Re: Correct steps to recompile kernel

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
urce code or not. Just a warning, if you _did_ update your source code, you need to remake world as well as the kernel or you'll have trouble. If you didn't update your source, the steps outlined above should cover everything. -- Bill Moran P

Re: Correct steps to recompile kernel

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
tivate SCSI support. Sorry for not mentioning it on my first posting. NP. I just wanted to bring it up in case. It's a fairly common mistake to update ones sources, build a new kernel without rebuilding world, and then wonder where all the problems are coming from ;) -- Bill Moran Potential T

Re: Login question

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
ommands as root. Enter "passwd " to change the password for . If you omit , you'll change the root password. good luck. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.free

Re: New work on installer? - Checked by AntiVir DEMO version -

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
g a developer to get some headway made on it. -- 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: Login question

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
your problem is with samba, you'll most likely need to include your smb.conf file in order to get any decent help. Cheers Chris -Original Message- From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 12:29 PM To: Christopher Svensrud Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: R

Re: install questions (was Re: hello, urgent)

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
listed there, it will probably make things easier on you. Good Luck! --- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please read http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Praneeth Reddy wrote: i have only 1.38 mb floppy disks, so can i burn those 2 files into one cd and install it by cdrom. You have a fe

Re: Is Freebsd graphical?

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
trast, have an automatic XFree86 configure program that does this for you) I recommend that you read through this chapter of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html and proceed with setting up XFree86. If you hit specific problems, don't hesitate t

Re: cron can't find root or operator

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
carvin5string wrote: --- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You've got a user's crontab created in the format of the system crontab. The system crontab has an extra field to designate the user under which the job should run. When this field is entered in a user's crontab,

Re: Disabling atime updates...

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
mount says it's hardly ever used) I think you've got a greenlight here. I've seen lots of people use noatime, and I've never heard of anyone having trouble. I'm sort of surprised that noatime isn't the default ... -- Bill Moran Potential T

Re: relatively urgent question (about X)

2004-05-21 Thread Bill Moran
x things. Other times, I've been able to get things going again by deleting the .gnome (and other, similar directories) from my home directory. Note that this second one blows away all your Gnome settings. HTH -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: relatively urgent question (about X)

2004-05-21 Thread Bill Moran
Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:22:46PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Gary Kline wrote: For some months I've had increasing troubles with my 4.9/4.10 abruptly crashing. This morning I found my workhorse server, tao, down and hung up while trying to fsck /usr. I cleaned every

Re: cron can't find root or operator

2004-05-22 Thread Bill Moran
R on this ... I made a few additions, and I think the handbook will explain this much better now. Sounds like a committer is going to get this into the tree within the next few days. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs%2F66963 -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.po

Re: cron can't find root or operator

2004-05-22 Thread Bill Moran
e. So I then su'd and tried again and got the same message again. The I tried - /etc/crontab -u chip crontab (with and without the -e) and get permission denied, as root. I am running 5.1-Release, and a standard default install. Regards, Chip Bill Moran wrote: David Fleck wrote: If yo

Re: FreeBSD Installation error

2004-05-22 Thread Bill Moran
ever. I may be remembering wrong, but I seem to remember a cheap CD-ROM plugged into the same chain as the HDD causing this. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: disk recovery

2004-05-24 Thread Bill Moran
ng and only back up the truely critical stuff. -- 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: Excess Kernel Options

2004-05-24 Thread Bill Moran
member about that is that devices often have dependencies that aren't always obvious. (i.e., using a USB HDD requires SCSI support) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Mystery Ports

2004-05-24 Thread Bill Moran
ports are open because portmapper is running. See the docs on how to shut it down. Portmapper is often associated with NFS, but there are other programs that use it as well. Second, to find out what is opening a port, use "sockstat -4". -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies htt

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Bill Moran
ething I really understand. Where is some nice documentation on this? "man disklabel" is pretty comprehensive. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: Promise ATA100 controller and 160G disks

2004-05-26 Thread Bill Moran
he Promise controller, or with 160G drives. -- 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: Promise ATA100 controller and 160G disks

2004-05-26 Thread Bill Moran
Stijn Hoop wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:28:09AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Stijn Hoop wrote: does anyone know if the Promise ATA100 controller PCI card supports 160 G disks on -STABLE? I'm not 100% sure that the Promise controller is the problem here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/fr

Re: tinydns +MX

2004-05-26 Thread Bill Moran
hat hostname is in /etc/hosts, thus it sends to where you'd expect. -- 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: File encryption: bdes or gpg

2004-05-26 Thread Bill Moran
ou all very much for your time. Best wishes, Simon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Bill Moran Potential Techno

Re: Unable to post to lists

2004-05-27 Thread Bill Moran
/books/faq/misc.html#FREEBSD-MAIL-BOUNCES -- 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 to Windows No Reboot

2004-05-27 Thread Bill Moran
rently still under active development (the port was updated with a new version just today ... what kind of crazy nut is updating ports at 5:30 in the morning?) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing l

Re: buildworld actually crashed

2004-05-28 Thread Bill Moran
ncident? All advice very welcome. Not enough information here to be sure, but it sure sounds like a hardware problem. You might do well to try memtest86 and cpuburn on that machine for a while, to see if you can track down a hardware problem. Monitor the temperature of the machine while doing so, could be

Re: documentation on sysctl vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts?

2004-05-29 Thread Bill Moran
ld have something similar. vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts might do the trick, but so it seems to be poorly documented... Seems so. This might be a question better suited for hackers@ ... and then passed on to doc@ ... I believe there's an effort currently going on to document all sysctls ... -- Bil

Re: unable to install from floppies

2004-05-29 Thread Bill Moran
to find out the IP address of the FTP server you want to use, and use that instead: bash-2.05b$ host ftp.freebsd.org ftp.freebsd.org has address 62.243.72.50 ftp.freebsd.org has address 204.152.184.73 -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.po

Re: unable to install from floppies

2004-05-29 Thread Bill Moran
Message - From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SWIT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "freebsd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 12:15 PM Subject: Re: unable to install from floppies SWIT wrote: Hello, I am tyring to install from th

Re: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-05-31 Thread Bill Moran
;t very CPU intensive. And given FG> the fact that ipf works at the IP stack level, I don't think you can have FG> more than one thread active at a time messing with the IP data structures. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _

Re: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-05-31 Thread Bill Moran
? with one GBIT NIC connected to 100Mbit swith? A gbit NIC isn't going to run at gbit speed on a 100mbit switch. I would look elsewhere than the NIC. Intel NICs are good units (in my experience, if someone knows of problems with them, please speak up) Read the polling man page and see

Re: DNS usage question

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Moran
r svscan directory will be /var/service instead of /service to comply with hier(7). Adjust the instructions accordingly. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Moran
I guess, if you absolutely want to come up with a reason to buy new hardware, this is as good a reason as any. -- 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]"

Whatever happened to the sticky bit (for files)

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Moran
t introduce into the kernel is beyond my complete understanding, and that complexity alone might prevent such a change. But I'm interested as to why it hasn't been done. I simply refuse to think that nobody else has thought of it. I just figure that there's a good reason somewhere why

Re: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Moran
if that applies to your situation, though, as that's usually referring to ethernet, and you claim the problem hasn't always been there. Try polling and see if the load reduces and the performance increases. If all that machine is doing is routing, you can configure it to be dedicated to routin

Re: Whatever happened to the sticky bit (for files)

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Moran
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:04:36 -0400 Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 1, 2004, at 10:08 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > > Unless I'm mistaken, at one time turning on the sticky bit on a binary > > would > > tell the kernel not to swap out that program when

Re:

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Moran
factor. If you're not able to get anywhere, post again and include your XFree config, as well as the log file mentioned above. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.

Re: kernel panic and postfix problems

2004-06-02 Thread Bill Moran
now postfix is bouncing all emails where the ips >> dont match the domain name. This is _one_ of many anti-spam tricks. Consider setting up a greylist. I've had tremendious success lowering the amount of spam and viruses with a greylist on my mail sever. http://pr

Re: port problem with asterisk

2004-06-02 Thread Bill Moran
ith the software. If you are, edit the Makefile to comment out the FORBIDDEN= line and rerun 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:

2004-06-03 Thread Bill Moran
o the same thing so i can connect to my isp using the shell and > never needing to use the x window http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html -- Bill Moran Potenti

Re: Re[2]: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-06-03 Thread Bill Moran
x27;a don't support pooling ? The man page for polling does not list the bge driver as supported, and the bge man page says nothing about polling that I can find. However, the fxp driver (for the Intel NIC) _does_ support polling. -- 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: Running FreeBSD/PostgreSQL on high-end dual Xeon box

2004-06-03 Thread Bill Moran
ave no need of journalling. Even still, you get comparible performance with ufs+softupdates (although it's just a _little_ slower). Now, I've never done "plug tests" on UFS, but I haven't heard of any UFS filesystems getting beyond the point that PostgreSQL couldn't r

Re: Posts not appearing on mailing list.

2004-06-03 Thread Bill Moran
my own vanish. > > Can anyone help. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#FREEBSD-MAIL-BOUNCES -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: help me make a Mail Server choice

2004-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
g with different techniques for months, and the greylister is the best I've used so far. It never has a false positive, rejects virus/spam before using up all the bandwidth to send it, uses almost no CPU and (in my experience) stops about 95% of the viruses and spams. http://projects.pure

Re: Freebsd Loading error

2004-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
i cannot work out how to install it. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html See section 2.2.7 on preparing the installation media. If you can tell us exactly what procedure you're trying to follow, and exactly how it is failing, I'm sure we can

Re: Freebsd Loading error

2004-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
http://www.lemis.com/questions.html and follow the advice there on what needs reported. With what little information you've provided, I can only answer "Either you're doing it wrong or your computer is broken." -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech

Re: 5.2.1 SMP problems

2004-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
27;ve this kind of problem, always it's because some error in RAM. > > Regards > > > > -- > Albert SHIH > Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) > U.F.R. de Mathematiques. > Heure local/Local time: > Fri Jun 4 13:43:52 CEST 2004 > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTE

Re: security level and fsck

2004-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
o in normal operation that would not be any > major problem. What about 5's background fsck? Is that set up so it's able to run after the securelevel has been raised? Background fsck seems to wait a minute or so for the machine to boot before it starts. --

Re: more on fsck with securelevel

2004-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
in the background, after booting, or in the foreground during the boot, forcing the boot process to wait on it (background_fsck="NO" is basically the same behaviour as pre-5 systems) background_fsck_delay is pretty obvious. Hopefully, that will help you reach a config that works 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: Recommended answering machine software?

2004-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
limited by a lack of drivers for phone cards. You'd think you could just use standard modems, but not really. There is a lot of work going in to making asterisk work better on FreeBSD, so it's not going to be like this forever. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialt

Re: Recommended answering machine software?

2004-06-06 Thread Bill Moran
Jay Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 04 June 2004 10:02 pm, Bill Moran wrote: > > While it may be overkill, Asterisk is really the software you're looking > > for: http://www.asterisk.org  It'll do everything you need and more. > > > > Un

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Bill Moran
ynamic IPs for the same reason I lock my doors at night, because if I don't people abuse my kindness. The fact that it also keeps out friendly people sometimes is something I don't like, but have to live with. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.co

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Bill Moran
get handled. Complain that you're having trouble sending mail because their DNS is poorly set up and continue to push and they'll finally come around. Every time I've done this, it's been resolved eventually. Heck, you might even find t

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Bill Moran
Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > "Lucas Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Just make sure they are truly dynamic ips. Many people block ips identified > >>as "DSL" connections. Those are no

Re: [from newbies]: XP + FreeBSD

2004-06-07 Thread Bill Moran
stall. My suggestion: 1) Back up anything important on the XP machine before you start 2) Contact your local Linux Users Group (or BSD users group, if you're lucky enough to have one ... most LUGs have BSD geeks in attendance as well) and find out when their next installfest is. This is

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
; ___ > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > > > ****

Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
can't compare it to ports. Secondly, most large companies that I'm aware of do NOT install Windows updates until they've tested the changes in the lab to ensure that said changes don't break more than they fix. On that count, I think FreeBSD is just as good, or better, than Windo

Re: Legal question regarding products built with FreeBSD

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
eeBSD Foundation. If you don't, however, at least come back and tell the FreeBSD community about your success, so we can feel good about what we've done. :) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: free

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
9-1/books/handbook/install.html Be sure you back up any important data before starting, _especially_ if you're unfamiliar with the process. If you hit specific questions or problems as you go, don't hesitate to ask the list again. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies

Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > >Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>cvsup'ing overnight is routine and fine. > >> > >>The make build/install stuff seems a bit more delicate. I'

[OT] What's "QED"? (was Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades)

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
general, no. > > On the other hand ... think of this as a Murphy's Law scenario: > >if you automate, it _will_ break horribly two days before some > >absolutely critical deadline. > > > > QED I must be "out of touch&

Re: free

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
t; > > > Have you read the install docs?: > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html > > > > Be sure you back up any important data before > > starting, _especially_ if > > you're unfamiliar with t

Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
while it's doing a buildworld. Please note that I am not an authority on hardware, if I'm off-base here, I wouldn't mind a correction ;) But this is how things stand to the best of my knowledge. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com __

Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 8, 2004, at 1:59 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > >> Hopefully I'll get my flat screen back soon from repair. I guess > >> those use > >> less power, right? > > > > I remember having this con

Re: [Going further OT] Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
allows the cpu fan to pull air from outside the case. Some cases even have the duct built in (my brother's computer does). -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: freebsd- Newby question

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
Greg Lehey has a lot of good chapters for beginners, and as you learn, it'll still have a lot to teach you. The online FreeBSD Handbook also has a chapter on basics: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics.html HTH -- Bill Moran Potential Technolo

Re: [still going ... OT] Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
L) is that temp differential is more important than air volume. The upshot being that by bringing air in from the outside of the case (which is cooler) you can run slower fans (thus have a quieter system) and have the same quality of cooling. The flip side is that if you need _more_ cooling, you

Re: I must be doing something wrong!

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
when the tree is broken. If lurking on the -CURRENT list for a while doesn't reveal the nature of the problem, post the errors you're getting to -CURRENT, and I'm sure someone will have reasonable advice for you. It also wouldn't be unusual if the breakage is already fi

Re: Net::LibIDN

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
modules from ports, the FreeBSD ports magic ensures that the proper (in the FreeBSD world) locations are checked. The upshot being, if you don't install everything from ports, you need to learn how to tell the installation program where to look for dependencies. There's probably some option

Re: Apache-MySQL-PHP from ports

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
pleasantly surprised that you don't have to :) p.p.p.s. Once PHP is installed, just go to the mod_frontpage directly and install it, it will add the module to Apache -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL P

Re: Backup question

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
MAXAGE=14 /usr/bin/tar cyf /backup/archive/backup-${DATE}.tbz /backup/source > /dev/null 2>&1 /usr/bin/find /backup/archive -mtime ${MAXAGE} -delete -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
ee, in particular, the section on the -m option, which describes (in brief) the known performance problems and how FreeBSD reacts. Robert's numbers aren't quite right. The point at which performance starts to suck is 90% full. You won't have any _problems_, it's just that per

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
| for root) with that 100% being with the > | set-aside already taken out, it shouldn't > | cause anything to crash. > > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
bothered to invest the research into improving them. (That combined with the fact that disk space keeps getting cheaper and cheaper, makes it unlikely that anyone will invest much $$$ into researching how to use that last 10% while still maintaining top performance). -- Bill Moran Potential Techn

Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
ore I spent (wasted?) a lot of time trying to make it work. 2) Can anyone suggest an alternative to Apache+Frontpage? I prefer scp myself (and there are even spiffy GUI scp clients for Windows) but many of these clients _insist_ on using Frontpage, so I _must_ continue to cater to them.

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
Luke Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:38:18 -0400 > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> granted us these pearls of wisdom: > > > > > I just learned that if you run Apache+Frontpage, you can't teach Apache to > > only lis

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
e are two frontpage ports, apache_fp and mod_frontpage. I've got apache_fp installed. Anyone using mod_frontpage that can say whether it's better or worse? > At 07:38 AM 6/10/2004, Bill Moran wrote: > > >I just learned that if you run Apache+Frontpage, you can't t

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
irectives in the Frontpage Apache config that might cause this ... but I suppose it's possible that I'm missing something. > At 09:42 AM 6/10/2004, Bill Moran wrote: > >Tim Traver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Bill, > > > > > > Not sur

Re: Bug report 64462

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
nd a fix for it? Considering that it's for 5.X, you might want to subsribe to FreeBSD-current@ and ask there. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: freebsd 4.5 partitioning

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
answer is to track down which program is doing this and fix it. If you do the copy/symlink thing, make sure you reboot in single user mode first, otherwise you'll have problems with programs that are trying to use /var while you're doing this. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies h

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
ught I would let you know that I couldn't reproduce it... Like I said. I really appreciate you taking time to look into this. I'm going to find time to try out the mod_frontpage port to see if it's better behaved. > > Tim. > > > At 10:38 AM 6/10/2004, Bill

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
. Customers are customers ... they want what they want, and if I don't give it to them, they'll take their money elsewhere. That's one more reason to get it running in a jail. I will report back my success or failure ... -- Bill Mo

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
ather lucky. >From the way you're talking, it doesn't sound like luck, it sounds like you were smart. I agree with the general statement ... that any OS can be secure if properly adminned. I just find that it's much, much more work to properly admin a MS system than Free

Re: Frontpage and jails and possible alternatives

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
d of frustrated that I have this mysterious behaviour that I can't explain, but I'm pretty happy that I have a solution/workaround to move forward in spite of the issue. In a few days, the troublesome installation won't even exist anymore, it'll have been replaced with a jail! B

Re: Command to combine several files as a single file, etc.

2004-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
can't remember the name/links to the perl script I'd used in the past. -- 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: Problem with samba - windows clients reboot when saving.

2004-06-11 Thread Bill Moran
ll antivirus > software on the clients have been disabled. > > Any help is needed urgently. > Thanks in advance leon. > > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- 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: Platforms, OSes,etc.

2004-06-11 Thread Bill Moran
latform do I have (i386, pc98 ? ) i386. > and what OS would you recommend for my purposes ( FreeBSD, Red Hat, SUSE?) FreeBSD. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Version query for a new machine

2004-06-11 Thread Bill Moran
5.x be when the time comes? I typically keep over 300 > ports installed, so I expect that alone will be kinda ugly to work > with (See the corrolary to Murphy at the bottom). > > Since I haven't got the system yet (about 10 days out), I'd like to > have an idea where to

IMAP server (was Re: Version query for a new machine)

2004-06-11 Thread Bill Moran
comodate Samba shares). I definitely want to keep IMAP, > but adding POP3 will depend entirely on the associated pain factor. Have you looked at dovecot? I've been very happy with it for small installations. -- Bill Moran Potential Technol

Re: finding ram eating process

2004-06-12 Thread Bill Moran
-osize" and watch to see what processes at the top are using. Look at the "active" RAM in top and see if that fills up without end. And leave the system running for a few days. If there's a true leak, it'll need to use swap sooner or later. -- Bill Moran Potential Techno

Re: aix

2004-06-12 Thread Bill Moran
t looking through it's sysctls (does AIX have sysctls?) or if you peruse the /etc directory to see how things get started at boot time. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.f

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
se as a logo for other things than I can keep track of. I've seen more renditions of the beastie in artwork than both the penguin and the butterfly combined. The simple fact is that _most_ people like the beastie, and the few who are horribly offended by it don

Re: Some Simple Questions

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
s. Use google to search for "+freebsd +laptop" and you'll find a number of sites dedicated to giving you detailed information. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:

Re: Hard Drive going bad? (hard error reading fsbn)

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
3 santacruz /kernel: ad0s1h: hard error > reading fsbn 197443151 of 26369792-26369823 (ad0s1 bn > 197443151; cn 12290 tn 68 sn 17) status=59 error=40 > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebs

Re: EOL for FreeBSD releases

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
> Thanks in advance for your help. FreeBSD is not Red Hat, and does not have an EOL in the same way that Red Hat does. The closest thing I know of is the security teams commitment to providing patches for new security issues: http://www.freebsd.org/s

Re: Hard Drive going bad? (hard error reading fsbn)

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
443151; cn 12290 tn 68 sn 17) > status=59 error=40 > ad0s1h: hard error reading fsbn 197443151 of > 26369792-26369823 (ad0s1 bn 197443151; cn 12290 tn 68 sn 17) > status=59 error=40 > ad0s1h: hard error reading fsbn 197443151 of > 26369792-26369823 (ad0s1 bn 197443151; cn 12290

Detailed logging of ssh sessions

2005-06-19 Thread Bill Moran
ing for the right phrases, since I can't believe I'm the only one doing this. Any advice or pointers are welcome. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: Detailed logging of ssh sessions

2005-06-19 Thread Bill Moran
Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > >I'd like to start logging everything that > >happens during any ssh login (since all our work on these machines is > >via ssh). I understand, and frequently use script(1), but I want this > &g

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
riptions of how the pager and swapper work. The complexity of those two systems, and the reasoning behind how they're designed is more than can easily be answered on an email list. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com __

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

2005-10-18 Thread Bill Moran
lel adapter, but I've got no experience with these. I've been warned about USB -> serial adapaters and how the translation isn't always 100%, so I'm trying to gather some information before I go forward with this plan. Anyone use one of these? How well do they work in gener

Re: Free BSD Certification

2005-10-19 Thread Bill Moran
"Eugene Prenzler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if there is a institution in South Africa, Gauteng, > Pretoria that offers Certification on Free BSD? Information can be found here: http://www.bsdcertification.org/ -- Bill Moran

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