Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Jerome Herman
On 17/02/2012 18:16, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hello, I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go with the Maildir. I'm running everything

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-25 Thread Jerome Herman
ally one should work. Basically in cups choosing "network connection" allows you to input any URI you want, including file and raw (now defunct I think - it was mainly for debug anyway). I never tried this specific printer, but this trick worked well on a few HP and Canon. Tell us

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/02/2012 18:46, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:42:08 +0100, Jerome Herman wrote: You did nothing wrong, on the contrary. You now have a prefectly working printer. You just need to tell cups it exists. Since # foo2qpdl-wrapper -p 2 -c cupstest.ps> cupstest.

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-27 Thread Jerome Herman
On 27/02/2012 22:24, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:29:12 +0100, Jerome Herman wrote: Not at all, the web admin for adding a printer is basically an html version of lpadmin. It is just easier with the web site. Easier as in: It leaves _essential_ options aside so that you can&#

Re: posix compliance

2012-02-28 Thread Jerome Herman
On 28/02/2012 12:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 06:25:37AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:03:23 + Anton Shterenlikht articulated: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:46:51PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 02/28/12 19:17, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm putting together

Re: request a quote

2012-02-29 Thread Jerome Herman
they don't actually provide the real support. There a few indeed, but I am not quite sure how the mailing list mainteners would take it if we were to publicize them here. The makers of PC-BSD offers this kind of service. Jerome Herman On 29 Feb 2012, at 09:59, Mariusz Herman wrote:

Re: imap server performance benchmarks

2012-03-08 Thread Jerome Herman
On 09/03/2012 03:44, Da Rock wrote: I'm reconsidering my current setup (postfix/courier) for imap and I was doing some research on performance comparisons between imap server setups. I stumbled on this article just just about fell of my chair laughing when I read the last article on future benc

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-25 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/03/2012 01:29, Da Rock wrote: On 03/26/12 06:49, Skippy 311 wrote: With a large portion of the open source community looking towards the Vivaldi Tablet as the push for mobile linux, The site reminds me of someone organising a large party and no one showing up :) Indeed, I felt very alon

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Jerome Herman
On 28/03/2012 22:59, Mark Felder wrote: Alright guys, I'm at the end of my rope here. For those that haven't seen my previous emails here's the (not so) quick breakdown: Overview: FreeBSD ?? - 7.4 never crash FreeBSD 8.0 - 8.2 crashes FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested (Sorry, not pos

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-11 Thread Jerome Herman
On 10/04/2012 05:27, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I am sorry if this is kind OFF Topic. I am looking for help from more experienced people in these areas. Please let me know if this question should be moved to FREEBSD-CHAT list. As I have mentioned before I am helping a school , non profit

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Jerome Herman
them or were you lazy at some point ? Are all the jails properly declared in rc.conf ? My guess would be that the first jail was created in the right way, but that others were created using cp and ln, resulting in unexpected behaviour in the end. If I am right then the "surviving" jail

Re: Performance and mouse problems

2012-04-28 Thread Jerome Herman
se # dbus-launch lshal>> /tmp/dbus_hal_debug.log 2>&1 And post the content of both log files ? That should help in understanding what is going on. In the worst case there are mecanism that will keep HAL from tinkering/probing usb mouse. Jerome Herman ___

Re: Performance and mouse problems

2012-04-30 Thread Jerome Herman
On 30/04/2012 13:39, Albert Shih wrote: Le 29/04/2012 ? 00:58:01+0200, Jerome Herman a écrit I was afraid this would happen. And I fear it is just the begining. Why you say that ? Short answer : I am a proud member of the "HAL and DBus are evil" group. Middle answer : HAL and DBus

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Jerome Herman
On 30/04/2012 19:23, Eitan Adler wrote: On 30 April 2012 07:36, Robert Bonomi wrote: A competennt, "not stupid", sysadmin would know these things. And not 'remove all doubt' (in the words of Abraham Lincoln), by raising such nonsense questions. A competent sysadmin would ask questions when th

Re: Performance and mouse problems

2012-05-02 Thread Jerome Herman
On 02/05/2012 19:40, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2012 13:19:05 -0400 (EDT) d...@safeport.com articulated: On Wed, 2 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2012, Albert Shih wrote: I think the problem is indeed comme from Xorg. Just to repeat: on this Gateway notebook, only one or the o

Re: Performance and mouse problems

2012-05-02 Thread Jerome Herman
On 02/05/2012 17:06, Albert Shih wrote: Le 30/04/2012 ? 17:19:35+0200, Jerome Herman a écrit I was afraid this would happen. And I fear it is just the begining. Why you say that ? Short answer : I am a proud member of the "HAL and DBus are evil" group. Middle answer : HAL and DBus

Re: Terminology: wheel

2012-05-25 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/05/2012 03:45, Polytropon wrote: What inspiration (or maybe logical thought) is behind the _naming_ of the "wheel" group? I could find many explainations of what "wheel" is, what it is for and how it is used (basic knowledge, I know), but I couldn't find anything that states why this name

Re: Purchased Binaries

2011-03-04 Thread Jerome Herman
Le 04/03/2011 22:24, Doug Hardie a écrit : I have a client who has purchased some software. I don't know anything much about it yet other than it claims to run on Debian and CentOS. I suspect its binaries. I will have access to things like the developer, name etc. on Monday. However, thats

Re: Long Day's Journey into

2011-06-10 Thread Jerome Herman
On 09/06/2011 02:56, Gary Kline wrote: Well, people, It's been a long, long century. I've been down for 5 days. Couldn't understand _why_ I couldn't ping anywhere [expect the Server itself]. Finally, tho, it became more and more likely that my FreeBSD was fine ... even tho I kept stripping the

Re: Two Networks on one System

2011-06-20 Thread Jerome Herman
the rules should be following not only the IP, but also the flags and the ports. Keep-state should take care of this once the connection is properly initiated, but during handshake I do not see how to guarantee proper resolution. Jerome Herman ___ freebsd

Re: Two Networks on one System

2011-06-21 Thread Jerome Herman
On 06/21/11 12:41, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 6/21/11 2:32 AM, Jerome Herman wrote: So depending on the client route, packets from a given IP address can land on either interface. Actually two clients nated behind the same public address might end up on both interfaces at the same time. Even

Re: Two Networks on one System

2011-06-21 Thread Jerome Herman
On 06/21/11 18:45, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 6/21/11 6:30 PM, Jerome Herman wrote: On 06/21/11 12:41, Damien Fleuriot wrote: This does not depend on the route the client takes, but rather on the IP the client tries to reach, wouldn't you agree ? Most of the problems I was afraid of

Re: trying for 1920x1080 was: Re: Attempting to get an X11 server running

2011-06-30 Thread Jerome Herman
On 30/06/2011 23:42, Dieter BSD wrote: Now to see if I can get this wimpy rage xl to do 1920x1080. Please don't mess with modelines, it should not be needed any more. Just set the resolutions desired in the Screen/Display section. If modelines are really required, get them out of /var/log/Xorg.

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Jerome Herman
not want to look in what state they are in. And you hardly want to learn how to use them as the entire thing is very likely to change completely before 6 months are passed. Jerome Herman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Jerome Herman
On 18/07/2011 22:22, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:44:15 -0500 Gary Gatten articulated: I've always been curious why "Linux" seemed to take off so fast when other FOSS / non Winblow$ OS's were available for some time with not much traction; OS/2, BeOS, *nix with X11, etc. Not just on t

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Jerome Herman
On 19/07/2011 01:21, Gary Gatten wrote: This may get me flamed (probably will) but I'm wondering what the relationship is between FreeBSD and PC-BSD? PERHAPS if they were to somehow join forces, share development load, etc. and "unify" the FreeBSD offerings under one roof; ie: PC-BSD and SE

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-19 Thread Jerome Herman
On 19/07/2011 08:11, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:39:02 +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: On 19/07/2011 01:21, Gary Gatten wrote: This may get me flamed (probably will) but I'm wondering what the relationship is between FreeBSD and PC-BSD? PERHAPS if they were to somehow join f

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 Thread Jerome Herman
On 19/07/2011 12:54, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 7/19/11 11:06 AM, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 19 Jul 2011, at 08:15, Frank Bonnet wrote: In France it's illegal and I have my boss's instruction : - find and delete the files that's all. Bon c

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-23 Thread Jerome Herman
On 24/07/2011 00:25, Bruce Cran wrote: On 23/07/2011 22:58, Chad Perrin wrote: Do you realize that MS Windows has nothing equivalent to rc.conf or /etc/network/interfaces? It does: it's in the registry. HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces contains a list of int

Re: Android (Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?)

2011-07-24 Thread Jerome Herman
On 24/07/2011 15:41, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: There_is_ a development kit. I have no idea what-all is involved in setting it up, but if someone were sufficiently motivated it would presumably be possible to develop an app to provide access to bash (and thence any other desired command-line

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-24 Thread Jerome Herman
On 25/07/2011 01:58, Andrea Venturoli wrote: (Sorry for the previous post, I accidentally hit sent, while the messages was still unfinished). Hello everyone. For those interested, this post is a sequel of: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/html/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/2011-06/msg00018

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-25 Thread Jerome Herman
On 25/07/2011 08:33, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 07/25/11 02:45, Jerome Herman wrote: At the beginning of June, I installed two WD 1TB Caviar Green SATA >> Just a shot in the dark : are your drives of the "green" kind ? Such as Western Digital Caviar Green ? Exactly. I d

Re: graid3 or graid5? with or without gjournal?

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/07/2011 08:48, DA Forsyth wrote: Hi all I am busy putting together a new server. I want to avoid using the motherboards raid 'hardware' (intel matrix raid) and rather do it all in software so if anything goes wrong with the motherboard, the drives can work in some other box. I have 4x 1T

Re: Book recommendations (slightly OT)

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
Classical mistakes involves making a find with exec, but forgetting to target real files only (such as removing all 0 bytes files from a system => say goodbye to /dev, links, sockets etc.) and running a script with a badly set var (like export deluser=&quo

Re: Upgrading

2011-07-29 Thread Jerome Herman
(or got promoted out of IT) and you have been officially chosen to clean up. In the later case it would be a good idea to make a longer post on this mailing list explaining the role of this server and the ports installed on it. Regards Jerome Herman

Re: Turn off hyperthreading on dual core Atom?

2011-08-29 Thread Jerome Herman
On 29/08/2011 23:15, Brett Glass wrote: At 01:55 PM 8/29/2011, Bruce Cran wrote: Actually, the ULE scheduler does know about HyperThreading and the topology of such CPUs. I don't know what it does with the information, but it probably works to optimize cache usage etc. Alas, during a recent

Re: Best Server OS for Someone That Does not Want to Touch a Shell on a Regular Basis?

2011-09-05 Thread Jerome Herman
y easy to configure and to maintain web server I know is Cherokee (http://www.cherokee-project.com/ ). The web admin is quite easy to use, and a lot more intuitive than Apache. Jerome Herman. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Geom Gate usage and perf

2011-11-18 Thread Jerome Herman
idea or suggestion as to where the problem might come from ? Thanks for your help. Jerome Herman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ques

Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-13 Thread Jerome Herman
might be wrong. Am I ? - One problem remains that is solved by vlan isolation but not by DHCP isolation : rogue DHCP servers. Any Idea to crush those ? I hope it is not inappropriate to post this on this list. But it is an interesting problem (I think). Jerome Herman

Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-14 Thread Jerome Herman
? Jerome Herman On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Jerome Hermanwrote: Hello, Given the price (an tedious management) of layer 3 switches I was thinking about using modified DHCP to distribute addresses with a /32 netmask (255.255.255.255) The Idea : Create a cheap (and preferably not dirty

Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-14 Thread Jerome Herman
a big fan of Cisco (Well to be perfectly honest I love the hardware...). Does anyone know of an alternative ? Jerome Herman On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Jerome Herman wrote: Hello, Given the price (an tedious management) of layer 3 switches I was thinking about

Re: IPSec/racoon key time to live

2010-10-14 Thread Jerome Herman
t the same lifetime on both ends. - Can key lifetime be configured per host-host connection? Yes. Jerome Herman Thanks, Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Jerome Herman
Le 22/08/2012 12:59, Andy Wodfer a écrit : Hi, I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the periodic LOCATE script runs every week. What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead (where I

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread Jerome Herman
Le 22/08/2012 13:59, Jerry a écrit : On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:29:56 +0200 Michel Talon articulated: David Jackson said: In reference to the claims that systemd developers "do not care about portability", this is deceptive and misleading. You should read the following interview of Lennart Poett

Re: 0

2012-10-16 Thread Jerome Herman
Must resist the urge to post... 10 (I am weak)... On 16/10/2012 19:24, Modulok wrote: 1 On 10/15/12, abdou massnoue wrote: ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,