Re: Complete lockup when using Compact Flash via ATA mode. (followup)

2002-11-13 Thread Philip Hallstrom
e. Are my assumptions correct? -philip On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > Hi - > I'm not sure I've got my terminology exactly right, but here's my > problem. I've got a small server that has a compact flash card slot > built-in so that it appears as

Re: VPN and roaming Windows 2K users

2002-11-20 Thread Philip Hallstrom
[snip] > > > I use racoon and IPSEC between offices with FreeBSD boxes on each end. > > > > Have you ever tried using vtun between the FreeBSD machines? I've never > > used racoon/IPsec between FreeBSD machines, but I was overjoyed at the > > simplicity and workability of vtun. > > Just curious i

Re: Multiple questions...

2002-11-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
> Whats an easy way to check if people are using my machine in the > backround.. IE doing an ftp? Is there something other then checking man w > OK, and the next question.. My setup is like this.. wireless in (an0) > NAT/DHCP (false addresses) out on sis0 to the house network. > > Once in a whil

Re: Multiple questions...

2002-11-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
> since when does 'w' show ftp users that are not on a tty? They dont.. I > just double checked Most people that setup a FreeBSD machine, know > all about man also.. Okay... so I was wrong... but you also said "background" not just FTP... and the man page references ps which would give it to

Re: Is there such a thing like a TCP proxy|relay?

2002-11-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=tcp%20proxy&stype=all On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Carlos Carnero wrote: > Hi, > > ok, this is another wacky question. I have connected > two subnetworks to my FreeBSD router to the internet. > By design they shouln't be able to communicate between > them--which

Re: VPN

2002-11-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
this worked for me the last time I did it. http://stuff.adhesivemedia.com/freebsd/mpd.php On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Ian Watkinson wrote: > Been looking at a number of how-to's on the web for connecting Win2k > clients to Freebsd as a VPN. > > However, despite carefully following them, I can't get any

Re: xargs -J

2002-11-26 Thread Philip Hallstrom
> At 10:10 PM -0500 11/25/02, David S. Jackson wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I've been trying to use |xargs -J [] mv [] [].suffix > >but to no avail. Not to convince you to not use xargs, but you might look at the mmv port... mmv '*' '=1.suffix' -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Virtual Private Servers/Jails

2002-12-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
> > Does anyone have any information on setting up virtual private > > servers with Freebsd? There are a lot of people doing it out there > > but I can't seem to find any documentation supporting it. > > FreeBSD doesn't offer true virtual machines. FreeBSD does come with > jails. Which can pr

RE: Another Jail Question

2002-12-04 Thread Philip Hallstrom
> > > server is a dual PII 300 with 512 megs of ram, this should be fine > > > to handle 2 jails, right ? > > > > unless you start gettinjg into high memory circumstances (ie. > > jakarta-tomcat is a major dog for memory), 2 wouldn't be a problem ... Just for comparison... I'm running four jails

Re: Bootable CDs (was Re: Interest in diskless booting?)

2002-12-09 Thread Philip Hallstrom
> > One of the students here at RPI worked on a project for the custom > > cd-rom idea. It's at > > > > http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/freebsdtogo/ > > I've spent the weekend experimenting with the various methods of making > bootable FreeBSD CDs. > > LiveCD died with an unlogged error just b

Re: SquirrelMail port problems

2003-02-13 Thread Philip Hallstrom
> > If you are having the"...You must be logged on to view this page" error, > > you might try turning "globals = on" in php.ini but otherwise what error > > do you get when you try to logon? > > > Problem was the imap-uw from ports didn't allow plain text logins > no matter what I tried. I b

Portable MP3 player integration with FreeBSD?

2003-02-13 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I'd like to get my wife a portable mp3 player, but it seems like they all require Windows and special software... and I'd rather not have a windows box just so she can copy mp3s... I noticed the urio driver, but it's only for a couple of players (not the SONICblue Rio S35S which i

Re: samba in a jail

2003-02-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Is there anything in the samba log files that might help? Turn the logging way up one day and see what happens just before it crashes... -philip On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, taxman wrote: > > Anyone successfully running samba inside of a jail on 4.7R? I'm trying te get > it to work for a friend of min

Re: MRTG and aliased IP's

2003-02-25 Thread Philip Hallstrom
You could run ipfw (firewall) on that box and setup some "count" rules that count the packets to and from individual ip addresses... then setup a script to do an "ipfw show ..." and extract the pieces of information you want. Feed that into mrtg using it's external command stuff... -philip On Tu

Re: saving port settings (Was: stupid question)

2003-02-25 Thread Philip Hallstrom
> > # e.g.: > > # MAKE_ARGS = { > > # 'databases/mysql323-*' => 'WITH_CHARSET=ujis', > > # } > > That looks like exactly what you're looking for. > > Sorry, I didn't see it... Well, this is great ;-) > It only work for portupgrade though, right ? There's no other place to save > tho

DHCP Server "learning" name servers since server itself is dhcp'd??

2003-03-07 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I'm setting up a server/gateway on a cable modem whose external interface has to use DHCP. There will be several clients on the internal network and the gateway will be running isc-dhcp. I know I can setup a nameserver on the gateway and configure DHCP to send it's own IP as the

Re: good compact flash/smart card readers?

2003-03-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:30:46AM +1100, JacobRhoden wrote: > > Im about to buy a usb cf card reader (i want to be able to write to cf > > cards) does anyone here have one they would reccomend which works well in > > FreeBSD? Search the lists for "SDDR". It's at home, but I think I have th

Re: make

2003-03-18 Thread Philip Hallstrom
> Greetings, > I have a silly question.. > what is the difference between the following commands: > > cd /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw && make && make install runs cd ... if previous command succeeded runs make if previous command succeeded runs make install > cd /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw ; make ; make i

Re: Help with scripts?

2003-03-20 Thread Philip Hallstrom
It completely depends on what shell you are using. Under tcsh you would add something like the following to your ~/.tcshrc and then relogin. alias 'on' 'mount /cdrom' it's something similar under bash, but I don't use bash so don't know. On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Earl Larsen wrote: > What I would l

Re: /kernel: file: table is full

2003-03-25 Thread Philip Hallstrom
play around with and read up on... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% pstat -T 226/14000 files 0M/1023M swap space [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% more /etc/sysctl.conf kern.maxfiles=14000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% -philip On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Worth Bishop wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 4.2, Apache Webserver, and send ~20k

Confusing problem with SSH port forwarding.

2002-07-11 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I've been tearing my hair out for an hour now trying to figure this out and I'm completely stumped. Didn't see anything in the archives which hopefully means I'm just doing somethign stupid, but I don't see it. Here's the environment: win2k_client \ server

Re: How to make FreeBSD's hard drive as reliable as possible?

2002-07-11 Thread Philip Hallstrom
. Thanks again! -philip On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > Hi - > I was wondering what steps one can take to make the hard drive as > reliable as possible on FreeBSD. By reliable I mean what can I do to > ensure that if the power gets flipped off the box will com

Re: Confusing problem with SSH port forwarding.

2002-07-11 Thread Philip Hallstrom
A followup... I can get it to work like it should (that is IE and everything else) when I tested on a friend's linux server running ssh version OpenSSH_3.1p1. So that would indicate that is is a bug in openssh, yes? Thanks! On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > Hi all - >

Re: Ask help for MPD pptp server

2002-07-15 Thread Philip Hallstrom
this worked for me. http://stuff.adhesivemedia.com/freebsd/mpd.php On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi sir. > > I had encouter problems when I set up the pptp server. I want to set up a > pptp server using mpd on freebsd and the windows 2000 client can set up the > PPTP connection

Re: CLI text editor recommendation

2006-09-13 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I need a CLI text editor I can use over ssh, which does NOT append newlines to the end of files as I save them. I am using this to edit PHP files, and my PHP doesn't like newlines outside the last ?>. ee and vi both do so, I tried nano which also does the same. I haven't installed emacs to try tha

Re: Syslog: all except?

2006-09-14 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Is it possible to tell syslog to log everything *except* some facility? I have a very noisy service (openldap) that I don't want to log into my all.log; but I still want all.log to catch everything else. Something like this maybe? *.*,!local4.* all.log *.*,local4.none all.log __

Re: Best way to "renice" a process by name?

2006-09-26 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I'm working with a machine that's operating as a NAT router and recursive DNS resolver and is also running the Squid disk cache. Squid, in turn, spawns the "diskd" daemon, which does disk accesses on behalf of Squid. When Squid spawns diskd, it gives it a priority level 6 greater than itself. In

Re: Restore OS user, help!!!

2006-09-27 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I've installed a new freeBSD server and my question is if I copy the /home/* files and /etc/passwd file, then I restart it, the server assume all the users declared into the passwd file or should I do something else? You'll also want to copy over... /etc/group /etc/master.passwd /etc/spwd.db /v

Re: sendmail won't start

2006-10-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I modified my local freebsd.mc file to add support for spamhaus. After I compilied the sendmail.cf file, sendmail won't start. What am I doing wrong here? You have this: FEATURE(dnsbl, 'sbl.spamhaus.org', 'Rejected - see http://www.spamhaus.org') You want this: FEATURE(dnsbl, `sbl.spamhaus.or

Re: Strange cron behavior

2006-10-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I'm having a hard time getting cron to run a task. I've run crontab -e (as root), and added the following line: 12 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mirror_ubuntu This script runs from teh command line. Now I've seen plenty of strange beahviour because of the limited environment cron tasks get, but a basic

Re: sshd stalling upon login

2006-10-04 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I just built some new FreeBSD servers, and I am trying to log into one of them via sshd. I am finding that the is a lag between the connection and receiving a prompt. most likely this is because the IP address I am coming from does not resolve. But I am able to log into other servers via ssh

Re: Virtual Users sharing main account

2006-10-04 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I doubt if this is possible; however, I thought I would inquire anyway. Assuming a domain name of 'company.com', we want to add a group of users who could send and receive mail using this domain name; however, we do not want to give them shell accounts. They would access the system simply to s

Re: no specifc dhcpd port found

2006-10-04 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I am unable to find the dhcpd port in /usr/ports where should I be looking? /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-server/ cheer,s Noah # find /usr/ports -name dhcp\* /usr/ports/net/dhcp-agent /usr/ports/net/dhcp6 /usr/ports/net/dhcp6/files/dhcp6relay.sh.in /usr/ports/net/dhcp6/files/dhcp6s.sh.in /us

Re: tools for network traffic accounting

2006-10-05 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I would like to configure a monthly report of the incoming and outgoing amount of traffic on the network interface of my server, for instance in the monthly run output. Can I do this with a built in program of FreeBSD 6.0 or do I need a port? If you just wanted a total count and run ipfw (or an

Re: having more than one process write to one log

2006-10-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I will appreciate your advice. Is it possible and *safe* to allow two different processes (dovecot and exim) to write to one log? Better not do it? I would like to have both data in one log but... don't want to cause problems. I don't think Windows would allow it. How about FBSD? fopen() seems

Re: musicpd & kld sound

2006-10-20 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I have an issue w/ mpd starting (trying to, anyway) before the kld for sound loads up, which causes mpd to fail loading . . then I have to start mpd at the command line. I would like to set up sound in the kernel, but I have Aureal 8810 based sound on the MB and don't see a driver to use in the

Re: musicpd & kld sound

2006-10-20 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I have an issue w/ mpd starting (trying to, anyway) before the kld for sound loads up, which causes mpd to fail loading . . then I have to start mpd at the command line. I would like to set up sound in the kernel, but I have Aureal 8810 based sound on the MB and don't see a driver to use in

Re: [OT] a mysql question

2006-10-24 Thread Philip Hallstrom
typical OT thread apologies, but the truth *really* is that this is the best and most intelligent list i read. so... You're really going to get better answers from the mysql lists... really. :) i use veritas netbackup 5.1 to backup my bsd machines, and i would like to restore some mysql data

Re: How much space for ftp.freebsd.org

2006-10-30 Thread Philip Hallstrom
If I was to ask how much online storage space is required for say..ftp.freebsd.org to hold _everything_ and then add in the kitchen sink, how much space would that be. Who are the admins of the ftp heiarchy these days? This might be useful... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles

Re: Apache log rotation question...

2006-11-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I'm wondering if I can safely use newsyslog with a newsyslog.conf with these lines in it: I don't know the answer to your question, but you might look at cronolog... http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/cronolog/pkg-descr /var/log/httpd/access_log/*644 1 *

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. I'd suggest you do NOT buy a Sony VAIO. The basic stuff works - like the screen, harddisk and keyboard - even mouse/tou

Re: wildcard usage in fetch

2007-08-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
fetch -avrpAFU ftp://loginid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/IDX/ActivePhotos/*/*.* The /*/ directory is 2 positions in size and contains 00 through 99 as directory names. The *.* means all files in this directory. When I execute this I get logged in but get file not found or not available error message. Is

Re: Running process on startup as a user

2007-09-13 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Using FreeBSD 6.2 x86. I have a script called: /home/foo/scripts/MyScript.sh The user is 'foo'. The password is 'bar'. What I'm trying to do is run the MyScript.sh command on startup (that way if the box reboots, then this users process also re-starts it's self). thoughts? Create a cronta

Re: Sharing application jail and host?

2007-09-25 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi freebsd gurus, I'm playing with jail setup and wanted to provide a virtual server to my external remote users to login by ssh and run a couple of applications. Do I need to install the application using the ports in the jail itself or can I just install the application in the host environment?

Re: diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I've been running FreeBSD 6.2 on a computer as a gateway for my (very small) local area network. Every two weeks since I've got it up and running, it will completely lock up, seemingly randomly. I would love to investigate the root of the problem, but I'm not exactly sure where to start. I'm sure

Re: Code beautification and/or printing utilities that are not part of an editor

2007-04-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Another question for everyone. Are there any programs, hopefully available in the ports, that one can use to print source code files to a printer (or create as a postscript file)? I'd like something that I can feed a C++ program, have it parse through the code, print line numbers to the left of

Re: Moving /var/mail

2006-12-01 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to try a dry run using a user home directory first to make sure this would work

Re: freebsd jails

2006-12-07 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Thursday 07 December 2006 10:18, Greg Barniskis wrote: Denzil Kelly wrote: I need to implement web content filtering using squidguard and/or dansguardian for several locations. Each site has different filtering requirements. I want to know if it is possible to do this using a jail for each si

Re: Jail

2006-12-13 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Can I use postfix/courier-imap in a jail ? (without any patch of-course, with and without chroot) Yes for postfix... I do it now. I would assume courier-imap would work as well. The only apps that won't work are ones that rely on ICMP (like nagios trying to ping servers).

Re: binary called "top" not have realtime filter/search? [#SHAZBOTAA7235423352662A]

2007-01-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On 2007-01-12 14:02, Peter aka SweetPete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've red the manpage for "top" (from heh heh "top" to bottom...), and I am amazed that there is not a feature to hit '/' or '?' in order to search and display only processes which match a certain keyword/search term. For example

Re: apache22: not found

2007-01-15 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I just installed memcached from /usr/ports/databases/memcached When I try to run the shell scrip: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/memcached.sh I get an error message saying "apache22: not found" I can still start the deamon using "/usr/local/bin/memcached -d" Does someone knows how to fix this ? it's pro

Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-25 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Well, I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD. Bit sometimes I or someone else installs ports an they install dependencies and then he/she or I decide to kill/delete a specific port, but very

Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD

2007-01-26 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hello all, I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the future). Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now) clients to automatically, in

Re: One hurdle left to switch

2007-02-06 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I'm chafing at the bit to get rid of Windows at home and move to FreeBSD. I've even got my wife convinced that she wouldn't have any more problems with KDE than she presently has with Windows. (Reality is she'd have less!) There's just one problem. I can use gnucash to do my finances, but wha

Re: Low-cost dedicated FreeBSD server or non-jail VPS?

2007-02-08 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I'm looking to rent a low-cost FreeBSD dedicated server or VPS with root access. For a VPS, I realize this is really psuedo-root access. I once rented a VPS on a FreeBSD box that was split into virtual boxes using "jail", but wasn't happy with it. So, if it's not a dedicated box, I'm looking for

Re: how to know the file system type [programming]

2005-08-17 Thread Philip Hallstrom
hi there I've been looking for a way to check the fs type I need to do something like this if NTFS do this if msdis do that if ufs2 do that if ext2 do this other stuff Parse /etc/fstab? I'm sure there are lots of other ways too... ___ freebsd-questi

Re: FreeBSD dialin server

2005-08-18 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I have freebsd 5.4 and i want to have dialin server. How can i configure my freebsd as dialin server. I set up a 4.x box to do this for three modems awhile back and while I didn't write down how I did it, here's the various config files which I hope will help. Seems I never learn to write it

Re: how to set backquote on PC keyboard telneting to FREEBSD

2005-08-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
i'm sure this is simple ... I am using a PC to telnet to a FreeBSD system. The backquote key does not work. I believe the STTY command is used to set the backquote key on FreeBSD. Can anyone tell me the STTY command syntax to do this?? I've always used... stty erase seems to work for me.

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-23 Thread Philip Hallstrom
2) If all you have to deal with are static files and a not-super-giant-filesystem, use rsync. rsync -avz --delete once a night will "mirror" your data between drives or between machines without any trouble. The only disadvantage is there is no file retention if you want to restore a corrupt / de

Re: Pine alternative?

2005-08-25 Thread Philip Hallstrom
We have been using pine for years on our Sun Solaris box. We are in the process of moving to FreeBSD. I installed Pine from an updated ports collection and received a message about pine not being very secure. Is anyone using an alternative to pine that can also read pine's folders and addres

Re: VNC + SSH question..

2005-08-30 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hey guys had a SSH forward question so here goes... I have 2 computers on my lan one of them is a server and the other is my desktop. Desktop 192.168.1.104 Server 192.168.1.103 Now I have port forwarding setup on my crappy linksys router so 22 is pointing to my Server (192.168.1.103) My q

Re: FTP Permissions

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 STABLE and the latest Proftpd. I have a little problem I need help with. I want about 10 users to have access to the same directory/subdirectories on the FTP server and all must be able to upload, delete and retrive (full access) to the files in these directories.

Re: Doing a modulo in /bin/sh??

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I can grab the results of "w=$date+%U)"; in C an use the modulo operator; is there a way to do this is /bin/sh? ot zsh? tia, guys, gary #/bin/sh w=$(date +%U) echo "w is $w"; (even=$(w % 2 )); ## flubs. echo "even is $even"; ## flubs. if [ $even -eq

Re: how to convert lower case to uppercase in a word in a line ?

2005-09-16 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On 9/16/05, Jonathan Glaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:51:16PM +0300, Yavuz Maslak wrote: Hello There is a word that consists lowercases. How to change all of letters capital letters in stead of lowercase ? is there any script about that ? Thanks

Re: Restore System

2005-09-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I did a full backup of a server with tar using the following command: tar cpzf servername`date +%m%d%y`.tgz / I'm trying to restore it on another server with the following command: tar -xzpf /path to backup file The problem I'm running into is that the original system is has an IDE harddrive, an

Re: Backup

2005-09-26 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Aguiar Magalhaes wrote: Hi list, can I make a copy using dd command from a HD scsi Maxtor 36 GB to a HD IDE Sansung 40 GB ? How can I do it ?? Is there an example ?? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK __

POP server that supports virtual users/domains (other than dovecot)?

2005-09-28 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - Looking for recommendations for a POP server that supportts virtual users and domains and preferably hooks into PostgreSQL. dovecot does this and I'm looking at it now, but it's got a lot of IMAP stuff that I will never ever use (really I won't). Anyone have recommendations for oth

Re: pppd server help

2005-10-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I have only one modem, my doubt is how and where ppp or pppd are started? The Handbook make references to scripts to manage them, but who launch those scripts? I don't know if I make myself understand Thanks for your time... This is what I did... hopefully I'm not forgetting anything..

Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?

2005-10-05 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:55:18AM -0700, Joe S wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : >the company where I work (with Windows) is evaluating a copy protection : >product that stores info somewhere on the HDD where the user cannot touch : >it, : >a format will not erase it, and Norton Ghost will not

Re: DNS caching locally ...

2005-10-07 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I understand that it is possible to speed up surfing, especially using a wireless Internet connection, by using DNS caching locally. This has to do with enabling the named daemon or something, but I understand that there are some restrictions. Is there a simple recipe explaining how to do this?

How can I programatically eject a live cd?

2005-10-07 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I've built a live CDROM based off of the cdroot package and 4.x. It's designed to be popped into a machine, wipe the hard drive, install a custom image, and that's it. Everything works great with one exception. I would *love* to be able to have the CDROM automatically eject when it

Re: 3 questions

2005-10-11 Thread Philip Hallstrom
1.i want to know if exist in freebsd something to make flash banners (like macromedia flash in windows?)? it is free to put on website? 2. i want to use one application like macromedia fireworks to slice one image, and many others to make my web site design. But i want to use something free.

Re: help with shell script

2005-10-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi. I am writing up a doc for the fbsd community that covers usage of ports. I have two commands that allow me to assertain the amount of disk space being utilized by currently installed ports. I would like to make a shell script (bourne or bash) out of them but I am not sure how. 1. This g

RE: Anti Spam

2007-04-20 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Also look into postfix along with policyd-weight (http://www.policyd-weight.org/). That's all I use and I probably get about 2 spam a day... I used to get 40-50... in a nutshell it checks multiple dnsbls and uses a scoring system to block it before you ever get the message body. And it cache

Re: Mail Switcher

2007-04-23 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Does anyone have any ideas on how I would solve the following problem? I have two mail servers. One is running cyrus imap and the other courier. I am in the process of moving users over one at a time and would like to put some kind of proxy box in front of the mail servers. I would like to h

Re: Seeking recommendation for anti-spam software

2007-06-06 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I am running a mail server using Postfix and Dovecot. I would like to hear people's recommendation for which port to use to add server side anti-spam. The problem these days is a richness of choices, so it's hard to know port which to try. And call it a quirk of mine, but I really dislike (se

Re: Hard drive fullness limits information help request

2005-04-11 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all I know hard drives tend to not run well when near full. They have trouble performing self adjustments (hardware), self defragging(unix/FFS) etc.. (as I can express it) However, I need to find some documentation or some help in explaining this better. I am working with some people who sto

IRQ problems b/n USB and PCI modem... help!

2005-04-18 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I am in IRQ h*ll. I'm trying to setup an box to use as an inbound modem server... Here's what's happening... FreeBSD 4.9 Dell Dimension XPS T450 (ie. several year old dell). Default BIOS settings (switching the PnP OS has no effect). One NIC recognized as fxp0. One IDE drive, one cdro

RE: IRQ problems b/n USB and PCI modem... help!

2005-04-18 Thread Philip Hallstrom
t the "other end" initially and it didn't work because it conflicted... *sigh* Thanks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philip Hallstrom Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:24 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: IRQ problems b

Re: df question

2005-04-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi people I do df -h on my machine and got this RARE ouput %df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a7.7G2.2G4.9G31%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1d 65G9.5G 50G16%/usr/home %df Filesystem 1K-bl

Re: IRQ problems b/n USB and PCI modem... help! (SOLVED)

2005-04-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
an access all three modems just fine. Strange, but I'm glad it's working :) Thanks all! On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi all - I am in IRQ h*ll. I'm trying to setup an box to use as an inbound modem server... Here's what's happening... FreeBSD 4.9 Dell

Re: Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box

2005-04-20 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I have been using FreeBSD 5.3 now for a couple months on a P4 box at home and I have been backing up the box nightly by doing a simple .tgz of the /etc, /usr/home and /var directories to a FreeBSD backup server at home (the backup server is a PI box). I’m at the point now, because I’m using tha

Re: resizing partitions

2005-04-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello, I've got a 5.3-RELEASE box which has a /usr partition /dev/ad0s1e that is to small by approximately 700 mb. I've got the space on /var /dev/ad0s1d to do a resize, but i am unsure as to the procedure. I tried this once a while back on a test b

Re: Reusing a port after a crash

2005-04-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
From time to time, my torrent filesharing application will crash or need to be killed. The application is configured to listen on a specific port. If I try to restart the application after improper termination, I receive a fatal error message stating that the port is already in use. Before res

Re: How to delete a not empty directory on FTP Server via ftp on freebsd 5.3

2005-04-29 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I signed up a account to have a ftp space to upload my web files. And it needs manangered by myself via ftp. But I have to said that I am a newbie on freebsd. when I type ftp at my shell, and successed long in ftp server. But I don't know how to delete directory via the command of ftp. I had search

Re: Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*)

2005-04-30 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Is there a way to determine exactly what a particular port will install on my machine? Doing a `make pretty-print-run-depends-list` will show me all of its requirements... but I am interested in the difference between its requirements and what I already have on my machine. If I have 7 out of t

Re: Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*)

2005-04-30 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Philip Hallstrom wrote: Is there a way to determine exactly what a particular port will install on my machine? Doing a `make pretty-print-run-depends-list` will show me all of its requirements... but I am interested in the difference between its requirements and what I already have on my

Re: Raid Array Over 2Tb on Samba

2005-05-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On May 3, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Richard Collyer wrote: I plan on building a raid array of 8*400GB disks raid 5. Now as win2k cant support partitions over 2tb and I right in thinking that this is for the local machine only and that over samba (array in FreeBSD 5.4 machine [when it comes out]) it shou

Re: System clean-up tool / technique?

2005-05-05 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hey. I am a very meticulous person. I try to keep my systems as clean as possible. I was wondering that others like me out there do to keep their systems clean for stale files and files with no reference to either the system, its ports and its users. The portupgrade port will install portsclean whi

Re: Scripting help

2005-05-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
install the 'mmv' port. From the description... This is mmv, a program to move/copy/append/link multiple files according to a set of wildcard patterns. The wildcard matches can be reused in forming the target names. You can i.e. move all *.c.or? files to or?.new.*.c by saying 'mmv "*.c.or?" or=2.ne

Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Nagios. http://www.nagios.org/ On Thu, 12 May 2005, Duane Winner wrote: Hello, This may not be FreeBSD specific, but since I'm running nearly a 100% FreeBSD shop, I figured this would be as good as place as any to ask a question. Also, it might just turn out that the solution for me might be soft

Re: Rewinding tapes

2005-05-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I've written a small script that backs up data to a tape, rewinds it, then reads back the data that was stored as a test. The problem I've run into is that 'mt rewind' is asynchronous, and subsequent tape operations will fail until the rewind operation has finished. Is there a way to find out w

Re: postgrey question

2005-06-01 Thread Philip Hallstrom
[description of postgrey snipped] The main advantage of this is that spammers and viruses have massive amount of email lists and just try to send it to as many people as possible. They are not going to wait and try to send the e-mail again, thus you effectively block many amount of spam and vi

Re: Running cronjobs

2005-06-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Check the value of $PATH when run manually and when run via cron. That's what always bites me... the PATH set by cron is usually pretty minimal... -philip On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, ESMTP Admin wrote: Always worked well when I dump a script into the /etc/periodic/daily folder and set permissions to

Re: Network AV server

2005-06-08 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Could someone point me in the right direction to create a network server that scans networks systems for Virus and acts on the viruses accordingly. I have a FreeBSD system that I would like to turn into a virus scanner (among other things) but I don't know how or what scanners are available and/o

Outsourcing a modem pool for dialup? Any advice?

2005-06-09 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - Our company has a product such that a small server is installed at each customer site. This server dials up to the Internet every night and exchanges some content with a central server in our data center. Total transaction takes about 5 minutes. Customers can have multiple sites.

RE: Outsourcing a modem pool for dialup? Any advice?

2005-06-10 Thread Philip Hallstrom
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philip Hallstrom Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:38 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Outsourcing a modem pool for dialup? Any advice? Hi all - Our company has a product such that a small server

List of popular DNS blacklists for spam?

2003-06-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I'm testing the use of some DNS blacklists to cut down on my spam and there are a lot of servers to choose from. I was wondering if there is a list of popular servers. I've seen comparison lists, but I'm hoping for more of a survey of sysadmins and what they use (if anything). I

Simluating a satellite connection using dummynet?

2006-04-22 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - Odd question for you. I have the opportunity to work from home, but it would require using a sat internet connection (no cable or dsl anywhere close). I've been reading up on it and best I can tell I'm looking at 1000ms round trips... at *best*. Most of what I do I can do on serve

Re: PHP5 Compile Problems

2006-04-26 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I'm currently trying to run: make CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--with-pcre-regex \ CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-fastcgi \ CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-force-cgi-redirect However, every time I run the command, I get an error about a problem with apache13. But I do not want to install apache, because I plan to use li

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