Re: gmirror on a laptop.

2006-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
esult in almost no benefit to reliability and will cause a very large performance hit, as well as reducing the usable amount of disk space in half. (In other words, actually leaving the machine set up that way would be an incredibly bad idea.) -- -Chuck ___

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
as well. It's not as useful as backing things up at the server side, but it would ensure that you still have copies of the important mail. Otherwise, simply export your mailboxes to a mbox file once a week or once a month or so and archive that

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Pat Maddox wrote: > On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ ... ] >> Your mail hosting provider should have working backups, although it is worth >> checking. > > I have a server running postfix/courier-imap, and I'd like to know how > to make t

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Pat Maddox wrote: > On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ ... ] >> The two most common styles of mailboxes are mbox and maildir, and both of >> those >> can be backed up at the filesystem level using dump, tar, or anything else. > > I've got

Re: how does a system come up if you disable background fsck ?

2006-03-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Probably your whole 10 YRS of working on FreeBSD was on a P-II or AMD K6 > running a workstation in your basement, or who knows where. Could you take this sort of needlessly personal response to email, please? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: Natd with Multiple DSL Connections

2006-03-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
outable subnet from ARIN or your local IP registrar and set up BGP multihoming, but it's unlikely that your DSL provider is willing to do so. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: Do you use MySQL?

2006-03-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
flags, different installation directories, etc.)? Nope. > - Do you have any problems that you think are related to the choice of > the version you're using? No. I doubt I'm running more than a query a second on average for what I'm using mysql for now. -- -C

Re: Raidtest/3Ware 6000 Throughput

2006-03-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
if you used SCSI and/or a real HW RAID-5 controller with significant cache (ie, 64+ MB) that would help the performance by quite a bit. Use RAID-5 for read-only or read-mostly situations and you'll be better off; use RAID-10 for write-heavy filesystem

Re: System Still Freezing

2006-03-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
eeBSD to die, you're probably going to have to run memtest or prime95 at least overnight (12+ hours, and it would be better to run them for longer) to really catch anything. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: Raidtest/3Ware 6000 Throughput

2006-03-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
since I have a bunch of drives already. Maybe the 3ware 9500S -4 or -8...? > Am I maybe CPU bound, or have another issue? You're probably I/O bound, not CPU bound. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: Can't telnet to freebsd box

2006-03-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
the problem of remote logins involves SSH. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: user cannot login from anywhere

2006-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
e in-memory version. What does: file /bin/csh ls -l /bin/csh ...say? Also, a "uname -a" would be the minimal information needed. Relatively few people on this list have mastered telepathy, so you do need to tell us which version of FreeBSD you have. :) A dmesg or a short descri

Re: CF disk slices?

2006-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
o operate with the filesystems mounted read-only most of the time, or at least turn off updating atime information. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: arp_rtrequest: bad gateway (!AF_LINK)

2006-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
ach site due to the protocol limitations. If you have two NICs, they should be on separate subnets, in separate collision domains, unless you are doing channel bonding/CARP/FEC, in which case they must be specially configured for that purpose (and therefore would be on the same subnet only). -- -

Re: Nat, dhcpd and ipfw

2006-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
255.255.255.0" > [ ... ] > subnet 10.192.168.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { > range 10.192.168.1 10.192.168.4; > option domain-name "aspirine.li"; > option domain-name-servers 10.192.168.5; > > default-lease-time 600; > max-lease-time 7200; >

Re: sendmail & dns lookups

2006-03-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
that specific host. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Google Talk and NAT issue ?

2006-03-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Squid, will significantly improve the security of the network... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: which controllers(devices) to disable in kernel?

2006-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
", it will show all of the devices as they are recognized and configured. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: KDE App Launcher

2006-03-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
confusion. :-) / 2 For /bin/sh, you can't export a variable on the line you set it; that's an extension found in bash, ksh, and zsh, but is not part of the original sh: #!/bin/sh SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0 export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE QEMU_AUDIO_D

Re: KDE App Launcher

2006-03-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> For /bin/sh, you can't export a variable on the line you set it; that's an >> extension found in bash, ksh, and zsh, but is not part of the original sh: > > It is, however, supported by *

Re: sendmail feature options.

2006-03-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
uot;nocanonify") and changing /etc/nsswitch.conf or the local equivalent (lookupd's NetInfo configuration, Solaris' nscd, etc). -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: filling up UDP socket buffers like mad

2006-03-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
ving problems resolving it. [ I've got a MacOS X 10.2(.9?) machine where syslogd is frozen upon boot now due to using a non-local hostname to forward one specific type of traffic elsewhere, so I have to kill -9 it and restart it by hand once the resolver has gotten

Re: Indiana goes to DST

2006-03-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
- Switzerland County ...which will do the same thing. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Error Compiling Open Office

2006-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
ad memory. Building OO is stressful enough to push marginal cooling or whatever into failure. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: virtusertable blocking seems to have no effect

2006-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
mp; make all"); the order of entries is not significant. What is significant is that the MTA will look up more specific entries before looking up general entries, so it will try looking up [EMAIL PROTECTED] before looking up example.com, so the more specific match will win. -- -Chuck ___

Re: cant login

2006-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
? Otherwise, boot from CD, mount your hard drive, and copy /bin/sh to your drive. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: "Blob" and FreeBSD

2006-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
the open source version of the driver support the devices at least adequately without using a proprietary driver, but it's useful to have the option of supporting a proprietary driver from the manufacturer if that works better, for those who want to use it. -- -Chuck ___

Re: Soekris Net4801 performance

2006-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
NetBSD 2.0 via 128MB CF. They booted FreeBSD 4 OK, though, and you might want to retest using 4.11 rather than 6.0 and see whether it does better for you. Otherwise, give NetBSD a spin, it's targetted more for that type of appliance role and is going to be tuned more reasonably for the har

Re: Network tunning

2006-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
's a book called "Sendmail Performance Tuning", hmm, by Nick Chistianson or something like that, which you should try to get ahold of. You could start by limiting the maximum number of child processes that sendmail will spawn to a more reasonable number which will fit into the avail

Re: Squid and CPU usage

2006-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
nnection go down shouldn't freak it out. You should perhaps update to the latest version in ports and restart squid, and see whether it behaves. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: sendmail, a couple of questions.

2006-03-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
wise talk to your ISP if the IP is public. [ ... ] > 2nd. What does it mean? > Mar 29 16:07:20 mailsrv sm-mta[10399]: alias > database /etc/mail/aliases.db out of date You changed /etc/mail/aliases, but forgot to run newaliases. (Or use "make maps&qu

Re: Sendmail Patch Question

2006-04-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
the sendmail binary. Because the patch doesn't update the version #, however, I don't think you will have a way to tell whether the patch has actually been applied correctly. Consider sending a polite request to the security team about this matter. -- -Chuck __

Re: How to upgrade samba version to 3.0.22

2006-04-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
then (re)install Samba. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: hunting for secure fileserver-connection!

2006-04-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
fileserver. If you've got 1.5TB of storage, perhaps you should talk to Auspex or NetApp and see what the NAS folk have to offer... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: cron question

2006-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
did i missed here? You forgot to use the full path to rndc in your shell script. You should not assume that the $PATH cron passes you is going to have that command available. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Question bout migrating from 4.X tree to 5.x or even 6.x

2006-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
lation from a 6.0 or 6.1beta ISO image on a CD would achieve the same end result > Also what recommendations would you make if you were to upgrade from 4.x > tree to 5 or 6? Read the fine documentation. Follow instructions carefully. Have good backups. -- -Chuck _

Re: Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
t help. Add more RAM, or adjust the program to be more clever about the use of memory, possibly by using Numeric/numarray. The size of your python process is surprising to me, python tends to run relatively lightweight process sizes even when handling large dat

Re: Oneway mailing; does anything beat mailman??

2006-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
d the size of your outbound pipe. You can deliver on the order of a million messages a day @ 15K/message using a Pentium-200-grade box [1] and a T1 line, and depending on how well your recipients are batched at the same destination SMTP server, you might do significantly better than that. --

Re: Which BSD - Flash Drive

2006-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
read-only mode most of the time? If you're planning to use this for a dedicated appliance-type role, ie, router, firewall, this is fine. If you want to do development or general-purpose interactive use, USB flash drives aren't a good choi

Re: NAT, VPN and other SOHO router advice

2006-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
direct_port tcp 10.1.1.2:pptp pptp # The above rules allow passthrough for the Cisco VPN software, and should also work with SonicWall's VPN client. OpenVPN uses just a single UDP port, and would be very easy to set up on FreeBSD if you liked. -- -Chuck ___

Re: web server attack

2006-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
uot; 200 0 "-" "-" 218-166-163-180.dynamic.hinet.net - - [06/Apr/2006:10:11:45 -0400] "CONNECT 4.79.181.15:25 HTTP/1.1" 200 7014 "-" "-" 218-166-163-180.dynamic.hinet.net - - [06/Apr/2006:10:11:46 -0400]

Re: /proc/loadavg?

2006-04-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
ty record and is disabled for a reason. Consider looking at the output of sysctl, instead, specificly: "sysctl vm.loadavg"... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: NAT, VPN and other SOHO router advice

2006-04-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
net, or however many public IP's you've got, and then set up OpenVPN on the FreeBSD box, or whatever other VPN/PPTP software you'd like... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: Which BSD - Flash Drive

2006-04-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
system, you're better off using a hard drive than flash. Save using flash for dedicated appliances where you've taken steps to control writes. -- -Chuck PS: I'm seeing a relatively significant number of 5-8 year old Cisco boxes starting to wear out their flash chips and fail (

Re: Faking multiple physical adapters for DHCPDISCOVER

2006-04-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
x27; after a while. The reason why your ISP has configured their system in such a fashion is to prevent people from claiming multiple static IPs from a single machine. If you're not happy with their AUP, use another provider, or pay for a dedicated IP allocation of whate

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
gun, but we try not to instruct people on how to shoot their own feet without at least giving them a warning that doing so will hurt. :-) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Proper Method of Time Sync?

2006-04-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
is needed. If ntpd can't correct the clock by itself, that generally means it's off my more than 2000 seconds or whatever the sanity-check threshold is, and needs a manual correction or one-time use of ntpdate before ntpd will keep things san

Re: Init can't exec /bin/sh for /etc/rc

2006-04-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
serve your configuration and user files if you don't tell it to reformat your partitions. Make a backup first, anyway. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: options tcp_drop_synfin and virtual hosts

2004-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
that host. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 160 Gb Harddisk: needs extra tweeking?

2004-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
there good reasons not to choose the fastest option "Mode 5" here? Use the fastest speed you can. Good reasons not to choose the fastest speed might include using a 40-pin ATA-33 cable rather than a newer 80-pin cable, or having slower devices like a CD-ROM on the same IDE channel, or i

Re: Keep log_in_vain Value

2004-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
se default to off, so I would suggest you check /etc/sysctl.conf and see whether they are being turned on there, and then change that. :-) Otherwise, something like "grep log_in_vain /etc/*" might give a hint... -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: arplookup WWW.XXX.YYY.ZZZ failed: host is not on local network

2004-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
ines to talk to each other using your 172 network, have whatever services connect to or listen on those IPs rather than on your WWW.XXX.YYY network addresses. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: IDE hard disk recoms

2004-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
ot; famous more than a decade ago with the Q105 SCSI drives that wouldn't spin up, so I wouldn't rely on that vendor either. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Mail

2004-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
problems two years later. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Should gcc be accessable by others?

2004-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
useable to normal humans, however, so this is generally done only for firewalls and the like. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: IDE hard disk recoms

2004-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
Mike Woods wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: Sure. I'd pick up a 7200 RPM ATA drive with 8MB of cache, such as the Western Digital WD1200JB. Pick another size (40GB, 80GB, probably through 200GB) if you like. Seconded, but id get the sata version and a caddy for a server, makes like easier

Re: Mail

2004-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
Robert Huff wrote: Chuck Swiger writes: [ ... ] Would you care to nominate an inherently network-accessible program with such a track record? For example: 5.2.1 was released in late February; there are currently 12 security advisories*, of which I would consider at least 5 to be part of

Re: Redirection with a bridge ?

2004-06-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
nk of. Do this only when you need to, to the extent that is useful. If setting up a "normal" network and letting the default TCP/IP local-subnet and routing behaviors do the right thing is at all possible, let the default behavior work for you. -- -Chuck

Re: Turning off sshd version display when someone telnets to port.

2004-06-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
t a few IP addresses, or changing SSH to use OPIE rather than reusable passwords. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Python application in rc.d.

2004-06-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
thon not being configured/available at this time. Does the script set $PATH to include the location where python is? If you don't list /usr/local/bin explicitly, this may be the problem... -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Python application in rc.d.

2004-06-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
job runs under. Adding an "echo $PATH" somewhere would probably give you more information, but without a more specific error message, I'll repeat my guess. [ Without seeing the exact error message, asking us what's really going on involves

Re: Win-modems

2004-06-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:44:22AM +0300, Alex wrote: [...] You're living in the past, man! Heh! Amusing turn of phrase, this. -- -Chuck PS: In case the phrase he used doesn't translate, out of pity for inte

Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
stuffing email into a database is a particularly good idea since that means keeping large blobs of non-relational data floating around, something that the filesystem can do a better job of handling... ] -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bill Moran wrote: Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ ... ] The latter uses one-message-per-file, and ought to work *much* better both in terms of performance and stability, and in terms of playing nice with the way rsync wants to back things up. Doesn't really matter. Fact i

Re: read vs. mmap (or io vs. page faults)

2004-06-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
rn processor. It's something like 12-16 GBytes/sec to the L1 cache on an Athlon 64, for example, and 3 GBytes/sec uncached to main memory. This has been an interesting discussion, BTW, thanks. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bill Moran wrote: Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ I don't think that stuffing email into a database is a particularly good idea since that means keeping large blobs of non-relational data floating around, something that the filesystem can do a better job of handling... ] [ .

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
d backup that, and then re-attach and resync the mirror drive to the live volume. Both of these methods make taking a very current backup easy; they do not provide live replication of the data, however. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:/

Re: HardWare may be

2004-06-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
:-) However, I have learned that "kohelept" means "concert". ] -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

'ftp' command does what...?

2004-06-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
. 6-epia% uname -a FreeBSD epia.pkix.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #1: Sun May 9 04:56:46 EDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EPIA i386 Hmph. I suspect that handling an FTP URL without any URI portion past the hostname ought to do the

Re: Mounting hard disk in multiple locations

2004-06-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
n the second location. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
mes it's as simple as defining some environment variables by passing them into make, via /etc/make.conf, etc. -- -Chuck [1]: Choose whatever name seems appropriate, perhaps files/patch-src-file.c; the patch-aa naming convention works fine b

Re: Forgot to add...

2004-06-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
such things working after more tweaking and time spent on your part. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Mirrors needed?

2004-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Brad Pugh wrote: I just wanted to see if you guys in need of anymore mirrors for you're downloads? If so how much space does you're downloads need? Thanks for your offer. Please refer to: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/mirror-requirements.html

Re: IP alias + NAT through a single NIC?

2004-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
BSD box is more secure than providing routing and NAT for the machines on net 2. squid works fine for this. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: a quick mailing list question

2004-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
a day or so and see whether the messages show up in list traffic, or whether you get a bounce. Also, you might dig up a message-id from your "Sent messages" mbox (if you keep them), and ask <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to look into the matter. That's what po

Re: firewall for web server

2004-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
t good tutorial. APF? -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
he resolver when reversing the IP addr into a hostname. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bruce Hunter wrote: What should you use instead of NFS? I like the fact that I can open up a window and throw some files to my server. Maybe, something can be accessed through a firewall? rsync over ssh is very good for this. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL

Re: postmap main.cf

2004-07-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
find / -name postmap" are possible ways of searching for the command. Note that it is very unlikely you want to run postmap on main.cf. Something like "postmap hash:access" might be reasonable. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list h

Re: Allowing Users To Set Date

2004-07-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
, although doing so is not without risk. If you don't trust a user with root, why would you permit them to change the clock? Why not just configure ntpd and have the system time set correctly and not worry about this at all... -- -Chuck ___ [

Re: bin. packages compilation options

2004-07-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
m and have "-O2" supported in -CURRENT. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Sendmail installation

2004-07-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
with NO_SENDMAIL defined in /etc/make.conf... -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: hardware not supported

2004-07-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
g the output of "pciconf -v" relating to this 580TX card. Most likely, all one needs to do is add the PCI ID and the existing 570TX driver will work. -- -Chuck PS: The point of my first comment was that drivers don't appear out of thin air. Someone has to write them, and if

Re: Teaching FreeBSD..

2004-07-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
ut on www.freebsd.org, file a PR change-request. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: cross-compile

2004-07-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
lator, documented at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html ...which will let you run most Linux binaries. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Freebsd 5.1 <-> Win XP Networking problems

2004-07-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
on is right. A good primer of TCP networking ought to discuss why people use subnetting, perhaps check 'TCP/IP Network Admin' from O'Reilly. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Anjuta and libtools problem

2004-07-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
anjuta PORTVERSION=1.2.2 [ ... ] So if anyone has more help to offer besides "use the ports" that would be really great. How about: "update your ports collection first, then use the ports". -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
s FreeBSD support 2 CPUs on i386? Sure. See the SMP section of the kernel config file. should i go to 4.10 or better 5.2.1? stability is really important to me. 4.10, unless there's a feature from -CURRENT that you don't want to live without. -- -Chuck

Re: Anjuta and libtools problem

2004-07-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
haven't seen many signs that it is any less subject to backwards-incompatible changes than the vendor supplied compiler toolchains that libtool was supposed to work around in some better & platform-independent fashion. But I digress, and someone else who uses anjuta could provide bet

Re: need help with UTF-8 !

2004-07-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
handle the mapping for Windows-style case-insensitive filenames when using foreign language codesets? I suspect there are going to be some pretty wacky issues there. The notion that there are capital letters which don't have a lowercase letter has broken an entire generation of tr sc

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 <-> WinXP Networking Problem UPDATE #2

2004-07-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
likely to be a problem with /etc/rc/firewall, assuming that even exists. Does "ipfw -a list" show a divert rule to natd? -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [OT] Apple's contribution to OSX

2004-07-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
uch of OSX today is open source (or "shared source")? Can you actually see the OSX source code? Can you use any of it? Others have responded to this with URLs that are more useful, but "lots, except for GUI programs", yes, and yes would be my answers. -- -Chuck _

Re: Compiling Application, always a nightmare.

2004-07-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
ook If you aren't a developer, your best bet is probably to use the ports or precompiled packages for now, and learn about coding by writing your own programs until you know enough to be able to understand and change/fix other people's code. -- -Chuck _

Re: Setting up good certs for ports/mail/imap-uw?

2004-07-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
do HTTPS. There is nothing magic about the well-known registrars, except that their CA certificates already ship as pre-trusted with the email clients and web browsers that most people use. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: [OT?] Sun/Java licensing

2004-08-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
to tweak the JRE itself, nor write software which changes things like how the java.* and com.sun.* packages work. [ No, Virginia, Java is not OSI open source. :-)] -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: bandwidth question

2004-08-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
uot;, "man sk"). Or maybe bandwidth management and traffic shaping (see "man dummynet"), or maybe you're talking about something else like network management tools which produce pretty charts and graphs (see "ls /usr/ports/net-mgmt"). -- -Chuck __

Re: Curious question about FreeBSD's TCP/IP and SMP locking

2004-08-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
part)? Why, yes, certainly it does. Beyond that, the size of the code involved implies something about the complexity: 8-epia# wc -l /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c 3349 /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Claiming that the list's e-mail showed up on her TV

2004-08-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
y for private mail, if it gets put into the address book of a Windows user who gets virusized. :-( -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 kernel w/ SMP under high load = panic

2004-08-02 Thread Chuck Rock
lockup in the 5 months I've been running it under increasing loads. The last lockup I had also seemed related to disk I/O. Otherwise, 5.2.1 has been a very stable production server processing over 1 million E-mail's a day incoming and hundred thousand out. Chuck On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Jo

Re: Questions on IPFW???

2004-08-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
somesort? Um. Do you understand the question you are asking? I don't-- perhaps try using a complete sentence. Better yet, why don't you tell us what your network looks like and what you want to do. You most likely will receive answers which are more specific and more useful to you... -- -

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