Setting Sendmail to Refuse Possibly Forged Headers

2004-04-15 Thread Martin McCormick
y documentation that describes how to safely refuse forged Email without either turning on more relaying or creating any other insidious situation that might not be obvious. Martin McCormick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: Setting Sendmail to Refuse Possibly Forged Headers

2004-04-15 Thread Martin McCormick
Many thanks. I should probably buy a Sendmail book, but it hardly ever needs any attention. It just quietly works. Martin Dan Nelson writes: >Take a look at the milter-sender port, which checks the sender's email >address and verifies that an smtp server is listening. __

Milter-sender Error Message

2004-04-17 Thread Martin McCormick
/var/lib/milter-sender/socket unsafe There is no /var/lib directory, but when I create one, nothing changes so it is presently not there. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations

Virtual Interfaces and Subnet Masks

2005-06-23 Thread Martin McCormick
s for now. The network mask is 255.255.252.0. Is there any way to have more than one interface on the same subnet with that same subnet mask? Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations

Re: Virtual Interfaces and Subnet Masks

2005-06-24 Thread Martin McCormick
While not laughing at what happened too hard, can you think of how I ended up with the bad mask that wouldn't go away? Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group __

Dell PowerEdge1850 Won't Take a Freebsd4.11 Installation.

2005-08-02 Thread Martin McCormick
. The CDROM drive works well enough to boot and the boot process looks right until I try to extract the distributions such as /bin, etc. Are there any other things to investigate before saying that 4.11 and Dell 1850's don't get along? Thanks for any ideas. Martin McCorm

Re: Dell PowerEdge1850 Won't Take a Freebsd4.11 Installation.

2005-08-03 Thread Martin McCormick
ost of us are in this business because we love to tinker, but sometimes there is a job to be done and the faster it gets done, the better. Thanks again. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___

5.4 Headless Installation from FreeBSD Disk 1?

2005-08-04 Thread Martin McCormick
e backup, only until I can get something working again. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: installing kernel fails, make is ok

2005-08-04 Thread Martin McCormick
You might first try making a generic kernel with no customization and see if that works. If it does, you might be accidentally leaving out support for something vital like disk drives or something else equally vital causing the kernel to not get along far enough to produce error messages.

Re: Dell PowerEdge1850 Won't Take a Freebsd4.11 Installation.

2005-08-04 Thread Martin McCormick
gh to blow away the special partition and then everything works like normal. Thanks to those who had helpful suggestions. It turned out not to be FreeBSD's fault at all. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network O

UNIX System Certification Programs

2005-10-21 Thread Martin McCormick
cribe what I do. Please tell me any thoughts you might have. Stating that I've been messing around with UNIX systems for about 14 years probably won't get me very far.:-) Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Divisio

Regular Expression Trouble

2005-12-09 Thread Martin McCormick
file so that is not too useful either. Putting double quotes around the RE didn't help either. It seems to match almost everything. Thanks for any good ideas. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Department Network Ope

Re: Regular Expression Trouble

2005-12-12 Thread Martin McCormick
t after looking at all the other examples, they should work also giving living proof that in UNIX, there are many perfectly valid ways to solve the same problem. Again, many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Dep

Expect-5.32.1 and Hangups when Spawning a Shell

2005-12-14 Thread Martin McCormick
sleep .1 exp_send -s -- $arg } } spawn $env(SHELL) match_max 10 expect -exact "bash-2.05b# " When it fails, the prompt never appears. Any ideas as to why this occasionally happens or whether my slow-down of the "typed" output

Re: Expect-5.32.1 and Hangups when Spawning a Shell

2005-12-15 Thread Martin McCormick
ailure of a hard drive on our master DNS last Summer means that it has version 4.11 and the rest need to catch up or go to version 5.x or 6.x. Many thanks. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Defining Make Variables from the Command Line

2004-08-18 Thread Martin McCormick
done, but I don't remember the exact syntax. Sometimes, if you get those wrong, make still works but you get the build you didn't want. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group __

Re: Defining Make Variables from the Command Line

2004-08-18 Thread Martin McCormick
Thank you. that is what I needed. Martin McCormick "Emil A Eklund" writes: >Use the -D switch, for instance >make -DWITHOUT_X11 install clean ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Not Sure Which Package has mssql_connect.

2010-09-29 Thread Martin McCormick
hp5 to get the php interpreter so it is possible that I have the wrong php and another php has the mysql_connect routine so at this time, I am all ears. Thanks for any suggestions. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: Not Sure Which Package has mssql_connect.

2010-09-29 Thread Martin McCormick
Glen Barber writes: >Are you sure mssql_connect() isn't a typo? The rest of your email >states mysql_connect(). Wow! I've been doing too much of this this week. It's actually the other way around. The problem is with mssql_connect and my references to mysql were based on a bit of confusio

Re: Not Sure Which Package has mssql_connect.

2010-09-29 Thread Martin McCormick
Greg Larkin writes: > You referred to C code at the top of your message, That was actually incidental. I was thinking about what had happened when I transplanted some home-grown C code in to 8.1 and had to clean up some of my lazy habits to make it work again. So far, nothing I haven't been able t

pkg_config Version Numbers

2010-09-29 Thread Martin McCormick
' requires 'pkg-config-0.23_1', but 'pkg-config-0.25' is installed This looks like it could be harmless enough as pkg-config-0.25 is newer but I thought I would ask before creating any more possible monsters. Is this something to fix or can I forget it? Tha

64-bit PGP isn't Decrypting.

2010-10-04 Thread Martin McCormick
#x27;ts seem to be read anywhere.:-) Has anybody else had the same problem on a 64-bit version of pgp? I am glad I discovered this before anything crytical happened. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: 64-bit PGP isn't Decrypting.

2010-10-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Dan Nelson writes: > Does gnupg (ports/security/gnupg) work? I think you'll have a hard time > trying to get people to fix bugs in pgp; the source tree that the pgp port > uses is 14 years old. Wow! I thought that was just the first copywrite date. gnugp installs gpg-2 which is almost the right

How FreeBSD Handles a DNS that is Down

2010-10-21 Thread Martin McCormick
condition often and when we do, it's hopefully for very short periods, but the disruption is total. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group ___ freebsd-ques

FreeBSD8.1 Can't get Syslog file to Log dhcpd

2010-10-27 Thread Martin McCormick
r any suggestions. 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-questio

FreeBSD8.1 Can't get Syslog file to Log dhcpd Solved.

2010-10-29 Thread Martin McCormick
x27;s that one stray space before the first asterisk. I removed it and everything started working. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Can one Download Old Packages?

2011-01-10 Thread Martin McCormick
Is there a safe site to find the rsync package for FreeBSD6.3? We still have a few 6.3 systems around because the commercial backup client we have for an enterprise-wide solution will not install on FreeBSD8.1? This is one of those times when we are fighting the war with what we pr

Re: Can one Download Old Packages?

2011-01-10 Thread Martin McCormick
"Devin Teske" writes: > ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/6.3-RELE > ASE/packages/All > > Have fun. Thanks. I was on the right server but took a wrong turn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Using Multiple -prune directives in a find command

2011-02-07 Thread Martin McCormick
Can one use the -prune directive multiple times in a find command to specify a list of directories not to descend? It would be like find . -name "*" -prune dir1 -prune dir2 -print or whatever you wanted find to do, but that does not work or I wouldn't be asking. Find appears to g

Re: Using Multiple -prune directives in a find command

2011-02-08 Thread Martin McCormick
. I found tons of find examples but very little use of -prune in those examples. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ques

Building a Headless FreeBSD Virtual System

2012-08-29 Thread Martin McCormick
s and several BTU of heat output which is in the realm of 15 years old and will probably retire itself at some random date in the future. Thank you for any good suggestions. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications

Virtual FreeBSD9.0 ISO Image Won't Mount Root FS

2012-09-05 Thread Martin McCormick
The ISO image is the FreeBSD9.0 bootonly CDROM for amd64 systems. I added loader.conf to /boot in order to activate a serial console and this along with socat appears to be working as it should. This is great because remote desktop is not an option. The VM boot starts normally with

Is there anything like strace for 64-bit Systems?

2012-09-08 Thread Martin McCormick
Is there anything like strace for AMD64 FreeBSD? Thank you. ___ 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"

Is there anything like strace for 64-bit Systems?

2012-09-08 Thread Martin McCormick
Is there anything like strace for AMD64 FreeBSD? Thank you. ___ 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: Is there anything like strace for 64-bit Systems?

2012-09-08 Thread Martin McCormick
Bruce Cran writes I should try truss. I would just quote the text, but I need to first find out what is broken in the reply sequence and truss may point out what is failing. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

mhonarc 64-bit Package for mhonarc6.18 is stale.

2012-09-10 Thread Martin McCormick
; I may be the only one in the world who is still using nmh, but it is useful when you want scripts to send mail, etc. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

bash Shell Scripting Question

2012-09-19 Thread Martin McCormick
thought the < redirection would pickup the standard output. Thanks for ideas. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd

Re: bash Shell Scripting Question

2012-09-20 Thread Martin McCormick
Many thanks! The for loop was what was needed. Polytropon writes: > Just a sidenote: If you're not using bash-specific functionality > and intend to make your script portable, use #!/bin/sh instead. I always start out that way for that very reason. I needed some random number functions and arithm

mfs8.0 scripts have me baffled when adding Files.

2012-10-10 Thread Martin McCormick
-f ${WRKDIR}/mfs/usr/bin/$$x; \ done @${TOUCH} ${WRKDIR}/.prune_done @echo " done" packages: install prune ${WRKDIR}/.packages_done ${WRKDIR}/.packages_done: @if [ -d "${PACKAGESDIR}" ]; then \ echo -n "Copying user packages ..."; \

Safe Way to Tell if Process is Running

2012-12-04 Thread Martin McCormick
ng it? None of the documentation on kill (1) shows a signal 0 nor does kill -l. Something tells me this is a bad idea these days, but I still need an easy way to see if XYZ process is still alive. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Inform

Re: Safe Way to Tell if Process is Running

2012-12-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Robert Bonomi writes: > 'man 2 kill' tells all. I believe that is the first or second time I have used Section 2. I appreciate the reminder. It looks like ps -p ### >/dev/null appears to do what I need without producing output ps -p 54321 >/dev/null && date ran the date command if there

Re: Safe Way to Tell if Process is Running

2012-12-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Robert Bonomi writes: > 'man 2 kill' tells all. I believe that is the first or second time I have used Section 2. I appreciate the reminder. It looks like ps -p ### >/dev/null appears to do what I need without producing output ps -p 54321 >/dev/null && date ran the date command if there

Setuid binaries and File Ownerships in FreeBSD9.0

2013-01-23 Thread Martin McCormick
The executable in question is a C program whos file permissions are 4755 and the file belongs to root so all files it opens are also owned by root and that works properly, but what I need is for this application to first open a few files owned by the caller and then later, upgrade back to r

Re: Setuid binaries and File Ownerships in FreeBSD9.0

2013-01-23 Thread Martin McCormick
jb writes: > Get familiar with this document: > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/setuid-usenix02.pdf > > Then verify its validity on your target and current OS. Thank you. I had read the man page several times and like most man pages, it is a summary and one can miss some of the finer point

Safe Use of cvsup

2002-10-08 Thread Martin McCormick
the mishap? I am building a new FreeBSD system from a CDROM that is a bit out of date so I need to upgrade it after installation. The only thing I was thinking of was that there might be links or something else not obvious that would make the restored /usr/src useless. Martin

Re: Safe Use of cvsup

2002-10-08 Thread Martin McCormick
My thanks to the person who informed me that running cvsup with the correct tag would repair the damage. Martin McCormick To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

ISO CDROM Image for Freebsd4.7

2002-10-09 Thread Martin McCormick
for a new CDROM since most of the changes are meant to keep the spooks out of our new systems. I did see a cdrom.inf link on the ftp mirror I was on, but it simply had a one-line ID for what the disk should be. Is there an ISO image for 4.7 yet? Where do I get it? Thanks. M

Serial Data Acquisition Mystery Solved.

2002-10-23 Thread Martin McCormick
or return data, only a 9600-baud stream from a piece of communications equipment to the serial port. Martin McCormick 405 744-7572 Stillwater, OK OSU Center for Computing and Information services Network Operations Group To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freeb

Serial Data Acquisition Problem

2002-10-22 Thread Martin McCormick
s case, the data are human-readable text with newlines and all. I did get this same algorithm to work on a Linux system. Thanks for any constructive ideas. Martin McCormick 405 744-7572 Stillwater, OK OSU Center for Computing and Information services Network Operations Group To Unsub

Writing CD's using UDF File System

2002-10-25 Thread Martin McCormick
file in the directory called cdroot, did the UDF burn, removed that file and replaced it with another one of different name, did another UDF burn and then fixated it. If it was a CDR, it probably would be a coaster now.:-) Martin McCormick To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Using a sysinstall Script File

2002-11-18 Thread Martin McCormick
e settings each time one runs a script to automate some of the building and or upgrading process? Martin McCormick To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Setting Host Parameters with /stand/sysinstall Scripts

2002-11-19 Thread Martin McCormick
de is successful and the appropriate directories seem to indicate that this is true. If I look at /etc/rc.conf, however, it is still in the state it was in before I ran the upgrade. Martin McCormick To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in

How to Start the Random Number Generator

2002-11-21 Thread Martin McCormick
ssing some step. /dev/random does exist on the systems in question and seems to return a null which is not what it is supposed to be doing. What else should I look at? Thank you. Martin McCormick To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd

/dev/random

2002-11-21 Thread Martin McCormick
I am the one who asked the question about /dev/random earlier today. I don't know if answers are appropriate on this list, but here is what I found out: The /dev/random device was working but exceedingly slowly because I was using the wrong IRQ's. That was partly due to the fact

Are There any Free Tools to do Remote SQL Queries?

2002-12-17 Thread Martin McCormick
based upon the information. That, I can handle. The problem is in figuring out the best way to access the MS server from here. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Are There any Free Tools to do Remote SQL Queries?

2002-12-18 Thread Martin McCormick
My sincerest thanks to everyone who responded to my question. All of you sent a wide range of good suggestions of which we went the PHP route although one never knows when this will arise again so I will keep all the answers on file. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

Hot-Swapable Drives and FreeBSD

2003-03-10 Thread Martin McCormick
system continued to work properly as expected, but it only knew about /dev/da0. As soon as I rebooted, it then knew about both drives. I wanted to add a new drive to a running system and keep the reboots down to a minimum. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU

Mounting a Bootable FreeBSD disk

2003-03-11 Thread Martin McCormick
tried to mount a DOS-formatted floppy disk or a CDROM before I read about the special forms of mount that exist in FreeBSD. Many thanks to all of you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group To Unsubscribe: send mail to [E

Re: Mounting a Bootable FreeBSD disk

2003-03-11 Thread Martin McCormick
urns out that I did something just plain stupid. Thanks for your patience. Martin McCormick To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/libexec/save-entropy

2006-09-22 Thread Martin McCormick
thing. What do I need to look at to fix this properly? Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group --- Forwarded Message Date:Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:55:00 CDT From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/libexec/save-entropy

2006-09-22 Thread Martin McCormick
Martin McCormick writes: > I must have dome something wrong setting up a FreeBSD5.4 > system, but I haven't a clue as to what. This is still Martin McCormick. I haven't found exactly what I did yet, but I remembered that I do have a second 5.4 box and it appears

A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation

2006-10-06 Thread Martin McCormick
ng that contains the data we need. Are there any FreeBSD libraries we can use to help the process along? I am sure this notation has a name, but not knowing it, makes searching for information about it rather difficult. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK

Re: A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation

2006-10-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Chuck Swiger writes: > On Oct 6, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Does anybody know what this notation is called? Does an > explanation of the algorithm exist in public so one can convert the > strings that are part of the call manager output in

Re: A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation Solved

2006-10-06 Thread Martin McCormick
field was populated but it silently failed on lines of real data because of blank fields. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Why csh on Root?

2006-10-19 Thread Martin McCormick
still default so I figured I would ask before changing it so as not to introduce hidden problems later. Basically, I like bash better and also add a couple more paths such as /usr/local/etc for home-grown applications. Thanks for your thoughts. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Sy

Re: Why csh on Root?

2006-10-19 Thread Martin McCormick
nvironmental variables that should inhibit the beep so I am kind of stumped. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Why csh on Root?

2006-10-19 Thread Martin McCormick
Alex Zbyslaw writes: > set prompt="hello%{^G%}there " > > where ^G is a single control char, not two chars. Thanks. It works perfectly. I am reading the man for tcsh again to attempt to figure out what I missed the first time. ___ freebsd-ques

Leapseconds and zoneinfo

2006-10-26 Thread Martin McCormick
ct for both UtC and local. So, for some reason, about 5 FreeBSD systems work properly without the leapseconds data base and one needed it. Why? It would stand to reason that all the systems need the leapseconds since that agrees with the rules for calculating correct time. Than

Trouble-shooting Cron Problems FreeBSD5.4

2006-10-31 Thread Martin McCormick
ystems' crons are showing the same environments if I make them run the env command. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: Trouble-shooting Cron Problems FreeBSD5.4

2006-10-31 Thread Martin McCormick
w I figured it might need to go in the operator account, but that's where it wound up. I am sure that solves the problem. I'll know in 15 minutes when the next newsyslog command fires and I don't get the squawk.:-) Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Syst

Please Help with Confusion about ipfw rules.

2007-07-26 Thread Martin McCormick
rt 53 access. Thanks for your help. 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/fr

Re: awk question

2007-07-26 Thread Martin McCormick
Don Hinton writes: > On Thursday 26 July 2007 15:26:02 Peter Boosten wrote: > > P.U.Kruppa wrote: > > > > awk '{print $(NF-1)}' user.csv Yup, those blank lines will kill it for sure. A sed filter to remove blank lines ahead of the awk statement should all

Please Help with Confusion about ipfw rules. Solved.

2007-07-27 Thread Martin McCormick
"fbsd2" writes: > I use the sample ipfw rules with keep state as shown in the handbook they do work fine. They just aren't meant for the kind of load they were under. I needed to know how to get the same functionality by other means. If you use the keep-state directive, high traffic can b

Re: awk question

2007-07-27 Thread Martin McCormick
"n j" writes: > Or awk only i.e. no sed: > > awk '!(/^$/) { print $(NF-1) }' user.csv That's right. I originally suggested the sed and then was thinking about it as I walked home yesterday and knew that awk could test for the blank line condition before committing suicide.:-) Martin

Remote Execution of sudo Command Hangs.

2007-07-27 Thread Martin McCormick
We have 3 FreeBSD systems. One is trying to use ssh and sudo to run commands on two other systems. The remote command being executed is: ssh remote.system.domain sudo dhcpreset dhcpreset is an expect script most of which is shown here: spawn $env(SHELL) expect -exact "\#" send -- "date\r

Re: Remote Execution of sudo Command Hangs.

2007-07-28 Thread Martin McCormick
x27;s also. It just hadn't occurred to me before that you don't seize a tty on the remote system when you remotely run an ssh command. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group _

6.2 Headless Installs Don't Seem to Work.

2007-09-18 Thread Martin McCormick
ockup. If I have a cowworker help me and run the install off the new system's video display, all is well and we get a good FreeBSD installation. Can anybody think of a way to get the headless install to work in FreeBSD 6.2? Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stil

Re: 6.2 Headless Installs Don't Seem to Work.

2007-09-18 Thread Martin McCormick
s:/dev/md0 This is always the last message before a hard lockup at which time the party is over. If we reboot and do not do the headless install, the installation works properly. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK System

Re: 6.2 Headless Installs Don't Seem to Work.

2007-09-20 Thread Martin McCormick
ntroduced in FreeBSD6 if that helps narrow things down any. Thanks for any further suggestions. I did go ahead and enlist the aid of a coworker on this system so the immediate problem is solved, but I have been experimenting with the CD this afternoon to see if the suggestion so

Re: 6.2 Headless Installs Don't Seem to Work.

2007-09-26 Thread Martin McCormick
at one error and I wonder, A. What did I miss? B. Is there a way to work around this? As always, thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Martin McCormick
Tim Kellers writes: > Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer > Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production > environment? We recently installed Dell 2950's for DNS and DHCP server applications. They work great but some of their ho

vmware Questions

2007-02-21 Thread Martin McCormick
SD if that makes any difference. There will be no X windows involved, just hopefully 2 DHCP servers running as if they were on two separate boxes. Any information to point me in the right direction or reasons why this is not a good idea are appreciated. Thank you. M

Re: vmware Questions

2007-02-22 Thread Martin McCormick
John Nielsen, referring to running multiple DHCPD's, writes: > For what you're talking about, jails make a lot more sense than > virtualization or emulation. Thank you! That is exactly the kind of input I was looking for. As soon as I read yours and Frank Staals' mention of jails, it cl

Best anoncvs Site to Update 6.2 Sources

2007-03-01 Thread Martin McCormick
s for FreeBSD6.2, is there a better choice of sites? I got these 2 site names from the FreeBSD handbook. We have been using FreeBSD here since 2001, but I have never seriously tried cvsup until now since we are installing several new servers, all using FreeBSD6.2. Thanks. Martin McCormick W

Re: Best anoncvs Site to Update 6.2 Sources

2007-03-01 Thread Martin McCormick
Kevin Kinsey writes: > The mirrors are in the form "cvsupN.freebsd.org". I use cvsup12, cvsup13, > cvsup6 from SW Missouri (and my upstream links go through NE Oklahoma, > dunno if they are close to you or not). Probably close enough. It will probably work when I connect to the right site. > It

What cvs-supfile Directive did I Leave Out?

2007-03-03 Thread Martin McCormick
ar/db *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix src-all ---- Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations

Re: What cvs-supfile Directive did I Leave Out?

2007-03-03 Thread Martin McCormick
nd then hopefully the security patches and bug fixes via cvsup. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

DHCP Server V3.0.5 No BPF under chroot. Works normally otherwise.

2007-03-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Forums - How to chroot your existing isc-dhcpd server on freebsd Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group URL: http://screamingelectron.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-837.html ___

Sendmail on a new Freebsd6.2 Won't Send or Receive.

2007-03-14 Thread Martin McCormick
ts and messages that say that a given message is deferred due to not being able to be delivered so it appears to be stuck both directions. Any suggestions on what else to look at? Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Dep

Re: Sendmail on a new Freebsd6.2 Won't Send or Receive. Solved!

2007-03-15 Thread Martin McCormick
"Ted Mittelstaedt" writes: > sendmail_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf? Many thanks. That's exactly what I had, but after looking at it again, I also had something much worse in the startup line. This new system is a replacement for the one I am on now and the name is similar. The rc.conf.l

Trying to Upgrade Version of Tar on a 5.3 System.

2007-03-15 Thread Martin McCormick
same thing? 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

Can cvs-sup Safely Upgrade a 5.3 System to 6.2?

2007-03-28 Thread Martin McCormick
The system is on, but not in production so I would like to upgrade it before we use it. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions

Can cvs-sup Upgrade a 5.3 system to 6.2?

2007-03-28 Thread Martin McCormick
The system is up and running, but presently not in production. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

php5 and SQL Scripts

2007-04-02 Thread Martin McCormick
t has worked fine until now for all these years. Any ideas are much appreciated. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: php5 and SQL Scripts

2007-04-02 Thread Martin McCormick
tween this system and the SQL server we communicate with. Our campus had Spring Break week before last and lots of systems were upgraded and or modified. It's like trying to find that one dead Christmas tree lamp in a series string of 100 which is

Any Way to Plug This Hole in Local Sendmail Delivery?

2007-04-04 Thread Martin McCormick
#x27;t should be mechanically testable. 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/f

Spam and Viruses, Vandalism-l, the Mailing List from Hell.

2007-01-26 Thread Martin McCormick
-bogom. It is probably fine, but it duplicates bogofilter's function on a system-wide basis. Any ideas are much appreciated. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations

Re: Spam and Viruses, Vandalism-l, the Mailing List from Hell.

2007-01-27 Thread Martin McCormick
that system, but it is a rather busy workhorse for our group and is already busy enough that one notices slowdowns at times and, when we check, it is all legitimate. In this business, paranoia is a virtue. Again, thanks for your help. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OS

mysql5.1-server Refuses to Start.

2007-02-01 Thread Martin McCormick
s directory. The datadir variable which some of the posters mentioned is no longer needed. Has anybody gotten sqld_safe to work in FreeBSD? Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group _

What Happens When /proc is not Mounted in FreeBSD5.4?

2007-02-01 Thread Martin McCormick
ly was one in the first place. 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-qu

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