named questions.

2008-03-12 Thread jekillen
Hello: I have named running as secondary server on v6.2 It will not start without a specific configuration file set on the command line. After doing some investigation it appears that that is because it runs chrooted and there is not a symlink from /etc/namedb. Is that a correct assumption? I

re subscribing to the list

2008-03-10 Thread jekillen
Hello; I have unsubscribed form this list but have an emergency and need some suggestions, that are not covered in the manuals or Absolute FreeBSD. Specifically, I have had a machine running with the same root password for some 3 years. There was a power failure tonight and when I rebooted the

Re: e-mail to root

2007-12-20 Thread jekillen
On Dec 19, 2007, at 7:30 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 6:54 PM, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: Is there a manual or other publication that deals specifically with reading e-mail messages to root for FreeBSD? I have gotten a message: setuid diffs: --- /var/log/setuid.today

Re: periodic.conf

2007-12-19 Thread jekillen
On Dec 19, 2007, at 12:54 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 jekillen wrote: I copied a periodic.conf file from a v6.0 system to a v6.2 system. Is there any incompatibility that I should be aware of? Assuming you're not talking about /etc/defaults

e-mail to root

2007-12-19 Thread jekillen
Hello: Is there a manual or other publication that deals specifically with reading e-mail messages to root for FreeBSD? I have gotten a message: setuid diffs: --- /var/log/setuid.today Sat Sep 8 03:01:34 2007 +++ /tmp/security.9Jz0CWds Wed Dec 19 03:01:38 2007 followed by

periodic.conf

2007-12-18 Thread jekillen
Hello: I copied a periodic.conf file from a v6.0 system to a v6.2 system. Is there any incompatibility that I should be aware of? Thanks In Advance; Jeff K ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Panic on boot

2007-12-16 Thread jekillen
On Dec 16, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: At 07:32 PM 12/15/2007, jekillen wrote: On Dec 15, 2007, at 5:21 PM, jekillen wrote: Hello; I have had an AMD64 754 system that I have 64 bit SCSI card and two 15k rpm SCSI drives. It has been running fine with FreeBSD v 6.0 for about two

Panic on boot

2007-12-15 Thread jekillen
Hello; I have had an AMD64 754 system that I have 64 bit SCSI card and two 15k rpm SCSI drives. It has been running fine with FreeBSD v 6.0 for about two years now. I have several things I wanted to change and reconfigure, software wise, and hardware wise. The first was a new case which I got

Re: Panic on boot

2007-12-15 Thread jekillen
On Dec 15, 2007, at 5:21 PM, jekillen wrote: Hello; I have had an AMD64 754 system that I have 64 bit SCSI card and two 15k rpm SCSI drives. It has been running fine with FreeBSD v 6.0 for about two years now. I have several things I wanted to change and reconfigure, software wise

re Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread jekillen
Hi: I have the book and am reading it. It suits me, in that docs and man pages can be intimidating and hard to translate into some thing useful (for me). The one thing about books like this is that there are a lot more in the way of theory and tutorial practice. I could not expect anyone to give

Re: ntpd configuration file changes

2007-12-13 Thread jekillen
On Dec 12, 2007, at 9:57 PM, N.J. Thomas wrote: * jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-12 20:42:47-0800]: Q: When making changes to ntp.conf it is necessary to restart the server? According to the ntpd docs, yes. The ntpd configuration docs say this: Ordinarily, ntpd reads the ntp.conf

ntpd configuration file changes

2007-12-12 Thread jekillen
Hello: Q: When making changes to ntp.conf it is necessary to restart the server? (I suspect yes) Q: How is that done? (I suspect ntpd reload or restart per rc script.. along the lines of apachectl restart or postfix reload??? Kill -HUP pid ??? ) I am looking at FreeBSD handbook and ntp

Re: named mystery

2007-12-11 Thread jekillen
On Dec 11, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Bill Vermillion wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 18:23 , while impersonating an expert on the internet, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this to stdout: Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:09:11 -0600 From: Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: named mystery To: jekillen

Re: named mystery

2007-12-11 Thread jekillen
On Dec 11, 2007, at 4:09 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: At 12:57 AM 12/10/2007, jekillen wrote: Hello: I have two name servers for four domains. The primary name server is running FreeBSD v 6.0 and the secondary is running v 6.2. I have an MX record for each of the four registered domains. I

named mystery

2007-12-09 Thread jekillen
Hello: I have two name servers for four domains. The primary name server is running FreeBSD v 6.0 and the secondary is running v 6.2. I have an MX record for each of the four registered domains. I have set up Postfix to act as a smart host mail hub (the MX host). One of the named record database

relay host in sendmail?

2007-12-08 Thread jekillen
Hello: I am using Absolute BSD, Second Ed. and am looking in the section on Sendmail. I cannot find where to specify a relay host. I have a hosts that originate mail to remote recipients but use a mail hub (Postfix) on another machine on local network to relay this mail to the outside. It is not

Re: relay host in sendmail?

2007-12-08 Thread jekillen
On Dec 8, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Christian Walther wrote: Hi, On 08/12/2007, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I am using Absolute BSD, Second Ed. and am looking in the section on Sendmail. I cannot find where to specify a relay host. I have a hosts that originate mail to remote

smtp in inetd.conf

2007-12-02 Thread jekillen
Hello; I have my system, running FreeBSD v6.2, using Postfix. The following line in inetd.conf is uncommented; smtpstream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd and, I am getting messages on system boot that qmaild does not exist and is being

Re: short Q

2007-11-27 Thread jekillen
On Nov 27, 2007, at 2:50 AM, Gerard Seibert wrote: On November 26, 2007 at 07:53PM jekillen wrote: Did you install this from ports? If so. the script would have been placed there all ready. Yes, that is what provoked the original question. I had built and installed from source tarball

Re: short Q

2007-11-26 Thread jekillen
On Nov 26, 2007, at 2:57 AM, Gerard Seibert wrote: On November 25, 2007 at 09:51PM jekillen wrote: [ snip ] Thank you all for responses. I did get this straightened out: It is mysql_enable=YES and putting a script named mysql in the /etc/rc.d directory with the lines; #! /bin/sh /usr/local

named problems

2007-11-25 Thread jekillen
Hello; I am having some named problems: The daemon will not start and run on system startup. There is plenty of info on problems when named is running, but not when it will not start. I did get it to start after boot with #named (su to root without - option) It started and ran as demonstrated

Re: named problems

2007-11-25 Thread jekillen
for writes or has written... it's been over 40 years since I took French in high school. Thanks again much appreciated; bonjour Jeff K Le 25 nov. 07 à 20:19, jekillen a écrit : Hello; I am having some named problems: The daemon will not start and run on system startup. There is plenty of info

Re: short Q

2007-11-25 Thread jekillen
On Nov 25, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Gelsema, P ((Patrick)) wrote: On Sun, November 25, 2007 21:18, Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: On 26-Nov-07, at 1:23 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On November 23, 2007 9:04:01 PM -0800 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: Is this the way to start mysqld in rc.conf

short Q

2007-11-23 Thread jekillen
Hello: Is this the way to start mysqld in rc.conf? mysqld_enable=YES I ask because I have not found the specifics. I copied the mysql.server script to the rc.d dir. but the documentation only deals specifically with Linux where startup scripts are concerned. Thank you in advance; Jeff K

named fails to start and run

2007-11-23 Thread jekillen
Hi; I am getting the following messaged when named attempts to start at system startup: could not configure root hints from 'named.root': file not found loading configuration: file not found So what is supposed to tell this script where to find these files? (in FreeBSD rc script context: i looked

Re: short Q

2007-11-23 Thread jekillen
On Nov 23, 2007, at 9:25 PM, Josh Tolbert wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:04:01PM -0800, jekillen wrote: Hello: Is this the way to start mysqld in rc.conf? mysqld_enable=YES I ask because I have not found the specifics. I copied the mysql.server script to the rc.d dir

mysql ports

2007-11-22 Thread jekillen
Hello; I have installed mysql51-client, mysql51-server, and mysql51-scripts. I looked for pkg_message in mysql51-scripts but there is none. Where do I get info on what this port has and what it does? Thank you for info Jeff K ___

mysql install Q

2007-11-20 Thread jekillen
Hello; The following is what I get when I do mysql_install_db. /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libcrypt.so.2 not found, required by my_print_defaults /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libcrypt.so.2 not found, required by my_print_defaults (yes, the same message twice) I looked in ports

Re: Cyrus installed

2007-11-18 Thread jekillen
On Nov 18, 2007, at 12:27 AM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello: I have installed Cyrus23 from ports and then read the pkg-message and it has references to /usr/local/cyrus and usr/local/etc/imapd.conf both of which do not exist. FreeBSD 6.2 Wouldn't the install have created

Sealed Server

2007-11-17 Thread jekillen
Hello; I am planning on setting up Cyrus on a machine and the documentation says that it is intended' for use on 'sealed' servers (servers for which there are no accounts that can log into the system) However: If I use ssh to administer the system, I have to set it up so I can ssh directly to

Re: Sealed Server

2007-11-17 Thread jekillen
On Nov 17, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 jekillen wrote: Hello; I am planning on setting up Cyrus on a machine and the documentation says that it is intended' for use on 'sealed' servers (servers for which there are no accounts

Cyrus installed

2007-11-17 Thread jekillen
Hello: I have installed Cyrus23 from ports and then read the pkg-message and it has references to /usr/local/cyrus and usr/local/etc/imapd.conf both of which do not exist. FreeBSD 6.2 Wouldn't the install have created these? I have lots of docs on Cyrus and Postfix but none specific to how ports

re: Postfix, dns, and hosts.allow

2007-11-13 Thread jekillen
Sorry: I sent this message by mistake before completing it. I had also sent the same message to the postfix user list. Thank you in adance for into Jeff K ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Postfix, dns, and hosts.allow

2007-11-13 Thread jekillen
Hello: I have a question about Postfix and hosts.allow: Sendmail and exim are mentioned in the file and I assume that Sendmail would refer to Postfix sendmail as well as Sendmail. But Since Postfix runs smtp.d, how would I do Postfix in hosts.allow? I also have a question about how postfix would

cmos clock to utc time code?

2007-11-08 Thread jekillen
Hello again; Here I am with another awkward question: I have set up ntp and it is complaining that the time difference is too great; 3606 or so seconds, and wants the system clock set to utc. I rebooted and entered bios set up but I did not see any explicit clues on how to set this clock to utc.

Re: cmos clock to utc time code?

2007-11-08 Thread jekillen
On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Brent Jones wrote: There's no time zone setting in a cmos clock. Just set the time to whatever UTC is, and you should be good to go. Ideally though, you should have the system do an ntpdate command first, which will take care of the clock issue for you. Just

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac

2007-11-08 Thread jekillen
On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Jack Barnett wrote: James Jeffery wrote: Was wondering. Can i put FreeBSD on a Quicksilver G4? I know it already has Tiger on it, which is BSD based, but i have no use for Tiger at the moment. At college were using Windows, and my old BSD box now has windows on

Re: Now it is ntpd that can't find anything

2007-11-01 Thread jekillen
On Nov 1, 2007, at 11:18 AM, N.J. Thomas wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-31 16:08:10 -0800]: I set up ntpd on FreeBSD 6.2 and am getting complaints from ntpd that there is no route to such and such address. It gives what appears to be an interface card address. ntpq -p remote

Re: Now it is ntpd that can't find anything

2007-10-31 Thread jekillen
On Oct 30, 2007, at 10:49 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: Jeff, I set up ntpd on FreeBSD 6.2 and am getting complaints from ntpd that there is no route to such and such address. It gives what appears to be an interface card address. As a general rule, please copy/paste the error message.

Re: Name resolution solved

2007-10-30 Thread jekillen
Hello again: I solved the problem with the name resolution associated with installing ports via ftp, portsnap. 1. I found an erroneous entry in routing tables and removed it and rebooted. There was no route to the default gateway because there was another erroneous gateway entry before it. I

Now it is ntpd that can't find anything

2007-10-30 Thread jekillen
Hello again. I set up ntpd on FreeBSD 6.2 and am getting complaints from ntpd that there is no route to such and such address. It gives what appears to be an interface card address. I found several time servers and listed them in ntp.conf. One is unreachable as demonstrated by ping failure. The

resolver problems

2007-10-28 Thread jekillen
Hello: I am still having resolver problems with my 6.2 system. It has shown up with trying to install ports from the ftp site. I discovered that there is no resolv.conf file, so I created one. The funny thing is if I ping one of my web sites with www.domainName.com ping can't resolve the address.

Name resolution

2007-10-27 Thread jekillen
Hello: I have been trying to tame the use of the ports mechanisms. I set up a system with a static ip connection to the internet and when I run: pkg_add -r csup-without-gui (verbatim from the freebsd handbook I downloaded just a few days ago) I get this: Error: FTP Unable to get

Re: Name resolution

2007-10-27 Thread jekillen
On Oct 27, 2007, at 4:54 PM, RW wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:42:02 -0700 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have been trying to tame the use of the ports mechanisms. I set up a system with a static ip connection to the internet and when I run: pkg_add -r csup-without-gui (verbatim

Re: Periodic.conf?

2007-10-25 Thread jekillen
On Oct 25, 2007, at 2:46 AM, Gerard wrote: On October 24, 2007 at 09:50PM jekillen wrote: The following was a response to a query I posted regarding how to switch over to Postfix from SendMail: Also, there are some periodic things that are ran which are SendMail specific that need

Periodic.conf?

2007-10-24 Thread jekillen
Hello; The following was a response to a query I posted regarding how to switch over to Postfix from SendMail: Also, there are some periodic things that are ran which are SendMail specific that need to be disabled. That is done within /etc/periodic.conf as such:

Re: .PICT mac file

2007-10-03 Thread jekillen
On Oct 3, 2007, at 6:42 AM, Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi everyone, I have a load of .pict files which I can't seem to be able to open with anything under FBSD. I just want to convert them into something more useful (jpg / tiff / svg). ImageMagick doesn't understand it, so i think this is the

Re: question about Postfix

2007-10-02 Thread jekillen
On Oct 1, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Joe in MPLS wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I have a quick question about Postfix. When I install Free BSD and have it include Postfix from packages, does the install process completely replace Sendmail with Postfix, or do I still have to replace Sendmail

Re: question about Postfix

2007-10-02 Thread jekillen
On Oct 1, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Duane Hill wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 at 19:50 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hello; I have a quick question about Postfix. When I install Free BSD and have it include Postfix from packages, does the install process completely replace Sendmail with

question about Postfix

2007-10-01 Thread jekillen
Hello; I have a quick question about Postfix. When I install Free BSD and have it include Postfix from packages, does the install process completely replace Sendmail with Postfix, or do I still have to replace Sendmail with Postfix separately? Thanks in advance Jeff K

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread jekillen
, jekillen wrote: Hello all; I have built 4 machines and installed FreeBSD 6.0 in one and 6.2 in the other three. They are all using the wrong date and time. The last one (v6.2 on ecs mb with AMD64) is the worst. It is telling me today is Jan 3 2003 PST (I am on the west coast and it is still PDT

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread jekillen
EST5EDT [...] To set timezone: $ ln -s /share/zoneinfo/$WHATEVER /etc/localtime For you probably PST8PDT. For your best NTP experience, use OpenNTP from ports: /usr/ports/net/openntpd/ ~BAS On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 20:33 -0700, jekillen wrote: Thanks, more very helpful info; Jeff K

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread jekillen
On Sep 30, 2007, at 6:13 PM, RW wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:17:30 -0700 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 30, 2007, at 12:48 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: ntpdate is deprecated, you should use ntpd -q instead if you want ntpd to set the time once then exit. From ntpdate(8): Note

using the date command

2007-09-29 Thread jekillen
Hello all; I have built 4 machines and installed FreeBSD 6.0 in one and 6.2 in the other three. They are all using the wrong date and time. The last one (v6.2 on ecs mb with AMD64) is the worst. It is telling me today is Jan 3 2003 PST (I am on the west coast and it is still PDT). These machines

Hard drive RPM

2007-09-19 Thread jekillen
Hello; Is there a utility for measuring the effective RPM of a hard disk? A software tackometer? I have IDE drives, SATA drives, both 7200 and 10,000 RPM, as well as SCSI disks that are supposed to be running at 15k RPM. I noticed that on the hard drive labels, those on the disk case itself do

Re: Hard drive RPM

2007-09-19 Thread jekillen
On Sep 19, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Rob wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: Run the manufacturer's diagnostic utility to check the drives speed and performance. Most of these utilities also give you the drive model and serial number as well. Look for a self-booting version that is a cd-rom ISO, these

ip assignments

2007-09-09 Thread jekillen
Hello; I have a question about ip address assignments to multiple network interfaces on the same machine (running, in this case, FreeBSD v6.2). Situation: I have built a machine with two network interfaces and tried assigning local addresses in the same subnet mask: 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2 for

panic:vm_fault saga

2007-08-31 Thread jekillen
Hi; I have not been able to get the boxed set v6.2 install cd 1 to boot on MSI RX480 Neo2 motherboard/amd64 processor. I started with an IDE hard drive that I was going to use as boot drive for OS. I have had panics related to USB controller, ps2 mouse, md0 and sci0 com port. Disabling the usb

panic:vm_fault on nofault device (etc...)

2007-08-29 Thread jekillen
Hello: I am trying to get a new machine to boot from v6.2 install disc one of packaged cd set. The mother Board I am using is MSI RX480 NEO 2 w/AMD64. At first I got the message usb1:panic: vm_fault on nofault device and an address I disabled usb in the bios then rebooted. next I got the same

device designation

2007-08-29 Thread jekillen
Hello again: What is device with designation md0? I am trying to boot from install 6.2 cd in cd boxed set on MSI model# RX480 Neo2 motherboard/ AMD64 processor Right after an entry in the boot sequence referring to this The kernel panics with vm_fault on no fault entry (and an address). This

Re: Apache access log shows these attack requests

2007-06-13 Thread jekillen
Hello; I have not understood what the request for - - meant. Thank you, this as shed a lot of light on it. I have seen that fairly frequently in my Apache logs. But on one of my machines that serves as secondary name server I also had Apache running to serve a place holder site. It was

Re: Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?

2007-05-14 Thread jekillen
On May 13, 2007, at 7:13 PM, WizLayer wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007 07:17:14 pm Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: Would it recharge the battery fully after discharge? I dont think so. So you got to recharge the external battery EXTERNALLY after power failure. What's wrong with that?

Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?

2007-05-12 Thread jekillen
Hello again; Is there software for ups auto shutdown and restart for use with a ups system that has the capacity; I.E. a serial connection and references in the manual to software (for Windows mostly) download? Currently I have a Vesta Pro 600 unit. I had one made by Minuteman that crapped out on

cleaning uploads

2007-05-02 Thread jekillen
Hello again: Does anyone on this list know of a system or software bundle that can be used with php to clean uploaded files. Specifically, embedded php or shell scripts, shell escape chars, viruses, executable code in image files, anything that might be hazardous in any file that might be capable

no libphp5.so

2007-04-01 Thread jekillen
Hello agian; I have been gripping about php not producing libphp5.so for use as a DSO with Apache on FreeBSD v 6.2 good news I solved it. By re installing the system and starting all over again. After reading the output of ./configure in the php source dir, it was reporting that it could not

Re: Install with modified kernel?

2007-03-28 Thread jekillen
On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:53 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, jekillen wrote: Hello: Is it possible to install FreeBSD ( in this case v6.2 GENERIC RELEASE) with a modified kernel? I am having some network

Re: Re: Install with modified kernel?

2007-03-28 Thread jekillen
Hello again: It is only fair to post this addenda to the message thread with this subject: From various suggestions from list responses, UUASC and I seem to remember one from this list also, that the problem could be consecutive addresses on the same subnet is what is causing the problem. I was

Install with modified kernel?

2007-03-27 Thread jekillen
Hello: Is it possible to install FreeBSD ( in this case v6.2 GENERIC RELEASE) with a modified kernel? I am having some network problems with an installation on ASUS N2M32 WS pro (AMD64) mb. I want to try installing without fire wire emulation support, which means I have to modify the kernel to

kldunload question

2007-03-25 Thread jekillen
Hello; In the continuing saga of ethernet interfaces I.E. em0 fwe0 em1 on ASUS N2M32 pro motherboard with two intel interface cards. One em0 works and the other em1 does not (can not ping it though it shows up and running) I am trying to unload the fwe driver to see if it makes a difference to

order of enet interface drivers

2007-03-24 Thread jekillen
Hello; I have two identical intel interface cards installed in a ASUS N2M32 pro motherboard. The os version is 6.2 GENERIC running on AMD64, socket AM2. The motherboard has dual interfaces that use Marvell drivers. I cannot use these with this version of FreeBSD as yet. So I got two Intel

Re: order of enet interface drivers

2007-03-24 Thread jekillen
On Mar 24, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Ray wrote: On Saturday 24 March 2007 8:38 pm, jekillen wrote: Hello; I have two identical intel interface cards installed in a ASUS N2M32 pro motherboard. The os version is 6.2 GENERIC running on AMD64, socket AM2. The motherboard has dual interfaces that use

Re: sendmail name resolution

2007-03-19 Thread jekillen
On Mar 19, 2007, at 3:17 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: Sendmail uses the system calls to resolve names. You need to check: /etc/nsswitch.conf In that file check the hosts line, this gives the order for hostname resolution, typically it is files then dns. Then you should check your /etc/hosts

sendmail name resolution

2007-03-18 Thread jekillen
Hello: Where does sendmail look to find out who it is? Resolve.conf? It keeps throwing up messages that it cannot resolve the name localhost, or that is the way I am interpreting the messages. FreeBSD v6.2 generic Thanks in advance; Jeff K ___

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-13 Thread jekillen
On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:14 PM, RW wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:36:41 -0800 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 12, 2007, at 9:05 AM, RW wrote: The important thing is really your reverse DNS, if you have control of it and looks like a real server name, e.g. mail.example.com, you can

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-12 Thread jekillen
On Mar 12, 2007, at 9:05 AM, RW wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:27:52 -0800 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you will allow me to break in on this exchange; Does this advise apply if you have static ip service The important thing is really your reverse DNS, if you have control

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-12 Thread jekillen
On Mar 12, 2007, at 12:01 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: of SPF (Sender Policy Framewokr) would immediately identify it as a spoof, and will be blocked. To learn more about this system, see http://www.openspf.org/ if the same machine is for sending and receiving mail simply putting IN TXT

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-12 Thread jekillen
On Mar 11, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Mar 11, 2007, at 8:27 PM, jekillen wrote: If you will allow me to break in on this exchange; Does this advise [don't run your own direct to MX mail server] apply if you have static ip service and are running web servers from

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread jekillen
On Mar 11, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: [mailed and posted] On Mar 11, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Ed Zwart wrote: I own my_domain.com. I've paid a hoster for the last couple years, but that's ending in a week or so. Meanwhile, I've used dyndns to point foo.homedns.org to my IP. If

Re: hardware question

2007-03-02 Thread jekillen
On Mar 1, 2007, at 10:38 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: On Mar 1, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread jekillen
On Mar 1, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: If you know the standard computer science terminology, it can be described quite tersely. UFS fragmentation is a way of avoiding internal fragmentation from wasting too much space. MS-DOS-FS fragmentation is an example of

hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread jekillen
Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did get a reference to a source for the driver source and instructions to compile and install.

Re: hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread jekillen
On Mar 1, 2007, at 8:18 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did

Enet driver for Marvell

2007-02-20 Thread jekillen
Hello; A while ago, a matter of a few months I inquired of this list regarding installation of FreeBSD v6.0 on ASUS M2N32 WS Pro motherboard. I was not able to set up dual ethenet inter faces as the only option presented by sysinstall when configuring enet interface was fw30 as firewire ethernet

Re: Re FreeBSD mall

2007-02-12 Thread jekillen
On Feb 11, 2007, at 12:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, jekillen wrote: Hello all; I have purchased a set of 6.2 cds from FreeBSD Mall and have not received answers to querys re when it will be delivered. Does anyone here have pull there? Buying it is a way of donating

Re FreeBSD mall

2007-02-11 Thread jekillen
Hello all; I have purchased a set of 6.2 cds from FreeBSD Mall and have not received answers to querys re when it will be delivered. Does anyone here have pull there? Buying it is a way of donating to this community right? Thanks in advance Jeff K ___

Q: re ASUS motherboard with dual inet interfaces

2007-01-30 Thread jekillen
Hello, I have a new machine with an ASUS motherboard that has, or is supposed to have dual ethernet interfaces. And in fact it has two rj-45 ports for connecters. But when I use sysinstall to configure the interfaces all I get is fwe0 fire wire ethernet emulation. And when I use sysinstall it

Re: PCIe Core2 Duo Motherboard?

2007-01-21 Thread jekillen
On Jan 21, 2007, at 9:03 PM, Andrew Fremantle wrote: Hello, I'm looking at building a few new general-purpose servers in the near future. I'd like to use Intel Core 2 Duo processors in these machines. I'm currently evaluating a machine with a looks-good-on-paper motherboard, the Intel

[OT]two networks, one nic

2006-11-13 Thread jekillen
Hello FreeBSD users, I have been operating under the assumption that the same network interface card cannot handle two different networks. But then I seem to have seen an example in one of the OReill¥ books on networking that had one interface with one assigned inet address and also aliased with

altering text files.

2006-10-26 Thread jekillen
Hello fellow FreeBSD users; I have a technical question about text files: Is there a way to edit a text file via a script by searching and replacing small portions of a text file, instead of having to rewrite the whole file for what may be negligible alterations? I'm assuming not, but I'm not

next episode, continuing saga

2006-09-21 Thread jekillen
Hello again; With FreeBSD and in general, If the monitor is turned off is it safe to disconnect it from the machine while the machine is running? AMD64 socket 754 with separate PCI video card on ECS motherboard; no Xwindows installed. if it makes a difference. want to run the machine headless

mail to root

2006-09-19 Thread jekillen
Hello again; I have a question about how mail from the system is generated for root. This question was prompted when I edited the Postfix aliases file and ran newaliases, then did postfix reload, assuming the mail system was running. I was informed that Postfix was not running. So the question,

csh as default root Shell

2006-09-18 Thread jekillen
Hello; Since I have been advised by way of correspondence with UUASC (Unix Users of Association of Southern California) that changing the root shell in FreeBSD is not advised and I have two machines up and running and a third on the way, I have purchased a text from (I don't know if it is

Help re nvnet driver

2006-08-31 Thread jekillen
Hello: I have a machine with two SLI slots and two regular pci slots. The motherboard is Gigabyte with nVidia network interface built in. I have one regular pci slot taken with a video card and one with a D-Link nic. I need another nic and as it stands either the video card goes or I get a

Re: mail to root

2006-08-28 Thread jekillen
On Aug 28, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, there is not to my knowledge a comprehensive text that will offer an analysis of every possible mail message to root and what it means. Well, no, any more than there is a comprehensive text

mail to root

2006-08-26 Thread jekillen
Hello: I have been getting this message in the mail box for root for the last several days. Can anyone tell me what this means. From operator@(host name) Sun Aug 27 08:11:00 2006 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:11:00 -0700 (PDT) -- the date and time is wrong, it is Sat the 26th. I've know his for

Writing drivers that will work with FreeBSD

2006-08-10 Thread jekillen
Hello; Is there a one stop location where I can get info on writing device drivers that will work with FreeBSD (v6+)? There is a book out called Linux Device Drivers (perhaps I shouldn't mention the publisher). I would be mostly a beginner and presume that some assembler knowledge would be

default umask for Apache

2006-07-09 Thread jekillen
Hello; I've not had to do this on a Unix system before. But now I have Apache running as nobody and have php scripts creating and writing to directories. The files it creates have the default mask rw-r-r and I want to change it to rw-rw-- so I can remove the files and dirs with group write

ftp proxy.

2006-06-29 Thread jekillen
Hello, I have successfully installed FreeBSD 6.0 commercial boxed cds in 2 AMD64 machines. All ports and packages selected and all went well. but some other software that is not installed by default, like Apache, I couldn't get ports to install because the this particular machine was on an

dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-09 Thread jekillen
Hello; If I want to set up a dual boot of either Linux or FreeBSD, what is the best way to go about it? Use Lilo, grub, or does FreeBSD have a boot loader that it likes better and Linux won't object to? i'm planning on using Debian on a separate bootable hard drive. I have to get more info on

Midi and Linux compatibility

2006-06-08 Thread jekillen
Hello; I'm interested in setting up midi and sound recording gear on a Linux system. There is a program I'm interested in getting installed and using called Rosegarden. I also have to contend with the availability of Linux compatible midi interfaces (which is a blurred subject as far as my

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