Re: How to begin ???

2004-09-29 Thread Bill Moran
_The_Design_and_Implementation_of_ _the_4.4bsd_Operating_System_, and it's cleared up a LOT of my misunderstandings on how the Unix kernel works ... I can only assume that the newer one will be even better. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com __

Re: Which FreeBSD For A Production System

2004-09-29 Thread Bill Moran
iable, install 4, and when you replace the machine, use 5. Otherwise, you'll probably want 5 so you're up with all the latest stuff. Some might argue that 5 is not officially for production use yet, but the announcement that it is ready for production use seems as if it will

Re: Freebsd 5.2.1 Performance Woes

2004-09-30 Thread Bill Moran
many ISPs do not fully support IPv6, and that 5.2.1 > > would try to use it first and then after a timeout it would try IPv4. > > No, that's referring to order of DNS lookups and your ISP's broken > nameserver, not TCP/IP performance. There is also the w

Re: Platforms

2004-10-01 Thread Bill Moran
> I am currently > employing an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ as a processor so I have no idea how > to proceed. What > platform should I use for the processor I am using? That is an x86/i386 architecture system. > Thank you in advance, I am looking forward to using your

Re: I'm a 'tard - I don't know what a Subject line is (Was well, no subject)

2004-10-01 Thread Bill Moran
r to a reference regarding the proper policy, i.e. http://www.lemis.com/questions.html If you want to be rude to people, please don't associate yourself with FreeBSD when you do it. As to the OP's question, look at wine (http://www.winehq.com) ... although I've never had much su

Re: I'm a 'tard - I don't know what a Subject line is (Was well, no subject)

2004-10-01 Thread Bill Moran
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Nicx wrote: > >> > >>> Hello Guy's! > >>> > >>> Is there any emulator that i can run win32

Re: Platforms

2004-10-01 Thread Bill Moran
time. But after 5 years of using FreeBSD as my desktop computer, I'm _still_ learning new ways to use it to make my work easier. And I had it working better than Windows 5 years ago. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Release question

2004-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
stable and production-ready than 5.2.1 was, and 5.3-RELEASE is intended to be officially announced as production ready. I believe 5.3-RELEASE is scheduled within the next few weeks. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EM

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
things interact across a network, and you want to have at least 1 computer that you _don't_ experiment with, so it's always reliable to use for email or searching for docs on the 'net. And I agree with Robert, that if you're serious about

Re: problem with php mysql

2004-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
ase (server) > apache-2.0.50 Version 2 of Apache web server with prefork MPM. > mod_php5-5.0.0,1PHP Apache Module > All installed from ports. Install php5-extensions, and choose the extensions you want. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: C compiler

2004-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
ecked several compile options, but it did not have good results. 5.2.1 is not a strong performer. It's ALPHA code. If you want to do performance testing, either use 4.10, or work with the 5.3 BETAs. 5.2.1 isn't supposed to be fast yet. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologi

Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
are rsync, if that helps ... they tend to be a bit more 'disk > > intensive' then most processes, which is why I thought of increasing -n > > ... Might help. I would look at networking before I looked at disk usage ... are there dropped packets and the like. But it could be either. -- 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: Xserver mouse won't work

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
you tried the "Auto" protocol? You can manually edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and make the protocol line: Option "Protocol" "Auto" 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: would async mount improve IO speed?

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
st, I can see only a few edge cases where it makes sense to use async. -- 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: nfs server not responding / is alive again

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote: > > > What kind of network topology is between the two machines? Do you > > notice a high load on the hub/switch/routers during these activities? > > You may be

Re: /usr is growing and growing

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
ed the large files on the filesystem. I can then usually determine what is causing those large files. If I had to make a guess ... I would suspect that something is logging to /usr somewhere, without you realizing it. But I can only guess. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.p

Re: Thanks to Bill Moran

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
nuxfest next year if you can make it, as there seemed to be a pretty strong BSD showing. http://www.ohiolinux.org -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Why is data linked to data-dist

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
upgrade doesn't obliterate your data. -- 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: Why is data linked to data-dist

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
e ports, do not install in that data directory. Instead, they are installed in /usr/local/www/, and the necessary configurations are put in place to make them accessible. (usually Apache-based symlinks ... I forget what the directive in Apache is called). Anyway, this protects the data you

Re: Emergency, cannot boot 4.10

2004-10-06 Thread Bill Moran
p mount -a You should then be able to fix the offending entry. As a side note ... the last version of FreeSBIE I used had a menu to allow you to choose your language at bootup. Perhaps your version is a bit old? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Planning a Upgrade (5.2.1 --> 5.3)

2004-10-07 Thread Bill Moran
iruses can be transmitted by e-mail. Recipients should check this e-mail > for the presence of viruses. The Capita Group and its subsidiaries accept no > liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. > *** > > ___ > [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: Cannot log into 4.10 machine via ssh

2004-10-07 Thread Bill Moran
eing filtered. Try logging in from a closer server to see if the sshd on the server is still working. At least narrow it down to whether putty, the sshd, or the network is the problem. Ethereal would be a good tool as well. HTH -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Network probleme

2004-10-08 Thread Bill Moran
t --reseting I was seeing this, and it went away by upgrading to 5.3BETA. My understanding is that many of the watchdog timeouts were bugs that resulted from some of the new work being done to the network stack, and most (if not all) are fixed in 5.3 -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies ht

Re: resolv.conf missing

2004-10-08 Thread Bill Moran
have_ to set all this, it sure defeats the purpose if it doesn't) If you're not using DHCP to set the network information on the BSD machine, you'll need to manually add a "defaultrouter=" statement in /etc/rc.conf, and manually create /etc/resolv.conf (or you can use s

Re: How can I know how many packets were lost and resent on particular TCP connection?

2010-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Yuri : > Just curious if I can do this. netstat -s gives you system-wide stats. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: 32 or 64 bit as server ?

2010-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
at this point in time, my advice would be "only go 32 bit if you _know_ there's something that won't work in 64 bit." I can speak personally that we have a multitude of servers running PHP and Apache 2.2 on 64 bit FreeBSD with no trouble. I don't use MySQL, but I have a har

Re: Can MS Exchange play nice with the mailing lists?

2010-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
hange.pcam.local> > Accept-Language: en-US > Content-Language: en-US > X-MS-Has-Attach: > X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: > acceptlanguage: en-US > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Thi

Re: What is loading my server so much?

2010-12-09 Thread Bill Moran
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:31:04 +0100 Laszlo Nagy wrote: > System is FreeBSD shopzeus.com 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #0: Sun Oct > 31 02:55:28 EDT 2010 amd64 > It has two quad-core Xeon CPUs, 24GB memory, and a RAID 1+0 array with > 10 disks + Areca 1680 controller with 2GB write back cache

Re: What is loading my server so much?

2010-12-09 Thread Bill Moran
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:15:14 +0100 Laszlo Nagy wrote: > > > First off, you have 24G of RAM available and PostgreSQL only seems to > > have access to 400M of it. Bump shared_buffers up to 2 or 3 G at least, > > and bump up work_mem to at least a few hundred meg, and > > maintenance_work_mem up t

Re: What is loading my server so much?

2010-12-10 Thread Bill Moran
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 19:30:08 -0600 Gary Gatten wrote: > Could there be a ulimit issue as well? I think shared memory is unaffected by ulimits ... at least, I've never had trouble with ulimit preventing PostgreSQL from allocating gigs and gigs of shared memory, and I don't recall every having to b

Re: FreeBSD IPSec stack contains backdoors?

2010-12-17 Thread Bill Moran
> > As far as I am aware, FreeBSD contains considerable amount of code > > > ported from OpenBSD. The question is: was the FreeBSD's ipsec code > > > ported from OpenBSD's implementation? If so, what might be the impact > > > of this? > > > > > >

Re: MySQL 5.5.7->5.5.8 instructions seem scary

2010-12-29 Thread Bill Moran
r you to run it, then keep off. > Otherwise backup your DB and follow the instructions:-) Better yet, make a jail, install the version of MySQL you're currently using and copy your data over, then practice upgrading in the jail. Once you have the procedure figured

Re: freebsd and

2011-01-05 Thread Bill Moran
ty concerns. b) Use something other than /etc/passwd authentication -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: File Listing

2011-01-10 Thread Bill Moran
complete listing, assuming you have permissions to all the directories. You can add other options if you want to change the formatting of the output. You can also do 'find /', the output of which may be more appealing, depending on what you're trying to accomplish. -- Bill Moran h

Re: Jon Radel (sorry no other way to do this)

2011-01-24 Thread Bill Moran
're simply cryptographically signed. Don't know what your MUA thinks it's doing, but it's doing wrong by you. If you can find a setting to frob to get your MUA to display at text instead of thinking so hard, you'll be able to read

Re: OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
ee any large changes to it released until they've been in testing for months, if not years. For all we know, these speed improvements are riddled with dozens of security flaws. Also, any reason why you're asking these questions of FreeB

Default permissions under X (umask?)

2002-12-25 Thread Bill Moran
I would like to set my default permissions for X windows apps. I've set my umask for bash, which works great when I'm in a terminal, but it doesn't seem to have any effect on X apps (such as the Mozilla downloader, for example, or when I create new files with Code Crusader) Files are created rw

Re: Default permissions under X (umask?)

2002-12-25 Thread Bill Moran
From: Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to set my default permissions for X windows apps. > I've set my umask for bash, which works great when I'm in a > terminal, but it doesn't seem to ha

Re: Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD?

2002-12-25 Thread Bill Moran
From: Shantanu Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +++ Bill Moran [freebsd] [24/12/02 17:25 -0500]: | Anyway, I'm trying to find the docs on some features that | the www.php.net's search isn't really helping on (searching | for __FILE__ doesn't search for __FILE__ ... it search

Re: Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD?

2002-12-25 Thread Bill Moran
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary W. Swearingen) > > find . -name '*.html' -print | xargs grep __FILE__ One might as well get in the habit of using the more robust find . -name '*.html' -print0 | xargs -0 grep __FILE__ Otherwise, the "-print" isn't needed at all; it's a default. Very true.

Do boot-time splash screens work?

2002-12-26 Thread Bill Moran
Hello all, A month or so ago I was trying to get Chuck's smiling face on my machine during boot up. I followed the instructions in man splash, but no dice. Same old probing screen. Does this even work? I tried doing it a year or so ago and couldn't get it working then. I recently re-installed

Re: Do boot-time splash screens work?

2002-12-26 Thread Bill Moran
From: Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-26 10:42:13 -0500: > A month or so ago I was trying to get Chuck's smiling > face on my machine during boot up. I followed the > instructions in man splash, but no dice. Same old > probing screen. > > Does this even work? I

Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter.

2002-12-28 Thread Bill Moran
From: Harry Tabak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is so crazy I had to respond. My tiny x/29 block is sub-allocated from my DSL provider's x/23 block. The DSL provider's block is a sub-allocation from Inflow.com's 66.45.0.0/17 block. Spambouncer doesn't like Inflow. While they have a right to the

Re: Virtual interface support?

2002-12-31 Thread Bill Moran
From: Jeff Penn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Does freebsd support virtual interfaces? (i.e. a network interface not associated with a hardware interface). Yup. My system is running 4.7 release with only a dialup ppp POTS connection, which is a bit limiting if you want to learn about networking. Ideall

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
From: Yann GROSSEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, We have several FreeBSD 4.7 boxes that put automatically all their interfaces into promiscuous mode during the boot process. What should I do to prevent this from happening ? Our boxes are connected on a D-Link switch. We have noticed a very weird behav

Re: Lots of files in a directory

2003-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
From: "MikeM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the freedb.org lookup database. Unfortunately, I've seem to have run into a stumbling block. The server app requires over 250,000 files in a single directory. Each file is about 2k in size. It was a surp

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
From: Yann GROSSEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 08:56:42 -0500 "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's your answer. Any machine with forwarding turned on will resend > a packet that isn't destin for it. That's by design. > It d

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
From: éé Yann GROSSEL ééé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:42:13 -0500 "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Gateways are designed to forward packets from network to network. If a > >machine wants to send a packet to a remote network, it will sen

Re: firewall setup -- quick question

2003-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
From: "Darren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've been doing quite a bit of reading the past few days on this firewall I'm building for my father. And, it seems like everything that I read is utilizing 2 nics (one for the internet side and one for the internal side) with a hub on the inside nic. I had som

Re: Driver for DVD-RAM

2003-01-03 Thread Bill Moran
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings fellow BSD enthusiast. Can you let me know how to persue the following question, in the event that it has already been posted and answered. I am interested in attaching a DVD-RAM drive to an Intel computer with FreeBSD operating system. The computer has a S.C.

Re: FreeBSD Handbook NIS/YP Instructions

2003-01-03 Thread Bill Moran
From: Adam Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Since NIS uses RPC, do I need to configure inetd.conf to allow RPC on the NIS server and clients? The handbook does not make any mention of editing the inetd.conf file. inetd doesn't handle RPC. Use the rc.conf settings suggested in the tutorial and the nec

Re: FreeBSD Handbook NIS/YP Instructions

2003-01-04 Thread Bill Moran
From: Mike Hogsett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> portmap is also required for NIS. True, and it says so in the handbook, which is the point I was trying to make. Speaking for myself, at least, following the handbook to the letter got NIS working just fine. -Bill > >From: Adam Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Slow local logins when YP/NIS server unavailable.

2003-01-04 Thread Bill Moran
From: lewiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, I've been having problems recently trying to login as a local user when my YP/NIS server is unavailable. This is essentially to me as the machine in question is a laptop and is required to work without the network. I have a local user (lewiz2) and a NIS/Y

Re: web write-up

2003-01-08 Thread Bill Moran
ed OpenBSD. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: web write-up

2003-01-08 Thread Bill Moran
So, proper partitioning CAN make a big difference in performance. Especially since the hard drive can _easily_ become the performance bottleneck on a server. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebs

Re: ISP billing/etc software

2003-01-08 Thread Bill Moran
p people who haven't taken the time to set up a real email server from spamming the FreeBSD lists. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: help

2003-01-09 Thread Bill Moran
along with your kernel config file, to the list. The stop error you give isn't really very useful, there were probably 8 or 10 errors leading up to it. The first error in the chain is the most important. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send

Re: help

2003-01-09 Thread Bill Moran
it. The first error in the chain is the most important. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Bazillion kernel messages?

2003-01-10 Thread Bill Moran
r has 00:05:32:0e:64:12 and see what software is running on it. That may get you pointed toward the cause/solution of the problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: ext3 -> fbsd

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Moran
ter (via network) and then reformat it UFS while installing FreeBSD and copy everything back? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Strange behavior with /dev/null

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Moran
to wonder if this may be causing some of my other problems with fvwm menu/keystroke xterm execution. Obviously, it will cause problems any time someone other than root tries to write to /dev/null -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail t

Re: Problems w NIC

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Moran
hopefully it will be helpful. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: ext3 -> fbsd

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Moran
dick hoogendijk wrote: On 11 Jan Bill Moran wrote: FreeBSD _does_ understand ext2. See the mount_ext2fs command for details. Unfortunately, ext3 isn't supported yet AFAIK. So, if I switch this drive to another (fbsd) box I could copy form one (ext2) drive to another UFS drive preservin

Re: vpn

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Moran
he rest of the world, and wasn't 100% compatable in all modes, but you still might find it usefull ... depending on exactly what you are trying to accomplish. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubsc

Re: Multiple network cards with IP addresses in the same network

2003-01-13 Thread Bill Moran
rface, and if it becomes non- responsive, run a script of your choosing. Thus, you can have it start up the other network card if the first fails. If failover isn't what you're looking for, then I'd reconsider your network topology. It doesn't really make sense to have 2

Re: Multiple network cards with IP addresses in the same network

2003-01-13 Thread Bill Moran
Anand Buddhdev wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:53:08AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: I have a FreeBSD 4.7 system, with 3 ethernet cards. The first two are recognised as fxp0 and fxp1 and the second as em0 (intel gigabit card). I configured the em0 with address 192.168.0.1/24. I then wanted to

Re: Multiple network cards with IP addresses in the same network

2003-01-13 Thread Bill Moran
problem is to determine what you want to accomplish, and then use FreeBSD in the manner it was intended to achieve your goal. Thanks, John Addtn'l info: I have a FreeBSD 4.7 Stable #2 (updated yesterday). - Original Message - From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Vinum over (2xSCSI, 1xIDE) ?

2003-01-14 Thread Bill Moran
so your actual performance is going to depend. Unless someone else has used your exact config and done benchmarks, there's no way to be 100% sure. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Tool conveter IPv4 to IPv6

2003-01-14 Thread Bill Moran
w so far the concept to to this. You can run both IPv4 and IPv6 at the same time. You can also translate between IPv6 <-> IPv4, see 'man gif' and 'man faith' -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Multiple network cards with IP addresses in the same network

2003-01-14 Thread Bill Moran
Good luck, I hope you find a solution that fits within everything you need. Thanks, John - Original Message - From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 6:21 PM Subject: Re:

Re: installing win2k after Freebsd?

2003-01-14 Thread Bill Moran
ets installed. I did it like 3 times or something before it worked the last time I had to, but the good news is that it never did anything wrong. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Mail: operation timed out... Why?

2003-01-14 Thread Bill Moran
rse DNS entry for my server as xxx.com not servername.xxx.com... Could that be it? If the remote server is conigured to be very strict in its DNS checks, yes. If xxx.com doesn't forward resolve (for example) the FreeBSD mail servers will reject your mail. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologie

Re: Adding hardware for driver developers

2003-01-14 Thread Bill Moran
m you of a piece of that hardware, so don't be surprised if you're asked for one. We donated a DVD-burner to Soeren Schmidt last fall, so hopefully there will be a lot of support for DVD burning in FreeBSD 5. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsub

Re: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE and X11R6 build on 5.0-CURRENT in one set

2003-01-15 Thread Bill Moran
7;t had any problems, though. Note that the date on your email program is wrong, causing your message to appear out of order with regards to its arrival. Many people may assume that it is spam without reading it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe:

Re: Problems w NIC

2003-01-15 Thread Bill Moran
nd we'll take a gander at it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Problems w NIC

2003-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
n that hurt anything. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: How can data be inserted into a MySQL DB using C code?

2003-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
get any live data. That sounds pretty clunky. I know there is the MySQL++ project, but I had problems trying to get that to function, and my C++ knowledge is negligible. Any help, or tips would be grateful. Cheers, Paul Hamilton -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.c

Re: another go at ipfw/natd

2003-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
to help diagnose this: 1. From the gateway: Can you ping www.freebsd.org? Can you ping 129.x.x.1? 2. What's in /etc/resolv.conf on the gateway and the client machine? 3. What does ifconfig display on the gateway? Does xl1 show as "up" with a valid media type? Do your net card and hub both have link lights? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: another go at ipfw/natd

2003-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
things are wired wrong (which is really frustrating when you're trying to diagnose problems!) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: different ipfw/natd prob

2003-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
contents of your rc.conf file -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Possible attack?

2003-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
clients that should be connecting from Deutsche TeleKom, you can just firewall off that whole subnet. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: need help in setting up a demilitarized zone

2003-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
#x27;re running 100mb/sec ethernet, you're not even scraping the surface with the bandwidth I estimated. Again, this could change if your busy days are caused by huge spikes over short periods of time that you need to be able to handle. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potenti

Re: different ipfw/natd prob

2003-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
disabled Sounds like you need to recompile your kernel with IPDIVERT (as someone else pointed out) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Crontab and jobs

2003-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
* * /root/bin/pgsql-back 2> /dev/null > /dev/null Anyone notice anything with this crontab entry??? Show us the script. It's probably your path. Ceri -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [

Re: About Dual Homed Hosts

2003-01-18 Thread Bill Moran
ere are also many writeups all over the internet, such as http://www.freebsddiary.com -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Internal mail not working

2003-01-18 Thread Bill Moran
ia ::1 bathory bathory.aria If you actually use IPv6, you'll want to change this as well. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Access to internal systems

2003-01-18 Thread Bill Moran
ervers to a nonstandard (unused) port - such as 8080 Read the man pages for ipfw, and search the net for ipfw port forwarding. I'm sure you find a lot more details. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: CVSup Error When Updating Sources

2003-01-19 Thread Bill Moran
hout-gui version. Or use the -g option to cvsup to tell it not to start the gui. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: CVSup Error When Updating Sources

2003-01-19 Thread Bill Moran
Bill Moran wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2003-01-19 01:23, Matt Rudderham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I'm taking my first shot at upgrading my old 4.0-Release system to 4.7-Stable, when I run /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile I get this error right off th

Re: Deleted files

2003-01-19 Thread Bill Moran
ore from backup". Recovering deleted files is a lot of work. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Tweo SCSI drives.

2003-01-19 Thread Bill Moran
earn how to see/read/write to the second drive, I can write one :-)). I recommend rsync, which will speed things up by only copying the files that have changed, actually it will only copy the changed parts of files that have changed, making things very fast. -- Bill Moran Potential Te

Re: Official configuration file backup/managing method/application?

2003-01-19 Thread Bill Moran
e a GUI to manage rc.conf, but I can't remember the name. Search sourceforge, as I'm pretty sure it was hosted there. Beyond that, you're going to need to be more specific. I'm not sure what "loose scripts" you're speaking of. -- Bill Moran Potential T

Re: Deleted files - recovery

2003-01-20 Thread Bill Moran
was. Well, one way or the other, I hope you manage to recover some of what you lost. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: backup

2003-01-20 Thread Bill Moran
ve /mnt/temp /bin/cp -Rp /path/to/backup /mnt/tmp/. /sbin/umount /mnt/temp Of course, you'll want to substitute the mount command that you need (which may be at a different location) and the specific stuff you want to back up, etc. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtec

Re: backup

2003-01-20 Thread Bill Moran
/shlight //remote_computer/dir /NT -U usename -P password DO NOT USE /usr/local/bin. I don't know where the shlight binary is installed, so you _must_ do the "whereis" step above to locate it and use the result of that command to setup your script. - Original Message -

Re: Official configuration file backup/managing method/application?

2003-01-20 Thread Bill Moran
ns that don't use it as it was intended (AutoCAD, for example) but even if they did, I still find it awful. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

[OT?/bug?] CUPS and port 631

2003-01-20 Thread Bill Moran
Hello all, Is there any reason why port 631 isn't listed as IPP in /etc/services? Has the port number not been made official yet? No problems, I'm just curious as to whether there's a reason, or if this is an oversight? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potenti

calcru: negative time ... messages on 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-20 Thread Bill Moran
interrupts are too hosed) applicable? Any pointers/help is appreciated. dmesg output below: -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the

Re: pw add?

2003-01-20 Thread Bill Moran
/etc/group file ? You can. The /etc/group file is human readable, and requires no magic when you're done (i.e. it doesn't need compiled or rehashed or anything) so it's pretty easy to edit group memberships that way. I'm sure the pw command is the preferred method, however. --

Re: dump question

2003-01-21 Thread Bill Moran
p the whole hard drive. Or you could use tar, which does cross mountpoints. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

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