Re: Back up hard drive?

2003-01-21 Thread Bill Moran
good job of only copying parts that have changed. It's set up to work locally (HDD to HDD on one computer) or across a network using an ssh encrypted connection. Very nice, I've used it both ways (HDD to HDD and over network) with no problems. rsync is in the ports. -- Bill

Re: Backups

2003-01-21 Thread Bill Moran
for me. -- 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: "simple" ipfw question

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
ak the iif, iip, oif, oip, etc ... values) If that doesn't help, try posting the output of 'ipfw show' to the list. It'll make it a lot easier for folks to diagnose. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: routing problem on 4.7 release

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
real solution. Do you have additional machines off fxp0 that this machine needs to go through a gateway to access? -- 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: Subnetting or Bridging to secure different dapartments on ourSchool LAN?

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
So it depends on whether you want to offer _real_ security or just obscurity. (this is dependent on using the method I diagramed above, other methods offer different levels of security/obscurity) -- 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: to make or add a package

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
customizations that can be done to include/omit optional parts of the port. This is a port-by-port situation, and each port is different. Usually, looking at the Makefile for the particular port will tell you what you need to know. If this doesn't answer your questions, please post ag

Re: Subnetting or Bridging to secure different dapartments on ourSchool LAN?

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
Martyn Hill wrote: Martyn Hill wrote: Do I use ifconfig to alias the one internal NIC in the present gateway to create virtual sub-nets? Bill Moran wrote: That would be the method I would suggest, however without more details of your network it's kind of hard to be sure it's the b

5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
, or is it some oversight? I doubt it's an oversight, as the man page is missing as well. Mostly curious, but I thought I'd point it out in case it was a mistake. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: 5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 22), Bill Moran said: Not a critical question, but ... Working on my spiffy test machine, I noticed that 5.0-RELEASE does not have a mount_msdos command. It's no biggie, I just used 'mount -t msdos' and got what I wanted, but I was won

Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
the system that was actively being [re]booted. As long as that's done, we've had no 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: 5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
Doug Reynolds wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:21:08 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: Not a critical question, but ... Working on my spiffy test machine, I noticed that 5.0-RELEASE does not have a mount_msdos command. It's no biggie, I just used 'mount -t msdos' and got what I wa

Re: trasparent proxy

2003-01-24 Thread Bill Moran
se proxy", so you'll have considerable luck searching for documentation using that term. Good luck. -- 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: I NEED HELP.

2003-01-24 Thread Bill Moran
lmed: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html -- 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: Filesystem tuning parameters

2003-01-24 Thread Bill Moran
Ever try to defrag a FAT/NTFS drive that was 90%+ full? Most defrag programs won't even try, they'll just tell you to free up some space first. -- 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: Filesystem tuning parameters

2003-01-24 Thread Bill Moran
Kevin Stevens wrote: On Friday, Jan 24, 2003, at 16:40 US/Pacific, Bill Moran wrote: See /usr/share/doc/papers/diskperf.ascii.gz on your system. This is the authoritative resource as to why those settings are they way they are. ?? Sure that's the correct doc? It involves throughput

Re: Misc Questions.

2003-01-25 Thread Bill Moran
uld be able to run most Linux and srv4 binaries. In my experience, I've only ever come across 1 Linux binary that wouldn't run (Pervasive database server). I can't vouch for the srv4 compatibility, as I've never used it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potential

Re: Fwd: Re: Misc Questions. (reposted yet again)

2003-01-25 Thread Bill Moran
Willie Viljoen wrote: Some friendly corrections, sorry Bill :-) Not a problem. I'd rather be corrected once than be wrong over and over again. (That's assuming I'm smart enough to remember the correction ...) On Saturday 25 January 2003 20:55, Bill Moran wrote: You'll

Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
Greg Lehey wrote: I don't expect anything to come of this. It's generating lots of FUD, which is unfortunate. That's probably their entire goal. After all, what else could they hope to accomplish? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubsc

Re: Emulation (was: Misc Questions.)

2003-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
Greg Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 25 January 2003 at 13:55:50 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: pura life CR wrote: What does this emulation consist on? Can I run linux and svr4 binaries?. It's not really emulation. In the case of Linux, it actually installs a RedHat kernel and uses it when the s

Re: MySQL

2003-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
hose works, verify that you have the MySQL server properly installed and configured. -- 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: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 26 January 2003 at 11:47:15 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: Greg Lehey wrote: I don't expect anything to come of this. It's generating lots of FUD, which is unfortunate. That's probably their entire goal. After all, what else coul

Re: IPFW and DHCPD

2003-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
ewall rules is when an earlier rule inadvertently catchs the traffic before the rule I intended. 4) If you're still having trouble, post the _entire_ ruleset to the list asking for help. It's the only way anyone can expect to give you any real help. Firewalls are just lik

Re: disconnecting box

2003-01-27 Thread Bill Moran
s but it shows nothing Neither did I. I think the problem was a hardware level that the kernel wasn't able to detect. if anyone knows anything about this please let me know, i have to get it fixed, but i do not even know where to begin If the 10mb card works, why not just use it? --

Re: snmp probe?

2003-01-27 Thread Bill Moran
or trying to connect to port 161 on every machine on the network, it's perfectly harmless." or something similar. -- 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 to fix a botched directory

2003-01-27 Thread Bill Moran
to get this cleared up. Have you had a system crash recently? First, back up you / partition. Then reboot into single user mode and run fsck. See if that helps. (don't run fsck multi-user unless you know what you're doing. You shouldn't run fsck on filesystems that are in use)

Re: IMAP

2003-01-27 Thread Bill Moran
as it open. "sockstat | more" will allow you to scroll through the listing to see what's going on. -- 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: Firewall + DHCP (STILL)

2003-01-27 Thread Bill Moran
tu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 This is probably unrelated, but you have not IPv4 address on the loopback device (lo0), which has caused problems for me in the past. You managed to post _almost_ everything relevent ;) Can you post your rc.conf please. -- 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: Firewall + DHCP (STILL)

2003-01-27 Thread Bill Moran
ngs start acting nicer. This may solve the problem, let me know either way. ifconfig_vr0="DHCP" ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0" gateway_enable="YES" -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies ht

Re: help needed!

2003-01-28 Thread Bill Moran
ols you use is going to depend more specifically on what you need to monitor, but hopefully I've given you some direction. -- 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: Managing /etc/hosts.lpd??

2003-01-28 Thread Bill Moran
led off from everything but our local network anyway. Haven't been able to find any way to do this (or what Mark asks for) in the docs anywhere. Am I missing something? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Deleted files not releasing their space (was Re: syslog message wrtinodes)

2003-01-28 Thread Bill Moran
for the PID of a process to restart). So ... if you know which process had the files open, restart it (probably by sending it a -HUP). If you don't know, you can probably cheat and just reboot the machine, but that shouldn't be necessary. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 woes

2003-01-28 Thread Bill Moran
t might be very interested in your performance report. They've been working pretty hard to get 5.0 running well, and feedback is always 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: VirusProtection and IMAP

2003-01-29 Thread Bill Moran
sr/local/etc/rc.d to control which one is currently running, and to start and stop them. -- 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:

2003-01-29 Thread Bill Moran
he network is so idle that it's causing the switch to shut off ports anyway. -- 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: PPtP Client to MPD to boxes behind NATD are very slow ??

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
tun in the ports. Unfortunately, you'll need a a FreeBSD or Linux machine at each end of the connection, but vtund, with compression & encryption enabled was actually faster than the raw connection in our performance tests. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialt

Re: PPtP Client to MPD to boxes behind NATD are very slow ??

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
[could you wrap lines around 72 chars or so, please] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:00:07 -0800 (PST), Bill Moran wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After connecting via VPN I can get decent throughput from the MPD host but > very poor speed from anything past it. What

Re: restricting user's directory listing and changing

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
or maybe I could redirect that group of users to use a different version of the command ``cd'' and ``ls'' so that it will only work within their home directories. You could, but that's probably a more difficult solution. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.

Re: PPtP Client to MPD to boxes behind NATD are very slow ??

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
want to send me this off-list, as it may get big. I may want to see other dumps as well, but I may also be able to get them off my own test setup (once it's ready). -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: Ooops.

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
the _exact_ command that you used, it's going to be very hard to figure out what went wrong. Are you using a shell that keeps a command history (i.e. bash)? If so, can you get us the exact command that you issued? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Uns

Re: Samba and XP?

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
d be best? I only have one BSD machine and one XP machine, and I'd like to allow read/write access to a FBSD mount from the XP machine. I think you'll be just fine with Samba. Just make sure you're properly firewalled off (you should be with Windows anyway) -- Bill Moran

Re: PPtP Client to MPD to boxes behind NATD are very slow?? (solved?)

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
lpful for you as well as the archives. If this question comes up in the future, point the questioner to this message in the archives. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:23:37 -0800 (PST), Bill Moran wrote: [could you wrap lines around 72 chars or so, please] Sorry about that.

Re: A twisted home network

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
hould work. When you're ready to remove the dlink, you'll change dc0 to get its IP from DHCP (from your ISP) and enable nat on the FreeBSD box. Then remove the dlink and plug the FreeBSD box directly into the cable modem. Be sure to adjust any firewall rules to match the changes i

[OT] Re: dhcp lease timing Quest

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
Or they might not be thinking at all, and that's just the default value for the DHCP server they installed. I wouldn't get excited over it. DHCP traffic is really pretty minimal, even when it's frequent. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe:

Re: cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out ....

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
dump. Unfortunately, I've also seen it where the tape density was wrong, and I had to manually set it in order for the tape to hold what it was designed to hold. Still got it working, it just required some research. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubsc

Re: Apache 5.0 - release

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
#x27;s not available on the CD is available through download (via FTP packages, or ports if no package has yet been compiled) Please read the Early Adopter's Guide before installing 5.0. If you're not familiar with FreeBSD, or if you're building a production server you DO NOT wan

Re: UnInstalling

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Moran
Cain Saint wrote: Hi. I would like to find out if it is possible to uninstall FreeDSB. If so, how do I do it. THanks Just install over top of it. There's no need to "uninstall" FreeBSD before installing another OS. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potenti

Re: DNS question

2003-02-01 Thread Bill Moran
for. This is oversimplified. If you have forwarders configured, then the forwarders check their cache first, before consulting the root servers. But the basic method is described there. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: how to update release with just security patches

2003-02-02 Thread Bill Moran
, while RELENG_4 is all updates/improvements to the 4.X branch. Once you've cvsupped with that tag, use the instructions in the handbook to update all your sources. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "u

Re: running both pppoe and pptp

2003-02-02 Thread Bill Moran
ver? Can you send the list a copy of the mpd.conf from both machines (client & server) or whatever config file is relevent. If You know what is or might be the problem, pls help. Make sure multilink is disabled at both ends of the pptp link -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.pot

Re: mysql add host

2003-02-03 Thread Bill Moran
.mysql.com/doc/en/User_Account_Management.html If you have problems after reading that, post to the MySQL lists, it's no longer a FreeBSD question. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freeb

Re: proc size mismatch

2003-02-03 Thread Bill Moran
NG_4_7 for your tag. The former is -STABLE, the latter is the -RELEASE security updates. -- 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: Moving form 4.2 to 4.7

2003-02-03 Thread Bill Moran
ollow the upgrading instructions in the hanbook to the letter. 4.2 -> 4.7 is a pretty long way to go, but I don't know of any reason you should fail at it. Make sure you make good backups before starting, however, you don't want to get burned if I'm wrong. -- Bill Moran Pote

Re: FBSD firewall in front of windows IIS servers HOW

2003-02-03 Thread Bill Moran
o proxy. You could set up FreeBSD with squid configured to reverse proxy, which should reduce internal traffic and increase performance. I don't know what your situation is, but I wouldn't bother with squid unless I was experimenting with squid or had a situation where the IIS servers were

Re: openssh - i'm confused

2003-02-03 Thread Bill Moran
e /etc/rc.conf has sshd_enable="YES" so the daemon starts, and hook it to your local network and test. It's really not much harder to use than telnet, just much more secure. -- 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: openssh - i'm confused

2003-02-03 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chip Wiegand wrote: I am setting up a web server to be co-located at my isp's office. I am setting up openssh for my connectivity to it. I have run ssh-keygen on it and now have the files identity, identity.pub and auth

Re: Nuking unwanted mail via fetchmail and sendmail

2003-02-03 Thread Bill Moran
do this? The simpler the solution, the better. :) There's spamassasin for content filtering. You may also want to install Amavis to catch viruses. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: Can you suggest a good DVD-writer for SCSI and FreeBSD?

2003-02-04 Thread Bill Moran
ribed right now! Check out the web site for cdrecord. Last I checked he had a commercial version that supported DVD burning as well. I don't know the current status with FreeBSD and hardware support, but I'd say it's your best bet. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.po

Re: How can I debug ? I want to help.

2003-02-04 Thread Bill Moran
reading on it: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/index.html Section 17 is on kernel debugging, and goes through setting up a remote gdb debugger. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: building a VPN with FreeBSD 4.7p3

2003-02-04 Thread Bill Moran
're looking for? I've used it for setups very similar to what you're describing. Perhaps a look at the vtun home page, which gives a better description of what all vtun can be used for. http://vtun.sourceforge.net -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Un

Re: handling non-printable characters in file names

2003-02-05 Thread Bill Moran
t would be useful? Do you really think admins would mind? I think it would be very helpful - I'd disallow whitespace right off the bat, as it causes more problems than I can keep track of! -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: building a VPN with FreeBSD 4.7p3

2003-02-05 Thread Bill Moran
this makes it a bit clearer, or you be able to tell me where i'm wrong in this. I'm not sure exactly _where_ you're wrong, but you are. It can be done, quite easily in fact. What about your setup makes you believe that vtun can't create the connection you want? -- Bill Mor

Re: building a VPN with FreeBSD 4.7p3

2003-02-05 Thread Bill Moran
ng to do. Well, nat is definately not a requirement for a vtun, it's just that it's such a common scenerio that it gets lots of howtos written about it. And I would bet that (if you're using RFC-1918 addys as you say) that you really _are_ using nat. It's just not FreeBSD that&#x

Re: handling non-printable characters in file names

2003-02-05 Thread Bill Moran
Mike Meyer wrote: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: Mike Meyer wrote: The only way to change this behavior is to change the kernel source to support it. Expect resistance from every developer in a country that doesn't use the English alphabet i

Re: dhcp

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
as to = assign the ip or the ip isnt allowed outside the network. I've never seen dhclient have trouble with any DHCP server. What version of FreeBSD? You say it "used to work", when did it stop working? Did you upgrade? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.po

Re: manufacturing

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
ator control their own computer. But then again, the software I wrote allows them to click on the job they're working on and the drawing they need just pops up ... so the back-end logic is important to the success of that scheme. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtec

Re: VPN tunnels

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
f your choosing. It would then run a different script when the host became available again. We used it for a similar situation (wireless LAN would drop frequently) and it worked wonderfully. Hope you can find it, or someone knows the port I'm talking about. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies

Re: manufacturing

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
selves, they're only wasting _their_ time, not the engineer's time. If you have a dedicated shop foreman, however, your situation may be different. This is starting to get off-topic. I'll reply off-list in the future. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.co

Re: dhcp

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
isos from the ftp sites. And if you want to go back further, you can use cvsup to "downgrade" a 4.7 system. (just use a RELENG_4_5 tag) All replies are appreciated. Hope this is helpful. Jason Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jason Cave &

Re: dhcp

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
an be configured to use or not use DHCP as you desire. Thank you for all the assistance so far. Hope we get this figured out for you. Jason Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jason Cave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dhcp Dat

Re: browsing windows drives with samba

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
you do it as well? Can anyone enlighten me? Konquerer (the KDE browser) allows you to surf SMB shares just like "network neighborhood" on Win. I believe it requires that Samba be installed on the local machine. I've noted its existence, but never used it. -- Bill Moran Potenti

Re: Mailing list

2003-02-07 Thread Bill Moran
list because of this, so I have to make a new subscription? Oh, my adresses and so on are restaured to what it was. Regards, Thomas I'm not 100% sure, but I think the list will automatically unsubscribe you after a certain amount of time if you're unreachable. -- Bill Moran Potential Te

Re: Hard Drive

2003-02-07 Thread Bill Moran
about this about a year ago). -- 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: No Subject

2003-02-07 Thread Bill Moran
nt to learn latin? Go for portuguese english and french or german! My goodness but we're all a bunch of smartasses ... I think the most important are C, perl, and php. Although I've always wanted to learn Swahili. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: freebsd4.7 and Samba and OS X

2003-02-08 Thread Bill Moran
ba has the option to "hide dot files" which would prevent the Apples from ever seeing the .appledouble (as I remember) files at all. -- 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: Many questions

2003-02-08 Thread Bill Moran
lity of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. They're operating systems. Read the information on the home page for each one to get a more detailed answer. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ques

Re: connecting to my isp

2003-02-08 Thread Bill Moran
get connnected to my isp? This has worked fine every time I've done 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: Time Count?

2003-02-08 Thread Bill Moran
some things. Look at mtrg in the ports as well as IPFW's log capability. Also, squid can do a lot of tracking for http and ftp traffic. -- 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: freebsd4.7 and Samba and OS X

2003-02-08 Thread Bill Moran
David Kelly wrote: On Saturday 08 February 2003 09:28 am, Bill Moran wrote: Maybe the Apple system has not got the necessary permissions to create this extra file. This could be way off the mark though :). I just thought of this ... Samba has the option to "hide dot files" w

Re: speeding up NFS

2003-02-09 Thread Bill Moran
ey are far apart (i.e. many hops, high latency, lots of dropped packets). I don't know if specifying both -u and -t hurts anything. But definately search the archives, there was a LOT more useful information in the previous discussion. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.poten

Re: Bug help- HDLC/FCS errors!

2003-02-09 Thread Bill Moran
#x27;m taking an AVR UPS in on Monday to see if that solves their problem. Hope this is 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: Automatically include debug symbols?

2003-02-09 Thread Bill Moran
he ports, they should help you isolate 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

Does anyone know a good place to ask CVS questions

2003-02-09 Thread Bill Moran
Subject says most of it. I looked, but the CVS website doesn't seem to have a question@ type mailing list. I can't figure out branching to save my life. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: Automatically include debug symbols?

2003-02-09 Thread Bill Moran
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 9 February 2003 at 16:12:44 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: Daniela wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 19:15, Mike Meyer wrote: You can get everything to build with debug symbols by adding "CFLAGS=-g" to /etc/make.conf. However, the s

Re: speeding up NFS

2003-02-09 Thread Bill Moran
to get it running that fast? -- 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: vt buffer scroll

2003-02-10 Thread Bill Moran
p! Press scroll lock, then shift-pg{up,down} will work. Actually, once you've turned scroll-lock on, shift isn't needed. Just pgup/pgdown. -- 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: installworld fails

2003-02-10 Thread Bill Moran
here was no need for "mount -a", everything was mounted. Then you weren't in single user mode. Single user mode mounts the / partition as read-only. If you failed to do a 'mount -a' (which will remount it read/write) everything else will definately fail. Do you have a

Re: Any luck building open office from ports ?

2002-10-09 Thread Bill Moran
> your version is too old (check the man page). you should update to 4.7. I'm having a similar problem, except it complains that the illegal option is "i". I cvsupped just yesterday and rebuilt kernel/world just to try this out, so the FreeBSD version doesn't seem to be the

Re: NFS server not respnding!

2002-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
[I'm taking this off -stable because it really doesn't belong there] Hartmann, O. wrote: > On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Bill Moran wrote: > > Hello Bill. > > :>Hartmann, O. wrote: > :>> Dear Sirs. > :>> > :>> Using FreeBSD 4.6.2-p

Re: NFS server not respnding!

2002-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
h NFS/TCP has been that it doesn't really improve reliability that much either (although we were dealing with an _extremely_ flakey wireless WAN - nothing was reliable) -- 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

Problems with CVS

2002-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
e/cvsroot What am I missing? I know I could just create a symlink /usr/home to patch the problem. But I'd rather learn what I did wrong and fix it than hack around it. Any suggestions? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Problems with CVS

2002-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-10-10 13:35, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I had a CVS repository on my server that was under /usr/home/cvsroot >>and I was using it for almost a year for two projects. A month or >>so ago, we upgraded this server

[OT] SCSI 80 to 68 pin converters, do they work?

2002-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
oblem or not? We got them for less than $10 - should we buy the more expensive converters? We've tried 2 converters/ 2 drives in all possible combinations and it always detects as 40. Any feedback is very much appreciated! -Bill Moran To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &qu

Re: [OT] SCSI 80 to 68 pin converters, do they work?

2002-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
Linh Pham wrote: > On 2002-10-10, Bill Moran scribbled: > > # So ... before I send these drives back to Seagate and complain, > # does anyone have experience with these 80-68 pin converters to > # tell me whether it could be causing the problem or not? We > # got them for less

Failure building OpenOffice from ports

2002-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
At the recommendation of others, I checked my sed binary. It is up to date with the most recent versions in cvs. Ports tree is mounted NFS, if that might be important. any ideas? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to kill nfs-blocked process

2002-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
can > i resolve this problem? thanks. You can prevent this from happening with the options that you use to mount the NFS volumes. Options such as -R and -i are particularly useful for this purpose. Read "man mount_nfs" for details. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies htt

Re: Is there any way that i can listening ,accepting and handelingtwo or more sockets at the same time?

2002-10-11 Thread Bill Moran
source code for inetd, which does this. Install the sources on your FreeBSD machine and look in /usr/src/usr.sbin/inetd -- 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 to kill nfs-blocked process

2002-10-13 Thread Bill Moran
the problem, as what you are describing doesn't happen to me. >> From: Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> CC: cool46 cool46 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,questions > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Subject

perl crashing - how to debug??

2002-10-21 Thread Bill Moran
Hello all, I've got a system on which Amavis is suddenly (as of 3 days ago) causing perl to coredump. How can I get perl built with debugging symbols so I can dig into this? I'm a little confused by the build process. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtec

Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data?

2002-10-21 Thread Bill Moran
t! (Well done, Greg, and whoever did the growfs stuff) However, I don't know how/if you can do it with a filesystem that isn't already a vinum volume. -- 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: perl crashing - how to debug??

2002-10-22 Thread Bill Moran
Fernando Gleiser wrote: On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Bill Moran wrote: Hello all, I've got a system on which Amavis is suddenly (as of 3 days ago) causing perl to coredump. How can I get perl built with debugging symbols so I can dig into this? I'm a little confused by the build proce

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