InstallJammer on Fbsd 7.0 ?

2008-09-12 Thread Len Conrad
Anybody got this running on FreeBSD 7.0? http://www.installjammer.com/ installjammer-1.2.9.tar.gz ./installjammer Could not find an installkit for your platform 'FreeBSD-7-x86'. You must modify this script and define a platform at the top. == changed installjammer: PLATFORM="FreeBS

Re: InstallJammer on Fbsd 7.0 ?

2008-09-12 Thread Len Conrad
>> Anybody got this running on FreeBSD 7.0? >> >> http://www.installjammer.com/ >> >> installjammer-1.2.9.tar.gz >> >> ./installjammer >> >> Could not find an installkit for your platform 'FreeBSD-7-x86'. >> You must modify this script and define a platform at the top. >> >> == >> >> chang

Re: InstallJammer on Fbsd 7.0 ?

2008-09-12 Thread Len Conrad
>> Anybody got this running on FreeBSD 7.0? >> >> http://www.installjammer.com/ >> >> installjammer-1.2.9.tar.gz >> >> ./installjammer >> >> Could not find an installkit for your platform 'FreeBSD-7-x86'. >> You must modify this script and define a platform at the top. >> >> == >> >> chang

Re: InstallJammer on Fbsd 7.0 ?

2008-09-12 Thread Len Conrad
>> >> Install miniarc.tcl >> /usr/local/src/installkitsrc/installkit-1.2.6/FreeBSD-7-x86/lib/miniarc0.1/miniarc.tcl >> Install pkgIndex.tcl >> /usr/local/src/installkitsrc/installkit-1.2.6/FreeBSD-7-x86/lib/miniarc0.1 >> Installing header files in >> /usr/local/src/installkitsrc/installkit-1.2

can't svn spamaassin trunk

2008-09-22 Thread Len Conrad
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE Registering installation for subversion-1.4.0_1 svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/trunk spamassassin-trunk /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libkrb5.so: Undefined symbol "initialize_asn1_error_table_r" did a portsnap, but no change Seem to be lots of

help with AWk

2008-09-27 Thread Len Conrad
The logic desired if If IP has no PTR, print "PTR_NUL", else print the PTR. dig +short -x 1.2.3.4 | awk '{if ( $0 == "" ) {print "PTR_NUL" } else {print $0 } }' ... works if PTR exist, but if no PTR, PTR_NUL doesn't print. thanks Len __ IMGate

what else is needed to make ftp passive work

2008-10-22 Thread Len Conrad
two machines on the same private network. ftp 10.0.0.24 Connected to 10.0.0.24. 220 mx1.fairhope.net FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready. Name (10.0.0.24:username): 331 Password required for username. Password: 230 User username logged in. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfe

adaptec 5805 and FreeBSD NAS

2009-09-26 Thread Len Conrad
We are considering building 12 x 2TB NAS system in an Intel storage server box with Adaptec 5805 SAS/SATA HBA. Anybody have FreeBSD experience with 24TB (RAID6) and Adaptec 5805? thanks Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

postfix/amavids/sa/etc in FreeBSD jail?

2009-10-09 Thread Len Conrad
is a FreeBSD jail enough of a virtualized OS to run a full filtering MX config setup exactly as on a native FreeBSD? Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread Len Conrad
the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0x659d> AMD Features=0x2010 Logical CPUs per core: 2 real memory = 3220963328 (3071 MB) avail memory

FWD: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-15 Thread Len Conrad
-- Original Message -- From: "Len Conrad" Reply-To: Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:48:26 +0200 the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id =

Re: FW: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Len Conrad
-- Original Message -- From: krad Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:56:40 +0100 >2009/10/23 Sean Cavanaugh > >> >> >> >> > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:30:08 -0400 >> > From: dave.l...@pixelhammer.com >> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> > Subject: DNS Question

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Len Conrad
> >All true, and I did not do a very good job of explaining it. My issue >was that we have requests to use a CNAME for the domain record. Such as >this. > >example.com CNAME otherdomain.com >www.example.com CNAME otherdomain.com > >I was taught this was not good form worse, it's illegal. ,

RE: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Len Conrad
>> >All true, and I did not do a very good job of explaining it. My issue >> >was that we have requests to use a CNAME for the domain record. Such as >> >this. >> > >> >example.com CNAME otherdomain.com >> >www.example.com CNAME otherdomain.com >> > >> >I was taught this was not good form >> >>

how to show "make configure" menu after initial make

2009-11-09 Thread Len Conrad
subsequent "make configure" simply uses the original menu choices with no re-display of the menu to change the options Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

where to find libintl.so.8

2009-11-17 Thread Len Conrad
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0 portsnap'd today running ver 1.2.8 of rdiff-backup which gets: ImportError: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, required by "librsync.so.1" thanks Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

can't get a full fbsd 7.2 amd64 install

2009-12-10 Thread Len Conrad
fbsd 7.2 amd64 "kernel developer" install Here's a successful install du du -d1 -h / 2.0K/.snap 2.0K/dev 1.8G/usr 1.6G/var 1.7M/etc 2.0K/cdrom 2.0K/dist 1.1M/bin 206M/boot 6.7M/lib 396K/libexec 2.0K/media 2.0K/mnt 2.0K/proc 4.0M/rescue

Re: can't get a full fbsd 7.2 amd64 install

2009-12-12 Thread Len Conrad
At 11:50 AM 12/10/2009, you wrote: >fbsd 7.2 >amd64 >"kernel developer" install > >Here's a successful install du > >du -d1 -h / >2.0K/.snap >2.0K/dev >1.8G/usr >1.6G/var >1.7M/etc >2.0K/cdrom >2.0K/dist >1.1M/bin >206M/boot >6.7M/lib >396K/libexec >2.0K

Re: can't get a full fbsd 7.2 amd64 install

2009-12-13 Thread Len Conrad
>I could be mistaken, but that sounds like an awfully big /var and >/usr. Are you sure this is a vanilla install that no one has touched? the install is running off the i386/amd64 disc1 .iso. /usr is with /usr/ports Len >-- randi > > > >On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:11

Freebsd 7.2 port of "Postfix 2.7 Snapshot 20091209"

2009-12-17 Thread Len Conrad
Anybody know where to get this? The fix reversing the order of black/white queries in postscreen is important for us. thanks Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

which IP+gateway for Freebsd guest VM in VMware workstation

2009-12-26 Thread Len Conrad
VMWare has lots of info how to set up the (Windows XP) VMWare Workstation networking side, but not much on setting up networking in the guest OS. I've tried NAT and bridging, no DHCP, and can't ping anything except the localhost IPs. XP ipconfig shows the fixed IP, plus 2 192.168.c.d IPs fr

Re: which IP+gateway for Freebsd guest VM in VMware workstation

2009-12-27 Thread Len Conrad
>>VMWare has lots of info how to set up the (Windows XP) VMWare Workstation >>networking side, but not much on setting up networking in the guest OS. >> >>I've tried NAT and bridging, no DHCP, and can't ping anything except the >>localhost IPs. >> >>XP ipconfig shows the fixed IP, plus 2 192.168

Re: Hardware virtualization

2009-12-30 Thread Len Conrad
-- Original Message -- From: "Diego F. Arias R." Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:24:24 -0500 >On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mike Jeays wrote: > >> I am about to buy a new desktop, and I want to make sure that hardware >> virtualization is included. In one or

upgraded OS, now how to fix all the pkgs?

2008-05-18 Thread Len Conrad
I used this: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-10-freebsd-minor-version-upgrade.html mx1# pkg_add -r portupgrade Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.3-release/Latest/portupgrade.tbz... Done. Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-

Re: upgraded OS, now how to fix all the pkgs?

2008-05-18 Thread Len Conrad
* Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-18-2008]: > I've deleted/installed berkeley and portupgrade to get started > > portupgrade-2.3.1,2 The latest version is portupgrade-2.4.3_2,2. Upgrade and try again. I now have: ruby-1.8.6.111_2,1 An object-oriented interprete

Cannot --enable-pcretest-libedit because libedit library was not found

2012-05-20 Thread Len Conrad
8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0 with current portsnap mtr, postfix-current, pcre all fail to install with error: ** Cannot --enable-pcretest-libedit because libedit library was not found. ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. Please report the problem to m...@freebsd.org [maintainer]

Can't get plone to run

2012-07-09 Thread Len Conrad
Following the instructions from "Professional Plone 4 Development" book. (not plone/zope from ports) freebsd 9.0 got pretty far, then: plone# bin/instance fg 2012-07-09 16:49:55 INFO ZServer HTTP server started at Mon Jul 9 16:49:55 2012 Hostname: 0.0.0.0 Port: 8080 2012-07-09

can't make port BIND 9.7.3

2011-02-22 Thread Len Conrad
7.2-RELEASE-p1-jc2 trying to make in /usr/ports/dns/bind97 distinfo shows bind-9.7.3.tar.gz make options: SSL IDN replace_base sigchase ipv6 threads links xml exiting the options, an immediate stop: make: don't know how to make /usr/ports/dns/bind97/work/.build_done.bind97._usr_local. Stop

syslog-ng logging stopped

2011-03-11 Thread Len Conrad
uname -a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE syslog-ng --version syslog-ng 2.0.10 change date on syslog-ng.conf is "Apr 20 2009" syslog-ng been running untouched for that long. Millions of lines/per day log from 10 source machine. about 00:20 today Friday, all syslogging to syslog-ng stopped. sockstat -4

Re: syslog-ng logging stopped

2011-03-11 Thread Len Conrad
the only one puzzled :) > >On 3/11/11, Len Conrad wrote: >> uname -a >> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE >> >> syslog-ng --version >> syslog-ng 2.0.10 >> >> change date on syslog-ng.conf is "Apr 20 2009" >> >> syslog-ng been runnin

Re: syslog-ng logging stopped

2011-03-12 Thread Len Conrad
t;Keep us updated im sure im not the only one puzzled :) >> >>On 3/11/11, Len Conrad wrote: >>> uname -a >>> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE >>> >>> syslog-ng --version >>> syslog-ng 2.0.10 >>> >>> change date on syslog-ng.conf is &

Re: syslog-ng logging stopped

2011-03-12 Thread Len Conrad
At 03:52 PM 3/12/2011, you wrote: >That probably means that it's not syslog-ng causing the problems. right >Maybe some firewall rule? I run pf. pfctl -d didn't allow logging to start. trafshow and tshark showed all the traffic hitting port 514, not being blocked. Len __

Re: syslog-ng logging stopped

2011-03-13 Thread Len Conrad
n't help. Len >Man, you really stumbled upon something weird! > >On 3/12/11, Len Conrad wrote: >> At 03:52 PM 3/12/2011, you wrote: >>>That probably means that it's not syslog-ng causing the problems. >> >> right >> >>>Maybe some firewa

bind 98 make fails

2011-03-16 Thread Len Conrad
FreeBSD 8.2 i386 kern dev distribution as 42-bit VM on host ESXi 4.1 portsnap fetch extract cd /usr/ports/dns/bind98 make Options for bind98 9.8.0 | | +

tcp/ip failures with fbsd 8.2 386 on ESX 4.1

2011-03-19 Thread Len Conrad
FreeBSD 8.2 32-bit ESXi 4.1 em0 driver to the ESXi Intel emulation syslog-ng 2.0.10 em0: flags=8943 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9b ether 00:50:56:90:00:01 inet a.b.c.85 netmask 0xffe0 broadcast a.b.c.95 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT ) status: act

Re: tcp/ip failures with fbsd 8.2 386 on ESX 4.1

2011-03-19 Thread Len Conrad
>Maybe try disabling dns lookups within syslog-ng? > >- Original Message - >From: Len Conrad [mailto:lcon...@go2france.com] >Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 05:40 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: tcp/ip failures with fbsd 8.2 386 on ESX 4.1 > > &g

ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found

2011-04-27 Thread Len Conrad
FreeBSD in a jail at Johncompanies.com uname -a FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p1-jc2 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p1-jc2 #0: Thu Jun 18 15:16:49 PDT 2009 Johncompanies.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/jail8 amd64 portstap fetch update nmap installed with make && make install nmap a.b.c.d -p 143 -sU ELF interpreter

portsnap broken

2011-12-04 Thread Len Conrad
Never had a problem before Freebsd 8.2 a couple weeks ago, on virgin 8.2, initial run of portsnap fetch extract ... ran great, and a couple of updates since then, also. but today: # portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsn

Re: Client Authentication

2013-03-24 Thread Len Conrad
At 11:22 PM 3/23/2013, you wrote: >I am not sure this is the best place to ask this, but I didn't see any other >maillists that seemed more appropriate. > >Basically, my outgoing mail server is being systematically attacked to try >passwords looking for one that works. brute force attacks are ea

perl port 5.8.2 won't install?

2004-06-23 Thread Len Conrad
fbsd 4.10 release # cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 # make && make install ===> Vulnerability check disabled >> perl-5.8.2.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. >> Attempting to fetch from http://www.cpan.dk/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/. perl-5.8.2.tar.gz

Re: perl port 5.8.2 won't install?

2004-06-23 Thread Len Conrad
How did you update your ports collection? when running sysintall "upgrade" from cdrom to go from 4.7 to 4.10. These are probably stale files that should/would have been removed with a correctly updated collection. ok, I'll have a go at refreshing the ports, thanks Len ___

Re: Removing thousands of files using rm

2004-07-06 Thread Len Conrad
I often have the need to remove hundreds or even thousands of files from a single directory (very often). Using rm, I usually get: pearl# rm -rvf * /bin/rm: Argument list too long. man xargs Len ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: DNS server

2004-07-11 Thread Len Conrad
No, it doesn't. I can successfully perform a whois from here on your domain, but an nslookup/dig both fail. Give it 72 hours to propagate across the net. propagation is a bogus idea when applied to DNS. Like WMD and "immediate threat" when applied to Iraq. As soon as the delegation and glue d

Re: DNS server

2004-07-11 Thread Len Conrad
Perhaps you need to do some research on the subject. perhaps you need to clarify your vagary There are a series of DNS systems ??? For a public domain.tld, the only two servers involved are : 1. the servers authoritative for .tld to publish the delegation and glue records for domain.tld. 2.

buildup of Windows time_wait talking to fbsd 4.10

2005-01-10 Thread Len Conrad
We have a windows mailserver that relays its outbound to a fbsd gateway. We changed to a different fbsd gateway running 4.10. Windows then began having trouble sending to 4.10. Windows "netstat -an" shows dozens of lines like this: source IP desitination IP

Re: buildup of Windows time_wait talking to fbsd 4.10

2005-01-10 Thread Len Conrad
Just off the top of my head... You mentioned the freebsd machine is the gateway. Do you have a firewall on the host blocking connections from the windows machine? a forgotten detail is that the windows machine sends just fine to the 4.10 gateway for a few minutes, but the time_wait inevitably b

Re: buildup of Windows time_wait talking to fbsd 4.10

2005-01-11 Thread Len Conrad
We have a windows mailserver that relays its outbound to a fbsd gateway. We changed to a different fbsd gateway running 4.10. Windows then began having trouble sending to 4.10. Windows "netstat -an" shows dozens of lines like this: source IP desitination IP

perl and berkeley

2004-05-26 Thread Len Conrad
Freebsd 4.8 1. installed a perl mod that decided it needed Perl 5.8. that went ok, but now I've got /usr/bin/perl 5.0 /usr/local/bin/perl 5.8 What is the command to get the sytstem to switch to defaulting to 5.8? 2. "pkg_add -r db3" also went ok, but perl -MCPAN -e 'install BerkeleyD

Re: perl and berkeley

2004-05-26 Thread Len Conrad
which perl This will show which perl executable you are actually calling. the system perl: # which perl /usr/bin/perl I guess typing: /usr/local/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'install BerkeleyDB' that fails, too, same error Len ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list h

Re: perl and berkeley

2004-05-26 Thread Len Conrad
#v+ If you want this version of Perl to be used by default, please type use.perl port #v- # use.perl port # which perl /usr/bin/perl Check out the rest of that file for more information. ports are not installed, just specific pkgs # pkg_info ... db3-3.3.11,1The Berkeley DB package, revis

Re: perl and berkeley

2004-05-27 Thread Len Conrad
$ls -alT perl* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 Mar 20 15:25:53 2004 perl@ -> /usr/local/bin/perl ... lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 Mar 20 15:25:53 2004 perl5.8.2@ -> /usr/local/bin/perl ... I have the same: # ll /usr/bin/perl* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 May 26 20:49 /usr/bin/perl@ ->

Re: perl and berkeley

2004-05-28 Thread Len Conrad
> perl -MCPAN -e 'install BerkeleyDB' > > ... still gives: > > BerkeleyDB.xs:74: #error db.h is from Berkeley DB 1.x - need at least > Berkeley DB 2.6.4 > *** Error code 1 > > I've deleted and re-installed that db3 pkg, but still get the same error. my first try would probably be to remove all CPA

(no subject)

2010-10-04 Thread Len Conrad
installed: Python 2.7 (r27:82500, Sep 30 2010, 16:50:36) cd /usr/ports/www/py-django11 fails: == WARNING: The C extension could not be compiled, speedups are not enabled. Plain-Python installation succeeded. =

Problems installing django and py-tkinter

2010-10-04 Thread Len Conrad
webmail ate my subject -- Original Message -- From: "Len Conrad" Reply-To: lcon...@go2france.com Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 21:47:23 +0200 >installed: > >Python 2.7 (r27:82500, Sep 30 2010, 16:50:36) > > >cd /usr/po

Re: vm ware

2011-01-19 Thread Len Conrad
=>Hi, > I want to inquire if its possible to install freeBSD on vm ware? > is there any live cd iso available? I've had no problems installing FreeBSD 6,7,8 as VM into ESXi 4.1 hypervisor. Latest success was using the VMWare cold converter .iso to virtualize a FreeBSD 6.2 physical machin

can a jail have link to outside of the jail?

2012-08-16 Thread Len Conrad
I have an ssh user who needs only to search some log files not in his jail. The jail required because I don't want the user seeing the rest the machine. If the dirs were linked to his jail, would that work? What I'd really like is something like ftpchroot for but ssh. suggestions? Len ___

Problem with r-o access in jail

2012-08-21 Thread Len Conrad
Want a nullfs filesystem to be read-only for tech people to search-only maillog files. host machine's files: /var/log/mx1/maillog* files the maillog files are all 644 and r bit is set all along the path using ezjail jail root is /var/jails jail name is fixit mkdir -p /var/jails/fixit/mx1

py-sqlalchemy install fails

2012-08-23 Thread Len Conrad
fbsd 9.0 py 2.7.3 cd /usr/ports/databases/py-sqlalchemy make ends with: creating build/bdist.freebsd-9.0-RELEASE-i386/egg/EGG-INFO copying lib/SQLAlchemy.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> build/bdist.freebsd-9.0-RELEASE-i386/egg/EGG-INFO copying lib/SQLAlchemy.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> build/bdist.freebsd-

Re: promise sx4000

2002-12-25 Thread Len Conrad
i have promise sx4000 raid card and im trying to get it work with freebsd 5.0 so is there anyone who knows a driver for that card? Promise told me they don't support FreeBSD. There's no driver for the sx4000 and they won't provide the doc + board to develop one. Len To Unsubscribe: send m

Re: promise sx4000

2002-12-25 Thread Len Conrad
and the doc only? no doc at programmers level yes, :(( Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread Len Conrad
Easier said than done. I've been assigned 66.45.116.136/29 by the ISP. .136 is not a power of 2 which is required for classless reverse delegation. It should be .132/29 or .140/29 I control DNS for quadtelecom.com, but I don't control the reverse lookup. I'd like to know the exact algorith

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread Len Conrad
>_450_Client_host_rejected:_cannot_find_your_hostname,_[66.45.116.138] > Your mail server is identifying itself as [66.45.116.138] instead of a host with (valid) forward DNS records (hosts that do this are blocked as a -- very effective -- anti-spam measure). Fix your mail server to identif

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-29 Thread Len Conrad
ISTR Postfix replies with 450 to (almost) all errors by default. And there are errors where you need to escalate the 4xx response to 554 to stop the sending MTA from re-trying for days, or just harvest the 4xx ip's to a new .map filean block with 554. Postfix's new "sender address verificati

how to restore /usr

2003-01-17 Thread Len Conrad
Trying to free up disk space, a user accidentally rm'd /usr instead of /usr/ports. Starting with the cdrom, what is the best way to get the /usr tree back onto the disk? thanks Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: how to restore /usr

2003-01-17 Thread Len Conrad
/stand/sysinstall works so what if we did install additional dist sets + just binary base distribution? Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Experiences with Adaptec 2400A?

2003-01-29 Thread Len Conrad
We are looking at this board for high-volume MX gateways. Anybody have any comments from experience? Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Postfix & SpamAssassin

2003-02-01 Thread Len Conrad
Can Spamassassin work directly with Postfix? yes, as a "content-filter", see the Spamassassin site, see the postfix site. Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: DNS question

2003-02-01 Thread Len Conrad
When a person does a dns lookup to the server and its not already cached, how does It find out the correct name server to use to find the ip? The DNS navigates the DNS namespace until it finds a positive or negative answer, or the until DNS's that should have the answer fail to respond. Len

RE: DNS question

2003-02-01 Thread Len Conrad
Ahh okay, I understand that. Someone once told me the information is already downloaded in a list, so the server doesn't have to contact root all the time to get ns information. Is this not true anymore? bind9 has the root-servers "hints zone" in its binary, but will use an external hints zone

Re: lsof

2002-09-18 Thread Len Conrad
>I don't know what I did differently but when I tried it just now, I see > > >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/NEW/. >Receiving lsof_4.65B.freebsd.tar.gz (509943 bytes): 100% >509943 bytes transferred in 17.6 seconds (28.29 kBps) > >I would try again. mx1# p

can't intall PERL module

2002-09-18 Thread Len Conrad
fbsd 4.6.2 perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Calc' t/f029..ok t/f030..ok t/f031..ok t/f032..ok t/f033..ok t/f034..Use of uninitialized value at t/f034.t line 332. Use of uninitialized value at t/f034.t line 332. FAILED tests 252

Re: can't intall PERL module

2002-09-18 Thread Len Conrad
> >> (09.18.2002 @ 1445 PST): Len Conrad said, in 1.4K: << > > fbsd 4.6.2 > > > > perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Calc' > >why do it that way? >cd /usr/ports/devel/p5-Date-Calc && make install because I've a

time off by 30 minutes

2002-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
# killall ntpd # ntpdate -db time.nist.gov 20 Sep 06:52:39 ntpdate[63322]: ntpdate 4.1.0-a Wed Aug 14 18:56:48 GMT 2002 (1) transmit(192.43.244.18) receive(192.43.244.18) transmit(192.43.244.18) receive(192.43.244.18) transmit(192.43.244.18) receive(192.43.244.18) transmit(192.43.244.18) receive

Re: time off by 30 minutes

2002-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
> >Check your /etc/localtime is correct for your timezone. > >ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/ localtime > >where is the correct location. rm /etc/localtime from /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab: US +415100-0873900 America/Chicago Central Time US +450628-0873651 America/Menomi

Re: time off by 30 minutes

2002-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
>I think the problem could be the -d (debug) option to ntpdate. Try # rm /etc/localtime # ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime # ntpdate time.nist.gov 20 Sep 08:42:52 ntpdate[71492]: step time server 192.43.244.18 offset 1784.223346 sec but the correct time is 09:12 Len

Re: time off by 30 minutes

2002-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
>Why dont you set it by using >date 200209201514 >and then use >ntpdate & ntpd >to keep it current afterward.. this is what I always have done, but it's not working on this machine: # killall ntp No matching processes were found # date 200209201048 Fri Sep 20 10:48:00 CDT 2002 # ll /etc/loc

Re: time off by 30 minutes

2002-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
>I think that the one you want is: >ntpdate -b > >That will force the system clock to reset even if it is off by more >than the maximum allowed step. It is normally used at boot time when >you want the time to be set correctly immediately since the existing >state of the clock is unknown. # kill

Re: time off by 30 minutes

2002-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
> >>I think the problem could be the -d (debug) option to ntpdate. Try > > > ># rm /etc/localtime > ># ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime > ># ntpdate time.nist.gov > >20 Sep 08:42:52 ntpdate[71492]: step time server 192.43.244.18 offset > >1784.223346 sec > ^^

Re: time off by 30 minutes

2002-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
>I have never got date to really change the time unless I followed the >example of > > The command: > >date 8506131627 > > sets the date to ``June 13, 1985, 4:27 PM''. # date 0209201743 Fri Sep 20 17:43:00 CDT 2002 # ntpdate -b tock.jrc.us 20 Sep 17:13:49 ntpdate[9542]: s

Re: time off by 30 minutes

2002-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
>Are you running a kern_secure level that prevents jumps of more than 1 second? ah, I've commented it out but the person who set ip had rc.conf with securelevel 2. It that it?? dmesg: Time adjustment clamped to +1 second Time adjustment clamped to +1 second Time adjustment clamped to +1 seco

Re: Promise FastTrak TX200/SX4000

2002-09-30 Thread Len Conrad
>On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 02:52:47AM -0700, OCTAVIAN HORNOIU wrote: > > Are the TX2000 and SX4000 cards When I checked on the sx4000 about two weeks ago, the FreeBSD guy said he was waiting on the cards + docs from Promise US to arrive in DK. I really don't think sx4000 will make it into 4.7.

OS X POP client weird?

2002-10-09 Thread Len Conrad
FreeBSD port of qpopper version 4.0.4 (non-standalone) on FreeBSD 4.6.2 Release. All is working fine, except we note that two users show these errors: Oct 8 19:54:28 boxname qpopper[88744]: xxx at 12-233-2-114.client.attbi.com (12.233.2.114): -ERR [SYS/TEMP] POP authentication DB not availab

Re: mailing list software

2002-10-22 Thread Len Conrad
I recommend Mailman: /usr/ports/mail/mailman It's from GNU (free!), works well, and is well supported. It installed simply and easily for me. But does a list subscriber need to find/remember and use his list password to unsubscribe? That stupid requirement pretty much kills mailman for the

Re: Resolving hostnames takes "forever"

2002-11-02 Thread Len Conrad
pkg_add _r mtr And run mtr for a few hours to a couple of points a few hops beyond your ISP and see if you have big delays, packet loss, etc. Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: [OT] Spare mailservers

2002-11-21 Thread Len Conrad
We are now adding a second mailserver (20 MX) to our configuration, which will forward mail to the main mailserver (10 MX) through mailertable. A third one will be added as soon as we grow as we now expect. To avoid having to edit all the DNS zones again then why do that? are you running MS DNS

.sh interactive ok, from crontab, not

2002-11-24 Thread Len Conrad
Trying to write a little watch-dog/keep-alive script for a couple of related daemons, an MTA and an SMTP AV scanner. This snippet works fine... if ( ps aux | grep -i "^root.*master" ) > /dev/null then echo "then: exit code equal 0" exit 0 else ... when run from the command line, the echo text

Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not

2002-11-24 Thread Len Conrad
> if ( ps aux | grep -i "^root.*master" ) > /dev/null > then > echo "then: exit code equal 0" > exit 0 > else > > > ... when run from the command line, the echo text displays. But, when run > from crontab every 10 minutes, the if fails, and the else clause runs. > > I've tried every syntax I kno

Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not

2002-11-24 Thread Len Conrad
Well, it was just a guess. :) I tested against my 'named' daemon, using the code you supplied and it works fine. same code works fine for my AV daemon, but not for the MTA daemon What version of FreeBSD? 4.5 Are you using the 'stock' shell? yes Did you look at the output from grep t

Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not

2002-11-24 Thread Len Conrad
What does your crontab entry look like? */10* * * * root/usr/local/bin/watchdog.sh To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not

2002-11-24 Thread Len Conrad
Okay, I was able to duplicate your problem. It is due to the output of 'ps' being truncated to 80 columns, the default terminal size. You are likely running a wide terminal display on your interactive session (as I do) yep, TeraTerm on Windows, very wide display. but cron will see the default

ATA RAID Highpoint RR 133

2002-11-26 Thread Len Conrad
DMESG with a 4.7R GENERIC kernel shows for our Rocketraid 133: atapci1: port 0x8400-0x84ff,0x8800-0x8803,0x9000-0x9007,0x9400-0x9403,0x9800-0x9807 irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0 But we have nice Highpoint doc "FreeBSD INstallation Guide" where it talks about installing their drivers, up to fs

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Len Conrad
I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourth edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", and I was wonder

booting from Promise tx2000

2003-02-23 Thread Len Conrad
fbsd 4.7 release no drives on motherboard ata channels one ATA Master drive on each TX2000 IDE channel (no Array is defined, we just want two independent disks for now) fbsd cdrom boots, finds the disks and installs fbsd. we choose boot manager because we typically have our system fail to boo

RE: booting from Promise tx2000

2003-02-24 Thread Len Conrad
I might be wrong here.. but I think you need some specific raid drivers for the TX cards to work the tx2000 is seen as an standard ATA interface. no driver needed Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: booting from Promise tx2000

2003-02-24 Thread Len Conrad
If your BIOS supports this, try setting the boot device in CMOS configuration to SCSI Boot Device. it does, and that's how we have it. The problem is that the offboard ATA controller you are using has its own BIOS, thus the system BIOS will not boot a disk attatched to it. I don't think so, the

booting from Promise tx2000: FIXED

2003-02-24 Thread Len Conrad
Since we only had one ATA133 disk on each TX2000 ATA channel, we skipped the TX2000 setup utility to define an "array" (we didn't want to run RAID or want any stinking arrays at all). We were able to boot from mobo ATA CDROM and install fbsd through the TX2000. ( btw, we always install fbsd boo

EPoX ep-4g4m+ ?

2003-02-25 Thread Len Conrad
An integrator wants to use in some 1U boxes for us. With Intel 845G Any body have any horror stories? EPoX ok in general? Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

can't get to ATA133

2003-02-26 Thread Len Conrad
FreeBSD 4.7R Promise TX2000 with two ATA133 drives as ata masters using the ATA133 IDE cables that came with the TX2000. dmesg shows: ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device ar0: 39083MB [4982/255/63] status: READY subdisks:

Re: can't get to ATA133

2003-02-27 Thread Len Conrad
> ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > ar0: 39083MB [4982/255/63] status: READY subdisks: > 0 READY ad4: 39083MB [79408/16/63] at ata2-master > UDMA33 ar1: 39083MB [4982/255/63] status: READY > subdisks: 0 READY ad6: 3

Re: can't get to ATA133 (Addendum to previous post)

2003-02-27 Thread Len Conrad
There are two things you might want to look at. First it trying to set the modes manually after boot. This is not recommended, and I would not do it unless on a read only file system, if setting the higher mode fails, or fails partially, you might be in for a world of trouble. To do this, you can

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