Re: time issue

2007-08-25 Thread Bill Moran
f this turns out to be your problem, I recommend using pool.ntp.org. Read up a bit, it should be much more reliable on a consistent basis. Also, OpenNTP has support built in to automatically talk to all of ntp.org's servers without any funky confi

Re: IPFW and HTTPS problem

2007-08-25 Thread Bill Moran
using the problem. On your own, the output of 'ipfw show' can be useful for determining which rules are blocking traffic, as it shows counters of how many packets have matched each rule. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-quest

Re: TCP packets don't flow from external hosts to WinVista clients behind

2007-08-26 Thread Bill Moran
far, we're guessing in the dark. I doubt that ipfw is the culprit, but it's going to take more information to be sure. > Can ipfw or netgraph detect client's OS type and allow only Windows XP ? =)) Potentially, but I can't see it doing that by accident. -- Bill M

Re: circumventing a powermac/NAT router

2007-08-27 Thread Bill Moran
. If your CC# gets stolen through no fault of mine, I'm not paying a dime. Don't know how this compares to your research paper scenario, but hopefully it makes a point. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: Important Message...

2007-08-30 Thread Bill Moran
tact them to help them launder your money! It's all on the level, they'd never kidnap you or steal anything from you or anything like that. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-30 Thread Bill Moran
"Nélio Mesquita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello to all! > Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a > history around it? It's not a devil, it's a daemon, and there is plenty of history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%

Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only

2007-08-30 Thread Bill Moran
a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who > knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. > http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545433 > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.fr

Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only

2007-08-31 Thread Bill Moran
In response to L Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > --- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > L Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Chuck, I'd prefer to have the script handle the > > > mailing so I can test the

Re: Meaning of: kill -USR2

2007-08-31 Thread Bill Moran
's there specifically so that applications can use signals for special purposes without reusing the defined signals. What scripts are you seeing using this? I expect they're following application-specific behaviour. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___

Re: FreeBSD time servers and Windows clients

2007-09-02 Thread Bill Moran
ok for us This sounds like a bad idea to me. I seem to remember there's a registry setting where you can specify explicit NTP servers for Windows. Any reason why he went this route? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd

Re: periodic freeze and reset

2007-09-03 Thread Bill Moran
his is getting annoying... :/ > > I'd appreciate any hints/where to look/what to look for. My first guess would be hardware problems. Have you run memtest? Checked for cooling problems? cpuburn to test for a flaky CPU? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: periodic freeze and reset

2007-09-03 Thread Bill Moran
Ghirai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:31:41 -0400 > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ghirai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello list, > > > > > > My desktop running 6.2-STABLE is f

Re: allowing non-root to "ipfw show" ?

2007-09-04 Thread Bill Moran
hey > don't seem to be allowed to run 'ipfw' in any > capacity. > > Suggestions ? sudo will give you this fine-grained control. It's in ports. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: F11 in Firefox

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Moran
forums might be a good start, as this isn't even related to FreeBSD. -- 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: F11 in Firefox

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Moran
mouse button will allow you to drag without having to grab a border. I have to use this with evince a lot, as it seems to automagically reposition/resize itself halfway off my screen a lot. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ fre

Re: CPU utilization

2007-09-13 Thread Bill Moran
g on what you mean by "track", you might find SNMP+MRTG useful. For example, I track: http://www.potentialtech.com/mrtg/cpu.html -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Problem fetching iso vi ftp (was Re: Please Help me...)

2007-09-14 Thread Bill Moran
; please help me The user is "anonymous" or "ftp" and the password can be anything. This is typical of open FTP services. And please use a descriptive subject in your emails so people know what they're about. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com _

Re: CPU utilization

2007-09-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Thomas Sparrevohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 13 September 2007 16:31:06 Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Preethi Natarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Is there a tool similar to mpstat (or mp

Re: Concurrency limit warning in Postfix leads to server lock

2007-09-15 Thread Bill Moran
With MRTG (and similar software) you can, and should!, graph a lot more than network usage. Graph disk read/writes, cpu usage, swap file usage, memory usage. A system that's heavily in to swap will respond dog-slow, and could be your problem. Hope these help you narrow down

Re: cron jobs not done during sleep

2007-09-17 Thread Bill Moran
n doesn't have this functionality. The Linux folks have a cron-ish program that does recognize when jobs have been missed and runs them at the earliest opportunity. I dislike it, personally, but I can see where it's convenient in some circumstances. http://anacron.sourceforge.net/

Re: Netcraft do not display uptime graph, why?

2007-09-21 Thread Bill Moran
? http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#hz1000 -- 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: OpenOffice Java downloads

2007-09-21 Thread Bill Moran
all this hassle if it was able to open .doc and .swx > files. I expect you're going to have a difficult time rounding up all those versions of those files, as OOo 1.1 is gotten rather old. Is there any reason you can't use OOo 2.X? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com _

Re: top columns VCSW and IVCSW

2007-09-21 Thread Bill Moran
Andreas Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I couldn't find it in the man page and Google turned up with nothing of > value so I ask here. > What does the top (in IO mode) columns VCSW and IVCSW mean? Voluntary Context Switches/second Involuntary Context Switches/seco

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2007-09-24 Thread Bill Moran
seen some posts suggesting that setting it too high can cause kernel panics. I recommend bumping it to 250, then go to 300 if the problem doesn't go away -- but in any event, don't increase it drastically. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com _

Re: Questions on the scheduler

2007-09-24 Thread Bill Moran
thing that's easily digested. As I said, writing high-quality schedulers is black magic, and the code reads that way. -- 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: New Install FreeBSD 6.2 with latest patch level question

2007-02-12 Thread Bill Moran
nd finally doing a build/make world after installing 6.2? It's possible to create your own install cd. Do some googling on "make release" for FreeBSD. However, if it's only 1 machine, it will take the same amount of time/ effort to buildworld/buildkernel. -

Re: building php5 with postgres support

2007-02-12 Thread Bill Moran
his doesn't answer this question, then you might want to give a little more detail about what problem you're trying to solve. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: php.ini in /usr/local/etc

2007-02-12 Thread Bill Moran
t reference I know. The basic rule is that stuff that is installed through ports gets its config in /usr/local/etc. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: unqualified host name

2007-02-12 Thread Bill Moran
is in DNS: http://foldoc.org/index.cgi?query=fqdn&action=Search If you don't have access to DNS to set your hostname properly, you can use a garbage name and add it to /etc/hosts and the delays will go away. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___

Re: [SOLVED] Help please: how to enable SSH password authentication under FreeBSD 6.2? Solved - but not in an expected way

2007-02-13 Thread Bill Moran
sshd_config at all yet. I just finished the upgrade to p1 this morning and tried it out. I haven't been following this thread, so I don't have any ideas on what your problem might be, but it's certainly not FreeBSD or puTTY's fault or I'd be seeing the sam

Re: [SOLVED] Help please: how to enable SSH password authentication under FreeBSD 6.2? Solved - but not in an expected way

2007-02-13 Thread Bill Moran
/l-ing when abroad, and not having > administrator's rights to the machine you're on at that time. I agree. My point is that it _does_ work, and there is something amiss with _your_ setup. The conclusion being that if you can find what's amiss, yours will work as well. -- 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: Xorg on FreeBSD does not work

2007-02-15 Thread Bill Moran
wrote: > > > > I am a newbie to FreeBSD world. I am trying to install FreeBSD6.2 on > > my HP > > > > zv5240us laptop. Everything else went off fine except the X config. I > > ran > > > > the command X -configure which created a xorg.conf.new file. W

Re: Fw: [Fwd: Re: A bit of a silly question - but I am desperate]

2007-02-15 Thread Bill Moran
es of connections, etc? > > Thanks in advance (PS. I am sure its trivial) - I just cannot remember what > > it was Are you referring to the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE environment variable? See man 3 fetch -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 ***

Re: serious performance problems with 6.2 Release

2007-02-15 Thread Bill Moran
t there's a tunable knob or app compilation > option that will help you out. I didn't think I had anything to contribute before, but I just had a thought. If the problem seems centered around Apache, have you tried enable/disabling accept filters? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion

Re: Advice needed - how did I get into this mess?

2007-02-16 Thread Bill Moran
n easy answer for that. Internally, we NFS mount all our ports trees. What I did was create a second NFS mount with a ports tree frozen at 5.1, then we can switch the mountpoint back and forth depending on whether we need to work with PHP-related port or other ports. You could achieve the same

Re: i can't find available device in wireshark?

2007-02-16 Thread Bill Moran
et 219.13x.xxx.xxx --> 58.52x.xxx.xxx netmask 0x > Opened by PID 874 Did you run it as root? What does "wireshark -D" say? If I run my as non-root: $ wireshark -D wireshark: There are no interfaces on which a capture can be done But it works fine when run a

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-16 Thread Bill Moran
ion to everything else that's been suggested, give qemu a try. It's rather slow, but I use it often for an app we need that only runs on widows. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: FreSBIE NFS Client

2007-02-17 Thread Bill Moran
hanged things _radically_, you'll have all the tools that would be available under FreeBSD anyway, which includes the tools you need to do the two things listed above. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions

2007-02-19 Thread Bill Moran
e conventions used on this list, but > am growing more accustomed to them and trying to comply, even thought > it isn't what I do for most of the lists I'm on. Odd. I find it reasonably common. The PostgreSQL lists have it as a convention as well. Must be a BSD license thing.

Re: PF slowing down file copies

2007-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
> > > Do you mean scp(1)? > > Yes. > > > Also, what's going on when you disable pf? > > When I disable PF I can't reach outside because that is what is in charge of > NATing, but I can reach the oth

Re: PF slowing down file copies

2007-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "José Pablo Fernández" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 14:50, Bill Moran wrote: > > > When I disable PF I can't reach outside because that is what is in charge > > > of NATing, but I can reach the other network, and t

Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

2007-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
ent version, you have to run tzsetup again to get the new timezone file installed. If you have an old version and can't updated, you can install a port that brings your tz data up to date. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questi

Re: 64-bits platform question

2007-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
compatible with the amd64 platform. The amd64 version of FreeBSD will work perfectly with EM64T systems. On a side note -- a LOT of people have been making this mistake recently. Can anyone think of a way to make it more obvious that people are downloadin

Re: PotsgreSQL question (differences for 7.4 ,8.1 and 8.2)

2007-02-23 Thread Bill Moran
new version comes out (don't tell Microsoft, that'd defeat their entire business model). We're still evaluating 8.2, and we'll be using 8.1 until we've don't a LOT of testing to ensure there are no regressions with 8.2. You should read Eric Raymond's _The_Art_of

Re: PotsgreSQL question (differences for 7.4 ,8.1 and 8.2)

2007-02-23 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Harald Schmalzbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Freitag, 23. Februar 2007 18:05 schrieb Bill Moran: > > In response to Harald Schmalzbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm new to PostgreSQL and see that the

Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

2007-02-26 Thread Bill Moran
a menagerie of IMAP clients here, and probably 10% of them are Outlook, and we don't have any more trouble with the Outlook clients than any other clients. We use Cyrus. Perhaps that's saying something in Cyrus' favor? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Bill Moran
mentation on a unix file system is to make every file you create equal to a multiple of the block size. And unix fragmentation does not degrade performance unless the file system is close to full. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-ques

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> 352462 files, 2525857 used, 875044 free (115156 frags, 94986 blocks, > >> 3.4% fragmentation) > > > > > Just to

Re: top

2007-03-02 Thread Bill Moran
y ideas? Maybe all your processes are idle? What's the header look like when you do this? 99.9% idle, perhaps? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: top

2007-03-02 Thread Bill Moran
: > - Original Message - > From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > In response to "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> FreeBSD 'top' 6.n does not seem to show anything when the i fl

Re: building jdk15 in a jail -- __mb_cur_max Undefined Symbol

2007-03-03 Thread Bill Moran
from a day or two ago, I would appreciate it. > Please CC me as I am not currently subscribed to -questions, though I > am on -java Not a direct answer to your question, but when I needed to do this a few months ago, I just did a "make package" on my workstation, then shippe

Re: What is an "implicit destination"

2007-03-04 Thread Bill Moran
e future. > > but I *am* subscribed! I believe that means that your envelope-from contains freebsd-questions@, but your To: and/or CC: lines do not. The way spammers use the "unspecified-recipients" crap ... -- 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: Fetching sources from Windows?

2007-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
7;t do any line ending translations, which will (effectively) corrupt the files. If you can find somewhere that has a big tarball of the source tree and just grab that, it should work fine. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: ftp set up

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Moran
urity risk. It still is. The only time it's OK to use FTP is when it's download only and the files are publicly available. Any other time, FTP is a liability. -- 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]"

Point of interest: PAIR networks finally moving to 6.2

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Moran
They held on to FreeBSD 4 for a long time ... http://www.pair.com/support/notices/62-upgrade.html -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ftp set up

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Vizion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 5:24 AM > > To: Vizion > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: ftp set up &

Re: cleaning old files

2007-03-08 Thread Bill Moran
le entries in there. My question is how do I get rid of these > old extensions? Vulnerability test port alerts me I still have them. > Thanks! Looks like your ports database got corrupted at some point. I would just pkg_delete -f them, then reinstall the correct ve

Re: syncing user passwd information between servers

2007-03-09 Thread Bill Moran
In addition to the other options that have been presented, you may want to consider Kerberos. -- 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: 65535 outbound connections

2007-03-09 Thread Bill Moran
This is enforce by the operating system. So, the total number of (theoretical) connections is limited by the product of IP space * port range. But the total number of available outgoing connections is limited by the port range, and that's where that 65536 comes from. -- Bill Moran htt

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Bill Moran
some group 'some_group' ?. > Which manpage to read ? man pw (but this one is quite a read) You can also edit /etc/group directly, see man 5 group -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Bill Moran
need to figure out what the problem is. You're making a lot of guesses right now. However, I would suspect that your best bet would be to specify that all outgoing mail routes through your ISP. Their MTA should be configured to allow all mail from their customers to be sent. In postfix, d

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread Bill Moran
? I've been using xfce4 for quite a while. I like it because it's got everything I need, and not a lot of extra junk to get in my way (I find KDE and GNOME bloated) I use Sylpheed for mail and Firefox for web. HTH -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___

Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?

2007-03-12 Thread Bill Moran
sync? 99% of the time, the answer is "yes". The real answer is that it depends on which version your going from and to and what sort of changes have been made to kernel interfaces between those versions. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com __

Re: rebuilding world

2007-03-12 Thread Bill Moran
-p". > > This gives me errors about a read-only filesystem. Can't create > /var/tmp/temproot. fsck; mount -a > Do the instructions need updating? Might not hurt to add that information to the docs. You could file a PR or submit an update

Re: How Do I Find Find?

2007-03-12 Thread Bill Moran
machine and still have find missing, but I can't really guess that without knowing what you meant by "rebuilt". Is /usr mounted? -- 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: UFS2 Snapshot limitiations

2007-03-13 Thread Bill Moran
/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/snapshots.html -- 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: UFS2 Snapshot limitiations

2007-03-13 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Pietro Cerutti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 3/13/07, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, March 13, 2007 10:10, Bill Moran wrote: > > > In response to "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >

Re: UFS2 Snapshot limitiations

2007-03-13 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Pietro Cerutti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 3/13/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In response to "Pietro Cerutti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On 3/13/07, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: FreeBSD/Samba issue

2007-03-20 Thread Bill Moran
st (DNS or WINS), but I seem to remember that it did not work as advertised. Keep in mind that different tools in Windows do things differently: I believe IE will always try DNS first, where as most DOS tools will always try WINS first. As a result, you&#x

Re: Installing xPDF on a shared server

2007-03-21 Thread Bill Moran
phics/xpdf > # make install clean > > Once the installation is complete, you can launch *Xpdf* and use the right > mouse button to activate the menu. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: started playing with jails

2007-03-21 Thread Bill Moran
unt a NFS share to /usr/ports (mount_nfs: > /usr/ports: > Operation not permitted). If you're shooting purely for usability, I recommend the ezjail port, which adds some additional admin scripts on top of the stock jail system that (in my opinion) make things a lot easier. -- Bill Moran

Re: started playing with jails

2007-03-21 Thread Bill Moran
(i.e. snmpd) as well as some universal services (A DNS cache, sendmail). I've had trouble getting programs that use shared memory (such as Postgres) to run inside a jail, but it's been a while since I've tried. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com _

Re: started playing with jails

2007-03-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Moran wrote: > > > I've had trouble getting programs that use shared memory (such as Postgres) > > to run inside a jail, but it's been a while since I've tried. > > Postgres needs this in t

Re: started playing with jails

2007-03-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Antony Mawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 22/03/2007 3:50 AM, Greg Barniskis wrote: > > Bill Moran wrote: > >> My experiments with Postgres in jail predate the existence of that > >> setting. > >> When I was working with it, you had to frob a

Re: started playing with jails

2007-03-21 Thread Bill Moran
the snapshot. Depending on your precise backup needs, however, this may be overkill. You can just backup individual files/directories. If you use ezjail be careful not to follow mount points or you'll end up backing up the same stuff over and over for each separate jail you have

Re: help on picking an IMAP server

2007-03-22 Thread Bill Moran
I use Maildir format for my mail store, for multiple reasons that you can research via Google if you're curious. Perhaps the Maildir support is better than mbox. If that's the case, you may want to consider switching to Maildir -- there is at least one mbox -> Maildir conve

Re: ssh via html

2007-03-22 Thread Bill Moran
a shell and do everything over ssl. > > Does anyone know a program/port that can help me? Webmin has this, but I've had trouble getting it to work. YMMV -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: started playing with jails

2007-03-22 Thread Bill Moran
rk with a jail? say, so tar the entire root directory of the jail, and > move/untar on to another server? In theory, it should work fine. I've never tried it. I expect you'll need to have _exactly_ the same versions of FreeBSD on each m

Re: help on picking an IMAP server

2007-03-22 Thread Bill Moran
trouble creating folders on a Dovecot server using Outlook. He was also having a bunch of other problems with Outlook, so he switched to Outlook Express instead of trying to mess with the Dovecot server. I suppose it's possible that there's some compa

Re: ezjail ip conflicts

2007-03-23 Thread Bill Moran
r deceiving, because you don't actually need to create an alias, ezjail will do it for you when you start up the jail. Actually, now that I think of it, I'd call it a bug. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@

The dynamics of a mailing list (was Re: Test)

2007-03-26 Thread Bill Moran
se if fed. As usual, the subsequent traffic has far exceeded the original faux pas. I've been an active member of this mailing list since some time around 1998, I think. It's often frustrating to see the same issues come round again and again -- but I look on it as a good thing. It means

Re: ping

2007-03-29 Thread Bill Moran
othing special that needs done for FreeBSD 6 to respond to pings. Are you using IPFW or ipfilter? You seem to indicate that you're using both, which would not be the best of ideas. Post your firewall rules so list members can have a look. Are you sure the machine that is sending pings is no

Re: interpreting uptime output

2007-03-29 Thread Bill Moran
jobs"? I guess they are not processes. What is that "run > queue"? Which is better, the lower or the higher number? Higher is a busier system. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_average -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: ping

2007-03-29 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Michael Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Is there > On 3/29/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In response to "Michael Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > A while ago I installed 6.1 on a box. I not

Re: Is this a hard drive crash?

2007-03-30 Thread Bill Moran
the problem in the act. Hard drives _usually_ fail dramatically -- but occasionally they fail in the same way RAM does, which seems like what's happening to you. A lot of techs don't see this case very often (because it doesn't happen like this very often) so don't recognize it. -- 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: php5 and SQL Scripts

2007-04-02 Thread Bill Moran
/ports/lang/php4, our new php gives the following error: > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function mssql_connect() Install /usr/ports/databases/php5-mssql Don't know what you're doing with all that "moving binaries around", but make sure you didn't overwrite something.

Re: TFTP and RIS for Windows Installation (Broadcast ACK Problem)

2007-04-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Frank Tavenner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Just curious, did you ever get this RIS working? > Sure. We just set the TOG to the BID setting, which allowed the DCOG to pass unmolested through the GDEC devices. After that, the RIS worked withou

Re: Jail is pausing . . Ideas please. . ?

2007-04-07 Thread Bill Moran
your installed packages found. > > Any ideas you may have on troubleshooting or better yet what is > causing it would be > really appreciated. > > Troy Kocher > MTA Distributors > tkocher(at)mtadistributors(dot)com > > > > _ > Scanned by IBM Email Security Management Services > powered by MessageLabs. > _ > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- 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: please Help ME!

2007-04-09 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Noname Noname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! I'm meisam . > i want Book or PDF about kernel freebsd Data Structures, Algorithms I recommend _The_Design_and_Implementation_of_FreeBSD_ by Dr. McKusick and others. > please fast Reply I hope that was fast enoug

Re: Unistall KDE and Xorg

2007-04-09 Thread Bill Moran
In response to dbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there a simple way to uninstall KDE and Xorg, or do I have to use the > pkg_delete command for each one? There's no method I'm aware of that I would call "simple", but if you install pkg_cutleaves, it will be

Re: command to inentify the process that is listening in a port.

2007-04-09 Thread Bill Moran
entification right? sockstat -4 Various magical combinations of switches to netstat will get you there as well. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: Advice on how to memorize images

2007-04-10 Thread Bill Moran
s, adjust for redeye, do fancy effects, etc, etc ... I was at a LUG meeting where a number of these were presented recently, and I'll be damned if I can remember any software names ... Here are some that I found during some googling: http://gpc.sourceforge.net/ http://appliwork

Re: Uninstalling Ports Question

2007-04-10 Thread Bill Moran
es these problems if you always use it to uninstall software. -- 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: test

2007-04-11 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]" -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freeb

Re: rm --clear-directory /home/me/another_dir

2007-04-11 Thread Bill Moran
ith /one ? [n] y > > # cp /one/ /two > cp: error - overwrite a dir with some other contents? WTF? > > oh and of course: > rm -R /dir// removes dir > rm -R /dir/// clears dir > > > How hard will it be to convince the developers to swich to this scheme? since >

Re: Fw: get me off this list

2007-04-11 Thread Bill Moran
Mike > > > >___ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > >__

Re: Fw: get me off this list

2007-04-11 Thread Bill Moran
ist > > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > > > > > >Check Out the n

Re: Fw: get me off this list

2007-04-11 Thread Bill Moran
sd.org server, then somone is forwarding FreeBSD.org mail without your permission. > > I sent 2 emails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > one blank and another with "unsubscribe" in the message and body of the > email, but noting comes back from the server. > > On 4/11/07

Re: Mysql Hogging all system resources

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Moran
oach or not. man login.conf should tell you all you need to know. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Cannot delete user???

2007-04-13 Thread Bill Moran
rror adding user (miller). > Add another user? (yes/no): > > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

<    8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   >