB/IDE case with a Maxtor 30G IDE drive in it. This is what usbdevs reports: # usbdevs -v Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: self powered, config 1,

Re: how to mount floppy disk?

2003-08-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Terry Tyson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Make sure there is a floppy disk in the drive before running the > command. There could also be a problem with that particular floppy or drive... > Also, I think the actual command is "mount_msdos" not > "mount_msdosfs". :-) Depends on which

Re: hosting a website

2003-08-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi > > well i want to ask how can i host a website in FreeBSD 5.1 > what software do i need to download or install > please reply soon You need web server software. Probably Apace will be it although I think there are some smaller leaner web servers around. Be patient and study a lot. It

Re: Question about syslogd

2003-08-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 28), SUPPORT said: > Hello everybody, > > please, how can I make syslogd to log date/time as readable not Unix > timestamp ? Has anybody idea how to do it ? Hm? It logs in readable format by default: Aug 28 15:51:58 hp4000was1 printer: offline or intervention needed Aug

RE: Scroll back in console

2003-08-28 Thread Kevin . Greenidge1
Actually this has been puzzled me too and I never thought to use scroll lock as it is my toggle switch for my kvm as well. -Original Message- From: Charles Howse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 3:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Scroll back in console >

RE: hosting a website

2003-08-28 Thread Kevin . Greenidge1
apache is what you want to use for a webserver and depending on what other services you would like to run such as Mysql, SSL, etc. then you could install those programs from the ports tree as well. -Original Message- From: Alecos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 5

Re: Scroll back in console

2003-08-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 28), Charles Howse said: > I realize that I can pipe a command to a pager, but is there a > keystroke combination that I can use to scroll back in the console? > Shift+PageUp works in Linux. Hit scroll-lock, then up/down/pgup/pgdwn/home/end. Hit scroll-lock to get back t

Help Required

2003-08-28 Thread Ahmad Memon
Hello.. We are having presentations on different OS in our class.. and i chose the Unix freeBSD for my group to do a presentation on.. i would like some info - if possible - on this system, or anything that could help me with that presentation. So i thought maybe u could give me so

Question about syslogd

2003-08-28 Thread SUPPORT
Hello everybody, please, how can I make syslogd to log date/time as readable not Unix timestamp ? Has anybody idea how to do it ? Best regards Peter Rosa ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

hosting a website

2003-08-28 Thread Alecos
Hi well i want to ask how can i host a website in FreeBSD 5.1 what software do i need to download or install please reply soon C ya laterz Alecos ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

Disable PING command

2003-08-28 Thread vkennon
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Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs

2003-08-28 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:12:55AM +0300, Adrian Pircalabu wrote: > > You're right, I'm right, it's a matter of taste, somehow. > > The mailer.conf method is preferred as it doesn't wipe itself out when > you upgrade your system with buildworld/installwo

RE: Scroll back in console

2003-08-28 Thread Charles Howse
> Uhhh, scroll lock perhaps? Well, Duuh! The reason I didn't think about scroll lock is that it is the key that is mapped to my kvm. I hit Scroll Lock twice and the number of the computer I want to switch to. Familiarity breeds contempt, I guess. __

Re: Scroll back in console

2003-08-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:34:07PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > I realize that I can pipe a command to a pager, but is there a keystroke > combination that I can use to scroll back in the console? Shift+PageUp > works in Linux. Press 'Scroll Lock', then you can use Page Up, Page Down etc. When

Re: Scroll back in console

2003-08-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi, > I realize that I can pipe a command to a pager, but is there a keystroke > combination that I can use to scroll back in the console? Shift+PageUp > works in Linux. Generally hitting Scroll Lock and then PageUp works for me. The amount you can see depends on the amount of space reserved

Re: Scroll back in console

2003-08-28 Thread Mike Maltese
Uhhh, scroll lock perhaps? - Original Message - From: "Charles Howse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 1:34 PM Subject: Scroll back in console Hi, I realize that I can pipe a command to a pager, but is there a keystroke combination that I can u

Scroll back in console

2003-08-28 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I realize that I can pipe a command to a pager, but is there a keystroke combination that I can use to scroll back in the console? Shift+PageUp works in Linux. Thanks, Charles ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs

2003-08-28 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:12:55AM +0300, Adrian Pircalabu wrote: > You're right, I'm right, it's a matter of taste, somehow. The mailer.conf method is preferred as it doesn't wipe itself out when you upgrade your system with buildworld/installworld. > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:05:19 +1200 > Jonatha

RE: how to mount floppy disk?

2003-08-28 Thread Terry Tyson
Denis, Make sure there is a floppy disk in the drive before running the command. Also, I think the actual command is "mount_msdos" not "mount_msdosfs". :-) Terry > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Denis > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 2

Re: System very slow to boot

2003-08-28 Thread Jez Hancock
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:39:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) Since reloading my system I find that it is very slow to boot. It looks In addition to what others have said, note you can usually press 'ctrl-c' if the machine looks like it's taking a long time to load one of the rc scripts

how to mount floppy disk?

2003-08-28 Thread Denis
Hi All!!! I try next to mount my floppy disk driver: mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy I/O error. But why? -- Best regards, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Resizing disk partitons?

2003-08-28 Thread stan
I've got a laptop with a single hard disk that is curently paritioned into 3 partions. 1 for FreeBSD, 1 for linux Swap, and a 3rd for Linux. I've got an application that requires a M$ OS. Is there a way I can repartion this drive without having to reinstall bith my other OS'es? -- "They that wou

RE: System very slow to boot

2003-08-28 Thread Kevin . Greenidge1
I really don't want sendmail anyway so I will definitly try your suggestion. I have a dialup account and my freebsd box gets it's ip/dns info via dhcp from the router. It looks like I'll have to setup dns locally then so it works whether I'm connected online or not and see if that works. Kevin -

Re: Ports Installed Are Newer Than Tree?

2003-08-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 28), Adam McLaurin said: > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 14:35, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > It seems that the ports I have installed on my system are newer than the > > ones in the ports tree. If I run portversion, I get output that looks > > like this: > > > > farmer# portversion

Re: System very slow to boot

2003-08-28 Thread David Landgren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Since reloading my system I find that it is very slow to boot. It looks like it hangs while trying the load the sendmail and sendmail-client daemons. It eventually boots after 20 minutes or so. I tried disabling sendmail but it still boots very slow. The initial bootup r

Re: Ports Installed Are Newer Than Tree?

2003-08-28 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 14:35, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > It seems that the ports I have installed on my system are newer than the > ones in the ports tree. If I run portversion, I get output that looks > like this: > > farmer# portversion -v -L= > XFree86-Server-4.3.0_6 > succeeds port (port ha

Re: SecFix for databases/firebird, please review

2003-08-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:33:43 -0700 Joshua Oreman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You also still don't add: > > > > > > buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] = '\0'; > > > > > > after all strncat(3)s. > > > > Hmmm... yes, I see the problem... > > >From strncat(3): > char* strncat (char * restrict s, co

Ports Installed Are Newer Than Tree?

2003-08-28 Thread Drew Tomlinson
It seems that the ports I have installed on my system are newer than the ones in the ports tree. If I run portversion, I get output that looks like this: farmer# portversion -v -L= XFree86-Server-4.3.0_6 > succeeds port (port has 4.3.0_5) cdrtools-2.0_1 > succeeds port (port h

Re: Necessary code or trash?

2003-08-28 Thread Frank Ruell
Denis Troshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why most of bin (sbin) utilities are so big. Do a "file /bin/rm" for example. They are linked static, so they don't depend on any libs, but are bigger because of that. Just try it for yourself. A simple hello world program: ~$ gcc -o hello hello.c ~$

Re: Necessary code or trash?

2003-08-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 29), Denis Troshin said: > I have FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE. > > Why most of bin (sbin) utilities are so big. > > For example, > > rm - 410 268 bytes, > mv - 407 568 bytes, > date - 423 748 bytes. > > Do they really contain only necessary code or > have more than a hal

Off Topic Regex Question

2003-08-28 Thread Roger Williams
I know thins is not the place but I know one of you know this one off the top of your head. I have: $list = "dog 1 1 1 cat 2 1 snake 111" and I want to end up with: dog 1 cat 2 snake 1 I thought $list =~ s/ \d \d/ \d/g; would do the trick, but that gives me: dog d 1 1 cat d snake d 1 Thanks, Rog

Necessary code or trash?

2003-08-28 Thread Denis Troshin
Hi! I have FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE. Why most of bin (sbin) utilities are so big. For example, rm - 410 268 bytes, mv - 407 568 bytes, date - 423 748 bytes. Do they really contain only necessary code or have more than a half of trash? If you think my question is very stupid to answer, pleas

Off Topic RegEx Question

2003-08-28 Thread Roger Williams
I know thins is not the place but I know one of you know this one off the top of your head. I have: $list = "dog 1 1 1 cat 2 1 snake 111" and I want to end up with: dog 1 cat 2 snake 1 I thought $list =~ s/ \d \d/ \d/g; would do the trick, but that gives me: dog d 1 1 cat d snake d 1 Thanks, Rog

kernel core dump during make buildworld

2003-08-28 Thread Redmond Militante
hi all i am trying to cvsup a 5_1-RELEASE machine i'm at the 'cd /usr/src/ make buildworld' stage. i can't run 'make buildworld' successfully on this machine. i'm able to on my other 5_1-RELEASE machine (although it's different hardware...). the buildworld seems to fail at different points

Re: System very slow to boot

2003-08-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] The only thing I could think of is that it might be looking for a dns server which I do not have. any suggestions? Give it a DNS server, or else run named locally. Your ISP should be providing you with the IP addrs of nameservers that you can use, if you're getti

Re: virtual users for mail?

2003-08-28 Thread Vitali Malicky
> Hello All, > > > I am on FreeBSD 4.8-R, I would like to run on the mail system virtual > users mail. > i just dunt want to create a _real_ users on system, and I would prefer > it virtual for certain domain(s) So, brethren, qmail (www.qmail.org) + vpopmail+qmailadmin+ezmlm+autorespon

Intel/Dialogic DX40 and voicemail solutions...?

2003-08-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, all-- I have a chance to upgrade a voicemail system using a 4-port Dialogic ISA card-- specific revision seems to be DX42/D-- from DOS-based software called SmoothOperator running on a P-90 or so, the combination of which Lucent rebranded as "Octel 50". [Lucent is now Avaya, and Intel owns

RE: can't login as anyone - not even as root!

2003-08-28 Thread Charles Howse
> All of a sudden, I can't login, even as root. I tried to set the > password of root to nil (because I happened to be logged in as root at > the time) and that didn't work either. > > Then, thinking that the machine was acting up, I rebooted. > Now I am in > deeper. I can't even access the mac

System very slow to boot

2003-08-28 Thread Kevin . Greenidge1
1) Since reloading my system I find that it is very slow to boot. It looks like it hangs while trying the load the sendmail and sendmail-client daemons. It eventually boots after 20 minutes or so. I tried disabling sendmail but it still boots very slow. The initial bootup right after install was fi

Re: can't login as anyone - not even as root!

2003-08-28 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:20:47AM -0700 or thereabouts, Dave Banning wrote: > All of a sudden, I can't login, even as root. I tried to set the > password of root to nil (because I happened to be logged in as root at > the time) and that didn't work either. > > Then, thinking that the machine was

RE: ssh not loading after install

2003-08-28 Thread Kevin . Greenidge1
I found out that the issue was that I did not select the crypto libraries since I selected a custom distribution set during install. It works fine now. -Original Message- From: Lowell Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMA

IPFW reset dead???

2003-08-28 Thread Info [swebase]
This in the kernel before option TCP_RESTRICT_RST $cmd 00640 reset log tcp from any to me 135 in via $oif limit src-addr 4 would reset closed ports so a scanner not would see it open (filtered). How do i close a port so no portscanner sees it in freebsd 4.8 ?? /K.K _

Re: NFS/Epiphany error

2003-08-28 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 11:52, Monah Baki wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to run epiphany bowser, I have my users home directory mounted via nfs > from a > freebsd 4.8 machine, the client is a freebsd 5.1. > > I get the error: > rpc.lockd:clntudp_create: RPC: program not registered. > rpc.lock

can't login as anyone - not even as root!

2003-08-28 Thread Dave Banning
All of a sudden, I can't login, even as root. I tried to set the password of root to nil (because I happened to be logged in as root at the time) and that didn't work either. Then, thinking that the machine was acting up, I rebooted. Now I am in deeper. I can't even access the machine. Any idea

Problem building Perl5.8 port with threads

2003-08-28 Thread John Ekins
Hello All, I'm having a really bad time trying to compile Perl 5.8 with thread support on FreeBSD 5.1 release on i386. I've tried the port and do a "make -DWITH_THREADS", but it eventually bombs out with the following error: cd t && (rm -f perl; /bin/ln -s ../miniperl perl) && ./perl TEST base/

Error in XFree86

2003-08-28 Thread Sergy V.Greg
I got following error: (EE) CIRRUS(0): No valid MMIO address in PCI config space (EE) CIRRUS(0): I2C initialization failed My X form's background widget don't drawing correctly, but other widgets (as buttons, scroll-boxes etc.) is drawing good. In attached files my XF86Config and Kernel's config

virtual users for mail?

2003-08-28 Thread Dead Line
Hello All, I am on FreeBSD 4.8-R, I would like to run on the mail system virtual users mail. i just dunt want to create a _real_ users on system, and I would prefer it virtual for certain domain(s) Can someone exaplain what to install by order? can i run it under sendmail daemon?

NFS/Epiphany error

2003-08-28 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, I'm trying to run epiphany bowser, I have my users home directory mounted via nfs from a freebsd 4.8 machine, the client is a freebsd 5.1. I get the error: rpc.lockd:clntudp_create: RPC: program not registered. rpc.lockd: Unable to return result to Client has rpc.statd & rpc.lockd

any howto-s on minimal jail installs with ro-nullfs-mounted/bin,/usr?

2003-08-28 Thread Hari Bhaskaran
Hi, I need to create a minimal jail install with as much data shared with the host as possible. So I believe I can read-only (null-fs) mount /bin and /usr into paths that fall in the jail's fs-space. I have tried /usr already (works fine - so long as I use /home for home directories instead of /us

Re: exim configurations?

2003-08-28 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, William O'Higgins wrote: > Is anyone using exim as their MTA? I am attempting to migrate to > FreeBSD, but this is my stumbling block. exim works, but it will not > send mail out of the machine, and the log has "Operation timed out" > messages for every queue run on every me

Re: kernel compile problem

2003-08-28 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:06:00AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just cvsuped my router to 4stable, from 4.6.2. I tried recompile the previous > > kernel. That did not work. It configed properly, but a make depend did not > > succeed. I get the sam

Re: no root login after changing shell

2003-08-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > What about the toor user? > I think it has no shell associated. > > Hope that helps. bye. > > -- > Hi, > > i wanted to change the shell for user root to bash. > in the freebsd online handbook i found this command: Don't set a password on the real root account or lo

Re: zmore for bzip2?

2003-08-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /etc/newsyslog.conf uses J in FreeBSD-5.1 to specify bzip2 format for > compression. zmore(1) doesn't know bzip format, is someone working on > it? I doubt it; seems kind of trivial to have a separate program to implement 'bzcat | more`... _

Re: kernel compile problem

2003-08-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just cvsuped my router to 4stable, from 4.6.2. I tried recompile the previous > kernel. That did not work. It configed properly, but a make depend did not > succeed. I get the same errors trying to compile the generic kernel. Does this also happen with

Re: Question on CVS Branches

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Barner
> Is RELENG_4 to be considered stable? I.e. can i use it for production? Well, that depends. At the moment, -stable has (or had) some stability problems since some enhancements for huge memory systems (> 4gb) where merged from -current). I think the best for production system is the latest securi

Re: Floppies

2003-08-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is the error I get when trying to install FBSD using kern.flp and mfsroot.flp > for 5.1-RELEASE. Offhand, these look like problems with the floppies. Try other disks, and make sure you don't download the images in "text" mode. Also, you might want to

Re: Question on CVS Branches

2003-08-28 Thread Greg J.
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:43:49 +0200 Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is RELENG_4 to be considered stable? I.e. can i use it for production? > > Also i am still a bit unsure, what CURRENT, RELEASE and STABLE mean. > From other OS's, i know that "Release" means "for production use". > B

Re: Question on CVS Branches

2003-08-28 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Viktor Lazlo wrote: On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi, please forgive me if this is a FAQ, but just what is the meaning of the RELENG_4 branch? Is it more current then RELENG_4_7 or RELENG_4_8 ? What should i use if i want to get security patches for my 4.7-RELEASE-p4 installation?

Re: Qmail Help

2003-08-28 Thread Kliment Andreev
> Does anyone know any good tutorials sites for qmail and vpopmail? im trying > to set up a mail server for multiple domains. http://www.tigertimes.net/vpopmail/Qmail-FreeBSD.txt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: Qmail Help

2003-08-28 Thread Luke Kearney
- Original Message - From: "Cliff Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 9:59 PM Subject: Qmail Help > Does anyone know any good tutorials sites for qmail and vpopmail? im trying > to set up a mail server for mu

Re: Qmail Help

2003-08-28 Thread Adrian Pircalabu
Hi there, you can try: http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/mail/toaster/ On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:59:47 -0400 Cliff Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know any good tutorials sites for qmail and vpopmail? im trying > to set up a mail server for multiple domains. > > Any help would be gre

Qmail Help

2003-08-28 Thread Cliff Sullivan
Does anyone know any good tutorials sites for qmail and vpopmail? im trying to set up a mail server for multiple domains. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Cliff = Cliff Sullivan - TSR 2 24hr Technical Support CoreComm - East Lansing, MI [ 888.715.7873 |

Re: SSH Daemon not running

2003-08-28 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After a standard install of 4.7 the ssh daemon isn't running > even though it shows enabled in rc.conf, could it be > something else I'm missing. It was my understading that ssh > got installed by default. I did go into /etc/ssh/sshd_config > an

Re: exim configurations?

2003-08-28 Thread Jez Hancock
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 07:14:12AM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote: > Is anyone using exim as their MTA? I am attempting to migrate to > FreeBSD, but this is my stumbling block. exim works, but it will not > send mail out of the machine, and the log has "Operation timed out" > messages for every q

Re: exim configurations?

2003-08-28 Thread Rob
I'm using exim with virtual domains & maildirs and without smarthost, so my config mightn't be useful to you. Look at http://www.exim.org/ftp/exim3/config.samples.tar.gz or http://www.exim.org/ftp/exim4/config.samples.tar.gz for some hints - you can find summaries in FAQ.txt.gz from the same direc

Re: Patching procedures

2003-08-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:09:35AM +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > ** message didn't make it to the list - sending again ** > > > I'm still relatively new to FreeBSD, and I was wondering what most of > you use as a patching procedure for FreeBSD (not the ports) > > Up to now, I have always folowe

exim configurations?

2003-08-28 Thread William O'Higgins
Is anyone using exim as their MTA? I am attempting to migrate to FreeBSD, but this is my stumbling block. exim works, but it will not send mail out of the machine, and the log has "Operation timed out" messages for every queue run on every message until they get returned as undeliverable. Has an

Re: Setting sysctl variables BEFORE the kernel boots and runs init?

2003-08-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:09:06AM +0200, David Landgren wrote: > Micheal Patterson wrote: > > > > >- Original Message - > >From: "Donald Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "FreeBSD Questions List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 6:11 PM > >Subject: Setting sysctl va

Re: your mail

2003-08-28 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Glitch Birkenstock wrote: > Good Afternoon. Can yah please help me out?i live in Philippines.i am > using windows here and i want to change it into FREEBSD new version. i > already downloaded all files here:ftp://ftp5.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > i read the txt files but it

Re:

2003-08-28 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Glitch Birkenstock wrote: Hi Freebsd stuff, Good Afternoon. Can yah please help me out?i live in Philippines.i am using windows here and i want to change it into FREEBSD new version. i already downloaded all files here:ftp://ftp5.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ i read the txt files but it doesnt shows

configuring internal ZIP drive under FBSD-5.1-RELEASE

2003-08-28 Thread carloma
Hello ! I upgraded to FBSD-5.1-Release and built a new kernel including, what I think, all the necessary drivers for my internal IOMEGA ZIP 250. Helas, there is no device node in /dev for the device, and also is the device not detected during the boot process. I'd be very grateful for any hints t

Re: Chkrootkit anomaly

2003-08-28 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hi Sean I know chkrootkit is broken on 5.1, don't know about 4.8 though. The messages you are getting are indeed nearly identical to my problems a while back (6-8 months). Kind regards Guy On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 15:56, Sean Page wrote: > Since there have already been a couple of questions on thi

Re: Is CIFS available already on FreeBSD?

2003-08-28 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello Anand The protocol you are inquiring about is called SMB/CIFS. Server Message Block/Common Internet File System. The name in itself is very misleading, CIFS is not an Internet FS in any way, but part of M$ file/print sharing implementation. To answer your question, Samba is a fully functio

Re: Setting sysctl variables BEFORE the kernel boots and runs init?

2003-08-28 Thread David Landgren
Micheal Patterson wrote: - Original Message - From: "Donald Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeBSD Questions List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 6:11 PM Subject: Setting sysctl variables BEFORE the kernel boots and runs init? I would like to be able to set certai

Patching procedures

2003-08-28 Thread Guy Van Sanden
** message didn't make it to the list - sending again ** I'm still relatively new to FreeBSD, and I was wondering what most of you use as a patching procedure for FreeBSD (not the ports) Up to now, I have always folowed the instructions in '2) To patch your present system:'. Yet somehow this see

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2003-08-28 Thread Glitch Birkenstock
Hi Freebsd stuff, Good Afternoon. Can yah please help me out?i live in Philippines.i am using windows here and i want to change it into FREEBSD new version. i already downloaded all files here:ftp://ftp5.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ i read the txt files but it doesnt shows the manual on how to

Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs

2003-08-28 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:21:04PM -0400, Ralph Dratman wrote: > Since I switched from sendmail to qmail, most of my cron jobs are no > longer sending me log files. > > Has anyone else seen this happen? > > Regards, > > Ralph > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs

2003-08-28 Thread Adrian Pircalabu
You're right, I'm right, it's a matter of taste, somehow. On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:05:19 +1200 Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:45:55AM +0300, Adrian Pircalabu wrote: > > Hi, you could try to solve this by renaming the actual mail/sendmail binaries and > > by

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