Re: Needing a guide/tutorial please

2006-08-18 Thread Helge Preuss
> Looking for a guide online somewhere that will walk me through > setting up a mail server with the following items on it. > > SpamAssassin > Postfix (pop3 and smtp setup) > MySQL (for database driven mail user administration) > MyPHPAdmin (to visually admin the database) > Squirrelmail (

ath0: link state changed to DOWN

2006-08-18 Thread Helge Preuss
Hello everybody, after a kernel recompile (completely unrelated to WLAN or network drivers) my Atheros WLAN card acts funny. I have in the meantime reinstalled the previous, working kernel, but it does not work any more. The card goes down and up again every few seconds. dmesg contains only repea

Re: jdk15 on 6.0

2006-04-02 Thread Helge Preuss
james g. wrote: > > On Apr 2, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > >> On 4/2/06, james g. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> FreeBSD Land: >>> >>> I've seen this question asked on this very list, and once or twice on >>> the web, but have yet to find a solution. >>> >>> I'm attempting to compi

Re: Order of rc file execution [solved]

2005-12-16 Thread Helge Preuss
Erik Norgaard wrote: Helge Preuss wrote: I use a GBDE-encrypted /var partition which i attach and mount during boot in rc.local. why don't you use /etc/rc.d/gbde? (btw, which version of FBSD?). Heh, because I didn't know about it! Thanks, this looks like the cleanest solut

Re: Order of rc file execution

2005-12-16 Thread Helge Preuss
I use a GBDE-encrypted /var partition which i attach and mount during boot in rc.local. why don't you use /etc/rc.d/gbde? (btw, which version of FBSD?). Heh, because I didn't know about it! Thanks, this looks like the cleanest solution. How do I use this script? If I interpret the source

Order of rc file execution

2005-12-16 Thread Helge Preuss
a way which does not require changing system-supplied scripts. I'd prefer making my edits in a centralized way (for instance, editing something like /etc/rc.local) instead of something under rc.d. Thanks Helge -- Helge Preuss Freelance Software Developer +49 177 2262 484 [EMAIL

Re: AMD64 question

2005-09-26 Thread Helge Preuss
Eric Murphy wrote: [...] however if i run make buildkernel kernconf=GREED it runs but uses the GENERIC kernel This sets the variable ${kernconf}, which is ignored, because make looks for ${KERNCONF}. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Fwd: Re: C program to write to the com port - RESOLVED

2005-09-09 Thread Helge Preuss
vittorio wrote: [...] SerialPort.C: In function `int main(int, char*)': SerialPort.C:62: error: invalid conversion from `unsigned char*' to `char*' SerialPort.C:62: error: initializing argument 1 of `int snprintf(char*, size_t, const char*, ...)' SerialPort.C:66: error: `err' undeclared (fir

Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine

2005-07-15 Thread Helge Preuss
[...] So I'm thinking I probably want to move to a RAID mirror filesystem, and keep some sort of quality backups offsite. 1. RAID mirror filesystem questions: 1a: should this be vinum? I have read and can follow the handbook instructions for a vinum root filesystem. 1b: Will it help to upg