adding user and group on redhat.

2003-08-08 Thread Anil Garg
hi, On red hat ..commands 'adduser' and '/stand/sysinstall' doesnt work. Can someone help me by telling how to add user and group in redhat. Thanks and Regards Anil. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Tripwire Policy File

2003-08-08 Thread Stephen L Martin
Hello, I'm trying to build a solid tripwire policy file. So far I have only found one resource to use: http://www.schlacter.net/public/FreeBSD-STABLE_and_IPFILTER.html Though this seems to be a good one it is written for 4.6. I'm not sure if this is a problem or not. So my questions are: How

Re: adding user and group on redhat.

2003-08-08 Thread Sherwin T. Ang
errr it's useradd and groupadd - Original Message - From: Anil Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1:14 PM Subject: adding user and group on redhat. hi, On red hat ..commands 'adduser' and '/stand/sysinstall' doesnt work. Can someone help

cvsup question

2003-08-08 Thread mbaki
Hi all, I'm running Freebsd 5.1 and I noticed in the Freebsd ftp website, current has some new port versions. I modified my cvs-supfile based on what I read in the handbook: src-all ports-all cvs-root all *default tag=. *default host=cvsup16.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default

cups configuration

2003-08-08 Thread mess-mate
Hi list, how can I configure cups as my favorite printer system ? thanks mess-mate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SMP Supported Hardware Question

2003-08-08 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Hello All, I am interested in playing with SMP and am curious if there is anyone out there using the following combo with success: Athlon AMSN2400Box Gigabyte: GA-7DPXDW I plan on using 4.8 for the moment. Thanks in advance and please pardon the newbie nature of this question. Scott

Re: NATD and PPP problem

2003-08-08 Thread Jacob Vennervald Madsen
Hi Thanks a lot! The natd_flag=-dynamic worked. Aparently the pppoe interface tun0 wasn't active yet when natd was started so it couldn't find the interface. Cheers, Jacob Vennervald On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:06, Francesco Casadei wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 05:02:50PM +0200, Jacob

A queston on default sysctl settings.

2003-08-08 Thread Chris
Hiya folks - Can someone tell me if there is a adverse effect in setting: net.inet.ip.rtexpire from 3600 to say 5 And the same with net.inet.ip.rtminexpire fro 10 to say 2 ? This would be on an ADSL wire. Thanks in advance. -- Best regards, Chris

Re: Question re. hard read errors

2003-08-08 Thread Raphaƫl Marmier
Try using dd to grab all possible bits of that file: /bin/sh dd if=/path/tothe/file of=/path/to/newfile conv=sync,noerror ddlog.txt 21 you get the log of all errors and faulty blocks in ddlog.txt This will make a copy of the file with unreadable blocks converted to blank. Then you should fix

Re: Vinum on an existing system

2003-08-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 7 August 2003 at 11:12:02 -0700, Hank Wethington wrote: Greetings! I have recently taken over a machine (FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE 7/31/03) that is a mail server (qmail, imap, apache2, pop3, etc) and due to the companies relience upon the machine, want to use vinum to mirror the

Question re. hard read errors

2003-08-08 Thread Richard Johnson
I have a 1.5Gb file stored on a FreeBSD 4.8 disk drive and the system is giving me hard read errors when I try reading it. It appears as though this disk has a few bad blocks. :( Unfortunately, it's a compressed tar file and I (stupidly!) erased the file from the original computer before

ATAPI identify retries exceeded (amended)

2003-08-08 Thread Brad Musil
I am attempting to install BSD 5.0 on the second hard drive in this machine. It is a 2.8 P4 with 1 GIG of memory. The CD drive is an OPTORITE CD-RW CW480, and the hard drives are IDE 74.5 gig. Here is the problem: I insert the 5.0 cd in the drive and have the machine set to boot from the cd

Re: ppp woes!!

2003-08-08 Thread Jon-Eirik Pettersen
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:36, Jiger Java wrote: Hi FreeBSD Gurus and users, This is my first mail to the list and am a complete stranger to FreeBSD so forgive my newbie question. I have just taken the bold step towards installing FreeBSD on my machine. I have 1.7GHZ Pentium with 512 MB

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2003-08-08 Thread Lucas Holt
I think we need software that blocks spam out of the box. Server Side: I've found that most of my time is spent installing addons for sendmail to do virus scanning and spam prevention. Why don't mail servers have spam assassin, black lists, etc. enabled and installed with a base set of rules

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2003-08-08 Thread Cavallini David
Recently I've installed the GCC-3.2.3 in the version 5.1. When I run the gcj32 command form the bash shell it return the following error message /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libc.so.4 not found Probably a C library is missing but I don't known I do not know which it could be. The

Re: realtek ACL650 driver

2003-08-08 Thread Vulpes Velox
On 6 Aug 2003 13:41:02 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote: Hi, I've downloaded realtek ACL650 driver for linux from realtek web site. When i try to install it i get an error because driver not found kernel directory. In the configure process there is an option that set kernel directory...

Re: qmail +smtp authentication ?

2003-08-08 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 10:06, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I want to setup a personal email server for my domain on my frebsd 4.7S box. I've heard great things about qmail. This lead me to wonder about smtp authentication with qmail as I think that would eliminate the open relay problem.

Re: Hard drive performance question

2003-08-08 Thread Jason Lieurance
Hello, Ok, I guess I thought 14 was high but it's ok then? I'm not sure what is acceptible but I guess sometimes I thought it would go down instead of always being constant. So I assumed(ignorantly) that there is a disk i/o problem. -- Jason Dan Nelson said: In the last episode (Aug 05),

Re: What ports need to be open on a firewall to allow cvsup?

2003-08-08 Thread Jason Stewart
stan wrote: The company I work for is implementing a new firewall, and there is some posibilty I might be able to get the apropriate ports to cvsup my FreeBSD machines open. Assuming pasive mode cvsup, what ports would I need open? ~$grep cvsup /etc/services cvsup 5999/tcp

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2003-08-08 Thread Mykroft Holmes IV
Interspersed Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:24 PM Subject: Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space You

Quick and dirty FreeBSD 5.x and nss_ldap mini-HOWTO

2003-08-08 Thread Clement Laforet
Hi, Here's a really mini HOWTO to get nss_ldap works on FreeBSD 5.x, this is a follow up of a previous discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html Any feedback, ideas, suggestions, patches, insults are

Re: are all dsl modems the same?

2003-08-08 Thread Mykroft Holmes IV
David Banning wrote: I am looking at buying a dsl modem used but I am not aware of the differences from one to the next. I am using a G-net which seems to work fine, and I used a Nortel Networks one when I was with another DSL supplier. Is the operation of most DSL modems the same, and if so,

kernel-building error

2003-08-08 Thread mess-mate
Hi, An error occurs when building my kernel :( What does this mean ?? : linking kernel umass.o: In function `umass_cam_attach_sim': umass.o(.text+0x17c7): undefined reference to `cam_simq_alloc' umass.o(.text+0x1818): undefined reference to `cam_sim_alloc' umass.o(.text+0x1827): undefined

Re: Well, we're getting closer. Still having issuesinstalling BitTorrent.

2003-08-08 Thread Dragoncrest
Nobody has an answer for this? At 12:20 PM 8/4/03 -0400, Dragoncrest wrote: Ok, first off I want to send out thanks to whoever submitted the bug report on the python numeric port issue. Problem is, we've got a new one. When building for BitTorrent it looks for the port

Re: FreeBSD programming question

2003-08-08 Thread J. Seth Henry
That looks exactly like what I want. I need to resume programming on either serial activity and at periodic intervals. Eventually, I plan to toss networking into the mix, and this program will function as a daemon, but I'm relatively new to programming for *nix (though not new to programming in

Re: recommended book/guide for /bin/sh shell programming

2003-08-08 Thread burningclown
may have already been mentioned, Bruce Blinn, Portable Shell Programming: An Extensive Collection of Bourne Shell Examples good stuff -glenn becker On 6 Aug 2003, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 14:21, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: For multiple reasons I am moving away from

Re: ATAPI identify retries exceeded (amended)

2003-08-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:11:11PM -0700, Brad Musil wrote: OK!... we are out of ideas over here... so ball over to you guys for the experts advice on what to do next. Once again... Thanks See my response to the last time you posted this ;-) Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A queston on default sysctl settings.

2003-08-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone tell me if there is a adverse effect in setting: net.inet.ip.rtexpire from 3600 to say 5 And the same with net.inet.ip.rtminexpire fro 10 to say 2 ? This would be on an ADSL wire. You don't want to drop it more than necessary, because

Re: Question concerning dual-NIC configuration

2003-08-08 Thread Kenneth Culver
why would ya want to route lo1 127.0.0.1 to a 192.x.x. address ??? seems to me that there are to many system side processes that listen or ocmmunicate thru that...giving access or routing that traffic to a internal address ...doesnt seem to smart to me. This is basically what I just said.

RE: 5.1 Compaq Smart Array

2003-08-08 Thread Warner Joseph
I think it's already disabled or won't work at all on this server. I can't remember if I said this before but when I boot the mini-install CD on the server option #2 says Boot with ACPI enabled and when I boot on a regular PC that already has 5.1 installed it says Boot with ACPI disabled so I

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2003-08-08 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Kevin Stevens wrote: On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: Its still not a reason for allowing relay from dynamic addresses. All ISP's, or atleast all serious ISP's, provide their customer with a relaying mailserver. Its a simple task to configure your mailserver to use your

Re: ports-supfile file problem

2003-08-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks Lowell. Well, your suggestions made sense and at the very least have showed me that the host name in the file was wrong... I've now changed it to an actual cvsup mirror (cvsup3.FreeBSD.org), and also tested the file with and without adding

Re: Server Ident

2003-08-08 Thread Jez Hancock
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:03:14PM +, Dead Line wrote: Hello everybody I'm on FreeBSD 4.8-R. I installed pidentd package from /ports and i uncomment the line authstream tcp waitroot/usr/local/sbin/identd identd -w -t120 But seems its still not working, when i

Re: How can I check for swap space? (4.8-Release)

2003-08-08 Thread Kevin Stevens
At 07:16 PM 8/7/2003 -0400, John Mills wrote: Freebies - I just installed 4.8-Release from CDs and let the installer divide my disk automatically. Things are acting as though I have little or no active swap space. 2. How can I check what I got? (No joy yet from 'fdisk' on that.) cat

Re: FreeBSD - Secure by DEFAULT ?? [hosts.allow]

2003-08-08 Thread Byron Schlemmer
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 19:24, Schalk Erasmus wrote: Hi, I need to know what the implications are to make use of the hosts.allow file on a FreeBSD Production Server (ISP Setup)? The reason I'm asking, is that I've recently decommisioned a Linux SendMail Server to a FreeBSD Exim Server, but

Re: Hang while hardware probing in 4.8

2003-08-08 Thread dayton
I have what appears to be the same problem. I'm a longtime FreeBSD user. I put 4.8 on a new laptop (Tecra M1) and when I created a kernel with support for power management and the sound card, it would hang on the boot in a similar fashion. The generic kernel would boot fine. I found that if I

RE: Question concerning dual-NIC configuration

2003-08-08 Thread Michael K. Smith
why would ya want to route lo1 127.0.0.1 to a 192.x.x. address ??? seems to me that there are to many system side processes that listen or ocmmunicate thru that...giving access or routing that traffic to a internal address ...doesnt seem to smart to me. -- I wouldn't; I was using that as an

Experience with Intel SCSI RAID?

2003-08-08 Thread Stein
Hi, We are considering Intel new SCSI RAID series of controllers. Despite that they are listing their controllers as Supported with Limited Campatability and Validation with FreeBSD4.4 and higher. We will be running FreeBSD4.8. The SRCU42L is a potential candidate, in conjunction with some of the

Re: ports-supfile file problem

2003-08-08 Thread John DeStefano
--- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to update my ports tree to address some possible solutions posted here to another problem.

What ports need to be open on a firewall to allow cvsup?

2003-08-08 Thread stan
The company I work for is implementing a new firewall, and there is some posibilty I might be able to get the apropriate ports to cvsup my FreeBSD machines open. Assuming pasive mode cvsup, what ports would I need open? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve

ipsec tunnel in transport mode

2003-08-08 Thread Adam Mazza
Hello, I've been reading the docs on setting up an ipsec vpn on freebsd to connect two remote networks. I am hoping someone could point me to any documentation that outlines trasport mode. Basically I have a box running 4.7-RELEASE-p11 that is connected to my network via a wireless bridge. I

Re: ran snort, now fxp1 stuck in promisc mode

2003-08-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dave [Hawk-Systems] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: was experimenting with snort to try and track down the source of some hack attempts (which were futile but annoying). Before settling on the various flags that I indeed wanted to use, there were a number of failed snort starts, stops, etc...

Re: kernel-building error

2003-08-08 Thread Mark Woodson
On Friday 08 August 2003 12:47 pm, mess-mate wrote: | umass.o: In function `umass_cam_quirk_cb': | umass.o(.text+0x21bb): undefined reference to `xpt_done' | *** Error code 1 | | Thanks for your help. | mess-mate Thanks for your help. Problem semi-solved. Disabled 'umass' in the kernel

Re: Samba and $

2003-08-08 Thread Micheas Herman
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 17:41, Jon Reynolds wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 12:25, Bob Collins wrote: At 02:07 PM 8/4/2003 -0500, gfsd wrote: Why can't i create a user with a $ on the end? For machine trust accounts i need to add each one by hand, instead of on the fly creation. When I use

Poor speed in local subnet with bge (Broadcom NIC)

2003-08-08 Thread Heiko Weber
Hi, I have installed a new FreeBSD system on a Fujitsu-Siemens TX200 with a Broadcom gigabit network card. All the local cables hubs are 10baseT (and this is also what autodetect figures out). My connection to the internet is a 2MBit fixed line connection. The problem ist, that all local

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2003-08-08 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that