Re: Root powerless?

2005-11-20 Thread Brooke Landers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# id uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 5(operator) you should have uid=0 hello Richard. thank you for the help. heres what i get srv-0021# id uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 5(operator) /etc/passwd and group look normal too. everything else is running ok

Root powerless?

2005-11-20 Thread Brooke Landers
i have a very strange problem with a freebsd server running 5.3-RELEASE with apache and mysql. something has happened to root. it does not make sense to me since nothing has changed that i am aware of. any idea at all would be very hepful. the output below show what is happening. i included the

Re: Freebsd and nagios-plugins

2005-11-16 Thread Brooke Landers
If not, change your options for the port by: # cd /usr/ports/net/nagios-plugins; make config including the net-snmp option, and reinstall nagios-plugins. spot on. thank you so much Lowell _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the n

Freebsd and nagios-plugins

2005-11-15 Thread Brooke Landers
hello.I'm having problems finding the nagios plugin check_hpjd. A person of the nagios mailing list told me that it might not be inculded because it needs net-snmp. | | check_hpjd: | - Requires the NET-SNMP package available from | http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net | The

RE: Configuring default 6.0 install to send mail

2005-11-09 Thread Brooke Landers
Check out section 22.8 of the Handbook regarding ssmtp. -gayn Thanks very much Gary and Gayn for your help. I will go with ssmtp. Not that I have anything against Sendmail.. ;) BL _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolba

Configuring default 6.0 install to send mail

2005-11-09 Thread Brooke Landers
Hello list. I am learning FreeBSD and I'd like to know how to configure Sendmail to simply forward mail although it seems it's doing this by default. I can send mail, but it's being rejected since mylocalhost.mydomain.com doesn't resolve. I'm using internal hosts that will never have DNS entrie