tar Ignoring out-of-order file What Does that Mean?

2007-10-30 Thread Martin McCormick
eding to do one of these installs in a day or so and it would be nice to know that all the image is there. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: tar Ignoring out-of-order file What Does that Mean?

2007-11-05 Thread Martin McCormick
Jonathan McKeown writes: > [that was me - I'm glad I was of some help] Most definitely. You've been a tremendous help but I am still stuck and I believe all issues are known except this one. I should know when the unpacking/packing part is working by unpacking the FreeBSD iso image and th

Re: Modifying the FreeBSD6.2 ISO Image

2007-11-07 Thread Martin McCormick
"Brian A Seklecki (Mobile)" writes: >The exact mksiofs(8)/mkhyrbid(8)/cdrtools flags are in a shell script >burried in src/release/* somewhere. Its probably a matter of >not-following-symlinks or crossing filesystem mount-points, etc. Most definitely. It obviously can be done as the image

Modifying the FreeBSD6.2 ISO Image

2007-11-07 Thread Martin McCormick
so the problem appears to be something I am not setting in both tar and mkisofs. I am thoroughly stuck. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions

/bin/sh Can one Easily Strip Path Name from $0?

2007-11-14 Thread Martin McCormick
the script is in the execution path, you get an error because there are no slashes in the string so awk gets confused. Is there a better way to always end up with only the script name and nothing else no matter whether the path was prepended or not? Thank yo

Re: /bin/sh Can one Easily Strip Path Name from $0?

2007-11-14 Thread Martin McCormick
The basename utility does the trick. Thanks to all of you who answered. Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Bind 9.3.4P1 Wouldn't run in Sandbox in FreeBSD6.2p9.

2007-12-03 Thread Martin McCormick
ointers as to where to read about this change. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Best Way to Fix a links Browser Compilation Problem

2003-11-05 Thread Martin McCormick
l X libraries. Many thanks for any help. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: Best Way to Fix a links Browser Compilation Problem

2003-11-05 Thread Martin McCormick
Mark Woodson writes: >You do not actually need to edit the CONFIGURE_ARGS in Makefile, >rather you include that statement in your call to make > >make WITHOUT_X11=yes install My thanks to you and one other person who pointed this out to me. It looks like that is going to w

Extracting individual Files via tar

2003-11-06 Thread Martin McCormick
l the examples I found were the more usual procedure of unpacking whole file systems as in tar zxf somedir/archive.tar.gz I'm not having trouble with that use of tar. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operat

Re: Extracting individual Files via tar

2003-11-07 Thread Martin McCormick
e now. Many thanks. Martin McCormick "Rob" writes: >You should always use the f option to specify the archive - for example > >tar -tzf archive.tgz > >to list or > >tar -xzf archive.tgz > >to extract. In your example below, you didn't specify an

FreeBSD Port of mrtg Not Happy when Trying to Start

2008-09-22 Thread Martin McCormick
ideas or information as to whether or not the port of mrtg should still run under FreeBSD6.3. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: FreeBSD Port of mrtg Not Happy when Trying to Start

2008-09-22 Thread Martin McCormick
Martin McCormick writes: > We are moving a mrtg system to FreeBSD so I installed > the port from /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg and the installation went > flawlessly along with perl5.88 which it needs. > > When I tried to start it, I just now found out tha

Re: FreeBSD Port of mrtg Not Happy when Trying to Start

2008-09-23 Thread Martin McCormick
Jerry writes: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:54:04 -0500 > Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We are moving a mrtg system to FreeBSD so I installed > > the port from /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg and the installation went > > flawlessly along with perl5.88 w

Re: FreeBSD Port of mrtg Not Happy when Trying to Start

2008-09-23 Thread Martin McCormick
r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 65627 Jun 27 2000 Util.pm -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel223 Jun 27 2000 Util_env.pm Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: FreeBSD Port of mrtg Not Happy when Trying to Start

2008-09-24 Thread Martin McCormick
hat it put on and make sure it is gone, that might fix the problem. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Wrong Build Environment

2008-09-24 Thread Martin McCormick
successfully on the broken system except it can't find its libraries. Any ideas? Thank you. A very tired Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Wrong Build Environment

2008-09-25 Thread Martin McCormick
net-snmp package survived and all now appears to be well. Thanks to everybody who helped. This was one of the most puzzling UNIX trouble-shooting adventures I have been on in years. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications

Strange Core Dump Error Message on a FreeBSD6.3 System

2008-10-07 Thread Martin McCormick
ing obviously is wrong regarding memory allocation but why this one system? Is there anything I can look for in netstat -m that might help me solve the puzzle? Thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Servi

Can an Account be Locked out for ssh but allow su?

2008-10-08 Thread Martin McCormick
group projects but know who logged in and su'd in to this common space. We don't care if they logged in as themselves via ssh but we do care if they log in as this common user because we then don't know who accidentally deleted all the files or whatever accident one can i

Re: Can an Account be Locked out for ssh but allow su?

2008-10-08 Thread Martin McCormick
Henrik Hudson writes: > Check the sshd_config man page for AllowUsers and DenyUsers directives. Many thanks. DenyUsers did the trick. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

php5 Only IE Users can View Pages.

2008-11-14 Thread Martin McCormick
for? One of the browsers for sure that isn't working is firefox. Many thanks. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Merging Related Information from 2 Tables

2009-10-29 Thread Martin McCormick
state.zone >ATXT.txt The line break here is for Email consideration. The above command should all be on one line. Thanks for any suggestions. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications S

Re: Merging Related Information from 2 Tables

2009-10-29 Thread Martin McCormick
orth,009,192.168.2.123" We will actually run that output through sed to convert the "'s to blanks and also the ,'s to blanks but that is trivial. Thanks for the examples. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

sed -f Script Syntax

2009-12-16 Thread Martin McCormick
d the man page and it says that this is possible, but I never quite understood how to apply the commands to an executable sed script file. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services

Re: sed -f Script Syntax

2009-12-16 Thread Martin McCormick
or directory That date command wants the string in a file to produce similar results. ping -o under freebsd is incredibly useful when you want to know when an interface comes up. Under Linux and earlier versions of FreeBSD, it does nothing but tell you it didn't understand -o. Aga

Re: sed -f Script Syntax

2009-12-17 Thread Martin McCormick
My main problem turned out to be that I had -E and -e confused. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Upgrading Standing Systems from 6.3 to 8.0

2010-01-08 Thread Martin McCormick
r business. Thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

vt100 Strangeness

2010-01-08 Thread Martin McCormick
It's just if you move the cursor over them that you don't hear the digits. Thanks for any ideas. This is a strange one, I admit. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications

Re: Upgrading Standing Systems from 6.3 to 8.0

2010-01-08 Thread Martin McCormick
Bryant Eadon writes: > Have you tried a test system with this configuration, then upgraded it to > 7.x followed by the jump to 8.0? Run this for a week in advance and see That sounds like an excellent idea. I was afraid I might have to increment through all the 6.x branches which would t

Re: Upgrading Standing Systems from 6.3 to 8.0

2010-01-09 Thread Martin McCormick
are Dell 2950's, but I didn't get anywhere at all with that campaign. The 2950's have been no trouble to speak of but it makes times like this so much more risky. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: Upgrading Standing Systems from 6.3 to 8.0

2010-01-10 Thread Martin McCormick
the remote staff is not asked to do as much. Thanks for helping me think through a solution. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

64-bit or 32-bit bind and DHCP

2010-01-11 Thread Martin McCormick
? Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Trying to build 8.0 Headless Installation Disk

2010-01-13 Thread Martin McCormick
ar application does not get confused. In 6.3, there were a couple of files that caused an "out of order" error but the 8.0 CD produced no errors at all. Thank you for your help. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Techn

/var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot

2008-03-20 Thread Martin McCormick
ng fails to start, it's one of those SURPRISE!'s we'd all rather not have when in a hurry to get key systems back running again. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot

2008-03-20 Thread Martin McCormick
ing I can change. I seem to have unwittingly got some systems set up right and others set up to chown root:wheel /var/named. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot

2008-03-21 Thread Martin McCormick
was confused and thought this would all help me keep ownership of /var/named belonging to bind when, in fact, it does just the opposite. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group Chuck Swiger writes: >/var/named is own

Sudo Commands on New 6.2 System Cause Last Login Message.

2008-04-03 Thread Martin McCormick
ng obvious? Thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: Sudo Commands on New 6.2 System Cause Last Login Message.

2008-04-03 Thread Martin McCormick
11 Interestingly, the system I am on right this minute is the same version and does not exhibit this behavior. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Any Known Issues when using both RS-232 and Native Serial Ports?

2008-04-22 Thread Martin McCormick
anybody think of any particular problem one might encounter if both the data acquisition ports happened to be trying to receive data simultaneously? The serial console port is not really an issue because it will be rarely ever used. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK

Re: Any Known Issues when using both RS-232 and Native Serial Ports?

2008-04-22 Thread Martin McCormick
on ports happened to >be trying to receive data simultaneously? > > The serial console port is not really an issue because >it will be rarely ever used. > > Thank you. > >Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK >Systems Engineer >OSU Info

Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Martin McCormick
base on our campus, however, so for now, I need to export some log files to the Windows world. Thanks for any useful ideas and for your patience. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Martin McCormick
seems that /usr/ports/net/samba3 gives one a whole boatload of possibilities. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Removal Attempt of Directory under ZFS causes Kernel Panic

2012-02-10 Thread Martin McCormick
ve used and I am not real wild about trying it again if we can't solve this mystery. We can't seem to duplicate the problem. Any ideas are appreciated. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Depa

Re: Removal Attempt of Directory under ZFS causes Kernel Panic

2012-02-10 Thread Martin McCormick
trace so hopefully somebody can give us an idea as to how this happened. Thank you again. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Reading an unknown DAT Tape

2012-03-15 Thread Martin McCormick
created the original archive? Thank you. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Freebsd9.0 and the fgets directive in gcc

2012-03-21 Thread Martin McCormick
I've got some code which I wrote about 6 or 8 years ago that apparently doesn't get along right now with FreeBSD9.0. In the problem code, there is a loop that uses fgets to read a line from a file. It runs properly until the 2708TH iteration and then it dumps core with a segmentation fault. char s

Re: Freebsd9.0 and the fgets directive in gcc

2012-03-21 Thread Martin McCormick
variables based on the contents of the lines. It is something that worked okay up to FreeBSD8.X but now causes a segmentation fault. Martin McCormick writes: > I've got some code which I wrote about 6 or 8 years ago that > apparently doesn't get along right now with FreeBSD9.0. In th

Remote System Builds

2012-03-26 Thread Martin McCormick
using tar which has worked in the past to let one modify loader.conf but I got a bunch of errors this time about files that couldn't be created so maybe this is not the recommended headless installation technique any longer. Any ideas? Thank you very much Martin M

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Martin McCormick
o support one of the Linux screen readers, we're talking about a talking terminal for less than 100 US Dollars. We'll just have to see what happens. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Tel

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-27 Thread Martin McCormick
Polytropon writes: > That's correct. However, unlike a Braille readout which > gives tactile information (through the reader's hands), > synthetic voice cannot easily accomodate to the reader's > habits and reading speed. "Scanning text" is not possible > as the generated voiced text is played in "

Stopping Less from creating Log Files

2011-04-11 Thread Martin McCormick
This is a minor problem but I use "more" to read Email messages from nmh. If one forgets what screen one is in, it is possible to start typing and create a log file of the message in which ever mailbox directory one is reading out of. The man page for more is actually linked to less even t

Re: Stopping Less from creating Log Files

2011-04-12 Thread Martin McCormick
Lowell Gilbert writes: > The "secure" mode disables log files, but it also changes several other > behaviours, so you may not find it to be an improvement. The code > supports changing those "secure" features separately, but only by > editing the source; if you go that way, it will probably be muc

How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-20 Thread Martin McCormick
still preserve present smtp functionality? Many thanks. What a mess needing to send one message to one person is turning in to. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services

Re: How to be an imap Client? Solved, somewhat

2011-04-20 Thread Martin McCormick
Ruben de Groot writes: > There is the Mail::IMAPClient perl module (or Net::IMAP::Simple, > perl's about choice ;-) ) Many thanks as this may come up again. In actuality, I was able to end up using simple SMPT mail to use our Exchange gateway. I just set that gateway as a smarthost which I thought

Modifying Sendmail's Configuration the Correct way.

2011-04-20 Thread Martin McCormick
The /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file very clearly tells one not to edit it directly so I edited the /etc/mail/my.name.domain.mc file as stated in documentation to cause this system to send all out-bound mail through a "smart host." The .mc file part that adds the smart host looks like:

Re: Modifying Sendmail's Configuration the Correct way.

2011-04-20 Thread Martin McCormick
Thanks to all. Somehow, I missed the make install. I will give it another try and it will probably work as it should. This is a great list and everybody is very nice even to those of us who have been running FreeBSD for many years but are trying new things. Greg Larkin writes: > Try these command

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-21 Thread Martin McCormick
per...@pluto.rain.com writes: > Being a university, okstate.edu has students, most of whom are > not in the CIS department or in any way under control of the CIS > department's sysadmin. Need I say more? Spot on. About 25,000 students and some of them respond to phishing attempts and make other p

Second Network Almost but Not Quite Works.

2011-06-17 Thread Martin McCormick
The system in question has its primary NIC on one particular network and a default route to the gateway on that network and all of that works fine. I needed the system to communicate fully on two different networks so we enabled the second interface card and it works on that second subnet.

Second Network Almost but Not Quite Works.

2011-06-17 Thread Martin McCormick
The system in question has its primary NIC on one particular network and a default route to the gateway on that network and all of that works fine. I needed the system to communicate fully on two different networks so we enabled the second interface card and it works on that second subnet.

Two Networks on one System

2011-06-20 Thread Martin McCormick
Following up on a question I wrote Friday June 17, a person from this list kindly referred me to the FreeBSD Handbook and the sections on configuring Ethernet interfaces. It has an excellent example as to how to set the default gateway from the command line. I tried it and it worked. Can a

Re: Two Networks on one System

2011-06-20 Thread Martin McCormick
Matthew Seaman writes: > Yes. It's common in the sense that a lot of people think its something > that should work, and get confused when it doesn't prove simple to set up. Thank you. I think I may have stumbled on to what I need to do discussed in the Handbook under the multi-homed host

Re: Two Networks on one System

2011-06-20 Thread Martin McCormick
I would like to say that I got it working, but after looking at the duel-homed host section of the Handbook, I am still stuck. A Google search turned up a thread from a couple of years ago that almost echoed my exact words. We've got a system with network interfaces on two disjointed networ

Re: Two Networks on one System

2011-06-21 Thread Martin McCormick
ng so the more one is aware of, the less head-scratching and frustration there is. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Two Networks on one System

2011-06-21 Thread Martin McCormick
Damien Fleuriot writes: > SOLUTION: > You need a way to reply using a specific route depending on which IP was > requested by the internet user at 50.50.50.50 > > If they queried 100.100.100.53, you need to route through 100.100.100.1. > If they queried 200.200.200.53, you need to route through 20

Rsync and Preservation of Ownership and Permissions

2011-11-23 Thread Martin McCormick
Rsync is a great utility, but is there a way to preserve ownership and permissions if rsync remotely logs in to a backup server as a normal user? The recovery process is run by root but copies all the files from the backup server as a normal user and uses its root capabilities to r

Re: Rsync and Preservation of Ownership and Permissions

2011-11-24 Thread Martin McCormick
Michael Sierchio writes: > Does the same user exist on the remote system, with the same uid, etc.? Yes. > If you're using rsync with ssh as the transport, and connecting to the > remote machine as the backups user, that's who will own the files on > its local filesystem... I thought rsync had so

Sample getaddrinfo Code Compiles in Linux but not FreeBSD.

2012-01-18 Thread Martin McCormick
Here is a sample program kindly provided in the Beej's Guide to Network Programming Using Internet Sockets Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall The code is said to be in the public domain so it is posted here as it compiles and runs perfectly under Linux but fails

Re: Sample getaddrinfo Code Compiles in Linux but not FreeBSD.

2012-01-18 Thread Martin McCormick
Peter Andreev writes: > #include Many thanks. That made the FreeBSD version work just as well. As soon as I saw netinet.h, I realized it wasn't in the original code as the Linux libraries apparently accomplish the same thing without that header. Martin

freebsd-update; What did I do?

2012-01-31 Thread Martin McCormick
I started to run freebsd-update to upgrade a 8.x system to 9.0-RELEASE # freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspectin

Re: freebsd-update; What did I do?

2012-01-31 Thread Martin McCormick
Matthew Seaman writes: > That's a known problem and fixable by first updating your 8.2-RELEASE > machine to the latest patch level before trying the update to 9.0 It appears to be working now. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Revisiting Traceroute Through ipfw FreeBSD9.x

2013-03-07 Thread Martin McCormick
r only get *traceroute: sendto: Permission denied traceroute: wrote 192.168.1.125 52 chars, ret=-1 I also did try: sysctl net.inet.udp.blackhole=0 then 1 and even 2 with no change. What else should I look at? The firewall rules are otherwise working as they should. Thank yo

Procmail Decoding Mime Messages

2013-04-24 Thread Martin McCormick
mimencode so it occurred to me that some other application might exist which is in the ports that does basically the same thing. Is there anything which will take a raw email message and spit out linear strings which can be processed like normal text? Thank you. Martin McCormick

Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

2006-01-12 Thread Martin McCormick
as to what I can test next? Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

2006-01-12 Thread Martin McCormick
Greg Barniskis writes: >If I'm right, you'll see that something happens, in at least the >target IP address is ARPed for and you should see the target's MAC >in the arp table on the known good system, even if the pings never >return. That should at least give you confidence that the NIC in >que

Re: Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

2006-01-12 Thread Martin McCormick
nored. Thanks to all. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

2006-01-12 Thread Martin McCormick
sed when it didn't like that either. If I replace rc.firewall with firewall_rules.ns, then only those rules get added which is why the tcp/ip stack appeared dead. What do I need to put in /etc/rc.firewall so it just includes /etc/firewall_rules.ns like the #include directive u

Re: Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

2006-01-12 Thread Martin McCormick
Greg Barniskis writes: >This section of rc.firewall refers to valid values you can place in >rc.conf for firewall_type. In rc.conf you can name any of the types >defined in rc.firewall /or/ you can specify a file of your own >(instead of rc.firewall). I don't think you can invoke rc.firewall >/

Rescuing the Ethernet Interface after SCB Timeout

2006-01-16 Thread Martin McCormick
can since these things always happen on holidays or weekends or at 03:00 in the morning. This system doesn't die that often, but it is often enough to take measures to prevent it from needing our laying on of hands at odd hours. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwate

Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

2006-02-09 Thread Martin McCormick
d think it should have finished by now, but it is still running. Is this a valid method of copying the entire contents of one drive to another? Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operat

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

2006-02-09 Thread Martin McCormick
I thought I was limited to only the block size of the disks. I am now trying a much larger block size as suggested and will see what happens. Many thanks. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

2006-02-10 Thread Martin McCormick
Paul Schmehl quotes and then writes: >> Copying with dd(1) is not as fast :) > >Have you tried dcfldd? sysutils/dcfldd Thank you. I hadn't thought of that. This is what I appreciate about groups like this. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Enginee

1,000 Days Up Time Freebsd4.7

2006-03-14 Thread Martin McCormick
er popular OS's that can't even dream of that much uptime. Thanks for any useful information. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions

ISO Image for FreeBSD5.4 that is Current

2006-04-02 Thread Martin McCormick
The FreeBSD site has an installation ISO image for FreeBSD5.4 but it is dated last May. There have been several core security updates since then. should I be looking in a different place to find a stable 5.x ISO image that is current? Thank you very much. Martin McCormick

Re: ISO Image for FreeBSD5.4 that is Current

2006-04-03 Thread Martin McCormick
Lowell Gilbert writes: >http://www.freebsd.org/releases/snapshots.html Thank you. That's what I needed to know. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

Sendmail for Large Sites

2004-06-18 Thread Martin McCormick
tomer mail delivery preferences and even their user ID choice. To use an American vernacular, it is a tall order. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ [EMAIL

Re: Sendmail for Large Sites

2004-06-18 Thread Martin McCormick
couple of hundred messages a day on one work station is no indicator of how the same MTA might work when hundreds of thousands of messages and bounces are roaring around the mail server every day. Again, thank you all. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division

UNIX-Based VPN Applications

2005-01-12 Thread Martin McCormick
presence on our network. Thank you very much. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Best Practice for Allowing non-root Users Access to Serial Port?

2005-04-01 Thread Martin McCormick
re, I want the users to be able to use C-kermit to talk to a remote device without them having to be root. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Best Practice for Allowing non-root Users Access to Serial Port?

2005-04-01 Thread Martin McCormick
My thanks to all who have responded with this and similar recommendations: Roland Smith writes: >Making kermit users members of a group, and have that group own >/dev/cuaa* with read/write privileges seems like a good idea. > >For instance, create a group "kermit" with 'pw groupadd kermit'

Re: Best Practice for Allowing non-root Users Access to Serial Port?

2005-04-01 Thread Martin McCormick
4.11 are owned by uucp but are in a group called dialer and have a mode of 660 already set meaning I don't have to do anything but put those who would use them in the dialer group. Problem solved! Again, thanks to everyone who responded. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OS

Bourn Shell Scripts that Produce Multiple Files

2005-04-05 Thread Martin McCormick
should be a way to make it all happen from one script. Thank you for any suggestions. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: Bourn Shell Scripts that Produce Multiple Files

2005-04-06 Thread Martin McCormick
mptied so the file is left either empty or partially filled depending upon luck and how much data got written to the disk before the abnormal end. My short-term problem is solved so thanks again, but it appears that even opening new files without appending them confuses the shell o

/dev/ttyd0 as an Input Device Works on some Systems but not others.

2005-02-03 Thread Martin McCormick
ame way every time? The dmesg output describing the serial ports from one of the 2-port systems reads as follows: sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A Any suggestions are appreciated. Martin

/dev/ttyd0 as an Input Device Works on some Systems but not others.

2005-02-03 Thread Martin McCormick
The newer platforms with at least two serial ports need cuaaN if there is to be no hardware flow-control. ttydN calls just hang forever and may or may not unblock if they see DSR from the other system. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Is this a Race Condition?

2004-01-23 Thread Martin McCormick
rm command. The messages are purely random as to the file name and directory. Thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.

Re: Is this a Race Condition?

2004-01-23 Thread Martin McCormick
Thank you. Daniela writes: >Yes, that's most likely the cause. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Open Files

2003-09-24 Thread Martin McCormick
Is there any utility similar to ofiles in FreeBSD that can tell you who has what files open? Thank you. Martin McCormick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Piping Syslogd Output to a Program

2003-10-13 Thread Martin McCormick
t operator that will do X if it sees Y happening. Thanks for any answers or references that can point us in this direction. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Piping Syslogd Output to a Program

2003-10-13 Thread Martin McCormick
Thank you. I forgot to check that man page. Jimmy Olgeni writes: >Just check the syslog.conf man page and look for the pipe :) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send an

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