Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
the fact that the USB connection only runs at 11Mbps is not a problem. Just another option to consider. Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" sc

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:39:01AM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:11:46PM +0100, Nico Meijer wrote: > . > > > It was a ME6000 (fanless 600Mhz machine): > > > > I'm usin

Re: Newbie question with Squirrelmail 1.41 and IMAP

2003-11-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
have my notes from when I did this to check for sure. At least one of them should work, anyway. Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England |

Re: Samba tutorial

2003-11-25 Thread Scott Mitchell
o you should answer all Samba questions :-) It's for Samba 3.0 (which is the samba-devel port in FreeBSD), but most of the basic configuration is similar enough to Samba 2.8 that it is useful for both. Scott -- =====

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
a new RAID server, though. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Ano

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:09:23PM +, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > As for RAID, we use Vinum, but only because I inherited a bunch of machines > > with hot-swap SCSI bays and no hardware RAID. It works well, once you have >

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 05:59:18PM -0500, Scott W wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > >There no particular reason for an ATA RAID to be slower than SCSI, assuming > >similar disks in each. 10krpm 'server class' ATA disks are available these > >days, althoug

FreeBSD, CVS and NetApp

2005-12-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
ic FreeBSD and NetApp versions... Many thanks in advance, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked in

portupgrade -s and NFS /usr/ports?

2006-02-26 Thread Scott Mitchell
d for these problems? Thanks, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon _

Re: portupgrade -s and NFS /usr/ports?

2006-02-27 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:34:55PM +1100, Richard Burakowski wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > performance reasons. However, I want downloaded distfiles and built > > packages to go in /usr/ports where other machines can see them, but there > > > i don't sav

Re: Mounting a multicard reader (FBSD)

2004-06-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
d article about this on DaemonNews last year: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200305/cfmount.html Hope that's some help to you, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked

Re: Mounting a multicard reader (FBSD)

2004-06-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
ore pulling it out. There's a small chance of damaging the card if you don't do this. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England

Re: changing cards in a reader

2004-06-26 Thread Scott Mitchell
ou might want to look into setting up the automounter to do the rescan and eject automatically when cards are mounted and unmounted, respectively. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may

Re: changing cards in a reader

2004-06-27 Thread Scott Mitchell
the freebsd-current mailing list, to see if anyone there can shed some light on this. Sorry I can't be more help, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Camb

Re: wrong Xircom card??

2004-07-28 Thread Scott Mitchell
? What exact Xircom card is this? The xe driver only knows about the older Xircom PCMCIA cards. Some of their CardBus adapters are (I believe) handled by the dc driver. Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell

Re: wrong Xircom card??

2004-07-28 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:34:31AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 05:59:19PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > What exact Xircom card is this? The xe driver only knows about the older > > Xircom PCMCIA cards. Some of their CardBus adapters are (I believe) > &

Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?

2004-12-08 Thread Scott Mitchell
to do this. Maybe we're just really lucky. So if you follow these instructions and end up trashing your disks, it's not my fault. I *really* recommend having a recent backup before starting, assuming the volume is still readable, just in case. Good luck! Scott -- ==

Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?

2004-12-08 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:52:55AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > Scott, your procedure is what I have used, except for: > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:09:05AM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > 6. Tell vinum to restart the failed subdisk: > > > > # vinum start raid.

Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?

2004-12-08 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:34:27PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:30:13AM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:52:55AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > > AFAIK the only way to guarantee a consistent rebuild is to do it offline > >

Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?

2004-12-08 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 01:01:30PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:54:45AM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:34:27PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > > I'm just saying that in my case it didn't work out well. As with any other

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-23 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 03:46:40AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > But I don't really know for sure, because nothing is documented, and > nobody here knows anything. Anthony, Have you filed a PR for this problem? A search for your name in the FreeBSD bug database and the freebsd-bugs archive d

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-29 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:25:34PM +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > My point was that FreeBSD doesn't work on the machine. I wanted to know > why. I still don't know why it doesn't work on the machine. Apparently > nobody here really knows how FreeBSD works. So you keep saying. It probably

Connect to Cisco VPN server from FreeBSD?

2005-04-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
yself, except I don't have any account details for the server yet. I really don't want to keep a Linux or Windows machine around just to connect to the office... Many thanks in advance, Scott -- ===

Re: Connect to Cisco VPN server from FreeBSD?

2005-04-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:26:45PM -0500, Ash wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >As in the subject - has anyone managed to get a FreeBSD machine to connect > >to a Cisco VPN server, using IPSec and 2-factor authentication (password + > >SecurID card

Re: Connect to Cisco VPN server from FreeBSD?

2005-04-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 01:41:20PM -0500, Ash wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > >Thanks, that looks promising. The SecurID thing is apparently just a > >flavour of XAUTH which seems to be supported, so it might just work. > > > >Cheers, > > > >

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
e the same representation on a given machine/compiler. In any case, this stuff really has nothing to do with FreeBSD - you should be asking these questions in a C/C++ programming group. Cheers, Scott -- === Sc

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
ither of us... Followups redirected to -chat. Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engine

Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-03 Thread Scott Mitchell
ink-dest directory, rather than copying the data again. Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't g

Re: swapping external hard drives

2004-01-03 Thread Scott Mitchell
ption issues until I turned off tagged queueing. You might want to verify that the data on the backup is really what it should be :-( Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eag

Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)?

2004-01-04 Thread Scott Mitchell
hat you want. Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon ___

Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)?

2004-01-04 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:51:12AM +1030, W. Sierke wrote: > "Scott Mitchell" wrote: > > You want to use /dev/acd0c - the 'c' partition covers the whole disk. > > Something like: > > > > dd if=/dev/acd0c of=foo.iso bs=64k > > Ah! Thanks for

Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)?

2004-01-07 Thread Scott Mitchell
fail on a cdrom drive. Well, you can use a bs value that is a multiple of 2048 (like the 64k in my previous example). Using a larger block size will generally speed up the transfer, up to a point. Scott -- === Scot

Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-07 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:08:24PM +0100, Martin Brecher wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > [...] > >> > >>Is there some standard tool for doing this on FreeBSD? You can't just > >>do a direct copy cause this results in major disk space wastage so I'm

Re: /etc/rc.conf vs /etc/defaults/rc.conf

2004-01-12 Thread Scott Mitchell
oticing. Hope that helps, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon ___

RE: Whan can I do if OS does not boot after makeworld

2004-01-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Did you ever have any problem about makeworld process ?! > I afraid of one day will come and I can't boot my FreeBSD > > Vahric This is why the recommended update process is (in part): # make buildworld # make buildkernel # make installkernel Followed by a reboot into

Re: Updating DNS after DHCP

2004-01-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
ws and FreeBSD clients. You want to read the 'DYNAMIC DNS UPDATES' section of the dhcpd.conf(5) manpage, and whatever docs your DNS server has on this topic. There are plenty of examples of working configs for isc-dhcpd and bind to be found on the web. HTH, Scott -- ==

RE: NTP doesn't work behind IPF firewall?

2004-01-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know ntp is running because it updates the driftfile, > and ps shows it's active: > > # ps -aux | grep ntp > root 81 0.0 0.2 1328 960 ?? Ss9Jan04 1:06.65 > /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid > root 83 0.0 0.2 1364 992 ?? S 9Ja

RE: NTP doesn't work behind IPF firewall?

2004-01-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I kill both ntpd processes so the socket is no longer in use, I can > manually set the time with ntpdate. I can't figure out why two ntpd > processes get spawned - it's like that on both servers, and > even after a > reboot both appear again... > > EA Most odd. What

RE: sendmail help?

2004-01-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think you are barking up the wrong tree. > I don't think you understand how your ISP works. > ISP's do not allow direct smtp access to their email servers, > they consider it an security risk to their environment. Erm, the OP is trying to send mail, not receive it: >

RE: Nis

2004-01-23 Thread Scott Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I'm running NIS with freebsd as the server and using redhat clients. > I have authentication working fine but I cant seem to get changing the > passwords to work. If you change the password from a redhat > box it just > changes the NIS password not the system passw

Re: NIS problems solved

2004-01-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
a pwd_mkdb is done. Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballo

Re: searching FBSD Questions News Group.

2003-09-25 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:40:16AM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: > The google search system stopped archiving FBSD news groups at the > start of 2002, so google search is useless. Really? A Google Groups search for your email address brings up a bunch of posts to freebsd-questions, written this year, a

Re: searching FBSD Questions News Group.

2003-09-25 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:08:56AM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: > Scoot You should look closer at what google found. Not one of those > hits is from the FreeBSD-Questions NG. > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=FBSD_User&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&; > btnG=Google+Search > > > Looks like all the hits com

Re: Booting without keyboard.

2003-10-06 Thread Scott Mitchell
VM switch might be useful in this situation. Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines&

Re: problem with aue card

2003-10-09 Thread Scott Mitchell
error on rx: IOERROR > > Any piece of advice how to make this card work would be appreciated. Are you on a 100Mbps network? Our driver seems to have issues with this device on such networks, although it seems to work fine on 10Mbps connections. Scott -- ===

Re: strange dump (dark matter?)

2003-10-23 Thread Scott Mitchell
h seemed to clear up the > unreferenced file. You should only be running fsck on unmounted filesystems, or those mounted read-only. Looks like you tried to fsck a mounted filesystem? Cheers, Scott -- === Sco

Re: kernel

2004-05-15 Thread Scott Mitchell
essible to the installing machine - which may or may not work, depending where your symlink points to. I'm not sure if this is also the case for the standalone kernel build process using config(8). I worked around this by keeping the configs in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, but making sure that

Re: schedule a script at "system startup"

2005-12-04 Thread Scott Mitchell
shell running as someuser. I guess the advantage of running your script out of /etc/rc.d is that you can control when it gets run relative to all the other startup scripts - 'man rcorder' for details on this. Cheers, Scott -- ====

Re: Completely disable sendmail

2005-12-15 Thread Scott Mitchell
t still be a good idea to fix your sendmail configuration so you can actually send mail from this system. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge,

Re: /etc and /usr/local/etc directories

2004-08-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
y machine, and /etc just contains machine-specific configuration. Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don&#

Re: /etc and /usr/local/etc directories

2004-08-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon ___

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-15 Thread Scott Mitchell
With the exim+exiscan patches (available from ports) you can get even more creative and integrate virus scanning, SpamAssassin, etc. with very little effort. Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key

Portupgrade vs. multiple versions of packages

2002-12-31 Thread Scott Mitchell
w year, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
in /tmp, for instance I have: .ICE-unix/ .X0-lock .X110unix/ You might try deleting all of those (if you have them) and restarting xdm again. I'm not entirely sure it'll help, but it's worth a try. HTH, Scott -- ===

Re: Portupgrade vs. multiple versions of packages

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
nstall I have now and try again from a clean start. I'd still love to know if that extra +CONTENTS file is good for anything though... Thanks, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may s

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
ions on it? The server seems not to be able to read it, for some reason. See XF86Config(5) for the full list of possible locations for the config file. Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles ma

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
. Exceed is an X server for Win32 machines. I assume he's been using it as an X terminal onto the FreeBSD machine. I should have noticed that earlier, but the X server/client distinction always confuses people, especially when you're dealing with X terminals :-( Scott --

Re: CD to MP3

2003-01-12 Thread Scott Mitchell
oder, though. Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsub

Re: /usr/src/UPDATING

2003-01-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
he 'Set' button. I assume that the CDs would have been cut using the RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE tag, so the version you want is probably the last one on the page, 1.73.2.74. I suspect Matthew is right and you were really looking for the release notes, though. Scott -- ==

Re: entropy

2003-01-15 Thread Scott Mitchell
uses so you can go directly to the page you want, without all that tedious searching :-) Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 |

Re: drivers.flp - How to use ???

2003-01-16 Thread Scott Mitchell
ad a KLD in the 5.0 sysinstall -- I think right at the end of the 'Configure' menu. You have to scroll down to see it, but it is there. If you want to load them in the loader (before actually booting the kernel) you have to give the full path, eg. load /if_wi.ko I guess either m

Re: How to read core dump

2003-01-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
tem calls, so that could be useful as well. Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines&quo

Re: pc-card modem setup, device, ppp.conf

2003-02-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
7; entry for the card occurs first in /etc/pccard.conf (or /etc/defaults/pccard.conf). Unless you've changed /etc/pccard.conf yourself you should get the sio version of the card. Hope that helps, Scott --

Re: Why should I use `config;make depend;make...` instead of `make kernel` when building from a stock source tree? (ref. Handbook sec. 9.3)

2003-02-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
your about to install with 'make installworld'. If you're just building a new kernel from the same sources, I guess either method would work, although you'd need to have the /usr/obj from your last buildworld still hanging around, so using config might be more conv

Re: Why should I use `config;make depend;make...` instead of `make kernel` when building from a stock source tree? (ref. Handbook sec. 9.3)

2003-02-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
x27;t, but that paragraph seems to imply that I do. Assuming Mike is right (and I tend to assume he is :-) about buildkernel using the installed toolchain if it can't find one in /usr/obj, the rest of the page makes perfect sense. Scott -- =

Re: After editing freebsd.mc, how do I use this m4 processor?

2002-09-17 Thread Scott Mitchell
sn't something you actually need to know in order to reconfigure sendmail. This make has nothing to do with rebuilding the sendmail binaries -- it just deals with the configuration files. Cheers, Scott -- ==

Re: USB mouse oddity

2002-11-17 Thread Scott Mitchell
uld load it for me when it saw something that claimed to be a mouse, but apparently it doesn't work that way :-( Apologies if you've already tried these steps... it's all I can think of that might help you. Scott -- ==

Re: Power off problem

2002-11-17 Thread Scott Mitchell
and halts the system... you need the -p flag to turn off the power. Make sure power management is turned on in your BIOS as well. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, bu

Re: starting ppp on boot up

2002-12-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
quot;adsl" You might want ppp_nat="YES" in there as well Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 0xAA775B8B |

Re: starting ppp on boot up

2002-12-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
with the rc.conf variables and use pppctl to shut down the daemon if I ever needed to, but I think it's down to personal preference at this point. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don

Re: Changing Colocation site. help: ifconfig

2002-12-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
The switch probably won't care, but you might have ARP problems with that kind of setup. I really not sure though... maybe someone else can clarify what the problems might be? Hope that helps, Scott --

Re: xe0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1518 > max 1514)

2003-02-12 Thread Scott Mitchell
et away with just pulling the latest if_xe.c, though). Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engi

Re: xe0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1518 > max 1514)

2003-02-12 Thread Scott Mitchell
that the ether driver was not snipping off the 16bit > checksum > on full-length frames? > Don Yes. Specifically, it wasn't telling the higher layers of the stack that the checksum bytes were always there, but it does that now. Scott -- ====

Re: xe0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1518 > max 1514)

2003-02-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
lem doesn't happen in 4.x anyway, so you only need to worry about it at all if you're running 5.0. Hope that helps, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, E

Re: Forcing a Line Break in .profile

2003-02-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
want. Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 0xAA775B8B |

Re: Where can i find a startup log

2003-02-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:50:16AM -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote: > > I don't understand what exactly is being suggested > here. > > The part I don't understand is what is being said to > done with > > > Then: > > > > # touch /var/log/console.log > > # chmod 600 /var/log/console.log > >

Re: Where can i find a startup log

2003-02-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:34:05AM -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote: > Ahh ok. What confused me was that there were similar > looking statements already contained in the > syslog.conf file. > > With that in mind I now see the purpose of all of the > commands except the last one. For what reason does one >

Re: MINUID in NIS Makefile

2003-02-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:30:21PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Thursday 20 February 2003 16:17, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 20), Antoine Jacoutot said: > > > Is there a way to use the MINUID and MINGID options in a NIS Makefile > > > or is it Linux only ? > > > You'll ha

Re: MINUID in NIS Makefile

2003-02-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 05:16:15PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > ??? I know that. > But still, you first need to copy /etc/master.passwd to /var/yp, then edit > /var/yp/master.passwd before exporting to clients. > I think it is easier to say "hey, just pick up UID higher then 1000 in > /etc/ma

Re: scroll mouse

2003-02-27 Thread Scott Mitchell
t; Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" Option "Buttons" "5" EndSection Hope that's useful to someone. Scott -- ==

Re: dump exept "dir"

2003-03-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
n the dump command line for nodump to be honoured for a level 0 dump. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 |

Re: freebsd nis server with debian clients

2003-03-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
te likely using the same NFS code, so this might help you as well. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines&

Strange crash, possibly vinum-related

2003-03-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
03 13:52:17.925615 l 10 Mar 2003 13:52:33.437222 l -v 10 Mar 2003 13:53:19.637191 l -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into

Re: freebsd nis server with debian clients

2003-03-11 Thread Scott Mitchell
t from Mike Galvez points to a very similar patch. I should point out that I did this to support RedHat boxes here; it should work on Debian as well, but YMMV. Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Ke

Re: good compact flash/smart card readers?

2003-03-11 Thread Scott Mitchell
past, too. HTH, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B |

Re: Connecting FreeBSD to my home network..

2003-03-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
s add a line: ifconfig_foo="DHCP" to your /etc/rc.conf file (replace foo with the name of your Ethernet interface, of course). DHCP should pick up all the necessary settings from the Linksys. Cheers, Scott -- ===

Re: Connecting FreeBSD to my home network..

2003-03-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
have you configured the Linksys? - Can you ping other machines on the local net by name? By IP address? Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, Eng

Re: portupgrade mess

2003-03-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
s, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- An

Re: DNS messed up on new IP:s

2003-03-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
address on Saturday. > > Please, someone? > > Thanks, > ---johann Seems to be working fine from here on the office connection but not from home... when did you make these changes? It's possible the updates just haven't propagated everywhere yet. Scott -- =

Re: Strange crash, possibly vinum-related

2003-03-17 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:15:32PM +, Scott Mitchell wrote: > Hi all, > > I wonder if anyone out there can shed any light on this: > > A drive failed on one of our Vinum-powered RAID-5 arrays over the weekend. > This morning, we swapped out the offending drive (hot-swappab

Re: Strange crash, possibly vinum-related

2003-03-17 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:57:52PM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:58:28AM +0000, Scott Mitchell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No takers? Maybe someone who's done this (replacing a failed Vinum drive > > on hot-swap SCSI hardw

Re: Strange crash, possibly vinum-related

2003-03-18 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:22:36AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 17 March 2003 at 10:58:28 +, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:15:32PM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > > No takers? > > I've been intending to do

Re: The Opera browser on FreeBSD

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Mitchell
meet :-) So when is 9.10 going to be released? Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into je

Re: The Opera browser on FreeBSD

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 05:51:59PM +, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > Followed your instructions, put my linux-flashplugin and acroread plugin > directories on Opera's plugin search path and... wow! everything suddenly > started working. I was asked off-list how I set up the plug

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
just be a matter of installing that, then adding the install dirs of the various plugins to Opera's plugin path... Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but wea

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
, apart from some loss of sync between the audio & video, but that is apparently not a FreeBSD-specific problem. There was a thread about this on -questions about a month ago explaining what was needed to make it work, although the real 9.10 release, or the port, might make this easier. Cheer

Re: Connect to Cisco VPN server from FreeBSD?

2005-08-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 04:38:34PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > Hi all, > > As in the subject - has anyone managed to get a FreeBSD machine to connect > to a Cisco VPN server, using IPSec and 2-factor authentication (password + > SecurID card)? My employer has been acquired by

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

2005-08-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
to restore the version of a file that existed on any particular date. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.o

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

2005-08-25 Thread Scott Mitchell
my homebrewed scripts :-) I will have to check it out. Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucke

Re: Cheap Hardware for Home Network

2005-10-09 Thread Scott Mitchell
ity - this is a machine that will be on all the time, you'll come to rely on it, so it will be a complete pain when it falls over, especially if you're not physically there to reboot it. You might want to think about running mirrored disks, so you don't lose the whole machine w

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