Re: OT: (Way OT) PHP and MySQL concurrency control using MyISAM tables

2008-03-23 Thread Bill Moran
at a workaround. The correct solution is to use the correct tool for the job. Either install PostgreSQL and use it instead, or use InnoDB tables. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: Fork bomb immune to limits for user.

2008-03-23 Thread Bill Moran
oot) in fBSD ? Can't help you much here because I can't reproduce the problem. I compiled your program and ran it and I was still able to use the system just fine as it was scrolling numbers past. I was also able to CTRL-C the program from the terminal and it stopped without any problems.

Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers?

2008-03-24 Thread Bill Moran
an IRC > server as well as an internet radio channel. > > Simple website / control panel design is ofcourse a plus. None of that cpanel > bullshit though, I prefer to meddle around with simple text files the way > it's meant to be done. > > So, layeredtech.com?

Re: OT: (Way OT) PHP and MySQL concurrency control using MyISAM tables

2008-03-26 Thread Bill Moran
your data is safely on disk, but I can say that PostgreSQL uses fsync after each commit to ensure you're data can not be lost. From there, it's up to the hardware, so ensure you have quality disks that don't lie about caching, and you'll probably want a battery-backed RAID contro

Re: making FreeBSD phone home via SSH

2008-03-26 Thread Bill Moran
N clients, and your local machine is a VPN server) The right tool for the job, I'd say. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: QueryRegardingWTMPLog

2008-04-01 Thread Bill Moran
pect your question is Suse-specific. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD crashes

2008-04-01 Thread Bill Moran
c/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html Based purely on the symptom that the crashes started occurring unrelated to any other activity, I would guess that you've got a hardware issue. Have you tried running things like cpuburn and memtest to see if you can reproduce it?

Re: FreeBSD crashes

2008-04-01 Thread Bill Moran
x27;t help you, it will provide details that you can post with your question so that people can help you more effectively. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Temperature Monitoring on PowerEdge 1950

2008-04-03 Thread Bill Moran
I have also tried > lmmon with the -i option and that did not work. We've been able to do this using IPMI. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: requesting 'QA' assistance

2008-04-08 Thread Bill Moran
sking folks to look at it and provide feedback. Yes, a 466K shar file posted to the mailing list is going to tick a lot of people off ;) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: A silent UPS - (A little OT, I know...)

2008-04-08 Thread Bill Moran
op. If for some incomprehensible reason a laptop doesn't work then the answer is going to be specific to the brand/model of UPS you have. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: rpc.lockd leaking memory on 6.3

2008-04-10 Thread Bill Moran
rking acceptably for us for a while. I expect it will work for you unless you have applications that rely on locking for actual shared file access. As far as the actual issue ... sounds like you should open a PR. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: This is a test, please ignore it.

2008-04-20 Thread Bill Moran
"Jie Ouyang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Test Please use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list for testing. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: Filesystem full......

2008-04-21 Thread Bill Moran
ably some stuff you can clean out to make room. Do you have a /boot/kernel.old file that would free up some space if removed? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: openvpn server in a jail

2008-04-21 Thread Bill Moran
re clever than I may have figured out a way to pull it off ... I'd be interested to know about it. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Off topic - plea for help

2008-04-22 Thread Bill Moran
there is no way I can afford that move. If I > could get there I could probably get good work. The town she is moving to is > only 90 miles from Pittsburgh, PA and it looks like there are plenty of > computer programming jobs available there. Why don't you post a

Re: Ask for information

2008-04-29 Thread Bill Moran
a SWEEX PU103 with a Sil3512 chipset. Does > FreeBSD 7.0 > support this chipset ? Well, between the top posting and the ambiguous reply quoting, I'm not sure what your original question actually was. However, all the questions in this email should be answerable on this page: http://w

Re: Running PostgreSQL 7 & 8 Simultaneously

2008-04-29 Thread Bill Moran
you have to change the UID of the pgsql user in each jail so they don't overwrite each other's shared memory, and enable SYSV SHM for jails (via sysctl) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: Compiling in Debugging Flags

2008-05-02 Thread Bill Moran
ever it's trying to dump to. Personally, I prefer to tweak kern.corefile to be /usr/local/corefiles/%N.%P.core. I can then ensure that directory exists and that all users have write access to it (probably not the best idea on a production server, however) >From there,

Re: Compiling in Debugging Flags

2008-05-02 Thread Bill Moran
to learn important things like this if you're going to get anywhere in this business ... -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: rsync as root for mail servers?

2008-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
active machine and rsync again. This second rsync should be very fast so you'll have little downtime. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Underscores in host names

2008-05-07 Thread Bill Moran
this discussion with some colleagues a short time back. Our conclusion (based on some research and experimentation): 1) Underscores are not valid in domain names. 2) _most_ DNS systems will work with them anyway. 3) Just enough DNS systems don't work with _,

Re: Need to download FreeBSD

2008-05-07 Thread Bill Moran
it wrong. Checksum problems occur sometimes during downloads ... that's the _reason_ checksums are provided, to detect corrupted downloads. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: Lenovo ThinkPad -- good as IBM?

2008-05-19 Thread Bill Moran
novo T61. It runs FreeBSD 7 pretty well. The only problem I've had so far is that FreeBSD is unable to put it to sleep, but my understanding is that's not a Thinkpad-specific problem. So far I've been very happy with all aspects of it. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com __

Re: resident memory limit

2008-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
and breaks once it gets ENOMEM (doing another > while(1) so it doesn't exit); this application's memory size in top > always matches the kern.maxdsiz setting, however it has a very low > resident memory number, according to top. Have a look at /etc/log

Re: resident memory limit

2008-05-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Brad Penoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Brad Penoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In response to "Brad Penoff" <[EMA

Re: resident memory limit

2008-05-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Brad Penoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In response to "Brad Penoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Brad Penoff <

Re: Best way of upgrading postgresql in production?

2008-05-29 Thread Bill Moran
licated. I set up new jails almost every week. I get the impression that you have some reason for avoiding the obvious solution, and I suspect it revolves around some incorrect impression that jails are "complicated". -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-02 Thread Bill Moran
h FreeBSD. Did you install CUPS and the ppd files? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: The machine which does nothing

2008-06-03 Thread Bill Moran
ot of stuff. Could be timing out on DNS or other networking issues. Grab a tcpdump while it's running and see if any networking is taking an extraordinary amount of time. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Setting up a VPN

2008-06-03 Thread Bill Moran
he simple VPN you describe is pretty easy to set up from this HOWTO: http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/howto.html#pki -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: use a specific php.ini for php cli

2008-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
ok for php.ini file in the directory path or use the specified file -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: appropriate 64 bit version?

2008-06-06 Thread Bill Moran
se AMD published their spec first. (FYI) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Regarding the (apparent) removal of syslogd_program functionality in recent versions

2006-03-14 Thread Bill Moran
e if I use syslogd_enable="NO" and allow the script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start syslog-ng Thoughts? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Mail client like mulberry

2006-03-14 Thread Bill Moran
needs to be SMIME/PGP aware and handle IMAP gracefully (according > to the RFCs, not like MS crap.) Have you looked at Sylpheed? I don't know how closely it will match the behaviour that you're used to, but it talks nicely to every IMAP server I've ever seen, and it turns the fo

Re: Regarding the (apparent) removal of syslogd_program functionality in recent versions

2006-03-14 Thread Bill Moran
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:08:36 +0100 Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > The rc.conf manpage states that syslogd_program= can be used to change > > the program run for system logging. This is also mentioned in > > /etc/defaults/rc.conf and

Re: Regarding the (apparent) removal of syslogd_program functionality in recent versions

2006-03-14 Thread Bill Moran
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:54:01 -0600 Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 14), Bill Moran said: > > The rc.conf manpage states that syslogd_program= can be used to > > change the program run for system logging. This is also mentioned in > > /

Re: Updating ports

2006-03-14 Thread Bill Moran
tem (as I > said - probably a good idea but I just don't want to do that now, I just > want to update my ports). > > Can't I just update the ports without updating the entire system? Yes. Look at /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile You _are_ on the right track, and you

Re: Updating ports

2006-03-14 Thread Bill Moran
it can run efficiently. You probably want to leave that alone. > Or can I just leave these as the defaults? I understand everything else in > ports-supfile. Chances are good you can stick with the defaults. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. __

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!

2006-03-20 Thread Bill Moran
to install a boot manager on the first disk. Be _very_ careful, as you'll delete Windows if you choose the wrong options. I'm sorry that I don't remember the exact sequence to accomplish this. As has been said: make good backups first! You _only_ want to install the boot manager

Re: Kernel settings for Dell 1850 and 2850 with 4GB of ram

2006-03-21 Thread Bill Moran
3.5G. I don't know the answers to your other questions, however. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: clock drifts after upgrade from 5.x to 6.x

2006-03-22 Thread Bill Moran
earches should set you on the right path. Search for timecounter and calcru in addition to other terms relevent to your issue. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: php dependency hell

2006-03-22 Thread Bill Moran
remove mod_php4. You should be able to use portupgrade with the -o option to replace mod_php4 with php4. See the man page for portupgrade for examples (the EXAMPLES section in particular). In my experience, this works 90%+ of the time. If this is a production system, however, you'll do well to

Re: e-mail relaying without forwarding the entire message?

2006-03-23 Thread Bill Moran
t;- XYZ X.W.V Go See someotherserver.otherdomain.com for <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > > Is such a redirection possible? > > Is it hard to configure? > > Have I just described "relaying"? According to RFC-821, it looks like "551 User not loca

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Bill Moran
Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, incidentally, Tim, judging an OS by its installer is about as useful > as judging women by their appearance. There's more to it than that. ;-) Really? Such as? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.

Re: TCP delayed acks not being delayed?

2006-03-25 Thread Bill Moran
f, this will disable the use of delayed acks. For things like file transfer, it's pretty much typical practice to disable nagle, as it generally doesn't help performance, and occasionally hurts it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com __

Re: ports and interactivity

2006-03-27 Thread Bill Moran
all or upgrade the port. You could establish a set of options on a scratch machine, then copy the /var/db/ports directory to the new machines you are building. Also, the portupgrade.conf file allows you to add command line options for ports. See the man page for details. HTH. -- Bill Moran Coll

Re: what does this message means

2006-03-27 Thread Bill Moran
of correctly configuring DNS. But it is an indicator that you'll have difficulty tracking down the source of the login. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Does mod_php4 include php4?

2006-03-29 Thread Bill Moran
ed for nice integration with Apache. It does _not_ automagically update your Apache config to work with PHP, however. Seek out the HOWTO on the PHP site, but I believe all you'll have to do is insert the appropriate AddType directive in your httpd.conf. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.

Re: Shell ( csh, sh ) scripting and seq-command

2006-03-29 Thread Bill Moran
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:43:43 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > never mind! man 1 jot -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: Shell ( csh, sh ) scripting and seq-command

2006-03-29 Thread Bill Moran
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:13:24 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > jot != seq Equivalent, no. But it does offer comparative functionality. You should be able to write a shell script that wraps jot and provides its functionality in the same format as seq. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion

Re: Packet drops and queue length upon bandwidth limiting in PF

2006-03-30 Thread Bill Moran
would never overflow, except in the case where the queue is so short that it can't reply with a source quench fast enough. To me, this would be expected behaviour. A little packet sniffing should show whether this is what is actually happening or not. As a side note, this is why arbi

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread Bill Moran
g the database on for the first time, you can temporarily turn fsync off while you're uploading the data. If the system crashes during this, just delete and recreate the database and try again. It's not generally a good idea to run in production with fsync off, however,

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread Bill Moran
tables without indexes 2) Insert data 3) Create the indexes This will be much, much faster than inserting 3G of data into an indexed table. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Packet drops and queue length upon bandwidth limiting in PF

2006-03-31 Thread Bill Moran
"Ashish Awasthi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/30/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "Ashish Awasthi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I am a relative newbie, so please don't flame me if my ques

Re: PHP4 install question

2006-03-31 Thread Bill Moran
with an error: > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: preg_replace() > in /usr/local/www/data-dist/webmail/functions/global.php > on line 85. > > After some research, I found that I guess I need pcre in > PHP4. > > phpinfo() does not show --with-pcre-regex .

Re: jvmdiEnterTrace.cpp

2006-03-31 Thread Bill Moran
ell as any and all errors that you received. Please cut/paste so messages are preserved exactly. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: DHCPD config

2006-03-31 Thread Bill Moran
_ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > This message scanned by the Collaborative Fusion, Inc. PineApp. > -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Video on webservers

2006-03-31 Thread Bill Moran
s I'm slow today, but it seems like you're saying: "I'm going to do this, is that OK?" If that's the case, then the answer is "yes". -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-qu

Re: Video on webservers

2006-04-01 Thread Bill Moran
This may vary from one video to the next. 5) Find a mailing list or other online community more specialized in the area of videos, and ask the question there. While there may be some digital video experts on this list, it's not a primary focus of the FreeBSD community. I'm not a video expert, but this should get you started. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: disable listen on ports

2006-04-02 Thread Bill Moran
... which would allow connections to be initiated from the machine, but not to the machine. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: ISO Image for FreeBSD5.4 that is Current

2006-04-02 Thread Bill Moran
hat is current? I do not know of anyone who makes .isos of patch releases available. It would be a nice contribution to the community if someone had the time and bandwidth to do it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___

Re: port to calculate cisco ip accounting statistics

2006-04-02 Thread Bill Moran
Olga Zenkova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, all. > > I gather cisco router ip statistics. This statistics > is made weekly by the "ip accounting output-packets" > of IOS. Is there any port to calculate this data? Look into opensnmp. -- Bill Mo

Re: hunting for secure fileserver-connection!

2006-04-03 Thread Bill Moran
t cases, you're not able to > access other > networks smoothly if connected. I've never actually used it, but IPsec in transport mode should be capable of what you want, and should not have the negative side effects you describe. At least that's the way it'

Re: Server time doesn't want to stay set (help!)

2006-04-03 Thread Bill Moran
its running newfs(8) while the system is multi- user. In addition, kernel time changes are restricted to less than or equal to one second. Attempts to change the time by more than this will log the message ``Time adjustment clamped to +1 second&#x

Re: C Program to execute programs in same console

2006-04-03 Thread Bill Moran
at > new shell it had opened. > > So, my question is how can I get it to execute a cd in the current > shell using c code. You don't have to give me the code, just give me > a term to search for or a function to look up. I'm sure someone knows > how to do it here!

Re: memory management

2006-04-04 Thread Bill Moran
you could ever want. That and a copy of the source code (which comes with FreeBSD) should keep you busy studying for some time. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Keyboard Issue on Dell 1850/FreeBSD

2006-04-04 Thread Bill Moran
e that DRAC keyboards are USB keyboards). You may be able to accomplish the same thing with some sort of modules or loader magic, but we wanted custom kernels anyway, so it wasn't a hassle. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd

Re: FreeBSD/PC-BSD Stand

2006-04-05 Thread Bill Moran
the daemon logo, you'll need to get Dr. McKusick's permission, as he owns the copyright. He's usually pretty good about allowing you to do whatever you want, as long as you're not doing something nasty. I don't know what the s

Re: Help?

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Moran
know nothing about. I've seen a number of people bash Linux and the BSDs because they wanted a simple, cheap solution to Windows and did not have the time or patience to work through the learning curve. Unless I've misinterpreted your email and you do have some Unix experience, this i

Re: Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Moran
locate more CPU attention to this process? I've tried using "nice" > but it does not help. nice is the correct command to allocate more CPU attention to the process. However, the process can't use the CPU if it doesn't have it's data in memory. -- Bill Moran Pot

Re: adding ip:s with different gateway

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Moran
ant failover between two different gateways, you'll need to set up BGP of some other routing control system to automatically adjust routes as needed. An explanation of BGP or any similar routing protocol is beyond the scope of an email explanation - if that's what you

Re: Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Moran
the two processes. He hasn't stated enough about the application to know whether that's relevent or not. > On 4/6/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Karl Ma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a py

Re: Help?

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Moran
er. > On 4/6/06, eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On 2006-04-06 09:49, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> I am just looking at Free BSD a

Re: Login broken and rc.conf variables suddenly invalid after kernel/world upgrade (?!?!)

2006-04-07 Thread Bill Moran
eeBSD team is "broken", the wisest course of action would be to post here _before_ you commit to an upgrade that is unlikey to work. -- Bill Moran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Choosing which interface to use

2006-04-07 Thread Bill Moran
ecifiy the IP of your end of the VPN tunnel and it should force the traffic to go through the tunnel. ssh, for example uses -b to set the originating IP. I'll reiterate, however, that the _best_ way is to properly organize your routing so it happes automagically. -- Bill Moran Potential Tech

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-08 Thread Bill Moran
un multiple computers all off the same backend. (Although newer NFS implementations make this less of a concern than when Maildir was first developed) PostgreSQL is a little more of a commitment, but it seems as if support for PostgreSQL is growing, and has been for many years. So I don't th

Re: about sendmail security update

2006-04-08 Thread Bill Moran
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my humble opinion, sendmail is fine on almost any server not intended > to be primarily a mail server. Now, I don't want to start a pro/anti sendmail flame war, but when I read that sentence, I laughed so hard I almost choked

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-09 Thread Bill Moran
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Bill Moran wrote: > > > One advantage of Maildir over mbox and the Cyrus db (that, for some > > reason, I seldom see touted) is that you can make a safe backup of a > > Maildir with

Re: fxp: promiscuous mode enabled

2006-04-09 Thread Bill Moran
ode enabled > fxp: promiscuous mode disabled > > I didn't find it in fxp's manual... > > > What's it ... http://foldoc.org/foldoc.cgi?query=promiscuous&action=Search Programs such as tcpdump and snort will put the interfac

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-09 Thread Bill Moran
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Bill Moran wrote: [snip] > > I have only a small amount of experience with Cyrus. However: > > http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup > > > > Based on that document,

Re: Hard crash on 6.x -- reproducible, multiple people affected

2006-04-10 Thread Bill Moran
us the investigation further. > > Want to walk me through this and will do. As I said, reproducible. You could also install the setup under Bochs and enable full logging. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: upcoming release 6.1: old version of some core components

2006-04-11 Thread Bill Moran
ions imported. OpenSSL is a non-trivial part of FreeBSD, so upgrading is not something to be taken lightly. Regardless, it would be worthwhile for you to see if there is an outstanding PR and file one if there isn't. Sometimes developers get so busy that they d

Re: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE...

2006-04-11 Thread Bill Moran
say "a terabyte of disk space" instead of "gigabyte"? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: round() problem

2006-04-12 Thread Bill Moran
results to other POSIX systems? The problem is in the way that real numbers are implemented. If you do some searches, you'll find many, many discussions of this. Simple fact is that the behaviour under these circumstances is not what you think it is. This kind of thing is the reason that m

Re: round() problem

2006-04-13 Thread Bill Moran
Krzysztof Nakielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:37:01AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:09:17 +0200 > > Krzysztof Nakielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am havi

[going OT ...] Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
Greg Pavelcak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:31:40AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > This has come up 1 times. It's simply not going to happen because the > > beastie has too much historical significance. It's a matter of

Anyone else having trouble with Ethereal freezing up?

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
Subject is the question. I'm using 4.9-RELEASE (I know, it's time to upgrade) Just cvsupped ports and rebuilt ethereal. Using gtk-2.4.1 (gnome 2.6) Ethereal starts, but when I try to start a capture, it just freezes. Anyone else seeing this trouble? Anyone got any suggestions?

Re: Anyone else having trouble with Ethereal freezing up?

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Subject is the question. I'm using 4.9-RELEASE (I know, it's time to upgrade) > > Just cvsupped ports and rebuilt ethereal. Using gtk-2.4.1 (gnome 2.6) > > Ethereal starts, but when I try to start a capture, it jus

Re: Anyone else having trouble with Ethereal freezing up?

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 14, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > > Ethereal starts, but when I try to start a capture, it just freezes. > > > > Anyone else seeing this trouble? Anyone got any suggestions? > > Hmm, try using tcpdump?

[OT ...] Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Bill Moran
es over... > > jerry > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > >

Re: Keep log_in_vain Value

2004-06-15 Thread Bill Moran
is rebooted, > at which point they both come back on. Due to our network configuration, > it's constantly displaying blocked port 53 from one of the other servers, > and I want UDP log_in_vain disabled permanently. Where can I do this in the > configuration? Thanks. /etc/sys

Re: Keep log_in_vain Value

2004-06-15 Thread Bill Moran
one. > > I'm positive...there is no log_in_vain entry in rc.conf. It only appears in > rc.network, where both tcp and udp were set to 1. That's really strange ... is you rc.network customized? It really shouldn't be. The stock one only sets log_in_vain if /etc/rc.conf

Re: new server hardware recommendations ?

2004-06-15 Thread Bill Moran
essional world on hardware like > this ? Anyone with a recommendation? > This 'swap' won't happen untill Q4 this year, so it will be running > 5-STABLE then. Please take this new platform into consideration for when > recommending new hardware. I recommend FreeBSD Systems: h

Re: kdm

2004-06-16 Thread Bill Moran
in /var/log to see if there is any information as to what's going wrong? If you disable KDM, are you able to start KDE by logging in and issuing "startx"? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROT

Re: Are 4 IPFW rules enough?

2004-06-16 Thread Bill Moran
x27;ll probably have to add syslogd_flags="-ss" to /etc/rc.conf Otherwise, you're probably good, execpt that there are some spoofing techniques that may be able to get around such a ruleset. That's beyond my expertise, however. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www

Re: Mail

2004-06-16 Thread Bill Moran
, it's beyond the scope of the FreeBSD project to give you information on all of them. You're going to have to track down each project and read up on their homepage what their design goals are, what capabilities they have available and what admin is involved. The biggest problem with OS

Re: Harddisk "UDMA ICRC error..." from kernel at bootup. What does it mean?

2004-06-16 Thread Bill Moran
> And also: is this "UDMA ICRC error" because it's a Windows/DOS partition? > Would formatting to FreeBSD filesystem solve the problem? No, it's more likely because of the 40 pin cable. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: can't install driver of Ethernet card rl8029/8139 or intel 82559

2004-06-16 Thread Bill Moran
ted, drivers are probably included in 4.10. See the hardware notes: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/hardware-i386.html -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: Mail

2004-06-16 Thread Bill Moran
il, which can be a royal PITA to get running). Postfix (IMHO) is the easiest to configure. Postfix is an excellent mailer in its own right, but the ease of configuration may be its single, best attribute. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

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