Simple program to check for problems prior to running portupgrade

2004-12-24 Thread Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/portupgrade-check.php -- 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

Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?

2004-12-24 Thread Bill Moran
ilities anyway ;-) > > Thanks for the heads up on that Is there a way to make cron use something > other then sendmail? I missed the original post, and it appears to have been snipped away, but one possibility: http://www.freebsd.o

Re: Starting Apache 2.0.52 in rc.conf under FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-25 Thread Bill Moran
O8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcng.html Unfortunatly, this document doesn't fully explain how /usr/local/etc/rc.d has changed, but it's a good start nonetheless. More can be gleaned by following the links to other man pages, and reading the various /etc/rc scripts themse

Re: web server permissions question

2004-12-25 Thread Bill Moran
dress, which isn't accessable from the Internet at large. If this is the case, fix your links. Otherwise, please provide some more information about the symptoms. I doubt there is any sort of permission problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___

Re: Freebsd non-profit stat OT

2004-12-25 Thread Bill Moran
rtunatley, PayPal (who I don't have an account with) insists that I have an account and refuses to process my transaction unless I log in (to the account that doesn't exist). Am I the only one they're doing this to? Doesn't seem like it's the Foundation's faul

Re: Freebsd non-profit stat OT

2004-12-26 Thread Bill Moran
Jay O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > > Unfortunatley, PayPal (who I don't have an account with) insists that I > > have an account and refuses to process my transaction unless I log in > > (to the account that doesn't exi

Re: Apache trailing slash - was web server permissions

2004-12-26 Thread Bill Moran
eeBSD problem, I'll drop the issue here until I find a > solution. Is IE involved in this anywhere? I've noticed that IE tends to have problems with certian URLs. The "trailing slash" issue sounds familiar as an IE problem (although I'm not sure). Have you trie

Re: Freebsd non-profit stat OT

2004-12-26 Thread Bill Moran
Jay O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > > Again. I understand, and it _should_ work. But it doesn't for me. > > > > I've been having this problem with Paypal for several months. I once > > had a paypal account, then th

Re: a quick question ...

2004-12-26 Thread Bill Moran
list again. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html -- 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: write state to swap for multi-os boot

2004-12-27 Thread Bill Moran
Wine. Since I tend to have a lot of application windows open, it's a > PITA to have to reload everything on boot. Thoughts? This isn't a direct answer to your question, but you might want to have a look at vmware. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _

Re: urgent help

2004-12-27 Thread Bill Moran
should cause things to panic, unless you did the upgrade process improperly. -- 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: FreeBSD PNP OS = NO in system bios configuration?

2004-12-31 Thread Bill Moran
istory of stability, right? There never was such a thing as FreeBSD 2.5.1. Are you sure you're not using 5.2.1? 5.2.1 is experimental software and doesn't really have a great history of stability. Upgrade to 5.3 (if that's the case). -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://ww

Re: FreeBSD Gateway

2005-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
pace. While you can get away with smaller, that's about the minimum before using the box for maintenance purposes becomes a terrible burdon. Try upgrading and rebuilding world on a 266! -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: write state to swap for multi-os boot

2005-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
for a while, but > Suspend-to-disc (which Linux currently has) is yet to be written. > There have been suggestions of saving the RAM to swap space and > shutting down. I hope to see someone put this into action soon. It'd > be a great feature. (Especially for mobi

Re: TCPDUMP performance

2005-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
rnel). > > Any advice would be appreciated. When using tethereal to do captures, I found that nicing the capture process reduced the incidence of dropped packets to 0. Not exactly the same circumstance, but I would guess that tcpdump would respond simularly. -- Bill Moran Potential Tech

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
d very important in this day and age. Postfix delivering to maildirs + Dovecot for POP3S/IMAPS makes a very reliable and secure setup in my opinion. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: write state to swap for multi-os boot

2005-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Bill Moran wrote: > > > But it's a great way to boot Linux under Windows, or FreeBSD under > > either, or have multiple OSes running simultaneously under a single > > computer. > > How good is device su

Someone trying to break in.

2005-01-04 Thread Bill Moran
o I'm hoping that it's no longer vulnerable, but I can't seem to determine what kind of attack was being used. Thoughts? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Someone trying to break in.

2005-01-07 Thread Bill Moran
Sergey Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:06:39AM -0500, > Bill Moran probably wrote: > > > > Over the holiday I replaced a server that appeared to have been cracked. > > Basically built a replacement with the same services in a san

ntpd core dumping on 5.3-p5

2005-03-18 Thread Bill Moran
mbols. FreeBSD bolivia.potentialtech.com 5.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Thu Feb 24 08:26:07 UTC 2005 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WORKING i386 -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: ntpd core dumping on 5.3-p5

2005-03-18 Thread Bill Moran
John Pettitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bill Moran wrote: > > >I'm experiencing a problem similar to the problem described in this thread: > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-February/078139.html > > > >My ntp.conf

Re: ntpd core dumping on 5.3-p5

2005-03-18 Thread Bill Moran
John Pettitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bill Moran wrote: > > >John Pettitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Bill Moran wrote: > >> > >>>I'm experiencing a problem similar to the problem described in this thread: >

Re: Frequent loss of contact with ISP

2005-03-20 Thread Bill Moran
; I am a newbie using FreeBSD so any suggestions would be appreciated. Spend a little time in the /var/log directory and see if anything is being logged around the time you lose connection. Also, more clearly defining "lose connection" would help. What does ifconfig say when the c

Re: Invalid Gateway IPv4 Address Specified

2005-03-20 Thread Bill Moran
way that is not reachable based on the IP/netmask for the interface. For example: If your IP/netmask is 172.16.0.1/255.255.255.0, then the system has no way to reach 10.0.0.9. If that's not the problem, the I suggest collecting some more detailed informati

Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-21 Thread Bill Moran
2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent > > debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS > > debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received > > debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent > > debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received > > ___ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Questions about X Window system (FreeBSD 5.3)

2005-03-21 Thread Bill Moran
en't as up to date as the English version, so it may be worthwhile to look at the English version as well: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-q

Re: Frequent loss of contact with ISP

2005-03-22 Thread Bill Moran
at -rn` change? 3) In the netstat output will be a line that starts with "default", see if you can ping that IP address - if not, then the problem is probably with your switch/hub or other local network. 4) Try pinging 206.190.36.122 (that's the ip for story.news.yahoo.com), if

Re: ftp problem

2005-01-25 Thread Bill Moran
the man page for ftpd for how this is done. -- 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]"

What is the status of gvinum in FreeBSD 5.3?

2005-02-17 Thread Bill Moran
;m wanting to migrate 4.X machines with existing vinum volumes to 5, and I'd rather not dump/restore. 2) There is at least one feature that vinum has that I don't see in any GEOM class, that I'm using. That is the ability to add subdisks and use growfs to enlarge filesystems w

Re: Removing old perl version from system

2005-02-18 Thread Bill Moran
ng such an uninstall ?? Pros are that the system will be easier to maintain. You're system will have less programs with vulnerabilities installed, and will use less disk space. Cons are that you'll spend less time working with this system, and it's less likely to get cracked,

Re: masterpasswd file

2005-02-18 Thread Bill Moran
machine and get their cooperation. If you're trying to get master.passwd on a machine that you have no root access on, they you'll have to break root on that machine, and this is the wrong forum to ask questions about how to do that. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com pgpzdHWKPrPwL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Installing a vulnerable port

2005-02-18 Thread Bill Moran
rticular problem > yet. How can I force the build to ignore this problem for now? make FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes install This is in the ports manpage, and IIRC, it's also output as part of the error when the port aborts installation. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com pgpYy15oawPMJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: need help with script and sed

2005-02-18 Thread Bill Moran
ension to the -i option of sed. That way it keeps a copy of the file as it was before sed touches it. This will save you a lot of headaches, if sed does something you don't expect. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com pgpEKy22tkSU8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
all been there) and are attempting to help you along. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com pgp9SqYF4IW9K.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Shell file completion

2005-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
"DOS wildcards seem to mimic this". > Where is it documented? 'man sh' - the section on "Shell Patterns". -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com pgp4EF5YGjKKn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Split DNS [was]: 5.3 & /etc/rc.network

2005-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
an trying to run two seperate bind instances. See the bind docs. -- 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: Items exist in ports, but not as packages.

2005-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
I need? You can work with an incomplete ports tree sometimes. The ports tree is heavily dependent on the fact that make can jump to different directories to install dependencies and such ... that being said, I have been able to use partial ports trees in the past. I

Re: Items exist in ports, but not as packages.

2005-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
worked for me. > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:00:46 -0500, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I've been trying to install a few packages using 'pkg_add -r' but I > > > have fou

FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org

2005-02-24 Thread Bill Moran
'm guessing 3000x3000 or so) and since most of it is off the monitor, it's unusable. I've tried installaing the vmware-tools4 package, and I've tried it without the package. It doesn't seem to make much difference either way. Any suggestions or pointers on

Re: FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org

2005-02-24 Thread Bill Moran
Jason Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/24/05 23:37:53, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > I'd like to use FreeBSD inside VMWare on my desktop. I've used > > VMWare > > for testing things out in FreeBSD quite a few times with considerable > > su

Re: New freebsd user here

2004-01-19 Thread Bill Moran
ks a million Just reinstall the one you want. If it's Windows, you'll need to reinstall the FreeBSD boot manager after you've reinstalled Windows (because Windows rebuilds your boot loader to its liking, without asking you). Just make sure you use the correct partitions, etc.

What does __restrict do?

2004-02-10 Thread Bill Moran
In various places in the source code, for example, in the code for printf(): printf(char const * __restrict fmt, ...) I understand everything except __restrict. What does that mean/do? Is it a FreeBSDism? (I can't find anything about it in any C docs) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies

How to determine the version of sshd

2003-09-17 Thread Bill Moran
ssh has the -V switch to display the version. sshd does not appear to have similar functionality. Is there a way to verify the version of sshd running on a FreeBSD system? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL

Re: How to determine the version of sshd

2003-09-17 Thread Bill Moran
Marc Ramirez wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Bill Moran wrote: ssh has the -V switch to display the version. sshd does not appear to have similar functionality. Is there a way to verify the version of sshd running on a FreeBSD system? [EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/src] $ sshd -v sshd: illegal option -- v

[OT] replacing fan with mismatched specs

2003-09-17 Thread Bill Moran
an! Advice is appreciated. -- 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: How DBA solved overload problem ?

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Moran
In the end, it seems that most people end up buying faster, more expensive hardware to make up for lousy application design. It's a damn shame, but that's what seems to happen a lot. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

cvsup -> down?

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Moran
e I wanted it (which I can't really afford right now) So, my question is: Can anyone say with confidence that this machine will build a sane world/kernel for RELENG_5_1 after what I did? If not, I'll just wipe out /usr/src and install a fresh source and re-cv

Re: cvsup -> down?

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Moran
David Landgren wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Hey all. This seems like a really dumb question to me, but I'm having such a rough last two weeks that I'd rather be sure by sounding stupid, than by looking stupid. What I'm doing is upgrading a machine to RELEASE_5_1 (to take care of

Security patches and -p#

2003-09-26 Thread Bill Moran
ast _some_ of these machines ;) Anyway. Is there a typo somewhere? Or am I misunderstanding the bulliten? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: Security patches and -p#

2003-09-27 Thread Bill Moran
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:28:07PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Hey, I'm a bit confused, and it may just be a typo. I recently updated a bunch of servers to patch the arp problem recently announced: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03%3A14.ar

[OT] C question (typedef & structs)

2003-10-02 Thread Bill Moran
;m doing because I haven't studied it yet ;) -- 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] C question (typedef & structs)

2003-10-02 Thread Bill Moran
Chris Pressey wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:54:39 -0400 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey gang, Hi Bill, Actually, 2 questions: 1) What's the difference between: struct customStruct { int RecID; char *Name; }; and typedef struct customStruct { int RecID;

Re: [OT] C question (typedef & structs)

2003-10-02 Thread Bill Moran
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 1) What's the difference between: struct customStruct { int RecID; char *Name; }; and typedef struct customStruct { int RecID; char *Name; }; ?? I had the latter, but when I started moving my code int

Re: Kernelpath & arplookup.

2003-10-24 Thread Bill Moran
the IP/netmask you've assigned to the network card. If you don't care, you can ignore the messages. All it means is that ARP was not able to turn the IP address into a MAC address. I believe there is a way to disable these messages, but I don't remember for sure. -- Bill Mora

Re: Kernelpath & arplookup.

2003-10-25 Thread Bill Moran
Peter Terpstra wrote: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, op de datum 2003-10-24 om 16:09, Bill Moran schreef: arp: Frequently I get this message on the first console: arplookup 213.84.240.105 failed: host is not on local network This means your network is configured strangely, although a lot of ISPs s

[OT] porting an application from FreeBSD to z/os

2004-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
nsure the app would compile/run on Linux (it's in C) ... does that mean that porting to z/os should be pretty easy as well? Any links to some serious information about what the system is like (other than IBM's explanation of how many gazillion $$ I'll save by switching)? --

Re: speed issues

2004-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
er second These tend to be a result of a port scan. (It's conceivable your DC protocol is trying to connect to a closed port initially and then falling back to some other port which works...?) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _

Re: Simple Router on FreeBSD - Which should I use?

2004-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
l work fine for now, but if you start to scale up you'll wish you didn't have 65536 hosts on a single network leg. If you're sure you'll never be scaling up, then that netmask is fine, it won't cause any problems. If you're sure, can I borrow your crystal ball some time?

Re: Removing wierd file

2004-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
have those permissions, let alone the invalied UID/GID. Suggestions anyone? Last time I saw anything remotely like this, I had to reboot to single-user mode and fsck the partition. Afterwards, I was able to rm the file without problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtec

Re: Help - where to report posting problem

2004-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
advise where can I seek assistance. TIA Here, but include the bounce message or we don't know what's wrong. B.R. Stephen Liu Remarks: This problem has happened twice. Previously I also encounterd the same problem. Finally it has to be fixed manually by the owner of this list. -- Bill Moran

Re: Help - where to report posting problem

2004-04-20 Thread Bill Moran
mmand, not "popimap02.icare.priv" <<<<<< B.R. Stephen --- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I make this second subscription to this list solely seeking advice where to report problem. I am currently subscribing to [EMAI

Re: PPP authentification

2004-04-20 Thread Bill Moran
O8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip.html Hope this helps. -- 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: RAID emulation

2004-04-20 Thread Bill Moran
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 http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Simple Router on FreeBSD - Which should I use?

2004-04-20 Thread Bill Moran
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 05:51:50PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Danny wrote: I would like to setup a simple router, for the following: Enable a 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 network talk to a 10.10.0.0 255.255.0.0 network, and obviously vise versa. You'll probably just wa

Re: Please helps!!!

2004-04-20 Thread Bill Moran
ystem, it doesn't have anything to do with Windows XP. Seek out a Windows mailing list. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: Accessing MySQL from C

2004-04-20 Thread Bill Moran
to start with: http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/Make/ -- 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: Backing up my system

2004-04-20 Thread Bill Moran
ld from scratch, you could boot a CD (such as FreeSBIE) partition the new disk based on the disklabel/ fdisk dumps you made prior, then use restore/tar to restore the actual data. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [

Re: mouse in FreeBSD

2004-04-21 Thread Bill Moran
ked for me (I have a Logitech dual-lazer mouse with 5 buttons and a massage attachment) If that doesn't work, do a little research on the specific brand of mouse you have to see what Protocol setting will work. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___

Re: Rackmount Server recommendation

2004-04-21 Thread Bill Moran
port. http://www.freebsdsystems.com/ I've dealt with these folks. Very happy with everything. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: Need vinum info/advice, fast.

2004-04-21 Thread Bill Moran
to backups in case of a disk failure. If it can be done, how do I do it? I've never used vinum before, and only know what it is, but nothing about it. I believe this is still valid: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html -- Bill Moran Potential Te

Re: IMAP server and client recommendations?

2004-04-22 Thread Bill Moran
Of course, the biggest problem with open source software is there are too many good choices :) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)

2004-04-22 Thread Bill Moran
c). You might do better using rsync's native communication protocol (i.e., running rsyncd on one machine and connecting from the other). -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.

Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf

2004-04-23 Thread Bill Moran
lt file. FYI, a lot of things are handled in this manner, look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf for another example) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf

2004-04-23 Thread Bill Moran
[please fix your mail program so it doesn't mangle emails by wrapping lines] Danny wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:51:28 -0400, Bill Moran wrote Danny wrote: Greetings, So I have installed Postfix from the ports, read the pkg-message, read the changing the MTA in the handbook, and did

Re: backing up cvs files

2004-04-23 Thread Bill Moran
s based on file permissions. So be sure that the anonymous user only has read access to the files in the repository (I could be wrong on this, I apologize if I lead you astray). -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PRO

Anyone else having trouble with Samsung 160G drives?

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
that I'm going insane ... seriously, these things work everywhere except where I need them to work (as an aside ... the client tried them in a Windows desktop machine and they worked fine there as well) Does anyone have any suggestions? Thoughts? Anything? -- Bi

Re: Anyone else having trouble with Samsung 160G drives?

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
Kent Stewart wrote: On Monday 10 May 2004 10:23 am, Bill Moran wrote: This is the weirdest problem I'm seen in a while. Client bought a pair of 160G Samsung SP1604N ATA drives. I'm supposed to install them in an existing FreeBSD 4.9 system for additional storage space. As soon as the

Re: Anyone else having trouble with Samsung 160G drives?

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
Simon Barner wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Client bought a pair of 160G Samsung SP1604N ATA drives. I'm supposed to install them in an existing FreeBSD 4.9 system for additional storage space. [ drives don't work in various systems except for one ] I once had a similar problem with a 120

Re: Anyone else having trouble with Samsung 160G drives?

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 10, 2004, at 11:23 AM, Bill Moran wrote: This is the weirdest problem I'm seen in a while. Client bought a pair of 160G Samsung SP1604N ATA drives. I'm supposed to install them in an existing FreeBSD 4.9 system for additional storage space.

Re: Show count of open files

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
u a number of kernel settings related to files, including the max number of open files and the max number of open files per process. HTH. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: size of net.inet.tcp.sendspace and net.inet.tcp.recvspace

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
test to see if it's improved things. Keep an eye on your memory usage to ensure you don't increase anything to where #1 starts to occur. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:/

Re: need restore disc for Compaq Presario 2200

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
D is not part of any of Compaq's products. However, I would recommend that you search Compaq's web site. The last time I did, I was able to find a section in the downloads area for requesting replacement CDs. Good Luck. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www

Re: mono

2004-05-07 Thread Bill Moran
h garbage collection enabled" Then you can experiment with the crashes and help find the problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Can't build openoffice-1.1 from port

2004-05-07 Thread Bill Moran
d using >J2SDK 1.4.1 fcs (or later). >Apparently, your bootstrap JDK is version Abort trap >Please update your ALT_BOOTDIR setting and start your build again. > Exiting because of the above error(s). > gmake: ***

Re: Can't build openoffice-1.1 from port

2004-05-07 Thread Bill Moran
Christian Hiris wrote: On Saturday 08 May 2004 00:24, Bill Moran wrote: Trying to install openoffice from ports tree cvsupped yesterday and failing. I don't want to install from a package, as I get an icky mess between gtk 1 (which the openoffice package wants) and gtk 2 (which the latest

Re: installer

2004-05-03 Thread Bill Moran
: http://rtp1.slowblink.com/~libh/ It's been grinding along for quite some time now. Whether or not it ever gets completed is dependent on some folks jumping in and helping out. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [

Re: Help: /var: create/symlink failed, no inodes free

2004-05-03 Thread Bill Moran
;df -hi" will tell you how many inodes are available on your filesystems. Short-term, the solution is to delete some files off your /var partition. Long term, you may need to reformat /var with more inodes than the default, if this is a chronic problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http:

Re: Cron Setting up

2004-05-03 Thread Bill Moran
ake a look at the scripts in /etc/periodic/daily/ You can simply add your script to that directory, and periodic will execute it daily with all the others. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Using FreeBSD disconnected on a notebook

2004-05-03 Thread Bill Moran
n you're connected to no network at all. Only when it can find a master will it pull down replication of user information. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: arp issues...but WHY

2004-05-04 Thread Bill Moran
rp, broadcast or any other type of traffic from arriving on the wrong ethernet card, thus evoking these messages. The reason you can turn them off in the kernel is that they're essentially harmless in this situation. If you know what you've done and you're comfortable with it

Re: arp issues...but WHY

2004-05-04 Thread Bill Moran
g on the BSD machine with the two NICs and it will act as a router for you. -- 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: arp issues...but WHY

2004-05-04 Thread Bill Moran
J.D. Bronson wrote: At 09:49 AM 05/04/2004, Bill Moran wrote: Then how do I get data from one segment to the other w/o using a router and yet at the same time keeping 'arp' happy ? You don't. That's what a router does. If you want to move data between two different networ

Re: Patching ports

2004-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
to do "make" when done. You can also do "make patch" instead of "make extract" - this will do the extract step and also apply any patches provided by FreeBSD. It's a matter of whether you want to apply your patches bef

Re: Source code of ln command

2004-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
ln Otherwise, you can download any version you want from cvs: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/bin/ln/ -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: testing

2004-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Printing to a Xerox Document Centre 332 (escape seq.)

2004-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-intro-setup.html#PRINTING-TEXTFILTER You might also just install magicfilter or apsfilter. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.free

Re: athlon-mp daily hang 5.2.1

2004-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
r hardware. #4 is a rarity, but I've seen crappy power cause weird problems. Undersized power supplies can cause similar problems. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: OpenOffice Install in FreeBSD

2004-05-19 Thread Bill Moran
inding the older dependent packages and getting them installed first. I should really do a "make package" on my setup and submit it to the OpenOffice.org folks ... -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

install questions (was Re: hello, urgent)

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
type of install. A minumal is only a few hundred meg, but a more practical installation will probably require a few gig. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: cron can't find root or operator

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
and to be run and the errors you describe generally result. Keep in mind that the user "root" has a user crontab that is different from the system crontab. If you're still fuzzy as to what went wrong, reading the man pages for crontab (in addition to my explanation) should help. good

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