Re: What is correct way to submit you feeback to an open PR

2004-06-16 Thread Bill Moran
Do you Yahoo!? > Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: New user questions :)

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Moran
pdate when the alerts on that list tell you. Use portaudit for ports. > Also, what is the roadmap / lifespan of FreeBSD ? http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html#adv ... best reference I know of. > Sorry about the length of this post :) The only problem I had was the length of blank

Re: which version?

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Moran
stanis³aw g±sior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > which version will be good to my comp.plizz help me. Check this: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/hardware.html If your hardware is listed, then 4.10 is the way to go. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.poten

Re: Problem while upgrading to 4.10 from 4.7...

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Moran
t *always* just stops at > the same point and just sits there doing nothing at "acd1: CD-RW info> at ata1-slave PIO4"... > > If I restart and run "kernel.GENERIC" from the boot prompt I can get it to > load the kernel, but I want to be able to go into single-us

Re: Problem while upgrading to 4.10 from 4.7...

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Moran
bsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html > > > >> When I reboot and the kernel starts to load...it *always* just stops at > >> the same point and just sits there doing nothing at "acd1: CD-RW >> CD-RW > >> info> at a

Sendmail and /var/spool/mqueue

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Moran
3867 files in this directory. -- 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]"

Re: Keep log_in_vain Value

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Moran
"Matt \"Cyber Dog\" LaPlante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:59 PM > > To: Matt "Cyber Dog" LaPlante > > Cc: [EMAIL PRO

Re: update to 4.10 via ssh

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Moran
ll appreciate some help, tips or recommendations for doing this so I > can update my system. BTW: I just did this earlier this evening on a server 4 hours away and everything went fine. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com __

Re: Ethereal + gtk + glib installation in freeBSD-4.7

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
code) on > freeBSD-4.7.. cd /usr/ports/net/ethereal && make install clean -- 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]"

Re: freebsd and dns

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
ain DNS zones. /var/log/messages will have details about what syntax errors were encountered in this case. > Am I looking in the wrong place for the DNS files? Possibly. Bind config files are usually in /etc/namedb on FreeBSD. But if a different version of Bind was installed from port

Re: natd firewall settings for vpn

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
to any" ... that's protocol 51. (not really an expert or anything, but just happened to notice that missing) -- 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]"

Re: Sendmail and /var/spool/mqueue

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 17, 2004, at 2:39 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > > What does it mean when I have a lot of files in /var/spool/mqueue? I > > don't > > really understand what that particular queue is for. > > That is the queue

Re: Sendmail and /var/spool/mqueue

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:57:22AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jun 17, 2004, at 2:39 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > What does it mean whe

Re: more kdm questions

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
sr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0; > >> > >> /usr/local/bin/kdmdesktop > >> > >> KDM loads but when I log in nothing happens, I just end up back at > >> the > >> login screen. This is all the

Re: Dying disk?

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
tus=51 > sensekey=ILLEGAL REQUEST error=0 > acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG status=51 > sensekey=ILLEGAL REQUEST error=0 > acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG status=51 > sensekey=ILLEGAL REQUEST error=0 > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a Looks like a CD-ROM is failing. Do you have th

Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
had an opportunity to do the additional tests I wanted to do, but it is _some_ testing ... -- 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]"

Re: An easy virtual pop solution not involving qmail?

2004-06-19 Thread Bill Moran
qmail where I > don't need to give users REAL accounts? I've seen several qmail-centric > documents floating around on the web but nothing concise and > straightforward. Postfix + Cyrus + LDAP. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___

Re: Python application in rc.d.

2004-06-20 Thread Bill Moran
Check to see what other scripts are in /usr/local/etc/rc.d (I'm guessing that's how you're firing it up on startup) and see if Python has some sort of startup script in there. If so, make sure your script executes afterwards (they're run alphabetically). If that

Re: Question about KVM switch

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
nsure that it's not the mouse that's the problem. Are you trying to use the mouse in X? If so, what are the symptoms? What steps have you taken to enable the mouse? Did you install/configure moused? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___

Re: ping command question

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
in milli-seconds: > Minimum = 89ms, Maximum = 640ms, Average = 102ms > Control-C It seems like you've got a LOT of variation. Either your sharing that net connection with a lot of other services, or you've got problems. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies

Re: [FreeBSD] Silly Question

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
things manually. At that point (being that you're a newbie) your best bet is to run "fsck -y" which tells fsck to fix everything, even if it might result in loss of data. I want to emphasize that the previous paragraph is only important if you don't shut your system down prope

Re: Terminal Server

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
ave pointed out, there are a number of alternatives: ssh if you don't need a GUI, X, and VNC. I just wanted to clarify that none of these actually use the Windows Terminal Server protocol, and thus each will require software installed on the clients as well as the server. -- Bill Moran Potentia

Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
the indicated documentation, but this doesn't follow that template. I do feel that, althought Grog's document doesn't specifically chastise these types of answers, that they are _not_ in the "spirit" of that document, and do not serve the purpose of this mailing list.

Re: Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
ask" but it > > boils down to just being rude. > > > > > > I'm curious as to whether this is only my opinion, or if others feel the same > > way. I don't think answers like this reflect well on FreeBSD or the FreeBSD > > commun

Re: package managment

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
newer, while installing from packages goes faster because you don't have to wait for the software to compile. HTH. -- 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]"

What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
y to implement it. I have an idea ... by using Dovecot with PostgreSQL storing the actual mail folders, with Slony installed to provide real-time replication of the Postgres database ... I don't know if Dovecot is able to store the actual mail folders in Postgres yet, though ... Anyone? -- Bi

Re: Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Kevin Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:27:44 -0400 > > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Nico Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Mike, > > > > > > > &

Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Andy Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:20:06 -0400, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hey, > > > > I know questions like this get asked a lot, but I'm going to be really specific. > > > > I know how t

Re: Msn Voice conversation

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
about running VoIP over the Internet. I see a lot of people doing it anyway, and I expect there will be a big surge of viruses, worms or some other exploit in the near future as a result. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _

Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 05:25:20PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > > The return can be significant. The company I am doing this for provides IMAP > > mail services for business. If a filesystem crashes and service is down for a

Re: [OT] Re: Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
r efforts to improve. I'm sure everyone does. The FreeBSD community needs more folks like you! > Bye... Nico 'my bad' Meijer Hell, we all make mistakes. If that short post is the worse mistake you made today, then you're doing a whole lot better than me! > P.

Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > It's the mailboxes themselves that are difficult to get. Best we've got right > > now is backing up the Cyrus mail folders using rsync ... but this is very time- > > consuming, and (thus) only do

[OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
o my theory could ultimately be proven wrong, but I guess I just don't agree with the statement that SQL is a bad way to store email until someone has actually proven it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTE

Anyone know if this NIC is supported (or even what it is?) Chaintech 7VIF4

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
I guess the subject says it all, here's all the details I can find: http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=13-152-030&depa=0 -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ ... ] > >> The latter uses one-message-per-file, and ought to work *much* better both in > >> terms of performance and stability, and in term

Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
both places, when Postfix delivers an email, it's delivered to both places, if a user moves an email from one folder to another ... you get the idea. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: FreeBSD Versions 4.10 vs. 5.2.1

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
go, I can't say that I've seen any speed difference between 4 and 5, but I haven't actually run any tests either. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
Jan Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Bill Moran wrote: > > > During my research of the IMAP protocol, I determined that _the_best_ > > way to store email for high-performance would be to put them in a > > database. This is because IMAP does

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>[ I don't think that stuffing email into a database is a particularly good > >>idea since that means keeping large blobs of non-relational d

Re: :::Support PHP/perl???:::

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
"Dragan Veljkovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this FreeBSD support PHP/Perl application/language? Yes, both PHP and perl are installable through the ports system. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___

Re: ::::freeBSD work under LINUX Mandrake??:::

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
-right of that page to see if it's available in your native language. -- 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]"

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
the best IMAP server out there (Cyrus) and figure out a way to do real-time mirroring of the mailboxes. I was wondering if it could be done with Coda, but I don't know anything about Coda, and it doesn't look like I'll have time to experiment in the near future. -- Bill Moran Potential

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
a good copy is achieved is to shut down Cyrus during the backup. This makes it a little prohibitive to be doing this very often. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
Christian Laursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Nico Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Bill, > > > > > > > The other option is to take what appears to be the best IMAP ser

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > Christian Laursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If you are running FreeBSD 5, you should be able to make a filesystem snapshot > >> and rsync from there. > > > > I suppose I

Re: Autoheader problem

2004-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
omake suite of tools. Do you have them installed? If so, make sure they're accessable in your path. -- 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]"

Re: RH 7.3 to FBSD Question...

2004-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
ines around 72 chars] Look up Vinum. The handbook section is fairly nice: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list ht

Re: md5 of a filesystem / verifying filesystem integrity after

2004-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
gt; occurred? Could you use something like tripwire (which does an md5 of each file on the filesystem and stores them in a database for later verification)? I think tripwire only checks executable files, but the approach should work with all files. -- Bill Mor

Re: losing disk space

2004-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
l' 10 gb also. anyone ? While the question in this FAQ isn't the same question you're asking, the answer is the same: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: losing disk space

2004-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
from it. > > > > Mike Woods > > IT Technician > > > > ___ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to >

Re: login/password

2004-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
eBSD. Please > help me. Can you provide these documents in a readable format, such as PDF. We don't use Word. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: login/password

2004-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benjamin Seuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to using FreeBSD and when I boot up the computer (I've > > already installed FreeBSD) it asks for a login name and password. I

Re: Support of Wireless TCP (WTCP)

2004-06-24 Thread Bill Moran
eady have been) integrated into TCP. -- 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]"

Re: Urgent 4.9 networking problems

2004-06-24 Thread Bill Moran
x.y.186.253 > > x.y.186.3 > > > > --- x.y.186.253 ping statistics --- > > 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss > > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.414/0.414/0.414/0.000 ms > > Thu Jun 24 22:46:58 SAST 2004

Re: Urgent 4.9 networking problems

2004-06-24 Thread Bill Moran
rily removed /etc/resolv.conf on my desktop machine, and it caused DNS queries to fail instantly when I tried to use ping. I can't say that all programs will react that way, but based on that, it doesn't seem like FreeBSD's telnet would be t

Re: segfaults during make world

2004-06-25 Thread Bill Moran
mentation fault." This occurs at > different points during the make process, i restart make and it'll do the > same thing a little later. Any help appreciated. Sounds like hardware problems. Test your RAM (I recommend memtest86) and ensure that you've got enough cooling for the

Re: rc.conf

2004-06-25 Thread Bill Moran
ons allow > me to edit that file. I'm guessing it's throwing you into single-user mode? Do: fsck mount -a ee /etc/rc.conf Fix the error and reboot. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newuser

2004-06-25 Thread Bill Moran
t for a new user? Try adduser ... the manpage is pretty informative. -- 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]"

Re: Strange Files Created, FSCK problems: how to deal without single user mode (/unmounting disc)?

2004-06-25 Thread Bill Moran
you run fsck on a mounted filesystem, all bets are off. > 3) How serious is this problem? Should I start worrying, even though > nothing else strange exist? Last time I had a problem like this, I unmounted the fs, took 15 minutes to fsck it, remo

Re: newuser

2004-06-25 Thread Bill Moran
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:30:25AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:58:41PM -0400, James Bell wrote: > > > > > > > &g

Re: ARP / Cisco Router Wierdness

2004-06-25 Thread Bill Moran
co mailing list, asking why the 2600 didn't automatically pick up the new MAC address? Corrections are welcome if I'm wrong on this count. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:

Weird upload performance problems with proftpd

2004-06-25 Thread Bill Moran
ied running the ftp daemon that ships with FreeBSD, and it exhibited the same performance issues. Most settings on this machine are at their defaults. I've tried tweaking send/recv sizes, as well as toggling delayed_ack. None of these have made any difference so far. Suggestions? --

Re: Re-arranging disk slice allocation

2004-06-25 Thread Bill Moran
n those three, and then restore to the new /var, /usr, /home. You could always symlink the directory in /home to some location on /var to get most of what you want. See 'man ln'. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com __

Re: Weird upload performance problems with proftpd [update]

2004-06-25 Thread Bill Moran
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having some really weird performance problems with proftpd-1.2.10 on > FreeBSD 4.10 (in a jail) that I just can't seem to figure out. > > My uplink here maxes out at about 35k/sec. If I scp to the machine in > questio

Re: can't mount 300G USB drive that's FAT32

2004-06-25 Thread Bill Moran
the USB drive had no > problem creating the Fat32 filesystem and writing to it. Horay for Linux. If you really need to put FAT filesystems on these drives, you're not going to be able to use FreeBSD until the limitation is fixed. You should file a PR on this ... it d

Re: can't mount 300G USB drive that's FAT32

2004-06-25 Thread Bill Moran
work on both FreeBSD and Linux. > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:17:50 -0700, Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Friday 25 June 2004 02:11 pm, Bill Moran wrote: > > > [I copied Tom on this because I know he was working on FAT filesystem > > >

Re: 2. Try Kernel compiling..makefile stops because of some warnings

2004-06-25 Thread Bill Moran
gs, but he didn`t mention how the solve this > problem or how to change the flags. > Any suggestions? > > My Hardware is a d-link nic and the ensoniq 1370 soundcard, the other stuff is > very common. > > The MYKERNEL configfile is attached to th

Re: Building a Stable Secure FreeBSD Mail server

2004-06-26 Thread Bill Moran
e nice) are appreciated. As far as I know, Blowfish is the best encryption algorithm for this purpose at this time, which (to my knowledge) is why OpenBSD uses it by default. I don't believe it's the fastest, however, but I could be wrong there. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies htt

Re: FreeBSD mirror site

2004-06-26 Thread Bill Moran
or.etf.bg.ac.yu/freebsd > > I've starting mirroring from ftp2.at.freebsd.org module FreeBSD, is that OK? You should read this document and follow the advice within: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/index.html -- Bill Moran Potenti

Re: Building a Stable Secure FreeBSD Mail server

2004-06-26 Thread Bill Moran
, and flags ... but then he goes on to arbitrarily announce that you should increase both send and receive TCP buffers to 64k, with no explanation. Jacking these values up is not always a good idea, and I doubt if it's a good idea with a mail server. --

Re: Ethernet Adapter

2004-06-26 Thread Bill Moran
swer, don't hesitate to ask on this mailing list. It's important that you carefully describe the problem, or nobody will know how to help you. This page has some excellent advice on how to ask questions: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html -- Bill

Re: Shared Partitions?

2004-06-27 Thread Bill Moran
s it won't work as a /home partition because each /home/ directory should be owned by the user. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: zorp and freebsd

2004-06-27 Thread Bill Moran
> rdr methods are not really the same. Is there any way to implement that > transparent stuff in FreeBSD? Are there any "unofficial" modifications > (don't slap me please ;)? Never heard of "Zorp", but I've used Squid for transparent HTTP proxying, worked

Re: File tree replication in FreeBSD

2004-06-27 Thread Bill Moran
x27;m writing a kernel module that catches all file syscalls that can > modify a file. Its almost done exept rmdir & unlink calls - I don't know how > to get a cwd from a thread. Function kern___getcwd sometimes fails with "not > a directory" error. > BTW, whats

Re: Problem restarts

2004-06-28 Thread Bill Moran
;ll have to borrow a scope somewhere.) Is it time for an exorcist? I would look at the hardware, but not arbitrarily. Try running programs like memtest86 and cpuburn for extended periods of time to see if they trigger the reboot. The randomness of the problem seems to suggest a hardware problem.

Re: Mail list problems.

2004-06-29 Thread Bill Moran
t; pri=4981262, relay=mx1.freebsd.org. [216.136.204.125], > dsn=4.2.0, stat=Deferred: 450 Client host rejected: > cannot find your hostname, [63.228.14.246] > > Anyone have any ideas what I need to fix? Reverse DNS > lookup of IPs is provided by my upstream provider, in > th

Re: Means of trimming files

2004-06-29 Thread Bill Moran
hp' -exec SOME_COMMAND {} \; If you're absolutely sure of the number of characters you're removing from the end of the file, you could use truncate(1). Otherwise, you'll probably want sed or perl to check that it's not removing important characters. -- Bill

Re: home directory questions

2004-06-29 Thread Bill Moran
impossible to even guesstimate without some idea of what kind of load the system is going to be under. I have a fileserver here that serves Windows and FreeBSD clients and it's a 200mhz with 96M of RAM. But I would never suggest that for a big installation. -- Bill Moran Potenti

REPOST: Performance problems with FTP

2004-06-29 Thread Bill Moran
one else seeing this? -- 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]"

Re: home directory questions

2004-06-29 Thread Bill Moran
[Keep the mailing list CCed] Thomas Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > >Thomas Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Is it possible to setup a file server with FreeBSD and use that as a > >>home partition and also share o

Re: REPOST: Performance problems with FTP

2004-06-29 Thread Bill Moran
Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 29, 2004, at 2:02 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > > I'm having some really weird problems with ftp performance on FreeBSD > > 4.10 > > that I just can't seem to figure out. > > > > My uplink here maxes

Re: Means of trimming files

2004-06-29 Thread Bill Moran
d with php's > cli interface and came up with this "dirty" command (all in one line) -> > > find ./ -name '*.php' -exec php -r '$f = file_get_contents("{}"); $h = > fopen("{}", "wb"); fwrite($h, trim($f)); fclose($h);&#x

Re: REPOST: Performance problems with FTP

2004-06-29 Thread Bill Moran
e ack comes back, then three packets, pause, ack ... You'd think that reducing the MTU would make this worse because there's less data in the three packets, thus more pauses, but when I drop the MTU, the pause reduces significantly. There's something with T

Re: max concurrent scp sessions - and testing methodology for them...

2004-06-30 Thread Bill Moran
ion that the disks would be the first bottleneck is probably right. If you upgraded to fast enough disks, I would expect the CPU to become the next bottleneck. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] maili

Re: kern.ipc.nmbclusters

2004-06-30 Thread Bill Moran
f because that value is set _very_ early in the boot process (before sysctl.conf is used) and can not be changed later. You can also put this value in your kernel config and recompile your kernel. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Gnome installing Mozilla by default

2004-06-30 Thread Bill Moran
rowsers in the ports until you find something as close to what you want as possible ... there's lots of choices, and one of them is bound to be reasonably close to what you're looking for. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___

Re: FTP server will not initiate DATA connection back to client

2004-07-01 Thread Bill Moran
/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > _______ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to &

Re: strange pw behaviour

2004-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
looked at /etc/group (or whatever file is applicable) in a text editor to make sure everything is correct? The format is described in "man group" and is pretty easy to eye parse. HTH. -- 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]"

Re: REPOST: Performance problems with FTP

2004-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 29, 2004, at 11:08 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > > Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well, that does tend to rule out a bunch of issues. Have you tried > >> changing the MTU of the FreeBSD box down to

Re: strange pw behaviour

2004-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
Jonas Sonntag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > first of all, thanks for the input! > > On Friday 02 July 2004 13:58, Bill Moran wrote: > > Did you add the users/groups to the jail, or to the host system? Make sure > > that the group file you added this

PMTUD, is it actually usable? (was Re: REPOST: Performance problems with FTP)

2004-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
to aid me in determining how I should handle this? Should I just set the MTU on this server to 500 and give up on optimizing MTU sizes? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.f

Compatibility with VIA 6103/6306/6303 or Realtek 8201 Ethernet cards

2004-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
x27;t seem to confirm or deny whether any of these units will work with FreeBSD (although it'd be a little overwhelming to list every card that isn't supported in the docs ;) Anyway ... can anyone confirm whether or not any of these NICs are supported in the 4.X line? -- Bill Moran Po

Re: Swap size

2004-07-05 Thread Bill Moran
VM code _is_ optimized on the assumption that you have 2x your RAM in swap. If the machine starts to swap, you will get the best performance under all loads (including _heavy_ swapping) if you have 2x RAM in swap. However, FreeBSD still performs nicely with less swap than that. -

Re: When named is not available

2004-07-06 Thread Bill Moran
possible name for your machine in it, in addition to "localhost". Any time I've seen one of those WMs get hung up on DNS, it was becuase it was trying to verify its own host name. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___

[REPOST] Compatibility with certain VIA and Realtek NICs

2004-07-06 Thread Bill Moran
fidence that these chipsets are very familiar with supported chipsets? -- 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]"

Re: Removing thousands of files using rm

2004-07-06 Thread Bill Moran
ing the files that doesn't require the shell to expand the list will work as well. There are also tricks you can use to configure the shell to use a longer command line, but I don't remember details. Search the list archives. I asked this same question a year or so back, and the thr

Re: [REPOST] Compatibility with certain VIA and Realtek NICs

2004-07-06 Thread Bill Moran
tion 16 > pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo > biomask 4400 netmask 4c00 ttymask 4c82 > pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled > dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80 > root on wd0a > rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 >

Re: multiple versions of ports installed

2004-07-06 Thread Bill Moran
of these is going to have a slightly different featureset, and (in my experience) different versions of libtool are not compatable. If you try pkg_delete on each of these, you will get an error stating which package requires it. This will give you an idea of what you need to do to get rid of old

Re: BandwidthD syntax error?

2004-07-07 Thread Bill Moran
make sure they're properly balanced. Since it's only a 39 line config, it shouldn't be too hard to track down. If you find that it _is_ a problem with the default config file, and not an error you introduced, you should file a PR. HTH -- 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]"

Mon? (or a substitute monitoring daemon)

2004-07-07 Thread Bill Moran
wrong? I'd like to continue to use mon for the time being, as I'm switching a ton of other stuff over right now, and I don't want to introduce any more changes than necessary at this time. But I'll switch if I have to. If not, what do folks recommend for service

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