Re: BSD logo

2010-07-23 Thread Tim Judd
On 7/23/10, Victor Skovorodnikov wrote: > Hi! > > This may sound strange but I have a question about logo. Why such a logo > for BSD? What is the > meaning of that logo? > > I have always been thinking of trying FreeBSD but as a Christian I get > deterred by its un-Christian > logo. > > Have you

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Tim Judd
On 7/20/10, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Jerry wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:03:55 +0300 >> Odhiambo Washington articulated: >> >> >>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman >>> wrote: >>> > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:33:28 -0400 >>> > Jerry wrote:

Re: Tv-card for freebsd

2010-07-14 Thread Tim Judd
On 7/14/10, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Hello list! > > I'm in the process of buying a tv-card for dvb-t transmissions. > > Any tips on cards that have a driver for freebsd? > > Thank you. For a built-in tuner card itself, no recommendations. For an alternative solution, look at silicondust.com for

Re: Local cvs repository

2010-07-13 Thread Tim Judd
On 7/12/10, Peter Boosten wrote: > Hi all, > > I run a local cvs repository for year now, but since a couple of days I > get these on the clients: > > Server message: Unknown collection "src-all" > Server message: Unknown collection "ports-all" But you still have your source and ports tree on the

Re: Dell workstation / server Freebsd's compatibility

2010-06-26 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/26/10, Olivier GARNIER wrote: > Hi, > > > I've got an old workstation wich i use to have FreeBSD server on it > (http/samba/ 4 disk on RAID) > It's summer time and the old workstation will not work at the end the > summer time (too warm for it) > > So ii wish to change it. > I don't need a bi

Re: Network card attaching to the wrong driver

2010-06-23 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/23/10, Nicholas Mills wrote: > All, > > I am running 8.0-RELEASE and having trouble with the ed driver that is > compiled by default into GENERIC. My machine is actually a VM running under > Parallels Server Bare Metal 4. I would like my card to be attached to the > Parallels driver in ports

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/12/10, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/06/2010 16:38:13, Chad Perrin wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 08:06:52AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> >>> Absolutely. Especially when you compare it to MacPorts and consider the >>> disparity in nu

nVidia motherboards

2010-06-08 Thread Tim Judd
I thought I saw even some partial support for nVidia motherboards.. but can't find it again. I can't get even get the kernel to load. it's an Atom 32-bit board and would like to find that reference again. If you can help me look I'd love the help. --Tim ___

Re: Apache 2.2, mod_auth_kerb

2010-06-02 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/2/10, John wrote: > On 2010-06-02 18:56, Tim Judd wrote: >> On 6/2/10, John wrote: >>> On 2010-05-20 23:34, Tim Judd wrote: >>>> On 5/20/10, John wrote: >>>>> Hi list. >>>>> >>>>> I'm having problems getti

Re: Apache 2.2, mod_auth_kerb

2010-06-02 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/2/10, John wrote: > On 2010-05-20 23:34, Tim Judd wrote: >> On 5/20/10, John wrote: >>> Hi list. >>> >>> I'm having problems getting mod_auth_kerb to play nice on one of my >>> servers. >>> I have the exact same setup on other m

Re: Postfix bad command startup??

2010-05-31 Thread Tim Judd
On 5/31/10, Kaya Saman wrote: > Hi, > > similar like I wrote before, to do with my migration from Solaris 9 to > FreeBSD 8.0 x64 RELEASE. > > Postfix is being run in a BSD Jail and so far I have disabled as much as > I could of sendmail which I did this to rc.conf within the jail: > > postfix_enab

Re: Possible to run Linux distro in a jail?

2010-05-28 Thread Tim Judd
On 5/28/10, Yuri wrote: > When I googled "linux in a jail" I got some references but no particular > howto. > Since currently VirtualBox is broken (hangs OS after a while), is it > really possible to install Linux into a jail as a virtual machine? > > Yuri No. Jail is a userland "world" shari

Re: Diskless Booting Can't Set /var in mfs larger than 4MB

2010-05-23 Thread Tim Judd
On 5/23/10, Bill Tillman wrote: > I have a diskless workstation booting nicely but for some reason I cannot > get the /var directory to set larger than 4MB. The docs I read said edit > /pxeroot/conf/base/etc/fstab like this: > > # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options

Re: freebsd on netbook

2010-05-20 Thread Tim Judd
On 5/19/10, Anh Ky Huynh wrote: > Hello all, > > I intend to buy a netbook for convenience (for many remote jobs, a netbook > seems to be enough) whose cost is around $400. I'd like have freebsd on that > netbook (oh, no linux, no windows, please :-) but it's hard to choose a > right one that work

Re: Apache 2.2, mod_auth_kerb

2010-05-20 Thread Tim Judd
On 5/20/10, John wrote: > Hi list. > > I'm having problems getting mod_auth_kerb to play nice on one of my servers. > I have the exact same setup on other machines and it works perfectly, > only difference is this ones running CURRENT while they track RELEASE. > > Some info: > > # pkg_info|grep ap

Re: Problem with Custom Kernel

2010-05-11 Thread Tim Judd
On 5/11/10, Heshmat Ismail wrote: > Dear Sir, > My name is Heshmat Ismail.The output of uname-a is:- > FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #12: Tue May 11 11:05:22 UTC > 2010 heshmat@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 > After I have built and installed my custom kernel (MYKERNEL),i ins

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

2010-05-10 Thread Tim Judd
On 5/10/10, John Levine wrote: Is there a simple software to share files between a FreeBSD server and a windows client other than Samba which is a bit overkill for my needings, > > I concur with the advice to use Samba, but if that's too scary, you > can just use FTP. Recent versions of

Re: bsd server

2010-05-04 Thread Tim Judd
On 5/4/10, Lion wrote: > hello, > > I would like hire server and dealing with hosting and I would like to > use freebsd. > What version will be the best for me must include possibility to install > databases, making backups, working with virtual terminal. > > Thanks Regards > TM Check pairLite h

Re: boot Debian on a RouterStation Pro

2010-05-03 Thread Tim Judd
On 5/3/10, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 3 May 2010 10:34:21 -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: >> Why on earth would someone put Debian and FreeBSD and "distros" in the >> same breath, must be a joke. >> >> I use Debian _and_ FreeBSD extensively but I have no confusion in tha >> FBSD is not a Linux dis

Re: Why nfs mounts are allowed that aren't in /etc/exports?

2010-04-22 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/22/10, Yuri wrote: > I only have this one line exports: > /usr/diskless.sparc64 -alldirs -maproot=root -network=192.168.0 > -mask=255.255.255.0 > > But somhow all mounts are succeed: /home, usr/ports, etc. > > Isn't exports supposed to limit what can be mounted? > > Yuri Because you didn't

Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO -> "Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist"

2010-04-22 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/22/10, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on an HP Proliant > server. To be specific I try to instal the amd64 variant of FreeBSD > 8.0 on a ProLiant DL385 G1. > > Since the server is remote installation is to be done via the virtual > CD/DVD o

Re: How to mount mfsroot?

2010-04-22 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/22/10, Yuri wrote: > I am trying to set up NFS install, and need to modify mfsroot to not > load sysinstall. > But vnconfig is disabled in 8.0. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html > suggests using "vnconfig vn0 mfsroot" > But vnconfig is disabled in 8.0. > >

Re: hacked?

2010-04-14 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/14/10, Steve Franks wrote: > I don't have bsdstats or similar that I'm aware of installed, so this > smells bad: > > Firewall is showing repeated attempts from your FreeBSD machine to > connect to port 25 (standard SMTP mail port) on a server in Belgium. This > implies something on your syste

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-07 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/6/10, Peter Steele wrote: >>What incidentally does /var get populated with? Our image has a custom >> directory under /var but this did not show up in the MFS versions of this >> directory. I can get >around this but I wonder what else might not be >> included? > > I found something else that

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-06 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/6/10, Peter Steele wrote: >>If FreeBSD cannot write to /tmp or /var on boot, it automatically >>creates a MFS filesystems for those mountpoints and mounts them during >> boot. You don't need to do anything. >> >>It works as the same readonly compactflash environments out there. > > What inci

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-05 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/5/10, Peter Steele wrote: >>If FreeBSD cannot write to /tmp or /var on boot, it automatically creates a >> MFS filesystems for those mountpoints >>and mounts them during boot. You don't need to do anything. >> >>It works as the same readonly compactflash environments out there. > > D'oh! Man

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-05 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/5/10, Peter Steele wrote: >> But ... why are you constricting yourself to use mfs_root? I have many >> times ran FreeBSD completely from CDrom, which >>will give you all 700 (or a DVD, 4.3G) usable space. >> >>I'd be happy to help, if you have questions. but please direct the >> questions t

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-05 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/5/10, Peter Steele wrote: > We have a USB boot stick based cloning process that we're considering > porting to a DVD based media. I'm not sure though that it's possible due to > the restrictions I've seen in the mfsroot environment we'd have to use. For > example, in our USB disk procedure, w

Re: How to create a "base" distribution set?

2010-04-05 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/5/10, Peter Steele wrote: > One of the distribution sets that comes on a standard release DVD is "base". > This includes the core set of binaries as well as the files under /etc and a > few other text files. Running "make installworld" doesn't collect everything > that's needed. Is there a ma

Re: under X, frozen keys, no mouse

2010-04-04 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/4/10, Henry Olyer wrote: > I installed FBSD 7.3 on an older Compaq box. It has a built-in video card, > this isn't a top of the line superfast machine. > > But it is important for me to press it into service. > > I tried using a couple of Option lines in xorg.conf, but no luck. Would be nic

Re: Support for Zotac MB with nVidia ION chipset

2010-04-04 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/4/10, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Hi, > > --->> Please Cc: me when replying, I'm not subscribed. <<--- > > I plan to purchase a Zotac motherboard with a embedded ATOM processor. > It uses an NVidia chipset. > > http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-ionitx-f-e-atom-n330-1-6ghz-dual-core-mini-itx-intel-mot

Re: Fwd: mkuzip and/or geom_uzip changes? - SOLVED

2010-04-03 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/1/10, Tim Judd wrote: > On 4/1/10, Tim Judd wrote: >> On 4/1/10, John Baldwin wrote: >>> On Wednesday 31 March 2010 6:32:09 pm Tim Judd wrote: >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> Just starting to see if I can find other reports. You all probably &g

mkuzip and/or geom_uzip changes?

2010-03-31 Thread Tim Judd
Hi All, Just starting to see if I can find other reports. You all probably have had the "more than one pair of eyes looking at a thing is better than my eyes alone." This is why I'm writing now, as I'm starting the discovery. Let me background this a little bit. I only started looking into thi

Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email

2010-03-29 Thread Tim Judd
On 3/27/10, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Tim Judd wrote: >> On 3/27/10, Ron (Lists) wrote: >> > Is there a way to get my freebsd/postfix setup to send push >> > notifications to an iPhone ... I know it can be done with >> > Exchange and ActiveSync,

Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email

2010-03-27 Thread Tim Judd
On 3/27/10, Ron (Lists) wrote: > Is there a way to get my freebsd/postfix setup to send push notifications to > an iPhone (I assume other smart phones work the same way). I've searched > the web and I can't find any information about how to make this work. I > know it can be done with Exchange a

Re: Also have a dead box [ WAS: Re: OT: dead box ]

2010-03-23 Thread Tim Judd
On 3/23/10, Corey John Bukolt wrote: > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:23:34 + (06:23 CDT) Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> When you press the power button does the cpu fan or the power supply fan >> spin for a moment then stop? That's a sign that something on or plugged >> in to the motherboard has blown. U

Re: Which version of FreeBSD is it?

2010-03-18 Thread Tim Judd
On 3/17/10, Антон Клесс wrote: > That is what I suspected for. > > What is the most safe way to upgrade it, remembering that this is production > server and I have to keep it working properly? > > 6.2-RC1 -> 6.2 RELEASE -> 7.2 RELEASE -> 8.0 RELEASE, or somehow in this > style? Honestly, if a s

Re: powerd on 8.0, is it considered safe?

2010-03-08 Thread Tim Judd
I've been running powerd for a while. Been running it on an ASUS B202. It brought my freq down to 100mhz when I checked on it. Stopping powerd brought the freq up to 1600, and restarting powerd brought it back to 100mhz eventually. You might need to load an ACPI module for your system. Mine w

Re: Debug still in kernel

2010-03-06 Thread Tim Judd
On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett wrote: > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 13:51, Tim Judd wrote: > >> On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett wrote: >> > Hello all, >> > >> > I am currently tracking RELENG_8_0. I did a csup last night and noticed >> that >> > debug is st

Re: Debug still in kernel

2010-03-06 Thread Tim Judd
On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett wrote: > Hello all, > > I am currently tracking RELENG_8_0. I did a csup last night and noticed that > debug is still enabled in the GENERIC kernel. I thought debugging was > supposed to be left out once the 8 branch went RELEASE? Can anyone shed > light on this subject?

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Tim Judd
On 3/5/10, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Judd writes: > > Tim> I've been in that same boat. I eventually came to the decision to: > Tim> Install PPTP server software, accepting connections from any IP. > > Whoa. Here we ar

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Tim Judd
Replies interspersed On 3/5/10, John wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 07:03:53AM -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: >> On 03/05/10 06:54, John wrote: >> > My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes >> > in them. One day, over 6500. This is enough that I can actually

Re: Question about Jails

2010-02-27 Thread Tim Judd
On 2/27/10, Gökşin Akdeniz wrote: >> >> I understand this is possible but cant seem to find any how to`s or >> guides out on the net, I would like to set up a jail running FreeBSD 8.0 >> i386 on a system that is running FreeBSD 8.0 amd64. >> > JAILS requires host and client systems source code in

Re: IDE ZIP100 Drive

2010-02-23 Thread Tim Judd
On 2/23/10, Programmer In Training wrote: > On 02/22/10 14:32, Programmer In Training wrote: >> Second attempt to post this to the list. Please bear with me as I'm >> having issues with my posts to the list not always making it through. >> >> OK, after some searching I've come up (almost) empty ha

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-15 Thread Tim Judd
On 2/15/10, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 wrote: > >> http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm >> > > Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? > Without even clicking his link, I've had past experience with a "legit" website b

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Tim Judd
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Joe Springer wrote: > Hi. > > I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After > installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For > example, samba. > > I found that > > pkg_add -r samba > > fails. I need to know

Re: Raw sockets in jails

2010-01-25 Thread Tim Judd
On 1/25/10, Nathan Butcher wrote: > Thanks for the link. That clears a few things up, but not quite what I'm > trying to achieve.I set the following in rc.conf for a jail called "test" > > jail_test_flags="allow.raw_sockets" > > then I start the test jail with > > # /etc/rc.d/jail start test > > .

Re: "Invalid partition table" after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread Tim Judd
> OK - my current best theory is that if the Standard boot manager > is faced with anything other than exactly 1 bootable slice (partition > to it), it defaults to "Invalid partition table." I'll bet anyone > lunch that this is true. Any takers? I've read before: the standard bootloader lo

Re: GELI file systems unusable after "glabel label" operations

2010-01-22 Thread Tim Judd
On 1/14/10, Scott Bennett wrote: > I used "glabel label" to label each of the file systems I have on > external > disk drives. Unfortunately, afterward I am now unable to "geli attach" any > of > the GELI-encrypted file systems. The system is FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE. Is > there > a way to get t

Re: pf rules

2010-01-22 Thread Tim Judd
On 1/22/10, kalin m wrote: > > hi all... > > doing testing with pf... > > how is it possible that if i have these rules below in pf.conf if i do: > telnet that.host.org 25 > > i get: > Trying xx.xx.xx.xx... > Connected to that.host.org. > Escape character is '^]'. > ... etc ... > > > p

Fwd: DSN (was: Re: Receive email from Exchange 2003)

2010-01-20 Thread Tim Judd
.@com.vn> References: <00bf01ca9a45$51a26aa0$f4e73f...@com.vn> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:22:34 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Receive email from Exchange 2003 From: Tim Judd To: Truong Thu Bac Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer

Re: Receive email from Exchange 2003

2010-01-20 Thread Tim Judd
On 1/20/10, Truong Thu Bac wrote: > Dear Mr/Ms, > > > > I want to build a Internal Email System between a PC with FreeBSD OS and > Exchange 2003 (Email Server) > > > > Current, I got a Proxy Server (IP:10.20.1.10) within FreeBSD OS. I > installed Sendemail Software and Qpopper Software. > > I tri

Re: Trying to build 8.0 Headless Installation Disk

2010-01-15 Thread Tim Judd
Replies inline On 1/13/10, Martin McCormick wrote: > Tim Judd writes: >> ^^^ mkisofs needs to have the boot record >> -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot >> >> >> And as another option, you might look at mfsBSD, it runs off mfs (RAM) >> disks with sshd being ena

Re: Trying to build 8.0 Headless Installation Disk

2010-01-13 Thread Tim Judd
Replies inserted below On 1/13/10, Martin McCormick wrote: > I started to use the same strategy that worked in 6.x > but it is not working right now. > > I obtained8.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso and did: > mkdir 8.0serial > tar xf 8.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso > > This produced a read-

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Tim Judd
On 1/11/10, David Southwell wrote: >> I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which >> I get brute force ssh attacks. >> >> HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: >> >> # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you >> # need to do it, here's how >> #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.c

Jails - Ethernet data vs IP data

2010-01-09 Thread Tim Judd
Hi all, I bought a new SiliconDust HDHomeRun device which brings two Digital coaxial tuners to an ethernet network. From what I read and understand about the HDHomeRun ("HDHR"), is that it does have an IP address assigned to the system, but all packets of video are actually just raw Ethernet pac

Re: Jails setup with binary packages only

2009-12-27 Thread Tim Judd
On 12/27/09, Guy Marcenac wrote: > I would like to use a freebsd system with binary packages only. I want > to heavily use the jail concept. All the documentation about jails > implies the use of buildworld into the jails. > > In order to avoid any compilation time, I installed a minimal base > sy

Re: question about building a custom kernel

2009-12-19 Thread Tim Judd
On 12/19/09, Jamie Griffin wrote: > Hi > > I have been reading the handbook to learn about building a custom > kernel, but just wanted to ask something about gathering information > about my hardware before I give it a go. > > The handbook suggests the command: > > # pciconf -lv > > ...which I lik

Re: fixit and gmirror

2009-12-08 Thread Tim Judd
On 12/8/09, Joey Mingrone wrote: > Hello: > > I was upgrading a system from 7.2 to 8.0 and all was going well until > the make installkernel step. The / partition filled up when the new > kernel was installing. Since /boot was taking up most of the space I > moved /boot to /usr/ and create a sym

Re: 8.0 & MYSQL50 denying access to user root no password

2009-11-30 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/29/09, Fbsd1 wrote: > For many releases of Freebsd going back to 4.3 I have all ways used the > default mysql user root localhost with no password which has been the > default. > With 8.0/mysql-server-5.0.86 I am denied access now. > The mysql manual still says the normal install defaults to

Re: device hint -> disable firewire or sbp driver

2009-11-21 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/21/09, David Horn wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Tim Judd wrote: >> On 11/21/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote: >>> Tim Judd wrote: >>>> Any way via tunables, environment, sysctl or device hints that one can >>>> disable firewire on t

Re: device hint -> disable firewire or sbp driver

2009-11-21 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/21/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Tim Judd wrote: >> Any way via tunables, environment, sysctl or device hints that one can >> disable firewire on the install medium of recent (7.2 and newer) >> Install CD/DVDs? >> >> more than one person is having probl

Re: BTX Loader crashes -- Help wanted

2009-11-20 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/20/09, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > Who should I be talking to if the BTX loader is crashing on my > specific hardware configuration, and what specific info do I > need to be gathering for him/her in order to have hope of getting > the problem rectified? Since the BTX is the BooT eXten

Re: diskless problem: Lookup of /dev for devfs, error: 13

2009-11-19 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/19/09, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Michael W. Lucas < > mwlu...@blackhelicopters.org> wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm attempting to run a diskless 8.0 i386 workstation on VMWare, using >> an OpenSolaris box as a file store. I get PXE, the kernel loads, but >> when

Re: Re: Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-19 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/18/09, Mario Pavlov wrote: > oh yes, I got what you meant now > true, I used /usr from the server because I wanted to have all my ports > available to the client. Is there a nice way to install ports only in the > diskless distribution ? > > thank you. > > Regards > Mario Just like any oth

device hint -> disable firewire or sbp driver

2009-11-18 Thread Tim Judd
Any way via tunables, environment, sysctl or device hints that one can disable firewire on the install medium of recent (7.2 and newer) Install CD/DVDs? more than one person is having problems with kernel panics on startup due to firewire, and I can't google my way out of this one. Any advice f

Re: Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-18 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/16/09, Mario Pavlov wrote: > indeed you get bonus points if you firewall yourself :) > and of course this is not the first time I do that so my score is pretty > good > however my favourite is to forget about net.inet.ip.forwarding when I > upgrade routers with many clients :) > > Tim, than

Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/16/09, Mario Pavlov wrote: > Hi, > it turned out I was stupid enough to misconfigure the kernel...I forgot that > I had left the IPFIREWALL options turned on and as you know it's default to > deny so once the kernel initializes ipfw it blocks everything including NFS > so that was the whole

Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-15 Thread Tim Judd
Please compare my working configuration to yours to check. I found lots of odd problems in your post and I thought it'd be best to just run with this clean slate. Network config: One low-power PC Engines ALIX board running as the NFS server, with a microdrive partitioned off for it's own syst

Re: 7.2-STABLE X mouse & keyboard issues

2009-11-11 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/11/09, stan wrote: > I just built a brand new 7.2 STABLE machine, and the xorg package. startx > brings up a nice screen, but neither the mouse, nor the keyboard (both USB) > function in X. > > I have not created a /etx/X11/ config file yet. Do I need to do so? If so, > what;s the best way?

Re: Cut/Paste with USB mouse inoperative

2009-11-10 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/10/09, Carmel wrote: > I just switched from a regular mouse to a USB mouse wireless mouse. > The mouse works fine except that the cut/paste middle button feature is > inoperative. The scroll feature works correctly though. I removed all > references to 'mouse' in the /etc/rc.conf file and re

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-09 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/9/09, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > I've just been installing 7.2-RELEASE/amd64 on a fresh/wiped system > that I plan to use as my future "main" workstation. > > Anyway, I've already noticed a couple of things that seem to be different > from prior release that I need to ask about, i.e.: >

Re: 7.2-p4 serial console not showing kernel messages?

2009-11-09 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/9/09, Sven Hazejager wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 17:52, Lowell Gilbert > wrote: >> Checking the obvious: syslog.conf is configured to send the messages to >> the console? > > Haven't touched syslog.conf but this all happens before syslog is even > starting. The problem is that the conso

Re: Hi! a question about log in dmesg

2009-11-07 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/7/09, Jesús Abidan wrote: > Hi, there, i am a pretty good user in linux and i don't know i am getting > some strange info in my dmesg file: > > at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 > at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 > at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c > at_matroute: v=(16)10ff0

Re: dhcpd related issue - not giving up

2009-11-02 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/2/09, Dánielisz László wrote: > I tried about 10 conf, here is the actual one: > > # cat /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf > authoritative; > ddns-update-style none; > > subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { > option routers 192.168.1.1; > > > pool { >option domain-name-servers cn

Re: issues with email migration

2009-11-02 Thread Tim Judd
ore trying the /www again? > I have no choice but to leave this as it is and set up a similar arrangement > on my new server. > > Thank you to everyone who responded. > > -Original Message- > From: Tim Judd [mailto:taj...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, October 31, 200

Re: dhcpd related issue - not giving up

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Judd
ting leases when your firewall was disabled, I would lean toward a misconfigured dhcpd.conf. I don't think I've seen in the same post: ifconfig rl1 cat /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf Please provide these. Thanks. > > From: Tim Judd > To: Dán

Re: dhcpd related issue - not giving up

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Judd
is your dhcpd authoritative? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: best way to install/update software and firewall choice

2009-10-31 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/31/09, phantomcircuit wrote: > freebsd-update works fine in a jail so long as you symlink the kernel > file to /dev/null I've never needed to do that. I run lots of jails and i just run freebsd-update like normal. I don't install the kern sets in the jails though, just base. cat base.?? |

Re: issues with email migration

2009-10-31 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/31/09, da...@farmington.k12.mo.us wrote: > only one issue with that. The server in question is an emc clereon(sorry > not at work to look at the specifics) and at this point the only access I > have to it is a web interface and am unable to access a command line. > > Also a stupid question m

Re: issues with email migration

2009-10-30 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/30/09, usleepl...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi David, > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:59 PM, David Patton > wrote: > >> This morning I moved the contents from the server over to an NFS share. >> >> >> >> This is a freebsd 6.2 server running postfix, courier-imap and >> squirrelmail. >> I used rsync t

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 ia64

2009-10-30 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/30/09, Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa wrote: > Hi my name is Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa, > > I made the dowmload of FreeBSD 7.2 ia64 i wanna know if is normal the files > of disc 2 and 3 have only 364Kb size. > > thank you very much. Yes, that's how it is been released. Disc 2 and 3 are prebuilt pro

Re: most bizarre libc.so.7 problem

2009-10-25 Thread Tim Judd
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html#CANONICAL-BUILD Look at "the following recommended sequence": 1. make buildworld 2. make buildkernel 3. make installkernel 4. reboot in single user [*] 5. mergemaster -p 6. make installworld 7. mergemaster

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-17 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/17/09, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > Am Samstag, den 17.10.2009, 18:49 -0600 schrieb Tim Judd: >> On 10/17/09, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >> >> > You do not need to. dump alrady writes that when it finishes each time. >> > If you to that, you

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-17 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/17/09, Jerry McAllister wrote: > You do not need to. dump alrady writes that when it finishes each time. > If you to that, you will get a second one at that location. > > You do not need to do the rewind and mt fsf between each dump. I just > do it to make it very clear to myself in my sc

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Judd
Replies inline On 10/16/09, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:13:21PM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > >> Hello list, >> >> one example: If I have three partitions and I want to backup every day >> these partitions, will I need 21 tapes? >> >> I ask because it seems it is not pos

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/15/09, PJ wrote: > While trying to learn and understand the dump-retore process, I messed > up the ad4s1a partition and could not boot. To fix it I restored a > dumpfile of ad12s1a which is, for all intents and purposes, the same as > ad4s1a. I then boot from ad4 and surprise, surprise... >

Re: server specification.

2009-10-13 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/12/09, Marwan Sultan wrote: > > Hello gurus, > > > > Im going to a new server, and i donot want to have a problem.. > > May please anyone advice me of any feed back of FreeBSD 7.2 with the > following specification: > > any problems? > > > > > > 1x Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 > Kentsfield 2.4

Re: restore(8)ing new / -- boots on metal but not in a VM

2009-10-13 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/12/09, Alex Jurkiewicz wrote: > 2009/10/13 Tim Judd : >> Is the virtual machine using SCSI emulation to boot, or is it using IDE? >> >> SCSI drives are da(4), IDE drives are ata(4) [aka ad(4)] >> > > The dump was taken from an ad0 device on physical hardware

Re: restore(8)ing new / -- boots on metal but not in a VM

2009-10-12 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/12/09, Alex Jurkiewicz wrote: > Hi all, > A little background: I'm writing a script that will allow me to > restore(8) a standard FreeBSD partition to multiple machines. So far, > I'm at the 'see if it works in principle' stage, and I'm finding > something strange. > > My procedure: > * Star

Re: Trouble getting new raid array to boot

2009-10-08 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/8/09, David LeCount wrote: >> Is the aac driver in the kernel, or loaded as a kld before >> you get >> past the boot blocks, and loader? > > It's built into the kernel. Then my answer would be missing MBR or boot blocks, an active partition alone won't make a system boot. it's just a flag

Re: Trouble getting new raid array to boot

2009-10-08 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/8/09, David LeCount wrote: > I just built an aac raid array. I partitioned the disk, set the partition as > active, and copied all my files to it with tar. I changed fstab on the new > drive to reflect the changes. When I try to boot to the array, it says > invalid partition. I've tried typi

Re: BTX Halted

2009-10-06 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/6/09, Tseveendorj Ochirlantuu wrote: > Dear all, > I've found something strange I have never seen before. When start booting > FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 from ISO image in ESX 4.0 then error occurs. You can see > it from snapshot. > > I have following. > > Dell R900 with 4 CPU, 64GB RAM > ESX 4.0 ins

Re: Netwroked Storage

2009-10-02 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/2/09, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > I now have a quote from Dell, for a 4 TB, RAID5 NX3000 NAS. > > It comes pre configured with Windows Storage Server 2008 Standard Edition. > Dell support assures me it will be compatable with NFS on FreeBSD, but if we > are not happy with it we can wipe

Re: Ezjail, Perl, upgrading & best practices advise please

2009-10-02 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/2/09, Troy Kocher wrote: > All, > Couple issues: > 1) I need some understanding on how to deploy and upgrade perl > properly in this jailed environment. > 2) I need some help on my current tangle of Perl library complaints > > Issue #1: In a jailed environment how many installations of perl

Re: Query about pf.conf

2009-10-01 Thread Tim Judd
ftp-proxy(8) please read. Especially the configuration section. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Problem upgrading 7.2 to 8.0-RC1

2009-09-30 Thread Tim Judd
On 9/30/09, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0-RC1 without success. Any hint? > > This is my data: > > uname -a: > FreeBSD toshiba-leo.localhost.localdomain 7.2-STABLE-200906 FreeBSD > 7.2-STABLE-200906 #0: Sun Jun 7 10:23:49 UTC 2009 > r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.e

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-29 Thread Tim Judd
On 9/29/09, Polytropon wrote: > Honestly, I've never seen the need for extended DOS partitions. > Let's say you intendedly want to run a multi-OS system, then > you can install four systems, each one in its own slice, and > within the slice, the partitiions, if needed and supported. By using

Re: named issue

2009-09-25 Thread Tim Judd
On 9/25/09, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > [named] > > Lately I get messages like thin in my all.log: > > named[605]: too many timeouts resolving '*.*.*.*.zen.spamhaus.org/A' (in > 'zen.spamhaus.ORG'?): disabling EDNS > > (*) is random ip address > > Now before I add the following lines in /etc/named.conf

Re: Is it possible to setup a graid3 on root?

2009-09-25 Thread Tim Judd
On 9/25/09, Modulok wrote: > Just wondering if it is possible to setup a striped root partition > (graid3) and still be able to boot from it. Logically, it doesn't > sound promising, but has anyone tried this? > > Thanks! > -Modulok- Remember -- To boot off a distributed RAID, it needs to be kn

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