Re: modem not responding to mgetty

2005-01-05 Thread Charles Ulrich
carefully in order to tell. You may even have to jot down the model numbers and research them at home before making the purchase. Even better, buy an external modem that connects to your serial port. (That's 9-pin serial, not USB.) These are always hardware modems, are a lot easier to debug than

Re: Decent partition editor

2004-12-30 Thread Charles Ulrich
is that it requires its own special tools. Whenever I need to create or modify FreeBSD partitions and labels, I just boot an installation CD and use the fdisk and label utilities. -- Charles Ulrich Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com ___ fre

Re: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?

2004-12-15 Thread Charles Ulrich
ince the other part (kernel or world) > was built. Looking at CVS, you don't see much > completely idle time. And, unless you are aware > of every bit of code that might have changed, it's > impossible (for me, Joe Average) to know what might > break

Re: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?

2004-12-13 Thread Charles Ulrich
7;ve been doing the opposite on some of my machines which run stable releases of FreeBSD. Is it relatively safe to build and install a slightly newer world without rebuilding the kernel? -- Charles Ulrich Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com ___

Re: Answers: Keeping FreeBSD Up-To-Date

2004-12-02 Thread Charles Ulrich
ooks like an excellent guide, and would be especially useful for those new to FreeBSD. I'll keep it bookmarked for sure. One possible addition could be a section on keeping the ports tree current. -- Charles Ulrich Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com __

Re: blacklisting failed ssh attempts

2004-12-02 Thread Charles Ulrich
ly should it stop working. It's looking like I might just put ssh on a non-standard port and think about an IDS if there these kind of attacks continue. -- Charles Ulrich Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

blacklisting failed ssh attempts

2004-12-01 Thread Charles Ulrich
period) after a certain number of failed login attempts via ssh? I could change the port that sshd listens on, but I'd rather find a better solution, one that isn't just another layer of obscurity. Thanks! -- Charles Ulrich Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.i

Re: simple router ?

2004-11-30 Thread Charles Ulrich
ck out m0n0wall, a FreeBSD-based firewall that's been stripped down and rebuilt for the singular purpose of routing packets. http://m0n0.ch/wall/ There's also IPCop, if you're willing to try a Linux-based solution. http://www.ipcop.org -- Cha

Re: FW: FreeBSD donation (sponsorship)

2004-11-18 Thread Charles Ulrich
or, improving documentation, offering donations, funding subprojects, or paying someone to work full time on FreeBSD. Don't ridicule companies who want to help our community. -- Charles Ulrich Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com ___ [EMAIL PRO

Re: looks like script kiddie tried to get me

2004-11-17 Thread Charles Ulrich
keep your server patched and remain diligent. Another person recommended contacting the abuse department of the ISP. That couldn't hurt if you consider it worth your time. -- Charles Ulrich Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com ___ [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: OSS sound driver doesnt work

2004-10-15 Thread Charles Ulrich
interfaces than xmms. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Daily reboots...

2004-10-14 Thread Charles Ulrich
; Steve I had a similar problem on 4.10 awhile back. After checking and rechecking the hardware and swapping out power supplies, I noticed that the reboots rougly coincided with heavy outgoing Samba traffic. I upgraded to 5.2.1 and haven't had a problem since. -- Charles

Re: Floppy drive is going nuts

2004-10-08 Thread Charles Ulrich
r even a different OS such as Knoppix or (heaven forbid) DOS. If you still have problems after all this, the most likely explanation is that some portion of your motherboard went bad. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com

Re: Using fetch in http server that requires authentication

2004-10-05 Thread Charles Ulrich
meone evil might know you by name :) This may depend on your shell, but you could also escape the whole thing at once with quotes on each end: fetch 'http://renem:mhall[;[EMAIL PROTECTED]/file.txt' This is often easier and less to type if there are more than 2 characters to be escap

Re: X.org performance?

2004-09-20 Thread Charles Ulrich
Benjamin Walkenhorst said: > Especially using AcroRead burns cycles without end. This has always been the case for me with the Unix version of Acrobat Reader, regardless of what X server it's running on or even the OS. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solutio

Re: Hard drive encryption

2004-09-17 Thread Charles Ulrich
ption has nothing to do with allowing/disallowing access to the system, only its data. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Vim on SMB share

2004-09-09 Thread Charles Ulrich
smbfs has had little attention lately and doesn't like the changes that have been made to Samba since 2.x. Alternatively, some of the recent patches to 5.2.1 may have had some positive effect on the client's smbfs. Wish I could be more specifi

Re: slightly OT - journal or project tracking app query

2004-08-30 Thread Charles Ulrich
ys I use a wiki hosted on internal network for all of my documentation. Extremely easy to use and you can organize it much better than a flat text file or even a journal. There are quite a few wikis in ports. I use MoinMoin, but I want to switch to something more lightweight but with similar syntax.

Re: editing the rc.conf

2004-08-27 Thread Charles Ulrich
Except that the man page for ifconfig will tell you nothing about the correctness of your entries in rc.conf. For that you have to reboot. Most of us here can glance at them and say yea or nay, but most new users can't. And the ifconfig man page is not really newbie material either. Ch

Re: Postfix thinks there isn't enough disk space in a jail

2004-08-27 Thread Charles Ulrich
ime but I can say with 100% certainty that this issue prevented a jailed Postfix from accepting any incoming messages at all and was a showstopper for many people. Just Google for "postfix jail" and you should find information on it. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ide

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Charles Ulrich
of us have been trained to never monkey with files in /etc except a few. Also, typing 'crontab -e' is extremely simple when all you have to do is run a single command. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com __

Re: Postfix thinks there isn't enough disk space in a jail

2004-08-26 Thread Charles Ulrich
, &rlim) < 0) msg_fatal("setrlimit: %m"); This patch probably hasn't made it into the port because it completely bypasses a moderately important check. As long as you keep a close eye on disk space, you should be okay. -- Charles

Re: Reinstalling, then upgrading (Was Re: Salvageable? (Was Re:make installworld error))

2004-08-25 Thread Charles Ulrich
ist, so I think I shall. Thanks for the clarifications. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send an

Re: Reinstalling, then upgrading (Was Re: Salvageable? (Was Re:makeinstallworld error))

2004-08-25 Thread Charles Ulrich
;ports build packages," even though it looks like it may be technically incorrect to refer to post-installed software as "packages" since one has no way of telling how the software was installed after the fact. > the fbsd handbook is one

Re: Hard Mail Question

2004-08-24 Thread Charles Ulrich
t;> FreeBSD 4.10 and Sendmail > > Hi Sean, > > The easy answer is NO. The other easy answer is YES. Just open up your mail client and send the messages back to yourself. It's always worked for me. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution - http://www.i

Re: Reinstalling, then upgrading (Was Re: Salvageable? (Was Re:make installworld error))

2004-08-24 Thread Charles Ulrich
lity they are actually two parts of the same system. The phrase "ports build packages" is a neat and efficient way of rectifying the misunderstandings that can occur when trying to give a proper explanation of FreeBSD package management. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Sol

Re: disk2.iso: rescue disk

2004-08-23 Thread Charles Ulrich
e handbook or FTP site what the differences are between the ISOs that are available on the mirrors. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Humble questions for web developers in freebsd.

2004-08-23 Thread Charles Ulrich
ey believed that experienced Unix people typically have a better understanding of how computers and networks actually work than your average Windows person. And they're absolutely right. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com __

partition recovery

2004-08-20 Thread Charles Ulrich
programs. If so, know that I'm none to handy with them but would appreciate pointers to some decent documentation on them aside from the man pages. Thanks in advance for your time and help. P.S. Won't be able to reply until Monday. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution

Re: Scheduled system backups program

2004-08-20 Thread Charles Ulrich
tion on its own, but takes a lot of the work out of it so you don't spend weeks hacking up your own solution out of rsync. Read all about it at http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com _

portindex and INDEX.db

2004-08-19 Thread Charles Ulrich
Is there any downside to generating INDEX.db with the sysutils/portindex program rather than portsdb -Uu? -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 5.x /usr Partitioning advice

2004-08-18 Thread Charles Ulrich
configuration files (and perhaps home directory) into subversion at some point in the distant future for additional protection and safe-keeping. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Vinum in -CURRENT (was: Vinum panic on boot)

2004-08-17 Thread Charles Ulrich
gain. This would be a good note to put somewhere obvious such as the 5.x-RELEASE errata. I too had been trying to get Vinum to work in -CURRENT. Vinum is an important part of FreeBSD for some people and there's likely going to be a lot of people trying to test it out as 5.x approach

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-17 Thread Charles Ulrich
Perfection 1660 Photo for half the price of a brand-new 1670. (Except for the chipset inside, the 1660 and 1670 seem to be identical in every way.) Haven't quite gotten it working with FreeBSD and SANE but that's due more to a lack of time to figure out exactly why SANE can't see the

firewire pseudo-hotplug

2004-08-16 Thread Charles Ulrich
her a particular device (say, a hard disk) happens to be plugged in or not? Thanks in advance for your time. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

bsdlabel errors and weirdity

2004-08-15 Thread Charles Ulrich
a loss here, and I'm not sure exactly how to proceed. Any help at all would be appreciated. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"