Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2004-12-15 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hi Robert, On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:27:40PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > I was totally confused ... until I did "ps -ax | grep named" and > found an unrequested "-t /var/named" at the end of the command line. > So what's that about? "-t" causes named to run chrooted, per entry > 20040928. That

Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2004-12-15 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, I have just upgraded a machine from 5.2.1 to 5.3, and I think I _may_ have stomped on something in /etc/mail during mergemaster. The symptom is this: mail to other machines on the LAN worked yesterday, and is broken after the upgrade. Mail to the wider Internet continues to work. I have

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2004-12-18 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:32:58AM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > I have a series of mails in the queue, failing on delivery attempts > like this: > > Dec 16 11:19:08 bert sendmail[1043]: iBF403Wb004664: > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2004-12-20 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hi Chuck, On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 03:57:58PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > That hostname gets an NXDOMAIN failure from here: Sorry, I should have been more explicit in the original: the nameserver in question is serving a private LAN in the 192.168 space. I have actually solved the problem. I i

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2004-12-22 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:54:42PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > I have actually solved the problem. I intend to post a summary for > the archive when I return to the site later in the week, at which > time I'll be able to identify the OS/nameserver combination at > fault

Re: First Time Experience-FreeBSD/i368 login:

2005-03-22 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 04:02:03PM +1100, Johaness Terra wrote: > The server, I understand is a proxy mail server running on > FreeBSD/i386. I am new and the management wants me to add a new > email account user on the server. I am really having a hard time and > would very much appreciate any sim

Re: hyper threading.

2005-03-26 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:45:21PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Where can I see the measurements? Here are some measurements. A few weeks ago I ran Unixbench 4.1.0 (/usr/ports/benchmarks/unixbench) on a P4 2.8GHz with and without hyperthreading enabled. I note a slight difference in the 10

Re: hyper threading.

2005-03-26 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 03:54:06PM -0800, John Pettitt wrote: > > Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > > >I note a slight difference in the 10 minute load average in favour > >of the uniprocessor run (0.00 vs 0.10 in the hyperthreading run), > >though I doubt this a

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2005-01-24 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
[I didn't realise Joe's question was Cc'd to the list. I replied privately days ago.] On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:28:43PM +, Joe Kraft wrote: > have you found out any more about why it's not working? I'm also > curious about the entry in mailertable because my feeble attempt > didn't work.

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2005-01-24 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:03:05PM -0500, Niy wrote: > Just a quick thought, I had a similar problem on my LAN. I set up > /etc/hosts files, and that did the trick for me. This was one of the first things I tried. It didn't work in the particular situation I described. -- Paul. w http://log

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2005-01-24 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hi, Firstly, thanks for the comprehensive reply. On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:06:32AM +0100, J65nko BSD wrote: > It could be that the MS Windows DNS server, which is derived > from/patterned after named or however you want to call it, suffers > from a similar defect. Being not familiar with the MS

Silicon Image SiI 3114 SATA RAID on ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe

2005-02-05 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, Is anyone using the Silicon Image SiI 3114 controller on an ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe motherboard? AFAICS, FreeBSD 5.3 supports the controller, but I can't seem to get the installer to see the SATA RAID 1 array that I set up using the BIOS. The only disks in the system are two identical 200G Seag

Onboard GigE on ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe

2005-02-05 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, My ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe has an onboard GigE NIC: Marvell 88E8053 PCI Express Gigabit LAN controller I have installed 5.3-RELEASE from an installation CD, and the supplied GENERIC kernel does not seem to detect it. Shouldn't the sk driver handle this NIC? Does anyone else have this motherbo

Re: Setting up own domain and mailserver

2005-02-12 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 07:52:08PM -0500, RL wrote: > 1. I have adelphia cable internet. I would like to get a dyndns or > no-ip.com account to have a static IP for my new godaddy domain. I assume both of those services are dynamic DNS providers, and I'll assume your cable provider gives you a d

Re: Setting up own domain and mailserver

2005-02-15 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:56:01PM -0800, Luke wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, RL wrote: > > >1. I have adelphia cable internet. I would like to get a dyndns or > >no-ip.com account to have a static IP for my new godaddy domain. > >Simple enough. However, I would like to also do my own DNS to > >

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-19 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 09:54:35AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2004-01-19T14:25:28Z, Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What do people here use to edit HTML documents? > > Emacs. Are you using PSGML's xml-mode? I find it's not indenting my XHTML documents too well (for example,

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-19 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:35:14AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i seriouslly cant understand how people can develop via a terminal > especially for speed and efficiency when edit, moving , selecting > etc. . I don't really find anything speedy or efficient about the 'click, drag, select, men

Re: about logo

2004-01-30 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:56:05PM -0800, Bubble Gum wrote: > I just want to ask (i'm sorry if it's a silly question),why freebsd > logo use "devil" character? It's not a devil. It's a daemon. http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html -- Paul. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Automated web page builder

2004-02-04 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 09:38:53PM -0500, JJB wrote: > I have an need to build an web page environment which could look > just like the FBSD online handbook. An document index page with > links into the big document, and each displayed page having > previous, home, and next links at both the top a

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:44:25AM -0500, matthew wrote: > > I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering. Spamassassin is > > also highly recommended for site use. I tend to dislike DNS-based > > filtering because it has a high rate of false positives, and it > > causes your users to lose legi

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:33:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering. Spamassassin is also > highly recommended for site use. I'll second both. SpamAssassin worked well for me for several years, but I recently changed from SA to bogofilter because SA ju

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:57:29AM -0500, matthew wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:44:25AM -0500, matthew wrote: > > > > > > I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering. Spamassassin is > > >

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB

2004-02-17 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:00:21AM -0500, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD 5.2 release in my PC and i need to know if > exist a port that let me use my quickcam. cqcam and gnomemeeting > don't work. what should i do? Last time I checked (over 12 months ago, admittedly) the sh

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB

2004-02-18 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 06:11:40AM -0500, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: > i expect that FreeBSD team do something about this "I think that its > a bad idea try to find the solution with Linux reverse engineering The problem is that Logitech hasn't released the details on how to communicate with the

Re: Ogg encoding

2003-09-15 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:41:52PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote: > I found a port for mp32ogg to convert mp3 to ogg format, but is > there a program to convert wav to ogg format? I like the ogg > format, but it seems to me that there will be some data loss going > from wav to mp3 and then to ogg.

GPL: implications for FreeBSD-on-hardware for sale?

2004-04-10 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, For a certain niche market, I am considering selling a software application by pre-installing it on a small machine running FreeBSD, and then selling the whole thing. Are there any implications arising from the GPL (or other more-restrictive-than-BSD licensed) code in the tree? Would it b

Re: GPL: implications for FreeBSD-on-hardware for sale?

2004-04-10 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:46:29AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > There's no problem with selling GPL'd programs for money. As the > cant goes "Free speech, not free beer". I guess I'm interpreting Section 1 too restrictively then. I took "You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferri

Re: GPL: implications for FreeBSD-on-hardware for sale?

2004-04-10 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 01:55:23AM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote: > Your own proprietary binaries you can distribute along side the GPL > and BSD code, provided you don't have GPL code within your programs. > It can all be bundled together as long as you have licensing, > copyrights and required sou

Re: GPL: implications for FreeBSD-on-hardware for sale?

2004-04-10 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:04:46AM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > We all use loose language like that, but a "software seller" should > keep in mind that usually he's really doing two things: publishing > (or at least distributing) copies of the software and licensing use > of the software. T

Re: GPL: implications for FreeBSD-on-hardware for sale?

2004-04-11 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 07:58:15AM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > "Paul A. Hoadley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Maybe some more specifics would be helpful. The application is a > > web application. It may or may not end up open source, but it > &g

Re: Some Simple Questions

2004-06-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 09:28:16PM -0700, Spuds wrote: > 1) Is FreeBSD truly free, as in I don't have to pay for it and can > download it at no charge or is FreeBSD just a name? Yes, it is truly free. You can download it at no charge. > 3) Is FreeBSD compatible with Linux software? I believe I

find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, I'm in the process of cleaning a Maildir full of spam. It has somewhere in the vicinity of 400K files in it. I started running this yesterday: find . -atime +1 -exec mv {} /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ \; It's been running for well over 12 hours. It certainly is working---the spams are slo

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 01:32:35AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > You seem to have missed the fact that operations on very large > directories (which a directory with 400K files in it certainly > qualifies as) simply are slow. Good point. I had overlooked that. > Reducing the number of processes

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:39:33AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > find . -atime +1 -print0 | xargs -0 -J % mv % /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ > > xargs defaults to taking up to 5,000 arguments from it's stdin to > generate the mv commands (or up to ARG_MAX - 4096 = 61440 bytes), so > that would h

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 08:11:54PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Where is '.' in the above `find .' command? Is it is on the same > partition as /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ ? > > You may find it much faster to do something like: > mkdir usermail.new > chown user:group usermail.new >

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:13:32PM -0500, Gary wrote: > P> I'm not sure that I can make qmail do anything else. These are spams > P> sent to non-existent addresses at my domain, being caught by > P> .qmail-default. > > Question... why do you have a .qmail-default file to begin with? If >

Re: Re[2]: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 10:27:29PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > I have to second this. You should never accept email destin for > users that don't exist, you should bounce it with a 5xx error prior > to even accepting the data portion of the SMTP transmission. I agree completely. I can't see how

Re: [OT] Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 08:01:47PM -0700, stheg olloydson wrote: > What I would do is avoid the problem in the first place by not > having a .qmail-default. Without a .qmail-default, qmail's default behaviour is to _accept_ the message and then _bounce_ it. IMHO, this is _worse_ than (a)

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hi Gary, On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 10:25:46PM -0500, Gary wrote: > Most are patches, and very good. I use Eben Pratt's goodrcptto > personally on my own server, and some that I have built for others > (gives me control for accepting mail from lists only for those lists > that do not subscribe via e

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-16 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 02:22:02PM -0700, Pat Lashley wrote: > Could you create a user to get them; and give that user a procmail > (or similar) delivery-time script to file them into subdirs based on > some arbitrary characteristic? Sounds feasible. The sheer volume has overwhelmed me, though,

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-16 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 11:56:10AM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > I don't know how committed to qmail you are, but Exim will do this > out of the box. I'm pretty sure it's part of the default config > file. With the exim+exiscan patches (available from ports) you can > get even more crea

HP ScanJet 2300c with SANE

2003-01-22 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, I have a HP ScanJet 2300c USB scanner. It's not listed as supported by the SANE hp backend. I see there's work in progress for the 2200c, but no mention anywhere of the 2300c. Just in case I've missed something glaringly obvious: does anyone on the list have a 2300c, and have you got it

System-wide virus and spam scanning with qmail-scanner

2002-10-27 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
A How-To describing the setup of system-wide virus and spam scanning of incoming email using qmail-scanner is now available here: http://logicsquad.net/freebsd/qmail-scanner-how-to.html The setup described uses qmail-scanner to filter incoming mail through Clam AntiVirus's clamscan and SpamAssass

Re: PostNuke installed on FreeBSD ?

2002-11-07 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:07:29AM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Anybody have postnuke installed on FreeBSD ? I have installed it in the past. There were no major problems as far as I can remember. > Is there a port for it ? No. -- Paul. mailto:paulh@;logicsquad.net mailto:paul.hoadley@;stud

Re: Using PPPoE

2005-04-13 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:04:14AM -0300, Alexandre Vasconcelos wrote: > default: > set log phase chat connect lcp ipcp tun command > set ifaddr 10.0.0.140/32 0.0.0.0/0 > > brtelecom: > set device PPPoE:sis0 > set authname myusername > set authkey mypassword > set dial > set login > add

Re: Using PPPoE

2005-04-13 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:28:11AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is described in detail in the FreeBSD Install book at > > http://freebsd.easyasthat.co.uk/ Do you mean here? http://freebsd.easyasthat.co.uk/05.08-PPPoE_ppp.htm The content there looks only marginally different to the Ha

Re: Using PPPoE

2005-04-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 08:40:18AM -0300, Alexandre Vasconcelos wrote: > It's working now! Commenting 'set ifaddr' line and seting > ifconfig_ppp0="DHCP", This surprises me, since you shouldn't have a ppp0 interface, and PPPoE doesn't use DHCP to supply IP addresses. > ppp_enable, ppp_mode, ppp

Sendmail masquerading breaks local mail delivery

2005-05-03 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, Because of a bizarre email topology that exists at an office I have a 5.3 machine installed at, I have recently configured sendmail to masquerade the hostname of outgoing mail to drop the machine name part. This is in bert.coremedicalsolutions.com.submit.mc: divert(-1) # Comments... diver

Re: Sendmail masquerading breaks local mail delivery

2005-05-03 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hi Charles, On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:53:55PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: > On May 3, 2005, at 10:36 PM, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > > This is in bert.coremedicalsolutions.com.submit.mc: > > I'm not convinced it's a good idea to do MASQUERADE'ing in the > subm

Re: Creating CHM files

2004-10-25 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:00:10PM +0800, h0444lp6 wrote: > I am desperately searching for a tool to create CHM Help Files. The only HTML Help compiler that I know of is Microsoft's own: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/hworiHTMLHelpStartPage.asp or

Re: Anti Virus Software

2004-03-18 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:11:59PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > also i was wondering too if there are any recommendations for a good > AV/spam combo for email running qmail & courier/imap? Have a look at this article: http://logicsquad.net/freebsd/qmail-scanner-how-to.html It was getting o

'Partial' X upgrade, now locked out of X server

2004-03-30 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, It looks like I have upgraded parts of XFree86 while installing some other ports, and I now seem unable to make even local connections to my X server. I must admit, X is something I set up years ago on this machine, and have just set and forgot---as such, I do not even have a good apprecia

Re: 'Partial' X upgrade, now locked out of X server

2004-03-31 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 05:03:09PM +0200, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > > > It looks like I have upgraded parts of XFree86 while installing some > > other ports, and I now seem unable to make even local connections to > > my X