Re: Is there a method to not probe certain devices at startup?

2006-05-17 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:35:25PM -0600, Danny MacMillan wrote: > fbsd wrote: > > > > Check that the pc bios has USB disabled. > > Also check that rc.conf does not have statement to enable USB. > > It is not possible to disable USB in the BIOS for this board (a

Re: Is there a method to not probe certain devices at startup?

2006-05-17 Thread Danny MacMillan
monowall forum to find out where I should look for this setting. Thanks, -- Danny MacMillan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Is there a method to not probe certain devices at startup?

2006-05-17 Thread Danny MacMillan
x27;t find anything that describes exactly what needs to go in that file. Thanks, -- Danny MacMillan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Can FreeBSD safely use a (un-booted from) drive that is invisible to the BIOS?

2006-03-31 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 03:48:57PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 3/31/06, Danny MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [,,,] > > ad0 is the boot drive. It is recognized by the BIOS, obviously, and > > has been in the machine for some years. ad2 is a new drive I ju

Can FreeBSD safely use a (un-booted from) drive that is invisible to the BIOS?

2006-03-31 Thread Danny MacMillan
he mystery geometry for the drive today, will I later face a problem where the BIOS disagrees and the drive will be unbootable? Thank you for your kind attention. -- Danny MacMillan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: portmanager -slid core dumps

2005-11-11 Thread Danny MacMillan
Michael C. Shultz wrote: >>>>>>On Friday 11 November 2005 12:55, Danny MacMillan wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>I am experiencing further difficulties with portmanager -slid. I was >>>>>>>successfully able to delete several l

kldload & dhcp client not working properly after upgrade to 6.0

2005-11-11 Thread Danny MacMillan
otten to copy GENERIC over my own kernel config and modify. So I did that, then built and installed just the kernel. That didn't work, so I then repeated the entire "rebuilding world" and mergemaster -s again, just in case. Everyt

Re: portmanager -slid core dumps

2005-11-11 Thread Danny MacMillan
Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Friday 11 November 2005 14:21, you wrote: >> >>On Friday 11 November 2005 13:35, Danny MacMillan wrote: >>> >>>Michael C. Shultz wrote: >>>> >>>>On Friday 11 November 2005 12:55, Danny MacMillan wrote: >>&

Re: portmanager -slid core dumps

2005-11-11 Thread Danny MacMillan
Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Friday 11 November 2005 13:35, Danny MacMillan wrote: >> >>Michael C. Shultz wrote: >>> >>>On Friday 11 November 2005 12:55, Danny MacMillan wrote: >>>> >>>>I am experiencing further difficulties with portmana

Re: portmanager -slid core dumps

2005-11-11 Thread Danny MacMillan
Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Friday 11 November 2005 12:55, Danny MacMillan wrote: >> >>I am experiencing further difficulties with portmanager -slid. I was >>successfully able to delete several leaf ports. However, when I try to >>delete devel/p5-Locale-gettext or de

portmanager -slid core dumps

2005-11-11 Thread Danny MacMillan
consistency of my ports tree? In particular, are there any deleterious consequences of using "make deinstall" to remove a port that has been updated since it was installed? -- Danny MacMillan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: portmanager -slid deletes the wrong port!

2005-11-11 Thread Danny MacMillan
Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 22:53, Danny MacMillan wrote: >> >>I'm running portmanager to do some port maintenance on one of my >>servers. I'm trying to delete devel/cvs2svn. Each time I try to delete >>it, it deletes devel

portmanager -slid deletes the wrong port!

2005-11-09 Thread Danny MacMillan
something somehow to screw up my system? The reason I use portmanager is because I thought it was foolproof :) -- Danny MacMillan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, sen

Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Danny MacMillan
Sebastian Pahlke wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to "clean" a disc before selling them: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 You may want to consider using /dev/random instead of, or in combination with, /dev/zero. Zeroing out a disk isn't a significant barrier to forensic analysis. ___

Re: What's the best way to set up an ASCII and HTML maillist list?

2005-08-20 Thread Danny MacMillan
nt that supports this functionality (Outlook, Outlook Express, and Thunderbird all work for this, probably others, too) and look at the message source on the target system to see how it works. -- Danny MacMillan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: SPAM Problem

2005-08-19 Thread Danny MacMillan
#x27;t directly address your problem but it does reduce the effectiveness of joe-jobbing as more and more people do it. -- Danny MacMillan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: Entropy Blocking

2005-08-08 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 07:09:35 -0600, Wes Will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess nobody gives rat-rump about the entropy problem. Figures. -- www The people who know how to help you probably didn't read your original question, since it was posted under a very misleading subject line. You

Re: [Solved] How to disable > quoting of lines starting with From in email body?

2005-06-14 Thread Danny MacMillan
e. There are a number of options for dumping output to logs or in > hex/ascii format, etc. so you might want to look up an article on using > Ethereal. Dsniff also comes to mind, but I can't remember what exactly > that was designed to capture; there

Re: [Solved] How to disable > quoting of lines starting with From in email body?

2005-06-14 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:28:45PM -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2005, at 2:17 PM, Danny MacMillan wrote: > > >It turns out that when I send the same email both to freebsd-test@ > >and directly to the account I have subscribed to that list, the > >mail

[Solved] How to disable > quoting of lines starting with From in email body?

2005-06-14 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 10:39:10PM -0600, Danny MacMillan wrote: > Hello, > > Every time I read an email that has a line in the message body that > starts with the word "From", the line is quoted with a > character. > > It is my understanding that this is done nec

Re: How to disable > quoting of lines starting with From in email body?

2005-06-12 Thread Danny MacMillan
think the > is being transmitted; rather I think it is being added by something on my machine, now that I think it through. 3) This is hardly conclusive, but I have connected to SMTP servers using telnet on port 25 and sent mail with lines starting with From in the body, and these message

How to disable > quoting of lines starting with From in email body?

2005-06-12 Thread Danny MacMillan
Hello, Every time I read an email that has a line in the message body that starts with the word "From", the line is quoted with a > character. It is my understanding that this is done necessarily when email is stored in the mbox format to distinguish lines that start new email messages from lines

Re: keeping 5.1 install up to date?

2005-01-24 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:21:35AM -0500, aklist_061666 wrote: > > I'm moving this to -questions@ ... > > >Assuming you have an internet connection, the simplest way to install > >CVSUp is (line 2 may wrap): > > > >1. su > >2. pkg_add > >ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-

Re: IP Block

2005-01-22 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:11:45PM -0700, Lady Amalara wrote: > > My Question is...how can I block my IP address so others won't see > it??? Disconnect your computer from the internet. -- Danny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: Kernel time-keeping adjustments - how to tune?

2005-01-17 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:12:46PM -0600, John wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:05:22PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > John wrote: > > > > >OK - on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE system, as I have documented (cf: > > >message thread Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3), ntpd > > >won't run, even wi

Re: system time mysteriously changes

2005-01-17 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:05:53PM -0800, Kevin Smith wrote: > I'm having a problem with my system clock. The time will be fine for > a few days, then all of a sudden, I will notice that it has jumped > ahead by a number of hours (usually enough to change the day to the > next day). I can confirm

Re: mkisofs and growisofs

2005-01-09 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 01:52:16PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > [Jeffrey Friedl Search Tool] > > I'll put my copy at the following URL for a while in case anyone wants > it: http://ww2.keyslapper.org/search It appears that that should read: http://www.keyslapper.org/search or http://ww2.ke

Re: Able to mount samba but it's empty

2005-01-07 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:44:02PM +0700, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm using 4.8-RELEASE-p15 and Samba-2.2.8a for mounting > shared directory on Windows2000 (NTFS). So far the disk on > Windows2000 is only 120 GB and mounting is successful. > > But after I changed a disk

Re: Remote upgrade possible?

2005-01-07 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 07:25:02AM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 23:26, Tabor Kelly wrote: > > > > I routinely use 'portupgrade -rRN' in xterm, in X-Windows to > > install new ports on my box. The second to last time I did this, > > one of the ports what was upgraded was xterm.

Re: Configuring POSTFIX to use mutiple email accounts

2005-01-06 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:57:15AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: > On Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:52:25 AM Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > |>Gerard Seibert wrote: > |>> > |>> [snip] > |>> > |>> I have several email accounts. I use them for newsgroups, forums, etc. > |>> Most of the acc

Re: sendmail and mbox permissions

2005-01-06 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:01:13PM +0300, Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:14:05AM +0100, J65nko BSD wrote: > " On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:23:29 +0300, Eugene M. Minkovskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > " > Hi. > " > > " > I use FreeBSD 5.3 and sendmail. When root rechieve the

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-05 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:35:43PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:37:41 -0700 Danny MacMillan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:13:56PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:21:06 -0500

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-05 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:13:56PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:21:06 -0500 Parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >wrote Scott Bennett thusly... > >> > >> I've downloaded the following ISO image files: > >> > >>5.3-RELEASE-i386-boot

Re: courier-imap installation

2005-01-01 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 02:57:34PM -0600, artware wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm a n00b to FreeBSD, and I'm trying to install courier-imap > with 5.3, but I'm not sure what steps I should be taking. I did: > pkg_add -r courier-imap > However, when I do: > /usr/local/libexec/courier-imap/imapd.rc s

Re: Printer

2004-12-28 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:54:58PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > ... > > If you research Brother laser printers, you'll find that they get great > reviews during the first 6-8 months. After that period, most reviewers > complain about having to replace the drum, which is expensive. If >

Re: POP3 & IMAP

2004-12-28 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:39:52PM -0600, Adam wrote: > Which IMAP and POP3 ports are stable and good? Any reccomendations? I haven't used any POP servers, but I've used both Courier-IMAP and dovecot to good effect. I have found dovecot to be much, much faster than Courier-IMAP so it's what I us

Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?

2004-12-24 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 05:29:05PM -0700, James wrote: > On Friday 24 December 2004 09:16 am, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:26:15AM -0700, James typed: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Use: > > > sendmail_enable="none" > > > > > > This will disable all sendmail processes. > > > > Thi

Re: Running own servers

2004-12-22 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:09:43AM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > ... > > As for rejected email, I just have zoneedit act as the lowest priority > MX for my domains and anytime something can't get sent to my system > because I've been renumbered, zoneedit will spend up to 10 days trying > to rel

Re: Access to the Internet

2004-12-21 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 06:21:30PM -0500, Leon wrote: > But when I have tried to connect to the Internet by using "KDE", > it did not work. It gave me an error: > "Unknown host www.dke-look.org. If you typed the above exactly, it is no wonder it did not work. It should rather be: http://www.kde-

Re: This is a cool shell prompt question

2004-12-07 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 02:24:51AM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Good day! > I'm just wondrin if its possible for me to run > applications at boot time but on another terminal. I > find it cool to have a huge digital clock (grdc) > running on background so that I can just shift to > another

Re: 4 part domain names

2004-12-06 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:48:56AM -0700, Peter Risdon wrote: > The following article explains how to delegate sub domains to name > servers using bind. I can't find an equivalent for djbdns and suspect > there might be a limitation in that software: The "Delegating names to another server" portio

Re: Where can I find those various make arguments (e.g. install, search, maintainer, build)

2004-11-15 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 08:34:58PM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > I want to know where can I find those various make > arguments. For example, when invoking 'make search > key=.." while inside /usr/ports, I can easily locate > the ports I am looking for. I want to know what else > can I 'make'

Re: Partition?

2004-11-12 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 01:42:36PM -0700, Brian Bobowski wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have a 20gb hard drive 10gb is free, and its NTFS > > partition. > > > > How would i go about installing FreeBSD on a daulboot? > > when Fdisk is started do i create a slice? > > You'll n

Re: problems with sound :[

2004-11-11 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:27:27PM -0700, eodyna wrote: > Hi all > > thank-you ohh so much for your help thus far! > It was indeed that little cable. When i looked it > didn't exist :) [not very good with hardware] i will > need to buy one and try that out! In the meantime, I think there are othe

Re: problems with sound :[

2004-11-11 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:56:54AM -0700, jason wrote: > Danny MacMillan wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:34:14PM -0700, eodyna wrote: > > >hi everyone, > > > > > >I can play mp3's :) but i cant seam to be able to play > > >cd's. > >

Re: problems with sound :[

2004-11-10 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:34:14PM -0700, eodyna wrote: > hi everyone, > > I can play mp3's :) but i cant seam to be able to play > cd's. > > any ideas? > > thanks again. It seems likely that the tiny analog or digital cable between your sound card and your CD-ROM drive is not connected. -- D

Re: Question regarding X windows client-server implementation

2004-11-10 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:10:57PM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: [...] > But then I'm confused by the fact that I can let my > x clients connect to a remote x server,(eg, on a LAN). > > How can that be? > For example, I'm looking at my monitor right now.. > And then there is this xorg ins

Re: Caching DNS Server?

2004-11-09 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:06:14PM -0700, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > Danny MacMillan wrote: > > > No doubt BIND can do this ... but I find djbdns much easier > > to configure. > > I have never tried out djbdns, so I cannot say for myself, and > I also understand

Re: Caching DNS Server?

2004-11-09 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:56:42AM -0700, Andrew Smith wrote: > I want to setup a Caching DNS server for my network using FreeBSD 5.3. > Can someone point me in the right direction with what port I need to > install and any links to installation guides? No doubt BIND can do this ... but I find djb

[OT] BEFSR41 = bad (was: Re: DSL support)

2004-11-08 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 02:27:21AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Danny MacMillan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 9:40 PM > > ... > > > It > > replaced a 3 year old Hawking Techn

Re: DSL support

2004-11-07 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 02:49:34AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > ... > > primary one we have always recommended has been the Linksys BEFSR41. > > ... > > HOWEVER - we are no longer recommending the Linksys devices. Why - > because over the last 3 months we have had an increasing number

Re: moused and 7-button mice

2004-11-06 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 06:48:25PM -0700, Christian Hiris wrote: > I did some more testing about imwheel: > If you run 'imwheel -p -k "45"' things should work as before + moused > support working. It seems that Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" > works fine, while "/dev/psm0" switches buttons 4 5 to

Re: moused and 7-button mice

2004-11-06 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:42:04AM -0700, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Saturday 06 November 2004 19:31, Danny MacMillan wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:27:38AM -0700, Kirk Strauser wrote: > [...] > > Here's the InputDevice section of my XF86Config: > >

Re: moused and 7-button mice

2004-11-06 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:27:38AM -0700, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I have a Microsoft Trackball Optical that I'd been using with a Debian system > but that I want to switch to my FreeBSD workstation. The problem I'm having > is that it has 7 buttons: > > Left > Middle (clicking the scroll whe

Re: memory requirements?

2004-11-05 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 10:17:59PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:49:56PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: > > > >>I inherited a 400 MHz Pentium II with 128MB of RAM > >>and a 20GB HD. > >> > >>Is this an adequate configuration to run 5.2.1, or > >>d

Re: Apache 2.0.52 help

2004-10-29 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:33:12PM -0600, Clay wrote: > It is not a DSL Router/Modem, just a straight old school ADSL > modem. I have three static IP addresses. One is being used for the > current web server, one is on the machine I am typing this on, and > the third is being used for this s

Re: Apache 2.0.52 help

2004-10-29 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:28:21PM -0600, Clay wrote: > I just did a default install of FreeBSD 4.10 and used > CVSup to download the newest port of Apache (2.0.52), did a make, > then make install everything looked like it went well. Used > /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start, to start up

Re: Apache 2.0.52 help

2004-10-29 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:28:21PM -0600, Clay wrote: > I just did a default install of FreeBSD 4.10 and used CVSup to > download the newest port of Apache (2.0.52), did a make, then make install > everything looked like it went well. Used /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start, > to start up

Re: Using extra patches with the ports collection and qmail-mysql

2004-10-29 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 08:46:18AM -0600, CHris Rich wrote: > Here's the story... > > I'm trying to compile qmail-mysql with a new patch that I have found. > We've got a test mail server set up explicitly for trying this. Did > some googling and asked a question on here earlier about how exactly >

Re: photoshop

2004-10-26 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:02:14PM -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:11:45 +0200, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Is there a way to translate photoshop files into gimp files and gimp > > into photoshop files ? > > If I'm understanding this right -- then of cour

Re: GPL vs BSD Licence

2004-10-26 Thread Danny MacMillan
I will preface my reply with the following disclaimer: I am no lawyer. However as it's clear that you're not either, it makes little practical difference. On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:51:02AM -0600, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > ... > > What is ignored is that the GPL contains a loophole - it DOES

Re: freebsd and MS Active Directory

2004-10-23 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:08:37PM -0600, Duane Winner wrote: > > ... > > Is it possible they are using DHCP for all hosts -- even servers, but > doing static mapping to MAC address? If so, are there instances where AD > hosts must configured as AD leaf objects? (I'm just scraping the back of I sh

[OT] Sapir-Whorfian Advertising Clause (was Advertising clause in license)

2004-10-23 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 08:50:13PM -0600, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Nell, > > Just a request, please do not use the term "advertising clause" > > This is a term that was created by the Linux bigots, specifically > people like RMS who is so bigoted he can't see beyond the tip > of his nose.

Re: freebsd and MS Active Directory

2004-10-22 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 09:02:46AM -0600, Duane Winner wrote: > > ... > > During a meeting with their IT people a couple of days ago, most issues > were agreed upon, however, the director of IT informed me that I will > need to make both of these boxes conform to their Active Directory network.

Re: Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 08:34:45AM -0600, Seth Henry wrote: > > ... > > I also want to create a private, internal zone so that I can stop passing > hosts files around. (i.e. 192.168.1.1 -> internal_host1, etc) IOW - I > would like internal machines to point to my DNS server for internal & > exter

Re: Backing up a FreeBSD system

2004-10-18 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:30:45AM -0600, Steven J Corso wrote: > I would like to utilize dump to back up my filesystems on a FreeBSD > machine. I happen to be utilizing FreeBSD current at this time. > > I would like to do this from single user state on the system. > > ... I don't know the answ

Re: locking down a users privileges

2004-10-15 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 04:52:32PM -0600, Grant Cooper wrote: > I am trying to prevent a user from leaving his directory. I set something up > last year where I just added a name to a file. But I forgot the name of the > file. > > For another box I wanted to use putty to connect to my freebsd serv

Re: Where can I read the old questions??

2004-10-13 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:39:23PM -0600, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > ... > > http://www.google.com/bsd/ is a better search index for bsd-related > stuff than the freebsd.org search engine. > > Kris That's great! But at least for me, you have to leave off the trailing slash: http://www.google.co

Re: Hard Disk failure

2004-10-09 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 04:07:27PM -0600, Dean Hollister wrote: > > Dear All, > > A quick question, and I've searched the FAQ/Handbook to no avail... > > One of the machines I maintain has developed bad sectors on it's /usr > filesystem. I can mount the filesystem R/O, so is it possible to inst

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-27 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:38:15PM -0600, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > When I have a choice of punishing idiots or smart people, I punish > idiots. This is excellent. It should be on a bumper sticker or something. > > > Look at the vehicle situation. If people would force stupid drivers > to w

Max # of Files in a Directory?

2004-09-02 Thread Danny MacMillan
Hi. I googled for this but I couldn't find an answer. What is the largest number of files that can exist in a single directory in FreeBSD? I ask because I'm using courier-imap using a Maildir mailbox and I started seeing all kinds of errors when trying to copy more than 16383 messages into one o

Re: Sound Driver

2004-08-06 Thread Danny MacMillan
loads, it probably won't resolve whatever is causing KDE to stall. Still, you have to take things one at a time. -- Danny MacMillan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: compile + distfile

2004-08-04 Thread Danny MacMillan
y that the port is not actually asking you for a different file. -- Danny MacMillan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Freebsd 5.1 <-> Win XP Networking problems

2004-07-15 Thread Danny MacMillan
om > O'Reilly. I will check it out. Thanks for the pointer. > -- > -Chuck -- Danny MacMillan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Freebsd 5.1 <-> Win XP Networking problems

2004-07-15 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 09:21:13PM -0600, epilogue wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:06:38 -0400 > epilogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:40:10 -0600 > > Danny MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is it the su

Re: ADI AD1888 AC'97 audio CODEC on ASUS P4P800S

2004-07-15 Thread Danny MacMillan
ROM to your sound card. The equivalent task may work in Windows if they read the music through the IDE interface and pipe it through the sound card instead of channeling it through that "back-channel" communications channel. I'm not up on the lingo but that's the first thing

Re: Freebsd 5.1 <-> Win XP Networking problems

2004-07-14 Thread Danny MacMillan
network address, would choose a route from its routing table, arp for that router's MAC address, and send the packet thither. But is that what actually happens? Pointers to documentation explaining this accepted with my thanks. -- Danny MacMillan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree

2004-07-12 Thread Danny MacMillan
a lot of inodes / block, but that doesn't mean the steady- state use of the system will continue to consume inodes at the same prodigious rate. The OP will probably be fine by giving himself twice the inodes on that partition. -- Danny MacMillan

Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Danny MacMillan
ash available in single user mode as well, make sure it is statically linked. If you will be installing from ports, the following should work (if I'm reading the Makefile correctly): cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2 make -DWANT_STATIC_BASH install clean -- Danny MacMillan _

Re: Install errors on old HP machine

2004-07-03 Thread Danny MacMillan
t the HP from the FreeBSD and proceed as normally. That's what I did. Here's the boot manager I used: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ You can install the standard boot manager during FreeBSD installation if you want, or choose "None" to keep the fancy one. -- Danny MacMillan

Re: Building a Stable Secure FreeBSD Mail server

2004-06-26 Thread Danny MacMillan
orcing Blowfish is many times more computationally intensive (i.e. 'harder') than brute-forcing MD5. That's if I'm reading it right; I'm assuming c/s = "combinations per second". There's no man page and the internet frightens and confuses me. I re

Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Danny MacMillan
ably invalidate client caches if the slave were restored, which greatly reduces the utility of this method. Still, I'm sure you can overcome that one tiny flaw in this otherwise perfect diamond. :) -- Danny MacMillan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

RE: Troubles with ports...

2004-05-31 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Mon, 31 May 2004 23:18:37 -0600, Muhammad Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've downloaded the complete ports collection (ports.tar.gz). I've > extracted it in /usr. Now i go to /usr/ports/x11/kde3 and do make > install. I get: > > *kde-3.2.2 depends on file: /usr/X11R6/bin/moc - not found* >

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 21:37:36 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm expecting a reply from Joshua or other folks to my posting whether I can stop running 'make clean' the ports trees in the mid-way. In doing so it won't damage the OS. After clarification I shall install 'automa

Re: updated ports tree

2004-04-23 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:41:36 +, Killermink ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I see what your saying and i suppose I have two points: 1) Can you install a port without installing the ports tree? Ports can not be installed without first being built, and the ports tree is what enables you to build

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2004-04-23 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:41:18 +0100, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:13:11PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:04:56AM +0300, hugle wrote: > SOmetimes I see such messages in dmesg. > > perl# dmesg > uptime() went backwards (1574174.333073 ->

Re: IMAP server and client recommendations?

2004-04-22 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:40:40 +0100, Jim Hatfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:42:00 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: Almost right, but not quite. You set up an IMAP server that stores mail in the desired format, add the IMAP support to Outlook, and then drag/drop

IMAP server and client recommendations?

2004-04-21 Thread Danny MacMillan
Hello. I have six or seven hundred megabytes of email imprisoned in a few .pst (Microsoft Outlook "Personal Folders") files. I've been looking for an alternative email client lately. Of course, the issue is converting these old messages so that they are usable by the new software -- ideally s