Re: offtopic-maybe

2002-10-29 Thread Bill Moran
what time...) If you're only worried about web sites, you can install squid, configure your firewall to force people to use the proxy (by denying connections to 80) and use squid's highly configurable logs to track just about whatever you want. -- Bill Moran Potential Technol

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

2002-12-24 Thread Bill Moran
d/l the entire php documentation as individual html files. This equates to a LOT of files in a single directory (how can I get a count of this?) 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 __FI

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

2002-12-24 Thread Bill Moran
From: paul beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bill Moran wrote: d/l the entire php documentation as individual html files. This equates to a LOT of files in a single directory (how can I get a count of this?) Anyway, I'm trying to find the docs on some features that the www.php.net's sea

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

2002-12-25 Thread Bill Moran
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tuesday, 24 December 2002 at 17:25:23 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > d/l the entire php documentation as individual html files. > This equates to a LOT of files in a single directory (how can > I get a count of this?) > An

Re: scp GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Bill Moran
Brian Henning wrote: does there exist a graphical insterface for performing client scp? thanks, http://www.appgate.com/mindterm/ -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" i

Re: Can't Boot From 5.0 CD #1

2003-02-11 Thread Bill Moran
t you can work around it by booting from floppy and then telling the installer to get its files from the CD. -- 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: Download Free BSD

2003-02-11 Thread Bill Moran
Sajeev.A. Anchuthengu wrote: Sir, I like to try with FreeBSD, the OS. But how can I download it from the net. Could you answer me? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Section 2.2 should answer all your questions. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http

Re: fsck takes very long after crash/reset

2003-02-12 Thread Bill Moran
well in the limited tests I've done. fscking doesn't interrupt the boot process at all. However, 5.0 isn't considered production quality yet, so you can only really consider it for the near future. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: sen

Re: fsck takes very long after crash/reset

2003-02-12 Thread Bill Moran
Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, I operate a FreeBSD server with a 300GB Raid. This morning i had to hard reset it and when booting, fsck took some 20 minutes. I would expect that from 300G Most partitions, especially the large ones are mounted

Re: fsck takes very long after crash/reset

2003-02-12 Thread Bill Moran
, I think just about everyone who's interested in a JFS falls into the category of "I don't have time" or "I don't have the know-how". I'm not sure if the background fsck capability of FreeBSD 5 is an attempt at an alternate solution to the problem or n

Re: backup

2003-02-12 Thread Bill Moran
cking up. Look in the MySQL docs for alternate methods (such as mysqldump) that don't have you backing up data while it's in use. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: CVSup never finishes

2003-02-12 Thread Bill Moran
quot; phase, then fails to terminate and does the whole thing over and over and over. Any suggestions? This is a shot in the dark but ... Do you have a firewall and/or any type of filtering that could be causing problems? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Uns

Re: Using cvsup with multiple servers

2003-02-12 Thread Bill Moran
the roads are dangerous and the road crews are reporting that they'll be out of salt by this weekend, so things are going to get worse. -- 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 never finishes

2003-02-12 Thread Bill Moran
uggestions? - Bill Moran suggests: This is a shot in the dark but ... Do you have a firewall and/or any type of filtering that could be causing problems? -- CVSup worked fine a couple of weeks ago, and I haven't changed anything on my FreeBSD box

Re: FreeBSD and DSL CONNECTIVITY ISSUES,

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Moran
g ... it's not possible for your web server to cause anyone's computer to reboot. If this is really happening, then the coputer that's rebooting is so broken that it would be pretty silly to blame the problem on your web site. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.pote

Re: The ongoing saga of getting DSL up and running... ping: sendto:Permission denied

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Moran
ibe seems to indicate that as the cause. If this isn't the problem, attach /etc/rc.conf and the output of "ifconfig" as well as your ppp config files to the next post to the mailing list. If you built a customer kernel, indicate that and include your kernel config file as well. -- Bill

Re: /usr filesystem crashing

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Moran
dating to 4.7-STABLE, but the filesystem locks up before I can get through it. Any thoughts (besides re-formatting, which I may do next week)? In my experience, if you've managed (by whatever means) to badly corrupt the filesystem, the only solution is to newfs it. There are some thi

Re: network issue

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Moran
e. is it because my default route is set to be external? No, that doesn't normally cause problems to a local network. When our Internet goes down it doesn't affect internal traffic in the slightest. This is a rather strange problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.po

Mozilla focus problems (was Re: The ongoing saga of getting DSL upand running... ping: sendto: Permission denied)

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Moran
n bring it back, normal behaviour is resumed. Is anyone else experiencing this? Do we know if it's an X, FreeBSD, or Mozilla 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: network issue revisited

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Moran
x27;netstat -rn' and 'ifconfig' output from GATEWAY, please. I don't see anything in the other information you provided that would indicate any sort of misconfig on BSD2. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: network issue revisited

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Moran
turn rawhide off (shut it down) can BSD1 ping BSD2? Is the switch "managed"? If so, make sure it's not blocking any sort of broadcast traffic or the like. Some of those (especially older) managed switches can cause the strangest problems if they're configured wrong.

Re: network issue revisited

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Moran
northern snowfall wrote: (which rules out DNS problems). Not unless he does "ping -n". If not, the A will still attempt to be resolved. Don Good point, I stand corrected. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Hard error??

2003-02-14 Thread Bill Moran
o fix this, make sure you have backups right away. Data could already be 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: Question

2003-02-14 Thread Bill Moran
for their own servers. You'll have to talk to them regarding the reasons, but I consider it a testimonial. -- 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! Installation Question

2003-02-14 Thread Bill Moran
able media in the appropriate drive.” -- 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! Installation Question

2003-02-14 Thread Bill Moran
id the problem was OS-specific. The solution is in a combination of flags, the details of which I don't remember. From: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joshua Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help! Installation Question Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:4

Re: Is there a way to slow down file transfers?

2003-02-14 Thread Bill Moran
pabilities. And don't be afraid to ask specific questions, getting the hang of ipfw rules takes a bit 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: pkg version discrepency

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Moran
recent and use ports to install the program. If you really want version 2.4.0, do a "make maintainer" in the directory for this port, and then bug the maintainer about getting the newest version in (it helps to offer to assist) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialt

Re: Cat.

2003-02-14 Thread Bill Moran
ve. Any program that I know of that modifies /etc/resolv.conf (such as dhclient) can be configured to _not_ modify /etc/resolv.conf. If you're trying to do this to over- ride some daemon updating resolv.conf, consider properly configuring that daemon first. -- Bill Moran Potential Tech

Re: gs not found, scripts failing

2003-02-15 Thread Bill Moran
c programs that are needed for everything else to run. Ghostscript is pretty much a requirement whenever you're converting documents from one type to another or doing printing beyond plain text. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL P

Re: A modern BSD UNIX workgroup - how would you do it?

2003-02-15 Thread Bill Moran
time. I still like NFS for file-sharing, although SMB is a viable option. YMMV -- 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: Setting proper From host in Sendmail

2003-02-16 Thread Bill Moran
dmail. If you want to change it for your whole server, you can use the config file changes that someone else suggested. -- 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: Make fails: when compiling kernel

2003-02-16 Thread Bill Moran
pport work, or remove USB disk support. -- 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: OT tunning network

2003-02-16 Thread Bill Moran
t the bottleneck is not your network, but your disk drive on the server. You can use systat to monitor the drive usage during activity, and if it's high, it's probably the limiting factor. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [E

Re: allowing access to a single directory

2003-02-16 Thread Bill Moran
robably move the files in ~ftp/stuff and then symlink to ~ftp/stuff from other parts of your tree. The /var slice does not have enough space to hold these files. So it sounds like I need to find another solution (like move in another HD). Thanks. You could always move the FTP directory to a

Re: processes take too much CPU

2003-02-17 Thread Bill Moran
used at all. Out of ram/swapping isn't the only place a machine can bog down. What applications are you running on it? Does top show any other processes using a lot of CPU time? A snapshot of top output while the problem is occurring would be informational to anyone try

Re: Lex error?

2003-02-18 Thread Bill Moran
comparison of them to this one failed to show anything different... can someone point out what I might be missing? Obviously, something's different. Could be failing hardware. make buildworld has a way of pushing hardware to the limit and exposing stuff that's ready to fail. -- Bill Mo

Re: php support?

2003-02-18 Thread Bill Moran
There have been a lot of concerns about php's security as a CGI module. And you'll probably get better help asking on the php lists, or the lists for the web server you're looking to use. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send

Re: DHCPD Error

2003-02-18 Thread Bill Moran
an work around it by using: ddns-update-style none; I don't know why nothing else works, but that will get you going. I'm copying the port maintainer on this. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

Re: Bizarre Networking Problem

2003-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
t to the aliased IP is being routed through the machine to the other IP on the same interface? I don't see why this would cause such terrible performance, but it's the best guess I have with the information you provide. Perhaps some output form 'netstat -rn' and 'ifco

Re: SoftUpdates on /

2003-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
ou read the man page for tunefs, it says that the changes will be made, but won't take effect until the system is rebooted. So you should be able to use tunefs to turn of softupdates and just reboot the machine to have it take effect. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentia

Re: Security Problem (?): strange logs

2003-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
problem if you don't know who those Windows machines belong to. Make sure SMB is firewalled off from the Internet, it will reduce the risk considerably. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: Bizarre Networking Problem

2003-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
Joseph Noonan wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 at 7:20pm Bill Moran wrote: Perhaps some output form 'netstat -rn' and 'ifconfig' might provoke some more useful answers. Well the problem is solved, but I am not happy about the solution as it makes absolutely no sense to me. xl0:

Re: I dont seem able to post here :-(

2003-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
Chris Phillips wrote: What be my problem? Check the issues listed here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#FREEBSD-MAIL-BOUNCES -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: Cvsup Handbook Example

2003-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
ple, you should either email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to bring it up, or file a PR asking it to be changed. This is the wrong list for this discussion. To everyone else. If the person who started this thread is not a troll, he certainly posted a message that had the effect of trolling. Please don't fe

Re: setting up server (was by daniel warfe)

2003-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
d articles at various websites (especially FreeBSD Diary) you should be able to accomplish what you want with few hiccups. Don't promise any deployment dates if this is the first time you've done this, though. Take some time to test and make sure it works as you want. -- Bill Moran Po

Re: No subject was specified.

2003-02-24 Thread Bill Moran
Harry Horse wrote: What are you doing on my home page? Who are you and what does your satanic imagery refer to? Harry Horse Who are you and what are you talking about? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: add user with shell account

2003-02-24 Thread Bill Moran
very much appreciated. You don't say much about your script, but I've been able to make user management scripts with no problems (using just sh). Are you using the pw command for interacting with the password database? See the man page for pw if not. That may solve your whole problem. --

Re: Yikes, how can I get around this?

2003-02-24 Thread Bill Moran
rror] Cannot resolve host name xxx.xyz.com I think that the primary name server I'm using is down. I'm not sure why it's not picking up the secondary information? I've never had this problem before... any ideas on how to get apache running without checking for name resolution?

Re: Dummie question: The versioning system

2003-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
version 1.15 to 1.16 or insert version strings in the document (as you see above). Hope this helps. -- 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: isp connection woes

2003-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
.127.198.19 This goes in your /etc/resolv.conf is there anything else i need to manually connect to my isp? As long as they allow the use of that IP, no. You should be good to go. -- 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

2003-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
your hardware to the list. Otherwise, we can't really advise you on hardware related problems. Also, we'll need more information on why the FTP and DOS installations are failing. Error messages? Timeouts? Are you using DHCP? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: isp connection woes

2003-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
Brian Henning wrote: - Original Message - From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian Henning wrote: Their network design supports no more than 16 hops on the way to a DHCP server, but increasing the (hard-coded) TTL (at line 159 in /usr/src/contrib/isc-dhcp/common/packet

Re: Minimize downtime(kernel loading)

2003-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
Remington L. wrote: Is there any way to load a new kernel without having to reboot? You know, from what I understand of Mach, Mac OS X should be able to do this. I don't think they've actually achieved that level of functionality yet, though. -- Bill Moran Potential Technol

Re: scroll mouse

2003-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
on "Protocol" "Auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psm0" Option "Buttons" "6" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" You may find that your z-axis (i.e. scroll) isn't the same numbers, try "3 4" maybe. I had to do a little guesswork to get mine working correctly at 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: potential bug when creating ssh keypairs?

2003-02-26 Thread Bill Moran
cpuburn from the ports and see if running those applications according to their instructions leads you to any more conclusions. -- 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: 4.7 Upgrade issue

2003-02-26 Thread Bill Moran
rget cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i] [-pv] src1 ... srcN directory *** Error code 64 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. What is wrong? You must installkernel and reboot before you can installworld. Read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makewo

Re: scroll mouse

2003-02-26 Thread Bill Moran
g for your particular mouse, but if it's wrong, you'll find that the wrong buttons cause scrolling, and you should be able to logically determine what the values should be with a few guesses. -- 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 was specified.

2003-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
e possible that he simply isn't familiar with FreeBSD and didn't know what to make of the daemon logo. I'm more interested in "why is his ISP displaying the daemon logo when there's a problem with his page?" -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentia

Re: No subject was specified.

2003-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
Willie Viljoen wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 19:56, someone, possibly Bill Moran, typed: Personally, I think it's foolish to just _assume_ that this guy is a crackpot. I understand that his comments seem Trollish in nature, but by his responses, I think it's also quite possib

Re: Oracle on FreeBSD

2003-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
he PostgreSQL ODBC driver doesn't support it, you're out of luck again. Not to say that there isn't a possibility that it will work, just that it's not a terribly simple question to answer. The whole "ODBC compatiblity" thing is (unfortunately) a lie. Nobody has sto

Re: No subject was specified.

2003-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
Harry Horse wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Harry Horse wrote: What are you doing on my home page? Who are you and what does your satanic imagery refer to? Harry Horse Who are you and what are you talking about? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com Dear Bill, I recently

Re: samba install

2003-02-24 Thread Bill Moran
he latest Samba is 2.2.7. -- 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: Ooooops! Wrong Network Interface designation

2003-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
ssist in correcting 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

Concerns about your 403 errors

2003-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
ick on this link to email tech support" that would take the user's attention away from the beastie and keep them from searching in the wrong place for the answer to their problem. As you can guess, we were unable to do anything more for your user than refer him back to your tech support. -

CC of message to globalnet (was Re: Concerns about your 403 errors)

2003-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
You know ... I didn't think before I cced the list. *smack* I just wanted everyone to know that I had emailed a polite message to these folks, in case someone else was considering doing it. Bill Moran wrote: Dear Mysterious Unnamed Tech Support Person, I frequently donate time to the Fr

Re: Bandwidth priority

2003-03-01 Thread Bill Moran
Daniela wrote: How can I tell a program not to use up internet bandwidth when something else wants to? The program doesn't have an option for this. Dummynet is one way. 'man dummynet' is a good place to start reading. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.poten

Re: DNS and ipfw

2003-03-01 Thread Bill Moran
you've been trying DNS for a few minutes would be most useful) It's hard to diagnose firewall problems without all the rules to compare their interaction with each other. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: 4.7 Upgrade issue - Daniel Bye

2003-02-26 Thread Bill Moran
m trying to get something that needs no operator intervention during single-user mode. Currently, if mergemaster can be run just before booting into single-user mode, the operator needs to type one command ("upgrade", a shell script in /root/bin which runs the fsck, mount, swapon, cd,

Re: create ftp account how?

2003-03-02 Thread Bill Moran
;m not aware of any special requirements for the ftp user. I seem to recall using adduser to create the account the last time I set up an anon ftp server. Be sure that the ftp user has the proper access to the directory that you want to make available. -- Bill Moran Potential Te

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Bill Moran
x27;s very possible that your ISP doesn't provide DNS information via DHCP. I've got some clients who's ISPs haven't fully figured out how to use DHCP yet. What are the contents of /etc/resolv.conf? You can always get the DNS info from your ISP and enter it manually. -- Bill M

Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-02 Thread Bill Moran
7; system that sends mail back to the originator for confirmation before actually submitting the PR? This way, if someone does manage to spam the GNATS database, we'll have their email address and can officially complain. Most ISPs would have such abuse be grounds for cancelling their account

Re: xterm + colors just wont splice...

2003-03-03 Thread Bill Moran
in your case) the .zshrc file. For example, in ls you set CLICOLOR and LSCOLORS. -- 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: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.

2003-03-03 Thread Bill Moran
ile I understand the reason for this, keep in mind that if you make this too complicated, you'll never get any bug reports. Ahhh ... the old paradox, make it too easy and jerks abuse it ... make it too complicated and the people you want to use it won't. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologi

Re: DVD burner suggestions

2003-03-03 Thread Bill Moran
of these to Soeren Schmidt last fall so he could develop support, but with 5.0 and everything else that goes on, I don't know how far he's gotten. You may want to contact him directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] or possibly search one of the development list archives for news. -- Bill Moran Potent

Re: OT: cvs access

2003-03-03 Thread Bill Moran
-line CVS program is it? Did you check the permissions on %USERPROFILE%\.cvspass to ensure that it's writable by the user who's running cvs? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-quest

Re: request free sound cd

2003-03-03 Thread Bill Moran
ATIF ALI wrote: dears good day please send me your free sound cd , to my mail address: ATIF M ALI AMWAJ MEDIA CORP P.O.BOX 2898 KHARTOUM 1 SUDAN SPECIAL THANKS FOR YOUR WEBSITE I believe you misunderstood something. There is no free sound CD available from FreeBSD. -- Bill Moran Potential

Re: hacking attempts?

2003-03-04 Thread Bill Moran
user from 64.21.10.2 port 37217 ssh2 Mar 2 11:38:59 freedom sshd[47919]: Failed password for ROOT from 64.21.10.2 port 37218 ssh2 Mar 2 11:38:59 freedom sshd[47919]: Failed password for ROOT from 64.21.10.2 port 37218 -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe:

Re: RFC 1912 compliant ISP's...

2003-03-02 Thread Bill Moran
hat they tried to pretend that my inability to send email to FreeBSD's mail servers was caused by the config at FreeBSD. I'm smart enough to know different, but most of their customers aren't, and they're getting lied to. I wish I could think of something effective to do a

Re: gateway and other freebsd network function

2003-03-04 Thread Bill Moran
to worry about. Usually, you turn on the machine and it just works. The next best thing is the abundance of network tools for performance testing, problem diagnosis and just about anything else you could need. But if you ask 5 other people, you'll probably get 5 other answer

Re: DVD burner suggestions

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
like if you're using DVD-R or DVD+R, but I assume something like `burncd -f /dev/acd0 data dvd.iso fixate' would work. What version of FreeBSD does this work in? Do I need 5.0 or will the latest 4.X work? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe:

Re: 4.3 -> RELENG_4

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
.3 -> 4.7 may cause some problems with some ports. The solution is generally to uninstall the port and rebuild it. Update your ports tree first. Schedule yourself a nice chunk of time to do the first machine, then you'll be able to better predict the time required for the rest. -- Bill Moran Pot

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
ve you tried running memtest for equal lengths of time? -- 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: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
f the time, but occasionally causes a reboot. Meanwhile, the vender drivers for Windows make it work perfectly there. Also, I've seen flakey hardware that Windows simply didn't exercise enough to cause problems. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubsc

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
27;ll laugh. Can you find an intensive program to run under Windows that will reproduce it? Hell ... just install ActivePerl and write a perl script that does lots and lots of number crunching (it need not be anything useful) or install SETI and see if it crashes Windows. -- Bill Moran Potential Technol

Re: Mail vs SMTP [newbieish tendencies]

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
but I just wanted to check one thing. If I can use 'Mail' to send emails does this imply that the FreeBSD box is running a SMTP server which could send mail on behalf of clients (within the LAN)? No. Sendmail can be run in different modes. It's likely that yours is configured for

Re: 4.3 -> RELENG_4

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
int, please correct me. But I don't see it being harmful to try. (as nothing actually gets installed until the 'make install*' stage) -- 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: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
Bsd Neophyte wrote: --- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: burnP6 and burnMX have been running all night 342:16 49.17% 49.17% burnBX 340:52 48.10% 48.10% burnP6 and there are no problems so far. Have you tried running memtest for equal lengths of time? reading the man page stated that

Re: please help: nntp and gaming with ipfw

2003-03-06 Thread Bill Moran
ithout the entire ipfw ruleset. any ideas what's wrong with these rules? I can give you 1000 guesses ... any help is greatly appreciated. Please post the entire ruleset as well as the output from ifconfig. Then we'll have enough information to make some guesses as to what's wro

Re: 4.3 -> RELENG_4

2003-03-06 Thread Bill Moran
c/defaults. This is why it's so important to backup /etc before using mergemaster, so you can easily back out of a mistake. Using mergemaster is important! Don't skip this step. Hope this helps clear up some of the confusion I created. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.po

Re: 4.3 -> RELENG_4

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Moran
. The main thing you're looking for is that the new kernel actually BOOTs. Drop to single-user mode and do the installworld. -- 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: Error Downloading the Developers book on PDF format

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Moran
cent symbol, "k" ... what, exactly, are the chances of that?) -- 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: A question about kernel modules

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Moran
use more memory than the same functionality compiled into the kernel. I've never tested this, but I'm guessing that the difference is negligible on modern hardware. Why does FreeBSD not do this by default for the GENERIC kernel? Not sure. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http:/

Re: core dump

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Moran
world does... Sounds like hardware. Install memtest and cpuburn and test the RAM and CPU. -- 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: A question about kernel modules

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Moran
Matthias Buelow wrote: Bill Moran writes: First would be historical. BSD is historically a monolithic kernel. The more you rely on modules, the more the kernel acts like a microkernel. I suspect The kernel will still not be a microkernel.. it doesn't really matter at what time the stu

Re: A huge THANK YOU!!!!!

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Moran
27;re actually doing. I don't like software designed that way. -- 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: A huge THANK YOU!!!!!

2003-03-08 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Citeren Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: scott mcclellan wrote: Was there anything about ISO imaging anywhere that I just missed or slipped over without actually reading? I didn't notice anything on the FreeBSD site or handbook. Unfortunately, I think thi

Re: 4 Disk Pack

2003-03-08 Thread Bill Moran
ound here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html That is the FreeBSD handbook. It is the best place to go to get your questions answered. It should also be on your newly installed FreeBSD system in the /usr/share/doc/en/books/handbook directory. If you

Problems with mkisofs and Mac OS X

2003-03-06 Thread Bill Moran
ts as to what I might be doing wrong. The biggest irritation is that it used to work just fine, and I don't remember changing anything. I can't find any information on Apple's site about problems with CDs, so I'm assuming that I've broken something, but can't imagine

Re: SAMBA performance and FreeBSD

2003-03-04 Thread Bill Moran
is make a performance loss? Don't know -- 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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