5.3 random reboot problems

2005-01-18 Thread Bsd Neophyte
I've been having an issue with a Compaq Proliant DL580. For some odd reason it randomly reboots. This usually happens when I leave it on for more than two days. I'd like to find out when it reboots first of all, and second, obviously, I'd like to find out why, and prevent it from doing so. The

compaq proliant dl580 w/5.3 - random reboots

2005-01-10 Thread Bsd Neophyte
hi, I've been having an issue with a Compaq Proliant DL580. For some odd reason it randomly reboots. This usually happens when I leave it on for more than two days. I'd like to find out when it reboots first of all, and second, obviously, I'd like to find out why, and prevent it from doing so.

i'm having a problem making tightvnc 1.2.9 from the ports

2004-02-25 Thread bsd neophyte
i'm trying to make tightvnc 1.2.9 from through the ports. i have v.5.2 (unupdated) on a Sparc64 platform. i constantly run into the following problem: - rm -f bitmaputil.o cc -c -O -pipe -ansi -pedantic -Dasm=__asm -I../../.././/include/fonts -I../inc lude -I../../.././ -I../../../.

issue with building intltool-0.30

2004-02-22 Thread bsd neophyte
i was trying to make mozilla from the ports, when i noticed it was taking much longer than it should. in this case it would be 2 days straight (while this machine isn't a newer machine, it's a 360mhz sparc64... it shouldn't be THIS slow). i noticed what was happening was a constant looping of th

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2003-09-11 Thread Bsd Neophyte
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cvsup syntax questions... and what's the difference between branch and release tags?

2003-09-11 Thread Bsd Neophyte
can someone take a look at my cvsupfile and see if it's alright: --- *default host=cvsup10.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default tag=RELENG_5_1 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all tag=RELENG_5_1_0_RELEASE # added manually... collect

Re: having problems with getting two interfaces running on FreeBSD5.1

2003-08-27 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > i'm having issues with getting both interfaces up and running. > [ ... ] > > #Network settings > > defaultrouter="192.168.1.254" > > hostname="neptune.adelphia.net" &

having problems with getting two interfaces running on FreeBSD 5.1

2003-08-26 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i have two NICs in my FreeBSD 5.1 box. the idea was to have the box run as a proxy server down the line... possibly an IDS as well. i'm having issues with getting both interfaces up and running. here's the output with "ifconfig -a": fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.244 netmask 0

Re: cvsup problems

2003-08-26 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...snip... > > there's nothing going on with my ISP that is causing this. is there > > any possiblility that something is wrong with the system itself? > > every single server i try i get the "TreeList failed: Network write > > failure: Connection clos

Re: cvsup problems

2003-08-22 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Bsd Neophyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:09:42PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > > > > I get different error messages. Here's some output of what's going &

Re: cvsup problems

2003-08-22 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:09:42PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > > I get different error messages. Here's some output of what's going on > now > > (the first error is VERY common): > > This is a ne

cvsup problems

2003-08-21 Thread Bsd Neophyte
I've done a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.8 on my Dual p3-700 box. I've been having a lot of problems, which i'll outline progressively. However, at the moment, I'm having some issues with cvsup. I've been trying to update my ports and sources and I keep running into problems. I've deleted the ent

Re: FreeBSD as router - performance vs hardware routers

2003-08-21 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- "J. Seth Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First, and I know this is off-topic, is anyone here happy with their > router enough to recommend it? I'd prefer to go with a hardware router, > but I prize reliability and stability apparently higher than the current > crop of manufacturers. Eve

having errors when doing a "make buildworld"

2003-08-14 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i'm getting "Error code 1's" i've cleared my /usr/obj as well as done a "make cleandir" twice under /usr/src. i've booted into single usermode. this is what happens. /sr/libexec/elf/ld: /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc1../cc_int/libcc_int.a(toplev.o)(.data+0x1cec): re

can't connect to the network

2003-07-31 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i'm running FreeBSD 4.8 on one of my machines. i'm having a really frustrating problem. i cannot connec to anything outside of the interface. i've quarduple checked that the NIC is assigned an address with the same subnet as my network. i can ping the ip address on the NIC, but i can't ping any

rebuilding the MBR

2003-04-02 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i posted a message earlier, unfortunately, i received no responses. so i guess i'll ask a different question. i've moved my HD from one system to another. is it possible to rebuild the MBR? i'm booting from a promise controller. initially i was booting from the primary controller but now i'm b

boot problem...

2003-03-31 Thread Bsd Neophyte
hardware on my first FreeBSD server has crashed. i was planning on swapping the HD into another machine, booting the generic kernel and then custom tailoring it to the new machine specs. however, i'm having a problem. the new machine is using a promise ultra100 card. i don't have any issues wit

hardware compatiblity list and upgrading

2003-03-12 Thread Bsd Neophyte
alright my bookpc that has served me nicely for over a year now has gone to hell. i've had a Dual P3-700e on an Asus P2B-LS. unfortunately, this MB doesn't have anything beyond an ata33. the drive I have is an ata100 drive. i'm sure as a PDC/NTP/DNS server, this is more than aqequate, but i'm a

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-06 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > True ... I don't know if memtest is better/worse/equal to burnMMX or > not. I've just always used both for testing. One thing about memory > glitches, they try very hard not to occur when you're looking for > them! murphy's law appears at the worst po

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>burnP6 and burnMX have been running all night > >> > >>342:16 49.17% 49.17% burnBX > >>340:52 48.10% 48.10% burnP6 > >> > >>and there are no problems so far. > > Have you tried running memtest for equal lengths of time? memtest doesn't seem to exist

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-04 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Tuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > please if anyone can help me resolve this... i can't stand having this > > extremely unstable server. it's causing all sorts of problems on the > > network. > > > I feel for you. I too am having it. Most of the time it does it > while I'm not aro

still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-04 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i've upgraded the kernel as well as the system from 4.7 to 4.8rc3. however, i'm still getting the same issues. my system will randomly reboot when i'm doing anything from changing a directory to ftp-ing. i cracked the case, cleaned out all the dust thinking that the cooling was an issue. i've r

disallowing the user/pass login method for a key system?

2003-03-02 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i finally got my key-pair system working... sort of a makeshift eToken system. however, i only want to allow this sytem for system access. i don't want to allow for the standard user/pass authentication system. right now i changed the following: # To disable tunneled clear text passwords, chan

RE: problems with SSH/DSA authentication

2003-03-01 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Ronald Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Permissions. Start there by issuing the command chmod -R 0600 > . i've done this. > Also, how is your key pasted into authorized_keys2? If you did the key > block, I have had some trouble in the past getting that to work. So take > the > public key

problems with SSH/DSA authentication

2003-02-27 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i want to get a makeshift eToken system working. i use putty to access my freebsd machine. i also used puttygen to create a DSA keypair. i coped the public key onto ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 and the private on to the usb flash device under id_dsa. when i point putty to the private keypair, i get

Re: potential bug when creating ssh keypairs?

2003-02-26 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing to note is that the generation of this key is an extremely > CPU intensive operation. That may imply something..(too overclocked a > CPU..?). > > -- > Regards >Cliff Sarginson >The Netherlands hmmm... but would this tax a 633mh

potential bug when creating ssh keypairs?

2003-02-26 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i put forward a message on this before, but i received no replies. i wanted to know if this was a bug and where to report it. whenever, and only when, i try to create an ssh keypair, the system reboots. this happens 4/5 times. if someone can help me out on this, i'd appreciate it. _

Re: why does 'ssh-keygen -t dsa' cause a system reboot?

2003-02-21 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Lee Harr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Every time? > first, i mistyped, sorry... (cut and pasted the wrong thing)... i run 'ssh-keygen -t dsa' and this doesn't happen all the time. it happens about half the time i try generating a keypair. > How about when you do a long compile? (build

why does 'ssh-keygen -t dsa' cause a system reboot?

2003-02-20 Thread Bsd Neophyte
while trying to get this key-pair authentication system going, i noticed something pretty strange. for some reason when i run 'ssh-keygen -t rsa' my system reboots. is there any reason that this is happening? how can i prevent this from occuring?

how do i enable an RSA keypair? (already read handbook)

2003-02-19 Thread Bsd Neophyte
I followed the directions under 10.10.6, but nothing seems to have happened. When I try logging in, nothing has changed. I still login using my username/password combination. I've already created the keyparis, but why isn't this working? What I'm looking to do is to put the pub keypair on my

Re: OpenSSH security hole on FreeBSD?

2003-02-11 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- BSD baby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #2 - It only requires I type the first 8 characters > of my password! (I use 16-character password.) check out this URL: http://sddi.net/FBSDSecCheckList.html it guides you how to change the password type to blowfish that allows for more than 8 cha

having syslog log certain results to a mysql database

2003-02-10 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i just finished setting up snort to run along with acid and mysql. if followed the tutorial on snort.org. while the tutorial wasn't too bad, it left a great deal out, and it was a pain to get things working. i now have a thought. i have my firewall sending output to my syslog. i would like to

how to you intiate a passive ftp when you are building packages?

2003-02-09 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i'm behind a double firewall of sorts. so i have an issue with ftp'ing anything. how do you initiate a passive ftp transfer when you are retrieving files while trying to build a package from ports? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Aff

Re: snort installation issues

2003-02-05 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Stephen Cravey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, you should probably be using snort 1.9.0. Read the handbook > section > on cvsup to learn how to update your ports collection. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html > > > Second, the file you're looking fo

snort installation issues

2003-02-04 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i'm following the, "How to setup and secure Snort, MySQL and Acid on FreeBSD 4.6 Release" off of the snort.org website. in the documentation it says snort should be installed through the following: - make -DWITH_MYSQL -DWITH_FLEXRESP ; make install - later it says to do the followi

Re: errors in 'make buildworld'

2003-01-29 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you retry it with newer sources? the sources are updated every night. the problem is this... my putty session times out after a certain amount of time. how can i prevent this? __ Do you Yahoo!?

Re: errors in 'make buildworld'

2003-01-28 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Ian Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you rebuilding your kernel, why are you typing make buildworld? for a > kernel recompile you should type: make depend, make, and make install > (and > make clean), but not make buildworld. much earlier, i was having some questions about building a ne

errors in 'make buildworld'

2003-01-28 Thread Bsd Neophyte
I'm getting the following error in the "make buildworld" portion of rebuilding my kernel: mkdep -f .depend -a /usr/src/usr.bin/jot/jot.c echo jot: /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/lib/libc.a >> .depend ===> usr.bin/kdump sh /usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/mkioctls /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/includ

still having syslog problems

2003-01-21 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i'm having huge problems with localizing the messages sent to my FreeBSD box by my router and my firewall appliance. all the messages seem to be congregating in /var/log/messages, when i don't want them to. i'm thinking that, the following might be an issue. *.err;kern.debug;auth.noti

Re: how do i log another device to syslog?

2003-01-16 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Stijn Hoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try the above and let me know, it will be helpful for me as well :) > > BTW, for testing, check out logger(1) -- you can use it to send test > messages to syslogd (and thus across the network). > > --Stijn okay... i tried it. when i re-ran syslogd i w

Re: how do i log another device to syslog?

2003-01-16 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Stijn Hoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See 'man syslog.conf'. You need to edit /etc/syslog.conf to tell syslogd > to route all messages from a host to separate files. They will appear > in /var/log, just like your 'regular' logs from syslog (ie > /var/log/messages, > /var/log/security etc). i

Re: how do i log another device to syslog?

2003-01-15 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Stijn Hoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > syslogd_flags="-a 1.2.3.4/32" in /etc/rc.conf should work according to > the manpage. > > Maybe even syslogd_flags="" is enough, but by default syslogd_flags > is "-s" which doesn't allow peer logging. > > See /etc/defaults/rc.conf and man syslogd. i'

how do i log another device to syslog?

2003-01-15 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i finally was able to get configuration on my Cisco 806 to allow for a hole though my reflexive access lists. anwyays, that's not really important now. what i need to know is how i enable syslog to log messages from my sonicwall security appliance? the sonicawall is set to communicate with a sy

how do i setup my FreeBSD box to act like an RARP server?

2003-01-11 Thread Bsd Neophyte
unfortunately, there is no FreeBSD port for the Sparc32 machines, so I'm stuck with using NetBSD. since, i've been having problems with booting from CD, i am going to try to install the OS by using TFTP. in order for my to do this though, i need to be able to have my FreeBSD box act as an RARP s

mail problems

2003-01-09 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i've setup my webramp700s to send logs to my freebsd machine daily. however, it says that it cannot send the mail. i really don't know much about sendmail, but these two processes are running: root 85 0.0 0.3 2884 1592 ?? Ss 22Oct02 9:05.25 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmai

has anyone used Cylant's CylantSecure?

2003-01-09 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i was reading a thread where someone recommeded this product as an "intrusion prevention" device. does anyone have any experience? they have something that was targeted towards FreeBSD 4.5, will there be any problems integrating this with 4.7? __

utility that measure electricty usage?

2003-01-04 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i know there is something you can put on the socket to measure how much current is being drawn... but i was wondering if there was some utility that i could install on my server to measure the power usage for the server? i'd like to make a chart to see if this device is really impacting the elect

is it possible to have an open relay if using squirrel mail to serve about 20 email accounts?

2002-12-16 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i am planning on have a subdomain, mail.mydomain.net, to allow web-based email for family and some friends. someone mentioned how an email box setup imporperly can cause all sorts of problems. i want to know if i make my freebsd box an email-based mail server, if the open relay problems will car

Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-14 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BTW, I don't know if your switch is configured for cut-through > > switching or store-and-forward. If it is set for store-and-forward, > > I'd suggest you change it to cut-through. > > I don't care. We're looking at a difference of 200 µs he

named.conf - what is "forwarders"

2002-12-14 Thread Bsd Neophyte
this is what the comment says... // If you've got a DNS server around at your upstream provider, enter // its IP address here, and enable the line below. This will make you // benefit from its cache, thus reduce overall DNS traffic in the Internet. /* forwarders

Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-14 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure you meant to write what you did, but I'm not 100% I > understand. But yes, latency isn't an issue. Even if it is, switches > still win. My point is that generic switches are not faster than hubs, because of the added latency asso

hosting more than one website on a cable connection (DHCP)... and using BIND

2002-12-11 Thread Bsd Neophyte
Alright, this is what I want to do... I have a cable connection that uses DHCP, giving me a lease for about 2 minutes. Usually the address stays the same, but at times it does change. I want to host two domain names to start. I also would like to have the possiblity to host more. I will hav

Re: how to use an etoken? (ignore first post)

2002-12-04 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Marc Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > if you mean the eToken from www.eladdin.com -> no, there is no device > drivers for them yet build. > > I mailed to them and asked them if they had plans to port the software > to FreeBSD/*NIX or let some help them with it. > > They answere

how to use an etoken? (ignore first post)

2002-12-04 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i accidently hit the enter key which sent that message forward. i appologize for that. i wanted to know if it was possible to purchase one of those usb memory devices and use it as an etoken by copying the public key onto it... there is one thing though... i don't want passwordless access. i w

how to use an etoken

2002-12-04 Thread Bsd Neophyte
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Doom as a tool for system administration (unique to say the least)

2002-12-03 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i thought this was pretty interesting and i figured i'd share it... Doom as a tool for system administration http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.c

physically mounting a FreeBSD drive on a WinXP box

2002-12-01 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i don't know if posting this question is relavant to this group... but i was wondering if it was possible to physically mount a former FreeBSD disk on a winxp box. i know someone would suggest that i mount the drive on the FreeBSD box and get the files i need that way... however, this is not an e

does FreeBSD have something like OpenBSD's transparent bridge firewall

2002-11-26 Thread Bsd Neophyte
I was reading a bit about this and it seems pretty sweet. Does FreeBSD have anything like this? And how do the two compare? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail

what can i use to record my Sonicawall's logs?

2002-11-22 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i'm looking for a simple to use and simple to configure tool that will record my sonicawall soho's log messages. anyone have any recommendations? i rather not have something overwhelming though. it should be simple to configure and understand and operate. __

converting passwords to blowfish

2002-11-17 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i've been running through some tutorials on how to convert the passwords from md5 to blowfish. there's mention of the following to actually do the conversion: cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf however, i don't see the conversion. the tutorial mentions that the password should start with $2$, but they

Re: where to get "pkg_tarup"

2002-11-17 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Afaik it has been removed from the ports tree. They use pkg_create now. okay, what do i do now? portupgrade depends on this package. -Sameer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your s

where to get "pkg_tarup"

2002-11-17 Thread Bsd Neophyte
I'm having problems with my system because of this file. Where do I get it? I've looked in the ports. I thought it was in /ports/misc but then i read it was in /ports/sysutils. However, I can't find it in either location. My refuse file doesn't include anything that would exclude it from the

"portupgrade -a" and errors with backing up packages... is it going to be a problem?

2002-11-16 Thread Bsd Neophyte
I ran portupgrade with the -a option and everything seems to have run w/o incident. however, in the end, I got the following notices: - (snip) ---> Backing up the old version env: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_tarup: No such file or directory ** Backup failed. (snip) --->

good utility to log the SNMP messages output by my linksys router (BEFSR41)

2002-10-30 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i have one on my XP system... but the system isn't on all the time. i want something that will generate a log of all the messages output by my BEFSR41. i've looked under the ports, but i wasn't able to find anything... then again, i suppose using "make search name=BEFSR41" or "make search name=l

problems w/ trying to telnet to my cisco router by tunneling through ssh

2002-10-26 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i was looking at the handbook section on ssh tunneling. to try it out i figured i'd try to connect to my 806. i entered the following command: ssh -2 -N -f -L 5023:localhost:23 (router's ip address) and I received this error message: ssh: connect to address (router's ip address) port 22: Conn

Re: squirrel mail install-from-ports problem....

2002-10-25 Thread Bsd Neophyte
okay... i uninstalled apache... so now what would be the steps i should take to reinstall it and not have the squirrel mail problem? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to

squirrel mail install-from-ports problem....

2002-10-24 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i'm getting the following error and it says that this should be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but before i do that, i wanted some input to see if i could resolve this issue in a relatively simply way. is this an issue with how i installed apache... should i reinstall if with the "--with-apxs2" op

Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2002-10-24 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Derrick Ryalls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't want to start a Linux/FreeBSD flamewar, but I do need some info > > I have an associate who will be making major changes to their network > and want my help/advice. He intends to have a something like this: > >

Re: made a mistake with bash path... now i can't login

2002-10-21 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Morten Grunnet Buhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have local access to the machine? if so cant you just log in as > root? Or have I misunderstood this question completely? no you have it right... this is an option, although i'd like to keep it a last option... disconnecing the machine an

Re: made a mistake with bash path... now i can't login

2002-10-21 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- "DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have a passwd for "toor"? > > KDK no... i don't... as for the -m option... i tried it but it doesn't work. -m Leave the environment unmodified. The invoked shell is your login shell, and no director

made a mistake with bash path... now i can't login

2002-10-21 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i was changing the login shell from sh to bash... but i entered the wrong location. now, i cannot login to the system using that account, which is the only accout that i can su to root from. does anyone know how i can resolve this issue w/o taking the system out of the garage, booting into singl

Re: FreeBSD version of Linux's "passwd -l"

2002-10-19 Thread Bsd Neophyte
e: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 08:17:53AM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > > > i'm following a pretty decent IBM tutorial on how to setup a samba > PDC. > > in the tutorial the following command is mentioned: > > > > passwd -l > > pw lock [user] >

FreeBSD version of Linux's "passwd -l"

2002-10-19 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i'm following a pretty decent IBM tutorial on how to setup a samba PDC. in the tutorial the following command is mentioned: passwd -l this is what someone pulled from the RedHat man page for the '-l' option in RedHat: -l This option is used to lock the specified account

Re: apache install problems w/expat

2002-10-18 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...snip...> > Well, does library expat.4 actually exist? If not, then what version > is the expat2 port installing? Assuming that expat2 installs a newer > version of the library, you might be able to simply create a link named > expat.4 and poin

Re: apache install problems w/expat

2002-10-18 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:01:09PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > > > i have problems installing apache. > > > > i'm getting the following errors eventhough i have expat-1.95.4 > installed. > > &g

apache install problems w/expat

2002-10-18 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i have problems installing apache. i'm getting the following errors eventhough i have expat-1.95.4 installed. -- ===> Installing for expat-1.95.4 ===> expat-1.95.4 is already installed - perhaps an older version? If so, you may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install thi

Re: f-prot's free anti-virus utility for FreeBSD

2002-09-28 Thread Bsd Neophyte
sure thing... http://www.f-prot.com/download/getfpfreebsd.html --- Fuzzy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > > > > has anyone had any experience with this product? they say it's free > for > > home users. >

f-prot's free anti-virus utility for FreeBSD

2002-09-28 Thread Bsd Neophyte
has anyone had any experience with this product? they say it's free for home users. is it good... is it bad? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: what is the freebsd version for "useradd -M"?

2002-09-18 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Jim Durham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'pw' has different arguments based on the first argument. If you say > 'pw useradd' then "-M" is not valid. You'll see this if you carefully > read the man page. i have, this is why i noted that there was no "-M" option for the "useradd" argument under

what is the freebsd version for "useradd -M"?

2002-09-17 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i'm setting up samba on my FreeBSD box. the goal is to make it a PDC. i'm following the directions from "Samba Unleased" by SAMS. in the instructions, there's mention that each machine needs to have a user account on the server. it gives the following command to setup a machine account: user

Re: long pause when SSH'ing to FreeBSD server

2002-09-17 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. the login prompt to come up > > 2. the password prompt to come up after i type in the username > > 3. the connection to be established after i enter the password > > > > can anyone let me know how i can aleviate this pause problem? > > It's al

long pause when SSH'ing to FreeBSD server

2002-09-17 Thread Bsd Neophyte
this happens intermittantly. i don't know why, but when i connect to my FreeBSD box using putty, there is an extremely long pause for the following: 1. the login prompt to come up 2. the password prompt to come up after i type in the username 3. the connection to be established after i enter th