Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Greg Barniskis wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: Out of curiosity, is Beastie so terrible, a logo, that a business would be stupid enough to base their server decisions based on it? Would you care if a business were that dumb...would you actually *want* them using it

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Napper writes: Its been my experience that the corporate suits get the perception of "teenage hacker" from the cartoonish mascots. Agreed. And their perception is not always incorrect. Am I the only one that finds some amusement in the referen

Re: Virus question

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Karen Donathan wrote: To Whom it may concern: My name is Karen Donathan and I am a computer science teacher at George Washington High School in Charleston, WV. We run our website (http://gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us) on a FreeBSD server. This project was given to me, and I

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Peter Risdon wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:56 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 8:00 AM -0500 2/11/05, Bart Silverstrim wrote: [...] Since when did FreeBSD, a project always driven by volunteers and not by commercial matters, FreeBSD is a commercially viable

Re: My thoughts on the list as of late...

2005-02-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 12, 2005, at 7:19 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 4:11 AM To: FreeBSD - Questions Subject: OT: My thoughts on the list as of late... As I read *some* (mainly because th

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 12, 2005, at 5:30 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Michael C. Shultz writes: I Agree! My FreeBSD desktop is very stable and user friendly. What ever time I spend fixing/managing desktops is on my friends windows machines, never my own because it always just works. Maybe you can explain to me ho

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 12, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Vonleigh Simmons writes: Rat Bastards at FreeBSD that don't break into the companies, steal the code, and port their apps. I don't understand this comment. I can go months without rebooting. My NT machine has gone for nearly a year without a r

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 12, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Bart Silverstrim writes: I never quite liked these arguments. The question to ask is, "What can I use for graphics editing on platform X? What can I use for desktop publishing on platform Y?". Not in this case, because man

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 12, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Bart Silverstrim writes: Thank you for supporting vendor lock-in. Recognizing, not supporting. Every $ spent on a product is another $ supporting it. Do don't even bother asking people who will suggest alternatives, because it's no

Re: X on a server Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 13, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Ean Kingston wrote: On February 13, 2005 03:53 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: You can install the X libraries and client apps on your server -- this works fine at secure level 3 and does not require kernel configurations changes or sp

Re: Logo contest?!

2005-02-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 14, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Martin Ibert wrote: Hi, I'm at a loss about whom to contact, since the PR slot on the contacts page only says "seat open". So I tried "questions". I've read on slashdot that you entertain the notion of running a FreeBSD logo contest. As a long-time user of FreeBSD, b

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-15 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 14, 2005, at 7:43 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Eric Kjeldergaard writes: Well, no that's not entirely true...First off, there's the claim by Windows itself that it's not drivers. The OS itself never identifies problems as being within the drivers. Driver code is assimilated with the kernel w

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-15 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 15, 2005, at 12:40 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Microsoft doesn't understand servers very well. Most people at Microsoft grew up using microcomputers, and that's all they know (sound familiar?). They truly have no idea of some of the constraints that apply to the server world. As a result

Re: Anthony

2005-02-15 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 15, 2005, at 7:56 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On 15 Feb Timothy Smith wrote: Stijn Hoop wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:34:24AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: MSIE has traditionally followed HTML standards more closely than almost any other browser. Firefox does pretty well, tough; Opera

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 15, 2005, at 12:40 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Bart Silverstrim writes: "It's not part of the OS!" Fine. Will MS let me buy just the kernel? No, but you don't have to buy or install most of the drivers. If you run with only required default drivers, the system w

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 15, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Bart Silverstrim writes: "They" were an outside team that worked on VMS. "They" started NT before Windows became a marketing drone's dream. The Windows subsystem became the default subsystem after Windows 3.x

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 16, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Bart Silverstrim writes: Um, no. OS/2 had the Presentation Manager layer on it for the GUI. Presentation Manager was an afterthought, once they realized how far they had gone astray. anthony: "But IBM wanted a CLI, like DOS or OS/2, wh

OS X and FreeBSD: What could be a good setup

2004-04-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 2, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Doug Poland wrote: Panna wrote: You see I'm in a state of confusion.. You're simply using a FreeBSD as a file server. You serve up files to the client via NFS (OS X) or CIFS (Windows). FreeBSD doesn't care. Now if you want FreeBSD to understand and manipulate tho

Re: OS X and FreeBSD: What could be a good setup

2004-04-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 12, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: [ ... ] I'm looking at using FreeBSD on a server (web, mail, file server) with OS X, Windows, and probably Linux clients. I'd like the FreeBSD server to handle authentication, but that may be a pipe dream to

portupgrade-razor-agents, amavis, sa errors

2004-04-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Unfortunately, it rebuilt many things and the output of the compile had scrolled off (is there a log somewhere of what happened?), but after a portupgrade I was greeted with the following error: * [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 118 packages found (-0 +1) . done] ** Listing the fai

Re: MS Excel/Word compatible ports?

2004-04-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 13, 2004, at 11:52 AM, Joshua Lokken wrote: * Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-13 06:41]: I know, I know, I could probably find the answer to this question myself, but I thought I'd save myself the time and trouble. :-) Looks like someone already pointed out the flaw in that l

Re: have i been hacked?

2004-04-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 14, 2004, at 1:47 AM, Luke Kearney wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:51:06 -0400 "dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> granted us these pearls of wisdom: Hello, Wondering if a system on my network has been hacked? At approx 12:30 this evening the hard disk went crazy, i have been out of town lately

Re: What happened after gnome upgrade??

2004-04-15 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 14, 2004, at 10:08 PM, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:48:32 -0400 "R. M. Los" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, Something strange has happened. In gnome-2.4 I had the CPU/Memory/Network monitors setup on my bottom bar, as well as my battery meter, etc. Now with Gnome-2.6

Re: Problems mailing FreeBSD Lists

2004-04-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 20, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Ben Pratt wrote: Hello - I've been having problems recently sending e-mail to FreeBSD lists. For some reason I'm able to receive messages without a problem but when I try to send them I'm getting rejected by the list server. I've tried using Mozilla Thunderbird

sysinstall/ports?

2004-04-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Silly question but it's the first time I've played with X under FreeBSD... I am in the process of installing X with Gnome from /stand/sysinstall. Will the packages added through this be the same as those from ports, or is there a way to use ports (portupgrade) to update the packages? Do I hav

Re: Transfering Files

2004-05-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 13, 2004, at 10:11 PM, Bruce Hunter wrote: I have two computer systems. 1 windows 2k system where I do web development work, specifically php development. The other system is a FBSD headless system that I control via ssh, from my windows system. The FBSD system is my local webserver wher

Re: ntfs mount

2004-05-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 7, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Mark Ovens wrote: J. W. Ballantine wrote: It a Dell, but given the configuration, i do not believe it came pre-installed from the factory. I would have thought that a Dell would have had *an* OS pre-installed. Not always. I am running FBSD 4.9 on a couple Dell 2650's

Re: ntfs mount

2004-05-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 7, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Mark Ovens wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: On May 7, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Mark Ovens wrote: J. W. Ballantine wrote: It a Dell, but given the configuration, i do not believe it came pre-installed from the factory. I would have thought that a Dell would have had *an* OS

Re: Is there any hardware RAID (SCSI) that is fully supported?

2004-05-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 7, 2004, at 7:13 PM, Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, is there any hardware SCSI RAID controller that is fully supported in FreeBSD? By "fully supported" I mean being able to monitor and talk to the controller on a live system in order to initiate a rebuild on a replace drive and such. Myl

Re: FTPD & SSHD server

2004-05-23 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 23, 2004, at 10:04 AM, Andri Kok wrote: Hello fellas, I have FTPD and SSHD running. The way enabled it was by uncommenting lines in inetd.conf. Now, If I access it from the outside (school's lab to my home computer, we have static IP) it works. But If my friends try to access it from the

Re: FTPD & SSHD server

2004-05-23 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 23, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Andri Kok wrote: Hi Bart, Thx for the reply. The problem that I had from windows was "connection timeout". When I try to ssh to my BSD box, it prompts the login name, than it hangs till it finally get connection time out. The same goes with ftp and telnet. There is a

Re: Solved: FreeBSD as print server w/CUPS + samba + apsfilter

2004-05-25 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 24, 2004, at 9:56 PM, Mike wrote: Greetings: This post is a result of 2 days of thrashing trying to get FreeBSD (4.9) to act as a print server to Win2K/XP clients. I have included links to a how-to that I wrote that includes a full install and configuration of CUPS and Samba so that loca

LDAP

2004-05-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Are there any references that will step through creating an LDAP database? I have been banging my head into a wall trying to get one set up...I have it at a point where the slapd will start and monitor for connections, but using ldapbrower logging in as the rootdn will yield errors whenever I

Re: LDAP

2004-05-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 27, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Thompson, Jimi wrote: The question then becomes - What do you plan to use the LDAP to store? Depending on your answer, you may need to modify your schema in order to store that information. For example, there is a library which uses LDAP to store information about t

Re: LDAP

2004-05-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 27, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Vince Hoffman wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2004, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Are there any references that will step through creating an LDAP database? I have been banging my head into a wall trying to get one set up...I have it at a point where the slapd will start and monitor

Re: LDAP

2004-05-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 27, 2004, at 3:49 PM, Vince Hoffman wrote: I'm using it to store posix and samba users, handles XP and 2k authentication fine (dont have any 9x on the network,) All i'm doing is runing a samba PDC for a small network, and am using ldap as it means its easy to have a BDC if needed and using

5.2.1 boot-install

2004-06-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I downloaded the 2 meg boot floppy for installing FreeBSD 5.2.1. I wanted to burn it to a CD (I usually install via ftp, and use a smaller CD that I have here to transport the media since I didn't want to burn a full ISO). I downloaded the boot image and checked the MD5. On my iBook, I ran

Re: 5.2.1 boot-install

2004-06-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 2, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: I have used this technique with 4.9, and it worked. On a machine i wanted to install 5.2.1 on, it won't (this is a machine the 4.9 install worked on fine). The boot process starts, and it locks up ending with this in the bootup seq

Re: Issues with large files on nfs-mounted filesystems?

2004-06-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 3, 2004, at 7:16 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:42:40AM +0100, Jim Hatfield wrote: I've made a large .mpg file on a Linux machine (because some tools, such as mplex, are newer than available in FreeBSD ports). Here's a directory listing: -rw-r--r-- 1 jim users 438844416

Re: x-forwarding problem - no window contents

2004-06-04 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 4, 2004, at 10:10 AM, Simon Timms wrote: I have tried using several different window managers and different users in the hopes it was some sort of setting I had accidentally triggered but to no avail. Has anybody seen this before and how do I fix it? I assume that it is a problem on the de

Scripting backup of file naming?

2004-06-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Hello scripting gurus.. I'm sure this is an easy one for someone out there. Here's what I'd like to do, and hoping someone out there knows a simple way to do this without ripping my hair out. Scenario: *Two servers, Server1 and Server2. *I want Server1 to copy a set of files from Server2 on a

SSH

2004-06-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
-e in ssh-keygen is my friend...it seems to be working now. Thank you! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

SSH question

2004-06-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Hello... Sorry if this is too OT, but I recently posted about copying some files from one server to another using scp...I thought I could get that set up easily since I've done it before. Silly me! The primary server is running # ssh -V OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030924, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, Ope

Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 8, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: I have my desktop configured to run as a server and app server for a thin client laptop. Will running it all day without suspend mode use a lot of power? Not necessarily. If you want to measure it, make sure you have a decent UPS (which I'd

pkgdb -F question

2004-06-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I am working on an installation of Metadot. Running a portversion on the server yielded an error, and I suspect it's because part of the instructions had several CPAN modules installed via the CPAN shell rather than just ports. Here's what I was getting: # pkgdb -F ---> Checking the pack

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 13, 2004, at 8:02 PM, Edward Hendrie wrote: Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD because they have religi

Re: Celeron

2005-06-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 13, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/13/05, Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/7/05, Nosehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello FreeBSD :D A question and I'm out: I have an old pc, running on a 300 MHz Intel Celero

Re: Very Dissapointed

2005-06-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 14, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Lane wrote: Ok, Ok. I think everybody gets it, now. FreeBSD Yay! Microsoft Boo. FreeBSD users are the most helpful EVER, with never a bad word uttered. Microsoft users are bad people whose feet stink and they might not love jesus. Now, please move on. You

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

2005-06-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 14, 2005, at 2:17 PM, Danny MacMillan wrote: 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

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

2005-06-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 14, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Danny MacMillan wrote: 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

Postfix on BSD

2005-06-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Probably off-topic, but it's a sysadmin question that maybe someone on the list could send a quick blurb answer about :-/ I'm trying to filter some mail coming into Postfix based on the body content. I have the line body_checks = regexp:/usr/local/etc/postfix/body_checks in main.cf. The fi

Re: Postfix on BSD

2005-06-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 16, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Ean Kingston wrote: On June 16, 2005 11:54 am, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Probably off-topic, but it's a sysadmin question that maybe someone on the list could send a quick blurb answer about :-/ I'm trying to filter some mail coming into Postfix based o

Re: Postfix on BSD

2005-06-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 16, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Ean Kingston wrote: On June 16, 2005 12:06 pm, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Jun 16, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Ean Kingston wrote: On June 16, 2005 11:54 am, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Probably off-topic, but it's a sysadmin question that maybe someone on the list

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-23 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 23, 2005, at 5:04 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I have to take my neighbour with her Ph.D. in biology again. We can assume she has proven not to be a plain idiot. She got some of the book, looked at them for some days and said 'why shoul

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-23 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 23, 2005, at 6:30 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Why should I study the drivers manual before getting a drivers license? I do not know why people do it. I just learned driving in a deserted place. I didn't say "learned driving" I said "get a license" You hav

Re: freebsd as the basis for something better?

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 27, 2005, at 2:40 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas Britton Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: freebsd as the basis for

portmanager, amavis update problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
There seems to be a dependency loop occuring on our server when trying to do an upgrade; is there a way to force the update and rebuild dependencies? Below is a snippet of output (please let me know if more of the update info is needed...) -Bart * -=>MISSING<=- p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3

portmanager, amavis install problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
There seems to be a dependency loop occuring on our server when trying to do an upgrade; is there a way to force the update and rebuild dependencies? Below is a snippet of output (please let me know if more of the update info is needed...) -Bart * -=>MISSING<=- p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3

Re: portmanager, amavis install problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 27, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: There seems to be a dependency loop occuring on our server when trying to do an upgrade; is there a way to force the update and rebuild dependencies? Below is a snippet of output (please let me know if more of the update info is needed

Re: portmanager, amavis update problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: On 27/06/05, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There seems to be a dependency loop occuring on our server when trying to do an upgrade; is there a way to force the update and rebuild dependencies? Below is a snippet of

Re: portmanager, amavis install problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Monday 27 June 2005 07:32, Bart Silverstrim wrote: There seems to be a dependency loop occuring on our server when trying to do an upgrade; is there a way to force the update and rebuild dependencies? Below is a snippet of output

Re: portmanager, amavis update problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: On 27/06/05, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: Have you tried manualling installing the amavisd-new port? If there is a problem with the dependencies then ma

Re: portmanager, amavis update problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: On 27/06/05, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: I get mime_decode-1 FAILED errors in the amavis logs. I'm guessing that may have something to do with one of th

Re: portmanager, amavis update problem

2005-06-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: On 27/06/05, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Alistair Sutton wrote: I get mime_decode-1 FAILED errors in the amavis logs. I'

amavis problems

2005-06-29 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Ever since running the update to the newest version of perl I've run into difficulty with my amavis scanning. I think there are some p5* packages that aren't properly recompiled to run with the latest PERL...the logs are showing errors like Clam Antivirus-clamd: Error reading from /var/run/cl

port rebuild question

2005-06-30 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Silly question... If I want to rebuild amavisd-new and ALL p5 ports that amavis uses (so I can make sure they are seeing the upgraded PERL version properly), would I just use "portupgrade -rR amavisd-new"? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: port rebuild question

2005-07-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 30, 2005, at 9:46 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: * Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050630 15:58]: wrote: Silly question... If I want to rebuild amavisd-new and ALL p5 ports that amavis uses (so I can make sure they are seeing the upgraded PERL version properly), would

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 1, 2005, at 11:29 AM, fbsd_user wrote: So just because this guy was considerate and said 'test' in his subject he gets criticized. But all the posts to this list for selling drugs we all just ignore with no comments. And what good is posting to the 'test' list when the sole purpose of a

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 1, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/1/05, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [deleted] While proposing ways to stop people from sending test messages to lists, can someone find a way to filter out top posting as well? :-) I'm not trying to stop a

Re: Copying data onto a NTFS partitioned hdd

2005-07-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 7, 2005, at 7:07 AM, Igor Robul wrote: datora tehnika wrote: ''too small.'' Then I went with ''default,'' but then the volume size was ''too large.'' (for a 40 GB drive, the identical twin of which This is known problem for Windows 2000 DiskManager. You can create FAT32 with Win98,

portmanager upgrade question

2005-07-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Is there a way to force a rebuild with new dependencies when you get errors like: ** OLD ethereal-0.10.11_1 built with old dependency net-snmp-5.2.1_2, current dependency is net-snmp-5.2.1.2 OLD gtk-2.6.8 built with old dependency libxml2-2.6.19, current dependency is libxml2-2.6.20 OLD sha

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 19, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Josh Ockert wrote: Go ahead. Blocking it just shows that you are totally unwilling to consider any position different than your own. I am at least willing to continue to discuss it. No. I have no objection to your position. I have an objection to your complete

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 19, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Josh Ockert wrote: On 7/19/05, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jul 19, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Josh Ockert wrote: Go ahead. Blocking it just shows that you are totally unwilling to consider any position different than your own. I am at least w

Re: force use proxy server

2005-07-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 20, 2005, at 2:52 AM, vladone wrote: Hi! How i can redirect web traffic from my lan, throught my proxy server? We set up Squid/SquidGuard, set the machine to forward traffic and created a firewall rule to forward port 80 traffic to the port Squid was listening to, then told the DHCP

Re: Spam:****, RE: Demon license?

2005-07-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 20, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bart Silverstrim Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:45 AM To: Josh Ockert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: Re: Demon license

Re: Spam:****, RE: Demon license?

2005-07-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 20, 2005, at 11:39 AM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jul 20, 2005, at 7:05 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: As I understand it Apple is using some of the code from FreeBSD, but FreeBSD isn't necessarily *getting* anything as an obligation from them. Ideally, if busin

Re: How well do USB -> parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 18, 2005, at 9:19 AM, Bill Moran wrote: This will be FreeBSD 5.4 machine. I need to hook a printer to a server (actually, it's a "plotter", an HP inkjet plotter). The server doesn't have a parallel port, and the printer doesn't have a USB port. The guy who provides our hardware rec

Re: New Logo

2005-11-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 1, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Peter Matulis wrote: --- stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: YUK! Yeah, it has a "something's missing" feel to it. I suppose it was time to distance ourselves from the demon thing though. It not having a face is a step in that direction. The horns remain

Re: New Logo

2005-11-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 1, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Ted, you are an *sshole Please try not to top post...you're being rather vague on what part exactly makes him an "*sshole", in your opinion... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: New Logo

2005-11-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 1, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Nov 1, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Of course not. You got what you deserved though so shut the hell up. Ted, you need to shut the hell up. FreeBSD is not your project and your whining and complaining whenev

Re: New Logo

2005-11-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 1, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Nov 1, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Danny Pansters wrote: On Tuesday 1 November 2005 22:22, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Nov 1, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Of course not. You got what you deserved though so shu

Re: New Logo

2005-11-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 1, 2005, at 7:00 PM, ke.han wrote: In any efforts to expand the market share of freeBSD, I suggest the following: a - It is important to show professionalism, courtesy and restraint as a community. I chose to move from Linux to freeBSD in large part because of the quality of the commu

Re: New Logo

2005-11-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 1, 2005, at 8:27 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: -- snip -- That's correct, but we should recall that this is a mailing list to ask technical questions, not discuss logos or flame people. Discuss logos on the advocacy@ list; don't flame people on any list. I don't post here often, lest I

log file conversion (OT?)

2005-11-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I have Squid running on a FreeBSD system and the log file (access.log) has lines like 1131556815.537101 172.16.2.153 TCP_HIT/200 35674 GET http://www.urprize2.com/adv77/images/header_08_23_05.gif - NONE/- image/gif 1131556815.584 47 172.16.2.153 TCP_HIT/200 1828 GET http://www.urprize

Re: log file conversion (OT?)

2005-11-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-11-09 12:36, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have Squid running on a FreeBSD system and the log file (access.log) has lines like 1131556815.537101 172.16.2.153 TCP_HIT/200 35674 GET http://www.urprize2.com

Re: log file conversion (OT?)

2005-11-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-11-09 13:44, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Yes. Perl should work fine here. $ echo '1131556815.537101 172.16.2.153 TCP_HIT/200 35674 GET'

Re: Windows Compatibility?

2005-11-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 17, 2005, at 7:51 PM, Peter Clutton wrote: On 11/18/05, Augusto Montenegro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am looking into changing my Windows Operating system toFreeBSD or Linux. Most of my programs run in Windows. Can I use FreeBSD as my OS to run my programs? You can, with tools su

Re: FREE OS

2005-12-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Dec 1, 2005, at 4:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi FreeBSD, Hi My Names Mr Marc Harry Charles Corn, I am The CEO of _www.skyline2.co.uk_ (http://www.skyline2.co.uk) i am e-mailing you on consern to your free OS um i want to develop an O

portupgrade/ports question

2004-08-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Situation: I set up a portal server as per the instructions at their site; it involved installing some PERL modules from CPAN, which I have since learned on FreeBSD appears to be a no no... Now I have some updates to do, but I don't want it to interfere with the web portal software. In theory,

mod_perl HELP!

2004-08-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Can someone help? When I try going into /usr/ports/www/mod_perl and "make install", I get: ===> Installing for mod_perl-1.29 ===> mod_perl-1.29 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/apxs - found ===> mod_perl-1.29 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/LWP.pm - found ===> mod_pe

perl question

2004-08-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
What is the difference between bsdpan and the p5 modules in the ports collection? -Bart ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: perl question

2004-08-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Aug 13, 2004, at 1:10 AM, AlanSung wrote: IMHO, bsdpan-* means install via cpan directory (not via ports), p5-* means installed from ports.. Okay. Nuts. That's what I was afraid of. I guess I was a little thrown because the bsdpan modules are showing up with portversion and portupgrade, w

Re: mod_perl HELP!

2004-08-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Aug 13, 2004, at 12:02 AM, jason wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: Can someone help? When I try going into /usr/ports/www/mod_perl and "make install", I get: ===> Installing for mod_perl-1.29 ===> mod_perl-1.29 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/apxs - found ===> mod_perl-1

Moving MySQL database

2004-09-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I have a server that is rapidly filling the var partition with a MySQL database. I'd like to move it to a subdirectory somewhere under /usr. Is there a document that would outline a "best practices" approach to doing this? My first instinct was to stop the mysqld, do a mv on /var/db to /var/d

Re: Moving MySQL database

2004-09-08 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 3, 2004, at 10:46 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: I have a server that is rapidly filling the var partition with a MySQL database. I'd like to move it to a subdirectory somewhere under /usr. If you don't want to move all the stuff in /var/db, then you will have to be more selective and make th

Re: Tar pitting automated attacks

2004-09-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 9, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Mike Hauber wrote: That makes sense... I haven't gotten so much into security that I would want to "invite" a potential cracker. I would just assume they go and bug someone else (who knows, maybe it will result in more BSD admins. :) ) How difficult would it be to ha

Re: Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 9, 2004, at 1:03 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suspect this is some sort of filehandle not being released issue, but I'm not sure how to track it down. I've got lsof installed, but I'm not an expert on it yet. Any hints would be welcomed. What's the b

Re: Which Distro?

2004-09-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 13, 2004, at 11:27 PM, Viper wrote: I am going to buy a Mac g4 soon, and I am thinking about turning it into a server. I asked around and everybody rocommended FreeBSD to me. So what distro of FreeBSD would I use for a mac computer? As far as I know, there isn't a "freebsd" release for the P

Re: Ultimately Safe User Account

2004-09-24 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I have a production FreeBSD box. My friend is starting to learn Unix essentials and is asking me for an account. He doesn't require any special rights, but he certainly wants to be able to use shell and read most manual pages. He'll access the server via Internet, SSH. How can I create an account,

Re: Ultimately Safe User Account

2004-09-24 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 23, 2004, at 8:56 PM, Andrew wrote: Dan Rue wrote: How's he supposed to learn anything if all you give him is a jail with ls cp mv sh and vi? sheesh. That'll turn him off unix pretty quick. Thanks for your feedback. I guess I'll just let him in and try not to worry. Well, the trouble is t

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