Re: Soekris for a Trac server

2013-10-01 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Michael To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 2:22 AM Subject: Soekris for a Trac server I am planning to move a jail-hosted service to a physical device and would like to hear the advices of experts here. My service r

Re: Diskless question

2013-09-14 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Bernt Hansson To: Bernt Hansson Cc: Julian H. Stacey ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 12:37 PM Subject: Re: Diskless question On 2013-09-14 15:41, Bernt Hansson wrote: > On 2013-09-14 11:05, Julian H. Stacey wrote:

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Anton Shterenlikht To: me...@bristol.ac.uk; olivier2...@gmail.com Cc: o...@cs.ait.ac.th; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 9:17 AM Subject: Re: X client without X server     From olivier2...@gmail.com Wed Jul  3 13:09:25 20

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-25 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Arthur Chance To: Bernt Hansson Cc: questions FreeBSD Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Diskless question On 04/24/13 13:45, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > > 2013-04-24 13:21, Arthur Chance skrev: >> On 04/24/13 11:55, Bernt Hansson

Virtual Box on FreeBSD Server

2013-04-19 Thread Bill Tillman
I've been looking into setting up some Linux servers but instead I'm thinking that I could use Virtual Box on my FreeBSD servers to do this. I would like some seasoned advice from others on the following before proceeding: 1. As I understand it you can install Virtual Box from the ports collecti

Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread Bill Tillman
From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 9:34 AM Subject: Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:32:35 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > Today I don't need to deal with this question anymore. I've > been

Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?

2012-12-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Polytropon To: Bill Tillman Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 12:40 AM Subject: Re: Mounting a samba share on boot? On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:08:38 -0800 (PST), Bill Tillman wrote: > Typically, Samba is

Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?

2012-12-11 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Polytropon To: Hanafi Syahroini Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:57 AM Subject: Re: Mounting a samba share on boot? On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:25:56 +0700, Hanafi Syahroini wrote: > [nothing] First of all, it's not un

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-29 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Fleuriot Damien To: birdf...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:40 PM Subject: Re: i386 vs amd64 On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:36 PM, mike miskulin wrote: > About to build a replacement system for an older

Re: eGalax USB touch panel on ExoPC Slate vs. FreeBSD and X11

2012-11-20 Thread Bill Paul
a binary blob firmware image to be loaded and I had to jigger the Intel xf86 video driver a little but it's all working now. -Bill > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Bill Paul wrote: > > > > > Well... apparently I was able to get this to work on my own. To recap,

Re: eGalax USB touch panel on ExoPC Slate vs. FreeBSD and X11

2012-11-16 Thread Bill Paul
d as /dev/uhid2, and modified the xorg.conf file to use it, and it worked fine. Long story short, the ums(4) driver just isn't smart enough to seamlessly handle the mouse emulation mode of the eGalax touch streen correctly. Maybe some day someone will fix it. I might take a look at it

eGalax USB touch panel on ExoPC Slate vs. FreeBSD and X11

2012-11-15 Thread Bill Paul
7;t know how long I've been wanting to say that.) - "Go to this web page!" This _might_ be an acceptable answer _IF_ the said page contains specific instructions which are known to work. I already searched through many web pages before I came here. - "Hey Bill, why don&#

Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI?

2012-09-21 Thread Bill Tillman
- Original Message - From: Paul Wootton To: Bill Tillman Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:08 AM Subject: Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI? On 09/20/12 01:42, Bill Tillman wrote: > Interesting project you've got there. I can't say mine is sim

Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI?

2012-09-19 Thread Bill Tillman
- Original Message - From: dweimer To: FreeBSD Questions Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 1:53 AM Subject: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI? I was just trying some proof of concept testing to see if I could get a system booting with no local disk using iSCSI running

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-03 Thread Bill Tillman
- Original Message - From: C. P. Ghost To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2012 7:20 PM Subject: Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ? On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > It is possible that Microsoft is going the way of SCO --

Re: how to update the revision information

2012-07-04 Thread Bill Yuan
, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 04/07/2012 12:13, Bill Yuan wrote: > > The blow information can be found when we boot up the system, also can > use > > command "uname -v" > > Unfortunately the mailing list software has stripped your attachment

how to update the revision information

2012-07-04 Thread Bill Yuan
Hi All, The blow information can be found when we boot up the system, also can use command "uname -v" my question is how can I change this, and I cannot rebuild it ,because on my freebsd, I dont have src anymore . [image: Inline image 1] ___ freeb

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-17 Thread Bill Yuan
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Ian Smith wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:18:18 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > >>>>> "Bill" == Bill Yuan writes: > > Bill> I want to create a white list MAC address, Only the machine > which it's MAC

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Bill Yuan
ian W. wrote: > I would ask what problem do you want to solve here; is it preventing a > userjust from getting out unless they are using their assigned address, or > something else? > On Jun 10, 2012 8:16 PM, "Bill Yuan" wrote: > >> Hi Lan, >> >> Thanks fo

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Bill Yuan
forget to po the link here http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-June/177636.html On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bill Yuan wrote: > Hi Lan, > > Thanks for your reply, I am reading some old emails which you sent in 2008 > while other place asked a same ques

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Bill Yuan
Hi Lan, Thanks for your reply, I am reading some old emails which you sent in 2008 while other place asked a same question as mine, On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 418, Issue 18, Message: 1 > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:43:39 +0800 Bil

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Bill Yuan
come on , someone help please, On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Bill Yuan wrote: > Hi, > > how to allow by MAC in ipfw > > currently i set the rule like below > > 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any to > 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any > 2 deny all from an

how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Bill Yuan
Hi, how to allow by MAC in ipfw currently i set the rule like below 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any to 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any 2 deny all from any to any i want to only allow the mac address to go through the freebsd firewall, but I found it is not working on my freebsd but i

Re: how to filter network by MAC and IP at the same time

2012-06-09 Thread Bill Yuan
d things through it , and i found the result Seems some place still not working properly , the traffic has been block by some reason! On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Christian Hiris <4...@chello.at> wrote: > hi Bill, > afaik, in your case the packets checked twice against t

Re: how to filter network by MAC and IP at the same time

2012-06-08 Thread Bill Yuan
will be block by the deny !!! how come ? On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Bill Yuan writes: > > > i am using freebsd 9.0 as a firewall and i want to filter the traffic by > > the mac and the ip at the same t

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Bill Yuan
If you store the time in a file as log everytime when it boots up, then that means you can have more then "now - uptime" On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Chris Hill wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote: > > dmesg command does not show date of last boot. >> >> Are there some other commands to

how to filter network by MAC and IP at the same time

2012-06-07 Thread Bill Yuan
hi all, i am using freebsd 9.0 as a firewall and i want to filter the traffic by the mac and the ip at the same time, for example, i only allow my laptop can go throught the firewalll when it's using IP for how to config the firewall rules? I tried to configure the firewall by the rule belo

Re: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-11 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Nikos Vassiliadis To: Jay West Cc: 'Adam Vande More' ; 'mikel king' ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, April 8, 2012 7:03 PM Subject: Re: Token Ring (really) On 4/8/2012 4:41 PM, Jay West wrote: > Adam wrote... > > Otherwise, it's time t

Re: imap server performance benchmarks

2012-03-09 Thread Bill Campbell
uch prefer the Maildir stores as they allow use of standard *nix utilities, find, grep, etc., are hard to corrupt, and have no locking problems with NFS mounts. The courier method of having multiple authentication processes has held up very well over the years under heavy usage. Bill -- INTERNET: b..

Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

2012-03-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Rick Miller To: Erik Nørgaard ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp Hi Erik, Thanks for getting back to me.  The original problem is the same issue...we are still working it, but we've isolated the configuratio

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-03 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Da Rock To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 10:37 AM Subject: Re: Brother Printer On 03/02/12 23:57, Michel Talon wrote: > On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:40:21 +1000 Da Rock wrote: >> Are you sure its just a script? Any clue as to what shell it is using? >> Bash? I do

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Bill Campbell
use until I get around to installing Dovecot. >The only one I know of off the top of my head is mutt. I've never had >much use, and thus experience, with unix MUAs. Mutt would be my choice. I have been using it for over a decade, and it handles Maildir as well as other common mailbox

Re: mplayer fails to compile on amd64 machine

2012-01-21 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Antonio Olivares To: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 9:07 PM Subject: mplayer fails to compile on amd64 machine Dear kind folks, Running Amd64 FreeBSD 8.0 updated l/live/groupsock/libgroupsock.a                  -lm -rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath=/u

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Waitman Gobble To: Bill Tillman Cc: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Friday, January 6, 2012 5:09 AM Subject: Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > Today I encountered a problem which has

9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-05 Thread Bill Tillman
Today I encountered a problem which has me stumped. I downloaded and burned the ISO image for 9.0-RELEASE for amd64. I  installed an older IDE hard drive to test the new OS with and did the install. I was very surprised at the (1) the dvd is actually a live CD if you wanted it to be and (2) the ins

Re: mailing list and personal assaults

2012-01-02 Thread Bill Tillman
  From: Johan Hendriks To: FreeBSD Sent: Monday, January 2, 2012 8:58 AM Subject: mailing list and personal assaults I as a normal sys admin like to read the mailing lists, because it learned me a lot, and it still does. But lately it looks like more and

Re: Thinkpad w500 microphone with Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa)

2012-01-02 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Eric Schuele To: Lyubomir Grigorov Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, January 1, 2012 5:34 PM Subject: Re: Thinkpad w500 microphone with Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa) On 01/01/2012 15:23, Lyubomir Grigorov wrote: > I assume you are using

Re: how to chdir permanently

2011-12-30 Thread Bill Campbell
directory. all of the text files are > there. On any *nix system the chdir is in effect for the duration of the script that did it, and for any processes spawned by that script. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com

Re: HP LaserJet Pro P1102 stops responding after a while

2011-12-19 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Jeff Tipton To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:10 PM Subject: HP LaserJet Pro P1102 stops responding after a while But what I do find is that my laser printer also goes into sleep mode to save power and life...which is

Re: Legacy releases of freeBSD

2011-12-19 Thread Bill Tillman
I think we understand why you're looking for older versions, there might even be a copy of 3.5 out there somewhere but as I recall the latest version was 3.3 sometime in 2001. I have an old CD around here somewhere with 4.9 but I think others as well would encourage you to use the latest version

Re: booting

2011-12-17 Thread Bill Tillman
  From: Maxime-Etienne de Gier To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 9:04 AM Subject: booting I am really interested in Freebsd or PC-BSD but unfortunately every time when I download an ISO of either of them and try to boot up (fr

Files End Up Read-Only With Samba

2011-12-14 Thread Bill Tillman
I am running FreeBSD-8.2-STABLE-amd64, last update was a few weeks ago. I run Samba-3.6 on this server and it has served me well for my Windows clients to store and share files. All was working fine until recently I've began to notice that whenever I save a file to this server, they always end u

Re: Default Samba port?

2011-11-14 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Robert Simmons To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 10:36 AM Subject: Re: Default Samba port? On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Peter Harrison wrote: > Can anyone advise me the appropriate Samba port to install - the handbo

Re: 8-STABLE And fxp Driver

2011-11-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Tim Daneliuk To: FreeBSD Mailing List Sent: Sunday, November 6, 2011 1:03 PM Subject: 8-STABLE And fxp Driver Is there are known recent problem with the fxp driver and 8-STABLE. I buildworld/kernel every 7-10 days and I have recently begun to see a bu

8.2-STABLE GENERIC kernel will not build

2011-11-06 Thread Bill Tillman
I updated the sources on one of my FreeBSD-8.2-STABLE servers and rebuilt the GENERIC kernel just last night. All went well. This morning I updated the sources on another machine and rebuilt a custom kernel and all went well.   This evening I updated the sources on a 3rd server and the make buildw

Re: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf

2011-11-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Zantgo To: Robert Simmons Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Sent: Sunday, November 6, 2011 12:52 AM Subject: Re: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf El 06-11-2011, a las 1:29, Robert Simmons escribió: > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Zantgo

Re: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want

2011-11-06 Thread Bill Tillman
  From: Ryan Coleman To: Bill Tillman Cc: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2011 9:32 PM Subject: Re: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want So... basically you've just set up servers that utilize the host connection or doesn't

Re: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want

2011-11-05 Thread Bill Tillman
  From: Ryan Coleman To: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 10:22 AM Subject: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want I have a PE 2450 with dual NICs and I want to turn it into a bridging VPN for the guys in the office to utilize. Our configu

Re: Make buildworld don't run

2011-11-02 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Michael Powell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 4:00 PM Subject: Re: Make buildworld don't run Zantgo wrote: > I write "make buildworld", this is the answer: > > #make buildworld > make: don't know how to make build

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Ronald F. Guilmette To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:28 AM Subject: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS This isn't really a question.  It's more of a semi-rant, combined with some information that I wanted to put o

Need to Backup Using Dump

2011-10-23 Thread Bill Tillman
I have two FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE servers running NFS. I have tons of files on Server A that I want to backup to a big drive on Sever B. Server B nfs_mounts one of the filesystems on Server A to /mnt. So if I wanted to make a backup of the filesytem on Server A to Server B I tried: dump -d /home/my

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-23 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Bruce Cran To: Polytropon Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 10:37 AM Subject: Re: Breakin attempt On 22 Oct 2011, at 15:12, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:08:50 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: >> I suspect that th

Re: rsync over nfs or rsync protocol

2011-09-23 Thread Bill Campbell
t. My experience using NFS for this was not good, but it's been many years since I last tried this so I don't remember the details. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (

Re: Please secure your FTP access

2011-09-15 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Sarang. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:43 PM Subject: Please secure your FTP access Oooh! This big bad but ethical hacker is going to erase all the FTP files I'm shaking in my boots. Please Mr. Big Bad, don't hurt us! Now close your c

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Paul Beard To: Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 12:22 PM Subject: Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2 On Aug 28, 2011, at 7:04 AM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > It is especially useful when you cannot ping, as it can tell you if the > packets are

Re: Poll on server attacks

2011-08-14 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Sat, 8/13/11, Alejandro Imass wrote: From: Alejandro Imass Subject: Re: Poll on server attacks To: "FreeBSD" Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011, 7:57 PM On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:43:02 -0400 > Alejandro Imass articulated: > [...] > Persona

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

2011-07-23 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Thu, 7/21/11, Bernt Hansson wrote: From: Bernt Hansson Subject: Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25 To: "ssgriffonuser" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, July 21, 2011, 3:31 AM 2011-07-20 06:24, ssgriffonuser skrev: > I still can't telnet in from an ex

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

2011-07-19 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Robert Bonomi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; ssgriffonu...@gmail.com Sent: Tue, July 19, 2011 12:31:56 PM Subject: Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25 > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:03:58 -0700 > From: ssgriffonuser > Subject: Sendmail no

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Bill Tillman
From: "per...@pluto.rain.com" To: jri...@gmail.com; cbergst...@pathscale.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, July 18, 2011 9:05:47 AM Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore Joshua Isom wrote: > On 7/17/2011 6:16 PM, Mario Lobo w

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Aryeh Friedman To: FreeBSD Mailing List Sent: Sat, July 16, 2011 10:40:19 PM Subject: how to force a hard reboot remotely Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? _

Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect

2011-07-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Michael Sierchio To: Dan Nelson Cc: Bill Tillman ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, July 12, 2011 6:35:19 PM Subject: Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect We're not talking about natd.  The question was about the use of ipfirewal

Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect

2011-07-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Dan Nelson To: Michael Sierchio Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, July 11, 2011 1:07:31 PM Subject: Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect In the last episode (Jul 11), Michael Sierchio said: > Sorry for the naive question, but most of

Is there a

2011-07-04 Thread Bill Varney
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Re: cvs vs. DVD

2011-06-27 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Lars Eighner To: wayne mitchell Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Sent: Sun, June 26, 2011 3:57:50 PM Subject: Re: cvs vs. DVD On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, wayne mitchell wrote: > hey, > be warned, you are dealing with a  'newbie' Be warned, I don't know the offici

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-23 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Sent: Wed, June 22, 2011 11:26:30 PM Subject: Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD? Hey guys.this thread is really starting to stink. Take it outside. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:08:59PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > On Jun 2

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-19 Thread Bill Tillman
Wow. this thread really took a turn for the worse. So getting back to the main topic about SIP phones, I have been using SIP phones since 2006 and I never found anything that worked under FreeBSD. Mainly for this reason and this reason seems to mirror where this thread went off topic. While I

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-15 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Chuck Swiger To: Gary Kline Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Sent: Wed, June 15, 2011 4:04:23 PM Subject: Re: how do i fsck my server? On Jun 15, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > can anybody clue me in on why fsck on my server [yes, of course as root] >

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Chuck Swiger To: Polytropon Cc: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 2:43:16 PM Subject: Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg I stand corrected. Tab Window Manager it iseither way, I use it because it's just plain simple and I d

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Daniel Staal To: John or Judy Hixson ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Fri, June 10, 2011 8:24:23 PM Subject: Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg --As of June 10, 2011 4:26:27 PM -0700, John or Judy Hixson is alleged to have said: > I'm hav

Re: ftp installation

2011-06-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Daniel Feenberg To: Robert Simmons Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sat, June 11, 2011 8:50:48 PM Subject: Re: ftp installation On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: >> >> I have

Re: copying hard drives

2011-06-10 Thread Bill Tillman
From: David Banning To: questi...@freebsd.org Sent: Fri, June 10, 2011 3:11:46 PM Subject: copying hard drives I am interested in copying hard drives and would like some feedback. 1. I would like a way to take peoples windows -or- unix systems and store each o

Re: Long Day's Journey into

2011-06-09 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Sent: Wed, June 8, 2011 8:56:59 PM Subject: Long Day's Journey into Well, people, It's been a long, long century.  I've been down for 5 days. Couldn't understand _why_ I couldn't ping anywhere [expect the Server

OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-11 Thread Bill Tillman
Thanks again for all the great tips on OpenVPN setup. I think its about ready for real deployment but I have a couple of more questions. My OpenVPN server (10.0.0.254) is inside my LAN behind another FreeBSD router/gateway (10.0.0.253) which is running IPFW+NATD and handles the LAN's connection

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-11 Thread Bill Tillman
  From: Kevin Wilcox To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, May 11, 2011 9:28:08 AM Subject: Re: OpenVPN Setup On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:11, Bill Tillman wrote: > 2. I have my OpenVPN process running on my FreeBSD server and wish

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-11 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Kevin Wilcox To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, May 11, 2011 9:28:08 AM Subject: Re: OpenVPN Setup On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:11, Bill Tillman wrote: > 2. I have my OpenVPN process running on my FreeBSD server and wish

OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-11 Thread Bill Tillman
Thanks to everyone for the replies yesterday on OpenVPN. I'd like to report a few interesting things: 1. In doing some google searches on this last night, believe it or not some of the search results were the exact questions I asked in this group, only yesterday afternoon. And this was while I

Re: start X in background without it taking over the console?

2011-05-11 Thread Bill Tillman
From: CyberLeo Kitsana To: Chris Telting Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, May 11, 2011 7:07:01 AM Subject: Re: start X in background without it taking over the console? On 05/11/2011 05:36 AM, Chris Telting wrote: > I already do... I'm want to au

Re: Fw: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Kevin Wilcox To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 7:42:21 PM Subject: Re: Fw: OpenVPN Setup On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 19:19, Bill Tillman wrote: > OK I know I saw this somewhere but it eludes me now. I h

Fw: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Chuck Swiger To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 6:39:48 PM Subject: Re: OpenVPN Setup   OK I know I saw this somewhere but it eludes me now. I have generated the keys and certificates for the server and client

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Tillman
nimum. From: Chuck Swiger To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 6:02:13 PM Subject: Re: OpenVPN Setup On May 10, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: >> OpenVPN's site provides fine documentation: >> >> 

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Tillman
. From: Chuck Swiger To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 6:02:13 PM Subject: Re: OpenVPN Setup On May 10, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: >> OpenVPN's site provides fine documentation: >> >&

Fw: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Tillman
  From: Chuck Swiger To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 4:14:34 PM Subject: Re: OpenVPN Setup On May 10, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > I have a FreeBSD-8.2-STABLE server running OpenVPN. What I'm tryi

OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Tillman
I have a FreeBSD-8.2-STABLE server running OpenVPN. What I'm trying to do is to be able to access my LAN with my M$ Windows laptop using a M$ compatible client. I read the manpage and it basically sets forth examples in which there will be two (2) OpenVPN servers. In my case I will only have on

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Janos Dohanics To: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 1:06:31 AM Subject: Re: Newbie Needing Help On Sun, 8 May 2011 17:17:48 -0700 John or Judy Hixson wrote: > [...] > Another problem that's throwing me for a loop is that even though I'm > logge

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-07 Thread Bill Tillman
uot;This is the only way we know how and we've done it like this for so long, we don't want to change." IMHO...Faxing is so last century. From: David Brodbeck To: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Fri, May 6, 2011 1:30:58 PM Subject: Re: Sending a Fax O

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Doug Hardie To: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 10:21:29 PM Subject: Sending a Fax One of my clients needs to send a lot of faxes.  He has a Brother 8680DN which will fax.  Any ideas how to send a file to it and get it to send a fax?  I am not f

Re: Home firewall with DLink router & FreeBSD

2011-05-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Leonardo M. Ramé To: questi...@freebsd.org Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 3:44:36 PM Subject: Home firewall with DLink router & FreeBSD The short answer is a definite yes, but you will need two NIC's in the FreeBSD server. I have a FreeBSD server which runs disk

Re: Home firewall with DLink router & FreeBSD

2011-05-06 Thread Bill Tillman
Please excuse me. I typed my reply below all the existing text but somehow it ended up being formatted into the middle of this one. Can someone give me the tip for insuring I don't top post and that my reply ends up at the bottom of the e-mail? From:

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-05 Thread Bill Campbell
em is supported; > >Thanks. As best as I can tell the Brother unit has a modem built it, but >the only interface to it is via ethernet. I suspect it takes a PDF and >then sends that, much like printing. I've found that the Multitech external modems have been the most reliable

Re: OT: Security question (openssl vs openssh)

2011-05-03 Thread Bill Campbell
a laptop is lost or stolen or on employee termination. It also isolates the web service from other external attacks via insecure PHP scripts and such. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice:

Re: console based sound control

2011-04-03 Thread Bill Tillman
I use audacity but that is a sound editor and may not be what you're looking for. From: Alokat To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sun, April 3, 2011 9:59:57 AM Subject: console based sound control Hi, I'm looking for a sound control tool (like alsamixer)

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

2011-02-23 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Polytropon To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 4:41:02 PM Subject: Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address? On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:32:03 -0800 (PST), Bill Tillman wrote: > The only problem w

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

2011-02-23 Thread Bill Tillman
The only problem with this is that unlike 10 years ago, today almost all ISP's block anything coming down port 25 unless you have an account that allows your e-mail server to work. And they of course charge for this. I used to enjoy my own private e-mail server but these days if the ISP's don't

Re: android

2011-02-14 Thread Bill Tillman
I haven't mounted my Android yet on my FreeBSD servers but I would think the advice below of mounting it like a MSDOS thumb drive would be correct. I would also think you'd need to use the "longname" switch as well on your command line. Otherwise you'll be stuck with the old 8.3 filename format

Re: OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
ee any large changes to it released until they've been in testing for months, if not years. For all we know, these speed improvements are riddled with dozens of security flaws. Also, any reason why you're asking these questions of FreeB

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Bill Campbell
ometime in the 2nd quarter of 2010. For that reason, I will be looking at other hardware vendors the next time I'm in the market for a scanner. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer

Re: Jon Radel (sorry no other way to do this)

2011-01-24 Thread Bill Moran
're simply cryptographically signed. Don't know what your MUA thinks it's doing, but it's doing wrong by you. If you can find a setting to frob to get your MUA to display at text instead of thinking so hard, you'll be able to read

Re: File Listing

2011-01-10 Thread Bill Moran
complete listing, assuming you have permissions to all the directories. You can add other options if you want to change the formatting of the output. You can also do 'find /', the output of which may be more appealing, depending on what you're trying to accomplish. -- Bill Moran h

Re: freebsd and

2011-01-05 Thread Bill Moran
ty concerns. b) Use something other than /etc/passwd authentication -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: MySQL 5.5.7->5.5.8 instructions seem scary

2010-12-29 Thread Bill Moran
r you to run it, then keep off. > Otherwise backup your DB and follow the instructions:-) Better yet, make a jail, install the version of MySQL you're currently using and copy your data over, then practice upgrading in the jail. Once you have the procedure figured

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