Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Mike Maltese
Brett Glass wrote: I have heard (though I have no direct experience with it) that the 3Ware controllers bog the system down terribly when re-mirroring. Also, these controllers are probably optimized for RAID 5 rather than simple mirroring. Do you know if Promise or Adaptec has something that just

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Mike Maltese
Brett Glass wrote: I need to set up a FreeBSD server with two or more sets of mirrored drives. What is the best controller to use for this purpose? Note that I don't need striping or other RAID functions -- just mirroring, hopefully with hot swap capability. A system that could re-mirror a replac

Re: PCI RAID for 'gift'

2004-12-29 Thread Mike Maltese
m wrote: My wife has done the unthinkable this season! She decided to buy me a new server for our small office, which I am more than excited about, except for one paramount detail... Well, I'm jealous! It is a respectable 1U server with the following specs from manual: Dual (2) IntelR XEON

Re: D-Link DWL-520 won't initialize

2004-08-10 Thread Mike Maltese
David Kelly wrote: On Aug 9, 2004, at 5:40 PM, David Kelly wrote: wi0: mem 0xfc00-0xfc000fff irq 21 at device 0.0 on pci2 wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x; event status 0x wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear. : init failed device_probe_and_attach: wi0 attach returned 6 Update: exact same card

Re: BandwidthD syntax error?

2004-07-09 Thread Mike Maltese
Irvine Short wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Eric Crist wrote: I just installed bandwidthd, and I get the following error when I try to run it from it's home directory: Syntax Error "parse error" on line 40 FWIW I get exactly the same issue. I installed it fine and it runs perfectly well on a FreeBSD

Re: LED proggy question

2004-06-18 Thread Mike Maltese
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, I've been trying to find a program on the ports that allows me to change the state of the keyboard LEDs. I want to put the keyboard on the room wall and make a script to call a program which makes leds blink according to the kind of traffic being blocked on the firewal

Re: mail daemon(s) recomendation request

2004-05-27 Thread Mike Maltese
> I'm looking for an smtp daemon that is less complex than > sendmail, can use procmail and has some virtusertable > equivalent features. Allowing relay based on mx is going to > be a requirement for some of the boxes as well. > Sendmail is working ok for me, but I'm intersted in finding > somethi

Re: Bridging Firewall

2004-04-23 Thread Mike Maltese
> I find no reference to MAC rules showing up in 5.2.1. Any help or advice > would be appreciated. That's because bridge(4) doesn't do Layer 2 filtering. Neither does ipfw (as well it shouldn't). I don't know if there are any plans to add this capability to FreeBSD's bridge, but I know that OpenBS

Re: verizon dsl connexn

2004-04-21 Thread Mike Maltese
> i have verizon dsl service using macronix nic. free bsd unleashed book, > man pages and install man dont say how to set this up. my provider > gives dns address automatically. linux rpppoe works fine. does bsd > have equivalent? i can boot into grub but get warning about not being > connected

Re: Backing up my system

2004-04-20 Thread Mike Maltese
> What will be 'dump vs tar' ?. Their pros and cons. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html Dump is preferable to tar for system backups. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: installing mysql-phpmyadmin-apache-php

2004-04-16 Thread Mike Maltese
> I have mysql-5 and apache2 installed and working. I need to install > phpmyadmin but it wants to install mysql-4 and apache1. How do I prevent > it from installing another version of each app (can I even do this)? I'd just download the phpMyAdmin source from http://www.phpmyadmin.net and install

Re: dump restore

2004-04-11 Thread Mike Maltese
> I'm looking for a way to split and concat dump files afterwards. > > This should possible, butg I've been see a solution for this until yet. split(1) and cat(1) perhaps? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: SMP on FreeBSD...

2004-04-07 Thread Mike Maltese
> What modifications do I need to make to the GENERIC configuration to > enable a second CPU? With FreeBSD <= 5.1, you need to add: optionsSMP optionsAPIC_IO 5.2's GENERIC kernel is SMP ready. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: Setting up Apache

2004-03-25 Thread Mike Maltese
> My problem is that I have no working knowledge of Apache. I was wondering > if someone could recommend a good book or two that could walk me through > the steps of setting the program up and getting it running. It has to be > the sort of book that does not assume I have a college degree in Comput

Re: Recommended GUI manager for MYSQL

2004-03-15 Thread Mike Maltese
> Can anyone recommend a good GUI manager for MYSQL? Well, there's MySQL Control Center from MySQL AB. Then there's the wildly popular phpMyAdmin, which is web-based. Both are in ports, but you really don't need a port to install phpMyAdmin. http://www.mysql.com/products/mysqlcc/index.html http:/

Re: amavisd - virusalert@example.com in maillog

2004-03-11 Thread Mike Maltese
> I can't seem to find where in the config file (amavisd.conf) it is > specified. I've set the $mydomain variable and my notification reports in Have you restarted amavisd since you updated the config file? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://list

Re: 3com modem

2004-03-10 Thread Mike Maltese
> It is not a win modem it is a hardware modem and was the best one my > supplier had, it cost me $120.00. Thanks for your rely but it does not > help me with my problem i have had it working on several other machines > just not this one yet. Maybe you should have mentioned that. When someone pos

Re: Local CVSup ports server

2004-03-08 Thread Mike Maltese
> There shouldn't be anything different - just set up the cvsup server > to mirror the collections you want (ports-all, etc). I should have figured it would be so simple. I installed net/cvsup-mirror, but since it didn't explicitly mention ports, I assumed there was some magic involved. Thanks! _

Local CVSup ports server

2004-03-08 Thread Mike Maltese
In the interest of bandwidth conservation, fair use, and the health of my nearest mirrors, I'd like to set up my own local ports CVSup mirror to keep all of my local FreeBSD machines (four of them) up to date. The problem I'm having is that I can't find any info on setting up a ports mirror. There

Re: setting up network virtual hosts (ifconfig)

2004-03-08 Thread Mike Maltese
> What if you are doing this remotely? :) > Any other way to get around that? Not unless you're connected to another machine and connected to the target box through a serial console. In this case you're probably better of making the change manually. What is it you want to reconfigure? ___

Re: setting up network virtual hosts (ifconfig)

2004-03-08 Thread Mike Maltese
> On a side note, if you set something up in rc.conf, how can you manually > start it without having to reboot? Well that depends on what it is, but if you want to just go through everything you can do this: # shutdown now This will put you in single-user mode. Hit enter for the default shell, t

Re: Postfix install questions..

2004-03-08 Thread Mike Maltese
> I got it. I needed to run postmap on main.cf after configuring it. No, you need to run "postfix reload" after changing master.cf or main.cf. Read the postmap man page for details on it's use. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Where is 4.9-STABLE?

2004-03-06 Thread Mike Maltese
> Where can I download ISO images for the latest 4.9-STABLE? All I found was a > weird japanese site, that is either not responsive, or lets you download > 15k/s. > > I do not want to CVSup; I just want a clean, full install of 4.9-STABLE. Normally the procedure would be to get the kern.flp and mf

Re: ipfilter frags question

2004-03-01 Thread Mike Maltese
> On my Linux box, I can force all fragments to be re-assembled into whole > packets before being presented to the firewall, and that's what I've > done. However, as near as I can tell, FreeBSD (5.2.1-RELEASE) doesn't > have that feature. > > So what do I do with fragments? They are a valid par

Re: Installing software via ports and packages

2004-03-01 Thread Mike Maltese
Lance Earl wrote: I installed FreeBsd 4.9 with fluxbox. Using ports I installed Bluefish(I was disappointed to see that the most current port was an older version), Nedit, Nano, Gimp and Gftp. The ports download and compile of these programs took approximately forever plus 32 seconds. I tried inst

Re: Where to find apache PHP script mhash function

2004-02-28 Thread Mike Maltese
> SO you are saying that this /usr/ports/lang/php4 is an replacement > for mod_php? > That it does everything mod_php does plus the extensions can be > added. lang/php4 is a master port. You can read lang/php4/Makefile to see what make definitions that are available (like -DWITH_MHASH). I wouldn'

Re: endless "sysquery: no addrs found for root"

2004-02-19 Thread Mike Maltese
> When I try to start named with this config, the log file shows > Feb 19 22:16:50 jsrh named[177]: starting (/etc/namedb/named.conf). named 8.3.7-REL Tue Feb 17 15:01:48 CST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named > Feb 19 22:16:50 jsrh named[178]: Ready to answer queries. > > but

Re: Newbie trying to build a new world

2004-02-05 Thread Mike Maltese
> config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MOAK:274: syntax error This means you have an error on line 274 of your kernel configuration file. Since line 274 is "options PNPBIOS", I'm guessing that this option is deprecated and/or unavailable in 5.X. ___ [EMAIL PR

Re: Starting MySQL

2004-02-04 Thread Mike Maltese
> I added MySQL with portupgrade today, but don't find mysqld anywhere > on the machine. How do I start this silly thing? /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh mysqld resides in /usr/local/libexec, which could be why you didn't find it. That doesn't really matter because a wrapper is used to start

Re: Spam Assassin?

2004-01-24 Thread Mike Maltese
> Where is the Spam Assassin port? The only thing I can find is > spamass-milter which just USES Spam Assassin. 'make search key=SpamAssassin' turns up mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Compile kernel

2004-01-22 Thread Mike Maltese
> I have a 4.9 FreeBSD and would like to compile the kernel to that it can > support IPSEC, could you say me where I can find information to compile > kernel to IPSEC. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/12/26/FreeBSD_Basics.htm

Re: isc-dhcp3 removed from ports

2004-01-21 Thread Mike Maltese
> Doing pkg_version recently, I noticed that isc-dhcp3 has been removed from > the ports collection. > > Why should such an important port be removed? I can't see that wide-dhcp > provides the same degree of functionality e.g. dynamic zone updates with bind. > It's been split up: net/isc-dhcp3-ser

Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address?

2004-01-16 Thread Mike Maltese
> I'm having a major brain freeze this morning. I dont recall how to find the > reverse for an IP address? > > I need to do some testing with a few IP addresses, to ensure they have > valid reverse's set, but dont recall how to check them. > > If I remember, you could do it with both 'nslookup' and

Re: Other ways than quotas to limit mail files size ??

2004-01-11 Thread Mike Maltese
> Is there another way to limit the amount of space occupied by mail files on > a per user basis using another method than quotas ? > I would like to limit the amount of space available for each user's e.mail > so e.mail file size will not go crazy. Is there an option to limit message size with t

Re: Problems adding a second hard drive

2004-01-08 Thread Mike Maltese
> It took me a little time to figure how to do this but I managed (or so I > thought) to install FreeBSD. However although I can see both drives during > the installation if I do a df all that is displayed is ad0s with no > information on ad2s. Also I cannot install any more programms since it s

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 & RAID

2004-01-07 Thread Mike Maltese
> I made a new MFS root floppy, tried it, and it does the exact thing. I don't have a CDROM drive, so I can't make a FreeBSD CD. Hmm, did you use a new floppy and verify the MD5 of the image? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 & RAID

2004-01-07 Thread Mike Maltese
> /: write failed, filesystem is full > panic: Going nowhere without my init! I would think that this is indicative of a defective mfsroot floppy. Try making a new one or burn up an ISO if that's possible. > Does FreeBSD just not support my SCSI RAID controller? According to http://www.freebsd.o

Re: Poor SCSI disk preformance

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Maltese
> It should go faster than 5MB/sec, though. Seagate's specs say that > drive should do 14MB/sec max. UW's top speed is 40MB/sec, so there > shouldn't be any bottlenecks. 14MB/s is the maximum internal transfer rate. Also, we're talking about write performance here, which will likely be quite a b

Re: Poor SCSI disk preformance

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Maltese
> I also had (meaning it is not currently attached) a different > SCSI drive attached on the bus, with the same results. Has > anyone any tips for this from a FreeBSD point of view? I wouldn't say that dd is the greatest benchmarking tool. You may want to try benchmarks/rawio. Also, try monitorin

Re: AMD Processors

2004-01-03 Thread Mike Maltese
> > > options CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK > > > options CPU_ENABLE_SSE > > > > These are also valid kernel options for 4.x. > > Where are these documented? /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: AMD Processors

2004-01-02 Thread Mike Maltese
> For the kernel configuration you can even optimize the compilation for > such processors (5.x only) : > > options CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK > options CPU_ENABLE_SSE These are also valid kernel options for 4.x. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://list

Re: DAT drives

2003-12-24 Thread Mike Maltese
> Okay, probably a dumb question but I can't readily find an answer > in the archives.. > > I just picked up a (used) surestore C1533A (thats an HP device) and am > having some problems getting it work quite right. I've got the dip switches > set correctly (I was able to find at least 3 corroborati

Re: Hardware Compatibility List

2003-12-19 Thread Mike Maltese
> Dear Project People: > Last Spring I purchased the BSD Mall software FreeBSD 5.0 from a local > computer store. I would like to determine what hardware is compatible with > this OS. Is there a set of 'White Papers', or a Hardware Compatibility List > that can be viewed in updated form peri

Re: Removing a program

2003-12-15 Thread Mike Maltese
> Greetings, > I installed phpBB from the ports on my 4.7 box. Went fine. > Had my phpBB bulletin boards hacked, even after applying > all the patches from phpbb.com. My current version of > phpBB is 2.0.0_1. All they suggested was install the new > version of phpBB and make sure I look for patc

Re: (Yet Another) Home Networking Question

2003-12-12 Thread Mike Maltese
> One thing you yet lack, according to the handbook, > and it's a bit of a job. The GENERIC kernel doesn't > ship with the following options, which you are > supposed to need. > > options IPFIREWALL > options IPDIVERT > > Add them to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC, > run "make buildkernel" and "ma

Re: (Yet Another) Home Networking Question

2003-12-12 Thread Mike Maltese
> hostname="idfubar.dyndns.org" is wrong. > This needs to be a fake domain name. > Dyndns.org is real name. > > Hostname="idfubar.fbsdhome.com" is better. DynDNS is a dynamic DNS service. Nothing wrong here. Have a look at http://www.dyndns.org. ___

Re: (Yet Another) Home Networking Question

2003-12-12 Thread Mike Maltese
> (1) in /etc/rc.conf, I added the following > natd_enable="YES" > natd_interface="rl0" ### public interface connected to cable modem > gateway_enable="YES" > defaultrouter="192.168.0.1" ### LAN machines use this > ifconfig_rl0="DHCP" ### Astound uses dhcp > ifconfig_rl1="inet 192.168

Re: tar, mt backup BLOCKSIZES, variable & fixed question Seagate SDT224000N DDS-3 DAT

2003-12-12 Thread Mike Maltese
> If I run mt blocksize 1024, that sets the actual drive to write data in > 1024 byte blocks. If I make an archive with tar with flag -b 20, tar will > format and send 10,240 byte blocks to the tape drive and the tape drive > will then subdivide those into 1024 byte blocks and put them onto the A

Re: php error

2003-12-11 Thread Mike Maltese
> Hello there > I am trying to install freBSD 4.9 but all the time i am getting error while > installing php . > I try 5 times all the time same error . > So i try to change ftp server still same error > look like there is an error while installing php > Can somebudy help me please This is like ca

Re: Apache

2003-12-09 Thread Mike Maltese
> Thanks, yes FreeBSD rocks!!! I know this is the right place to ask, so > if you have the apache group list that would be nice, but what do I have > to do to get my users account to work? Are they place for example > > /home/user_x/public_html > > On any web browser I get the following error. > >

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-09 Thread Mike Maltese
> 2) You said that FreeBSD was more than a kernel . What do you mean > Could you explain little more or Do you know any documantation or whitepaper > which explain mind of the FreeBSD operating System . Hmm, try www.freebsd.org (sic). These two areas should be partiularly useful. http://www

Re: Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

2003-12-08 Thread Mike Maltese
> I am guessing freebsd works out the correct drive geometry, but the bios > is not! Interestingly though, when set to LBA, the head/cyl/sector count > is equal to what the freebsd fdisk detects it to be. This is exactly what I was experiencing. Thought I'd throw that out there, best of luck to yo

Re: Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

2003-12-08 Thread Mike Maltese
> I have a problem which i cannot seem to fix no matter what I do! I have a > 120GB disk, which had windows XP/FreeBSD partions working fine on one > computer. Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios detects > a certian geometry, but then the system wont boot. No matter what I do >

Re: ls and color

2003-12-05 Thread Mike Maltese
> I think the OP meant "is there a how-to or a web page on > making 'ls' show colors?" Perhaps you're right. However, proper grammar would have made the question a bit clearer. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: ls and color

2003-12-05 Thread Mike Maltese
> Is there a how to on making ls show colors or a web pages. Thanks. Well., there's ls -G, but you could have found that in the man page, right? ls is not a web browser. Try www/lynx. if you want to grab a web page, try fetch or ftp/wget. ___ [EMAIL PR

Re: mounting smb share

2003-12-05 Thread Mike Maltese
> Im having some trouble mounting an smb share.When i use the > following command i can access the smb successfully: > smbclient //server/share -U username. > > When i use the following command i get bad passwd: mount -t > smbfs -O username=username //server/share /dir. mount_smbfs should look mor

Re: DynDNS

2003-12-04 Thread Mike Maltese
> To be honet I want to set up a DynDNS, we run our own DNS server and have a > need for a DynDNS. I was wondering if there is a software package that I can > download to set this up or is it build into Bind already. Oh, so you want dynamic clients automatically update their dns entries? If you're

Re: SCSI Disk not found

2003-12-02 Thread Mike Maltese
> Ok. I have what looks to be two host adapters. > The one on the motherboard and a PCI? card. > > Not sure what exactly I am supposed to do for I have never > had a PC with SCSI before... http://www.faqs.org/faqs/scsi-faq/ This is probably a good place to start.

Re: SCSI Disk not found

2003-12-02 Thread Mike Maltese
> I was given a Compaq Proliant 800 machine...its a pentium pro > 200 MHz. I got 4.9-Stable installed and everything is running > smooth. > > However, I noticed that is does indeed have two scsi disks, > but freebsd only finds one. > > Attached is the dmesg... notice the sym0 and sym1. > Does this

Re: dhclient.conf or DHCP

2003-11-29 Thread Mike Maltese
> I have my freebsd DHCP server set up and working great. Well great for > Windows clients, but not much so for BSD clients. > > Under the Windows clients I just set the host name and when the DHCP > gets a request it dutifully does the job of assigning an IP address as > well as putting in the pro

Re: SCSI/ATA disk control

2003-11-28 Thread Mike Maltese
> Is there a way of controling SCSI/ATA disks (turning them on/off) on an online > working live system? man camcontrol man atacontrol I'm not sure that you can stop ATA drives, but camcontrol allows you to stop/start SCSI drives. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IPFILTER rules with shell symbloic substitution

2003-11-26 Thread Mike Maltese
> /etc/rc.firewall has lots of examples using ipfw; the concepts should > work just as well with ipf. I'm not sure that's true. /etc/rc.firewall is a shell script, an IP Filter ruleset isn't. From the documentation and my own use of it, IP Filter doesn't support variable substitution. If you're ru

Re: Samba tutorial

2003-11-25 Thread Mike Maltese
> Greetings, > I just installed Freebsd 4.9 on a machine. > I want to setup Samba so that a NT4 server > can copy some files to the Freebsd 4.9 machine. > > I am looking for fine manual to read, or turtorial > for setting it up. The Freebsd machine will be a > member of an existing windows domain

Re: how to change the name of root?

2003-11-13 Thread Mike Maltese
> When I get admin emails from my remote boxes, or send messages from them, > they are from root or charlie root. How do I change this? chpass will open up your default editor and allow you to change the "Full Name" of the account. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vinum and reserved space

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Maltese
> Nope. I did not ask _how_ to change the amount of reserved space, I asked > whether I _should_ change the amount of reserved space, and if so, at what > stage. Sorry, guess I skimmed over the question too fast. So change it to 4% apiece. Or less. I assume a volume of this size is being used for

Re: Vinum and reserved space

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Maltese
> I've just bought 2 x 160GB drives which I want to RAID 1 with vinum. I > used /stand/sysinstall to fdisk and disklabel them, mounted them as /temp1 > and /temp2 and checked the size of them using 'df' to stick into my > vinum.conf file. > > I'm a bit confused though; the output of df does not inc

Re: How to determine the kernel options that are compiled in a runningkernel?

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Maltese
> I've got a customized kernel but no KERNCONF file, how can I determine what options/devices were used when compiling the kernel? Short of having INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE in your kernel config at compile time as Kris mentioned, kldstat -v can give you pretty good idea what's in there. ___

Re: upgrade named

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Maltese
> I've been trying to upgrade named to version 9 > but seem to be missing something > > Currently have: FreeBSD 4.6.2 with named 8.3.3 > > downloaded, configured and installed version 9 - updated rc.conf to > point to the new location, rebooted and I'm still running 8.3.3 > Try "make -DPORT_RE

Re: How to run php4 as CGI pgm

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Maltese
> I install in the following order: > > apache+mod_ssl-1.3.28+2.8.15_1 (with suExec) > mysql-client-4.0.16 > php4-cgi-4.3.4.r1 > > and followed the steps in INSTALL. This did not make libphp4.so. So I am not > sure of the step to follow. Do I need to build php in apache also? www/php4-cgi doesn't

Re: Dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD - odd problem

2003-11-03 Thread Mike Maltese
Ruben de Groot wrote: Just a shot in the dark, but is your disk configured as a "dynamic disk" in XP? No, the disk is basic. This installation is XP Home (guess I should have mentioned that), so dynamic disks are not possible anyway. ___ [EMAIL PR

Re: Dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD - odd problem

2003-11-03 Thread Mike Maltese
Hi Mike, Do you have WinXP and FreeBSD on the same disc or on two separate discs? Thanatos Same physical disk. Windoze is on ad0s1 and FBSD is on ad0s2. At the moment I'm looking into restoring XP's MBR and then utilizing it's boot manager by copying the FreeBSD boot blocks. I know this can

Dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD - odd problem

2003-11-02 Thread Mike Maltese
I've installed FreeBSD on a friend's box with a pre-existing Windows XP installation. This isn't the first time I've done this, my personal desktop machine is dual boot Win2K/FreeBSD, and there are no problems. On to the problem...the machine starts up normally and the FreeBSD boot manager pres

Re: http file server

2003-10-30 Thread Mike Maltese
> Hi Friends, I have been asked to come up with some kind of system so that > our company can share the data & drawings with different customers and > vendors. What you're describing sounds like an extranet. Apache with SSL sounds like a good idea here, especially if this is sensitive data. > Pr

Re: dumping the contents of a hard-drive

2003-10-29 Thread Mike Maltese
> What would you guys say would be the best method of dumping a live file > system and excluding a certain group of directories(namely /tmp and > /mnt)? Well, if /tmp is on it's own partition, you can just omit it from your dump routine. Otherwise, set the nodump flag. See man chflags. You will ha

Re: dumping the contents of a hard-drive

2003-10-29 Thread Mike Maltese
> Hi. I have a FreeBSD 5.1 box that has 2 hard drives. They are both > Seagate ST380011A (Capacity: 78.18 GB). Currently I am only utilizing > one hard drive and Iam planning to use the other one as a back-up. > > Which utility can I use to dump all the contents of the my first drive > to the

Re: vinum concatenated raid setup problems

2003-10-24 Thread Mike Maltese
> it doesn't look like the vinum kld is being loaded, since even with the > vinum config gone, it should say something like "no vinum drives found, > vinum not loaded" in dmesg (i think, please correct me if im wrong) i > will investigate this furthar and report back. So you've checked kldstat fol

Re: vinum concatenated raid setup problems

2003-10-23 Thread Mike Maltese
> start_vinum="YES" is already in the /etc/rc.conf...see below: > > --- > thegibsor# cat /etc/rc.conf > # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sun Oct 19 20:37:29 2003 > # Created: Sun Oct 19 20:37:29 2003 > # Enable network daemons for user convenienc

Re: vinum concatenated raid setup problems

2003-10-23 Thread Mike Maltese
> The problems: > 1 - I am able to build the RAID, create a filesystem, and mount to a > directory in the tree. But I am not able to figure out how to add an > entry to my /etc/fstab file so that it is automatically mounted on > reboot. I have looked in the handbook and all it says is to "add the >

Re: DVD drive

2003-10-23 Thread Mike Maltese
> Well, I did that and when I try mplayer -vo dga -dvd 2 > /dev/dvd I get the following error > > Reading config file > /usr/local/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or > directory > Reading config file /home/bsdsys/.mplayer/config > Reading /home/bsdsys/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open >

Re: DVD drive

2003-10-23 Thread Mike Maltese
> DVD drive in and took the plugs from my cd-rom drive > and pluged them into my dvd. I don't know shit about > hardware so maybe I shouldn't have done this. Thats As long as it's jumpered correctly, this should be fine > why I'm here. The handbook says I should ln -sf > /dev/acd0c /dev/dvd and l

Re: How i can encode pcm to mp3

2003-10-23 Thread Mike Maltese
> I wnat record radio, when i absent. > When i use # lame , sound don't rec. I'm not sure what you're using to actually record with, but lame can encode pcm data to mp3. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: Databases

2003-10-22 Thread Mike Maltese
> I just went through the download page of postgresql but I couldn't see > the client for windows, could you send me the link for the client or is > it accessible with IE? As with most things Microsoft, IE sucks, and it really sucks at FTP. Try a real FTP client and/or a mirror. FTP to ftp9.us.po

Re: Databases

2003-10-22 Thread Mike Maltese
> I have a small business and I'm looking to setup a freebsd server. I > want to connect about 4 clients to this server running windows XP. The > Freebsd server will keep a database of every customer address, phone > number, what services that were performed, how much was charged, etc > etc. Thi

Re: Best place to start a misc program at bootup

2003-10-20 Thread Mike Maltese
>So there's /etc/rc, and etc/rc.local, and then there's the fancy rc.conf > scripts which stat programs. /etc/rc and /etc/rc.local don't appear to be > "designated" places for starting up misc. programs, so where do we put these > misc programs which we want to run at startup? Take a look in /

Re: PHP settings

2003-10-17 Thread Mike Maltese
> I am concerned about PHP vunerabilities. can somebody send me to a good site > which discusses what should be enabled and disabled in the php.conf file? http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.index.php ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.f

Re: atacontrol(8)

2003-10-15 Thread Mike Maltese
> acd0: DVDROM at ata1-master UDMA66 I stand corrected, although I maintain that no optical drive is capable of that kind of throughput. =) I was kinda wondering if he'd been duped on the specs of the drive. Thanks, Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: atacontrol(8)

2003-10-14 Thread Mike Maltese
> Why to this file and not to /etc/sysctl.conf? I have no monitor on that > box, so I want to make sure it is more likely to work after the reboot. :-) I can't remember exactly why, but trust me, it will work. > But why does it sets it to UDMA33, but not to UDMA66? Have you actually tried it ye

Re: atacontrol(8)

2003-10-14 Thread Mike Maltese
> Second, where do I have to indicate that my DVD-ROM supports UDMA66? I > assume that after saying "atacontrol mode 1 udma66 udma66", the settings > are going to be vanished the next reboot. Add the following to /boot/loader.conf: hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" Reboot. Check dmesg. > Third, why it doe

Re: HP Surestore DAT24i with FreeBSD

2003-10-14 Thread Mike Maltese
> Greetings, > How can I found out if this DAT tape drive > (HP DAT24i) works with FreeBSD ? Hook it up and see if it works. =) Seriously though, it should work fine. It will show up as an sa device. I have a HP DDS-2 autoloader (the drive portion of it is similar to yours) that works flawlessly

Re: Setting the sticky bit on /var/mail...

2003-10-07 Thread Mike Maltese
> Absolutely you are correct, and the crowd goes wild with > applause...thank you. > Glad it helped. =) > I suppose it would be nice to know what set all of the following on > /var/mail: > > opaque nodump uappnd uchg uunlnk > > because it sure wasn't me. > > Removing them allowed me to set the ap

Re: Setting the sticky bit on /var/mail...

2003-10-07 Thread Mike Maltese
This may not be correct, but my first instinct would be to check for a flag on the directory, i.e., 'ls -lo /var | grep mail'. See man pages for chflags and ls if necessary. > I am using Exim as a local mail agent on 5.1-RELEASE-p10. Suddenly, I > can no longer set the sticky bit on /var/mail...

Re: Booting without keyboard.

2003-10-06 Thread Mike Maltese
> Is there a way to turn the keyboard always 'on' so that i can get it to work whenever i plug it in after the system is up and running. > In your kernel config, remove any flags for the keyboard device, i.e: device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 Now build a new kernel, reboot, and it should

Re: Onboard Sound Card

2003-10-03 Thread Mike Maltese
"device pcm" should work. - Original Message - From: "Mihail Stoyanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 8:12 AM Subject: Onboard Sound Card > Hello, > I have Int

Re: samba 3.0, FreeBSD 5.1

2003-10-02 Thread Mike Maltese
> It's in > /usr/ports/net/samba-devel/ > Yes, but the port hasn't been updated to the release version. You'll have to modify the Makefile to fetch the current release. I've done it and it does build, however I haven't installed it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: upgrading to 4 stable

2003-10-01 Thread Mike Maltese
> What I got was 4.9 prerelease. With this version I can't use > /stand/sysinstall to install software. It keeps telling me that the FTP > server doesn't have the ports for 4.9. The ports in /usr/ports work fine > but it would be nice to use /stand/sysinstall. Why use sysinstall for this? Why not

Re: Sendmail vs. Postfix...

2003-09-24 Thread Mike Maltese
> Quick question. How hard is it to set up Postfix. I am getting tried of > Sendmail. Is it hard to set up Postfix to access passwords so that the > only mail can be sent. I've been running Postfix after migrating from Sendmail for the better part of a year now. I found it much easier to set up i

Re: Installing Ethernet Driver.

2003-09-22 Thread Mike Maltese
> hey, > While installing FreeBSD4.5 from CD on my system, I could not install the driver for the ethernet. After installing the freeBSD, I checked "ifconfig" and found no entry for the ethernet. Well, since i did not install any driver for ethernet during installation of FreeBSD its obvious that t

Re: how to enable auto power off

2003-09-17 Thread Mike Maltese
In your kernel config: device apm0at nexus? flags 0x20 Add to rc.conf (before you boot the new kernel): apm_enable="yes" Now to power off, use 'shutdown -p now'. See also apm(4). - Original Message - From: "Tadimeti Keshav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: FreeBSD or WinXP????

2003-09-17 Thread Mike Maltese
> In GNOME i have very fast keyboard. I put (for example) key 'A' and > in 1 secong i get: > > Very fast it's cool! But KDE can't to do it. In KDE I have very slow > keyboard... it's very bad:((( How I can to do more keyboard-speed??? > I'd like use

Re: Updating SSH, patch failed?

2003-09-17 Thread Mike Maltese
> After running the instructions verbatim, sshd shows the following version > string: > > OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030201, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090701f There was a thread about this earlier, the version and date don't change with the patch/build. > Also the command to restart sshd giv

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