On Jan 14, 2005, at 1:39 PM, Christopher McGee wrote:
I have a cable modem that provides a dynamic IP address to the outside
interface of my firewall(5.3 with PF doing NAT). If my IP address
changes I have to run a script to update my dynamic dns and reload my
firewall rules based on the new
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:30:49PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote:
Jeff MacDonald wrote:
snip
On a related note:
If I want to do complete dumps of all of my file systems do I need to be
in single user mode? Will running in multiuser mode (with all of my
normal daemons running) mess up my
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:30:49PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote:
Jeff MacDonald wrote:
snip
On a related note:
If I want to do complete dumps of all of my file systems do I need to be
in single user mode? Will running in multiuser mode (with all of my
normal daemons running) mess up my
I would like one of my servers to send me an email when
it boots. I envision a script in rc.conf to do this.
Is there an easier way, or an automatic system which can do this?
Jim
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John wrote:
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Thanks for the _excellent_ reply. Please do submit it to the handbook.
I am actually running 4.10R on all of my servers (5.3R on my desktops).
I will probably boot into single user mode in the middle of the night,
the worst that will happen is that some people can't get to my
Jim Pazarena wrote:
snip
In rc.local:
mail -s 'subject' [EMAIL PROTECTED] message_to_send.txt
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Fac The entire point of this extended discussion, for those who have
Fac paid attention, is that FreeBSD 4.x, which is admittedly the
Fac fastest version available, DOES NOT work with intel's fastest CPUs
Fac because it doesnt support the necessary chipsets ...
While
On Friday 14 January 2005 02:12 pm, John wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:32:03PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
On Friday 14 January 2005 12:23 pm, John wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:19:20PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst
wrote:
Hello,
Andrew L. Gould wrote:
3. Definitely
Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 13:04:59, fquest wrote about boot up notification:
I would like one of my servers to send me an email when
it boots. I envision a script in rc.conf to do this.
This is too bad, as rc.conf is called tens times during boot.
Is there an easier way, or an automatic system
Len Zettel writes:
LZ Better to expend resources on making 5.3 faster than 4.10 on all
LZ chipsets or retrofit 4.10 to the new ones?
New OS versions should always provide either better functionality with
the same performance, or better performance with the same functionality.
Ideally they'd
--On Friday, January 14, 2005 10:32:08 PM +0100 Anthony Atkielski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is, IMO, the single greatest obstacles to using FreeBSD in
corporate and mission-critical environments, and it's the main reason
why I'd be extremely hesitant about recommending FreeBSD in such
John writes:
J If you are running FreeBSD 5.x, you get the cool L option on
J dump which will automatically snapshot the mounted filesystems.
What exactly is meant by a snapshot, and how much extra disk space
does it require when dump runs? I've seen the warnings when I run dump
on a running
Jim Pazarena wrote:
I would like one of my servers to send me an email when
it boots. I envision a script in rc.conf to do this.
Is there an easier way, or an automatic system which can do this?
You could set up a cronjob to run at '@reboot':
$ crontab -l
@reboot echo | mail -s The eagle
[in reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], 14-1-2005]
I would like one of my servers to send me an email when
it boots. I envision a script in rc.conf to do this.
Is there an easier way, or an automatic system which can do this?
We are using a simple shell script that can be placed in
Paul Schmehl writes:
PS Not to pick a nit...well, ok...to pick a nit...developers do not
PS support systems. Support organizations do. If you're going to be
PS using FreeBSD in a corporate environment then you need to find a
PS good *support* company that can backstop your local admins. *Then*,
I would like one of my servers to send me an email when
it boots. I envision a script in rc.conf to do this.
Is there an easier way, or an automatic system which can do this?
Put a little script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
name it something like /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bootmail.sh
In it, put
In a message dated 1/14/05 1:46:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
On Jan 14, 2005, at 12:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The entire point of this extended discussion, for those who have paid
attention, is that FreeBSD 4.x, which is admittedly the fastest version
available,
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:49:44PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
John writes:
J If you are running FreeBSD 5.x, you get the cool L option on
J dump which will automatically snapshot the mounted filesystems.
What exactly is meant by a snapshot, and how much extra disk space
does it
In a message dated 1/14/05 1:54:19 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So your claim that its a heavy-duty server platform is tainted by the
fact that in order to use the fastest server Mobos, you have to use the
slower,
still-under-development 5.x. Which seems
I'm trying to install phpmyadmin from ports. I keep getting an error
about PDF-Lite-6.0.0p1.tar.gz. The only files available now are
6.0.1. I've done a cvsup, but to no avail.
Please help.
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In a message dated 1/14/05 2:05:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's too bad he's now choosing to be even more antisocial
by changing his email address to avoid the procmail filters of those
for whom his rantings have lost their amusementKris
No, I've changed my address
Gregor Mosheh wrote:
I would like one of my servers to send me an email
when
it boots. I envision a script in rc.conf to do this.
Is there an easier way, or an automatic system which
can do this?
I put this script in my /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory.
I want it to run last, so I name it
Gregor Mosheh wrote:
I would like one of my servers to send me an email
when
it boots. I envision a script in rc.conf to do this.
Is there an easier way, or an automatic system which
can do this?
I put this script in my /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory.
I want it to run last, so I
Toomas Aas wrote:
But if it is necessary, it should be possible to bring the machine up to
single user mode and modify the fstab there, right? Given, of course,
that the root partition is left on ar0s1a.
Yes, that makes fine sense.
Although if you want to feel _really_ good about it, have a live
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 05:36:25PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/14/05 2:05:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's too bad he's now choosing to be even more antisocial
by changing his email address to avoid the procmail filters of those
for whom
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:51:03AM +0100, Christian Hiris wrote:
On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:54, Doug Poland wrote:
I'm having a problem with gmirror. It would seem that I cannot add my
Hello list,
I have to admit that, despite many years of experience using FreeBSD, I
am completely lost. I've looked for all the how-to documents, and
general documentation I can, and I don't find it a whole lot of help.
Here's what I've got going, and what I hope to achieve.
First off, I
Hi,
I've compiled a new kernel with EHCI support.
Output of dmesg:
usb2: EHCI version 0.95
usb2: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1
usb2: VIA VT6202 USB 2.0 controller on ehci0
usb2: USB revision 2.0
uhub2: VIA EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 4 ports with 4
In a message dated 1/14/05 5:56:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why are you abandoning support for new hardware in 4.x
when you admit that 5.x is not ready? It makes no sense at all.
Jamie, you have a fundamental lack of understanding about how the
FreeBSD community
I want to start logging to a file any succseses or failures when a user
envokes the passwd command. I came across editing the pam.conf file but
I don't know what to add. Can anyone help?
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Eric F Crist wrote:
Hello list,
I have to admit that, despite many years of experience using FreeBSD, I
am completely lost. I've looked for all the how-to documents, and
general documentation I can, and I don't find it a whole lot of help.
Here's what I've got going, and what I hope to
Eric F Crist wrote:
What I need is a slightly different setup for my users. As I mentioned
in an earlier email, I want to install an IMAP server. From what I've
gleaned from various sources, I need to change from mbox format to
maildir. Is this correct?
no, this is not correct, it depends
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:36:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/14/05 5:56:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why are you abandoning support for new hardware in 4.x
when you admit that 5.x is not ready? It makes no sense at all.
Jamie, you have
Sean Murphy wrote:
I want to start logging to a file any succseses or failures when a user
envokes the passwd command. I came across editing the pam.conf file but
I don't know what to add. Can anyone help?
Look at syslogd (/etc/syslog.conf) and /var/log/security or /var/log/auth.log,
I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why doesn't someone just answer the question? When Watson finally
admitted publically that 5.x has networking issues it ended the last
discussion. Just answer the question.
Focusing on one cludge is meaningless - who cares if your network is a
little slow, or just
In a message dated 1/14/05 6:47:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know how linux, windows, openbsd and every other major open
source project works, and I know how FreeBSD
used to work. I don't know of any other open source project
that abandons its best version to spend
I checked out syslog.conf and did not see what to uncomment to add the
passwd logging it currently logs bad logins and su but not successful
changed passwds then I had a look at /var/log/security but nothing was
in that file. hmm would I have to add a line to the syslog.conf file to
log this
Sean Murphy wrote:
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Look at syslogd (/etc/syslog.conf) and /var/log/security or
/var/log/auth.log, I suspect that what you want to see is already
being logged there.
I checked out syslog.conf and did not see what to uncomment to add the
passwd logging it currently logs bad
In a message dated 1/14/05 7:07:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why doesn't someone just answer the question? When Watson finally
admitted publically that 5.x has networking issues it ended the last
discussion. Just answer the question.
Eric F Crist wrote:
[ ... ]
What I need is a slightly different setup for my users. As I mentioned
in an earlier email, I want to install an IMAP server. From what I've
gleaned from various sources, I need to change from mbox format to
maildir. Is this correct?
No, there exist IMAP servers
Hello Kelsey:
I also have an Asus P4P8x motherboard. What can I do for using USB 2.0
under Windows xp ?
Thanks,
Abel
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Chuck Swiger wrote:
Sean Murphy wrote:
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Look at syslogd (/etc/syslog.conf) and /var/log/security or
/var/log/auth.log, I suspect that what you want to see is already
being logged there.
I checked out syslog.conf and did not see what to uncomment to add
the passwd logging it
I've been researching NFS and its file locking capabilities on FreeBSD
and I can't seem to find the answer to my question, so I thought I would
ask it here.
In this document
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.h
tml#NETWORK-CONFIGURATION-CONT
It mentions this:
Jeff Spector wrote:
Thanks to all of you who responded. I am newbie to FreeBSD and UNIX so I
may be asking some silly questions. I will try to burn it again and
check the parameters. Perhaps I did not mount my cd to the /CDROM folder
correctly and that is why I can not ls the file. Thanks again
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:00:26 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:
I know that dump is the bees-knees for backing up, so I'm looking for
any pre-made scripts for doing scheduled incremental backups with
dump.. or articles about dump etc..
Yes, dump and restore are what you should
On Jan 14, 2005, at 6:29 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Eric F Crist wrote:
[ ... ]
What I need is a slightly different setup for my users. As I
mentioned in an earlier email, I want to install an IMAP server.
From what I've gleaned from various sources, I need to change from
mbox format to maildir.
After looking into the matter a bit more, my employer
has decided that we don't need a true zero-downtime
situation, that simply a warm spare server would be
sufficient.
Does anyone know of any packages, or have any scripts
or other references, for doing this sort of thing? I
guess the basic
On Jan 14, 2005, at 6:29 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Eric F Crist wrote:
[ ... ]
What I need is a slightly different setup for my users. As I
mentioned in an earlier email, I want to install an IMAP server.
From what I've gleaned from various sources, I need to change from
mbox format to maildir.
Eric F Crist wrote:
Here's my final question: SquirrelMail config. I've got egroupware
working flawlessly with IMAP-UW. I use my standard unix user/pass for
mail retrieval. In SquirrelMail, I get an invalid user/pass error?
What am I missing?
afair squirrelmail depends on Maildir-format
On Jan 14, 2005, at 8:32 PM, albi wrote:
Eric F Crist wrote:
Here's my final question: SquirrelMail config. I've got egroupware
working flawlessly with IMAP-UW. I use my standard unix user/pass
for mail retrieval. In SquirrelMail, I get an invalid user/pass
error? What am I missing?
afair
Hi,
The computer of my friend has the following specs:
Motherboard: Asus A7V8x-x, chipset VIA-KT400,
with onboard sound, LAN, ATA133, USB
Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce4 MX440SE with TV-out
Modem: acorp-56K
Printer: OKI okipage 6w
Scanner: mustec1200CP
So, what is
Sergei Gnezdov wrote:
Hi,
The computer of my friend has the following specs:
Motherboard: Asus A7V8x-x, chipset VIA-KT400,
with onboard sound, LAN, ATA133, USB
Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce4 MX440SE with TV-out
Modem: acorp-56K
Printer: OKI okipage 6w
Scanner: mustec1200CP
Hi,
I need to consider if my friend can migrate from windows. Do you know
of a good user friendly alternatives (may be not as powerful)? I might
be able to answer most of the items, but I'd like to make sure that I
know about the options:
Alternatives for:
- MS Office XP. I don't think he
Sergei Gnezdov wrote:
Hi,
I need to consider if my friend can migrate from windows. Do you know
of a good user friendly alternatives (may be not as powerful)? I might
be able to answer most of the items, but I'd like to make sure that I
know about the options:
Alternatives for:
- MS Office XP.
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:12:28AM +0100, Christian Hiris wrote:
On Friday 14 January 2005 20:43, Doug Poland wrote:
size=`fdisk ad6 | grep ', size ' | head -1 | sed -e 's;^.*size
\([0-9]*\).*$;\1;'` (echo p 1 165 63 $size; echo a 1) | fdisk -v -B -f-
-i /dev/ad4
That command
Timothy Luoma wrote:
I cannot get high speed internet access at home. In fact, I can't get
more than about 26400 on my dialup.
That sux
My dialup is my FreeBSD machine (5.3).
I am wondering if I setup a proxy on the FreeBSD machine, if it would
speed downloads up any. If so, what would be a
I think most of your questions will be answered on the FreeBSD website
under Hardware Notes... Have your friend research it.
I would not ask if I could find the answers in Hardware Notes. For
example, onboard sound is known to be tricky.
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Again, these can be found on the website -
http://www.freebsd.org/applications.html... And again, have your
friend research it on his own.
Right. Not everybody knows English and not everybody has unlimited
Internet connection. And by the way, lots of free software is for geeks
only. I have
In the last episode (Jan 14), Timothy Luoma said:
I cannot get high speed internet access at home. In fact, I can't
get more than about 26400 on my dialup.
My dialup is my FreeBSD machine (5.3).
I am wondering if I setup a proxy on the FreeBSD machine, if it would
speed downloads up any.
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:54:23PM -0500, Timothy Luoma wrote:
I cannot get high speed internet access at home. In fact, I can't get
more than about 26400 on my dialup.
My dialup is my FreeBSD machine (5.3).
I am wondering if I setup a proxy on the FreeBSD machine, if it would
speed
I cannot get high speed internet access at home. In fact, I can't get
more than about 26400 on my dialup.
My dialup is my FreeBSD machine (5.3).
I am wondering if I setup a proxy on the FreeBSD machine, if it would
speed downloads up any. If so, what would be a good proxy to use?
Anything
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Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 6:06
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Subject: USB2.0 support for Intel ICH5 chipset?
Hello Kelsey:
I also have an Asus P4P8x
Eric F Crist wrote:
Actually, I believe squirrelmail just depends on an imap server. I
don't think it cares what (imap-uw is supported). My issue resides with
the plain-text password issue. As per instructions, I've recompiled
imap-uw to allow plain-text, or so I thought, and I still get the
Hi all,
This is on a fresh install/cvsup to 4-STABLE, ports cvsuped,
etc.
Any suggestions?
Alex
pkg_add -r XFree86
pkg_add -r kde
cd /usr/ports/graphics/hugin
make
=== hugin-0.4.r1 depends on executable: PTOptimizer - found
=== hugin-0.4.r1 depends on
Timothy Luoma wrote:
[ ... ]
I am wondering if I setup a proxy on the FreeBSD machine, if it would
speed downloads up any. If so, what would be a good proxy to use?
Anything else I could do to speed things up?
Squid is a good proxy, and it can be smarter about caching and using
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:01:25 -0800
Sergei Gnezdov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think most of your questions will be answered on the FreeBSD
website under Hardware Notes... Have your friend research it.
I would not ask if I could find the answers in Hardware Notes. For
example, onboard
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 09:43:35PM -0600, Chris wrote:
Hi,
The computer of my friend has the following specs:
Motherboard: Asus A7V8x-x, chipset VIA-KT400,
with onboard sound, LAN, ATA133, USB
Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce4 MX440SE with TV-out
Modem: acorp-56K
Printer: OKI
On Jan 14, 2005, at 10:22 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Eric F Crist wrote:
Actually, I believe squirrelmail just depends on an imap server. I
don't think it cares what (imap-uw is supported). My issue resides
with the plain-text password issue. As per instructions, I've
recompiled imap-uw to
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:16:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/14/05 6:47:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know how linux, windows, openbsd and every other major open
source project works, and I know how FreeBSD
used to work. I don't know
On Friday, 14 January 2005 at 18:36:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have a name?
In a message dated 1/14/05 5:56:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL
PROTECTED] writes:
Why are you abandoning support for new hardware in 4.x when you
admit that 5.x is not ready? It makes no sense at
On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:05 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Welcome back to my killfile (although I doubt you'll stay there long
because of your desperate need to hear your own voice).
Kris
Now, I understand his/her/it's words are harsh, but is killing them
really a fair alternative? Well, I guess I can
Maybe I'm Googling the wrong terms, but I'm trying to find a way to
make 'make' less chatty during 'make install clean' (at least the
'make' part, I'd like to see the install stuff if possible... if not,
I'd rather not.)
There seem to be a lot of merely information stuff that comes by. I
Sergei Gnezdov wrote:
Hi,
The computer of my friend has the following specs:
Motherboard: Asus A7V8x-x, chipset VIA-KT400,
with onboard sound, LAN, ATA133, USB
Doubt that's much of an issue. And, in regard
to your assertation about sound, I've never had
much trouble with sound and FreeBSD,
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:31:30AM -0500, Timothy Luoma wrote:
Maybe I'm Googling the wrong terms, but I'm trying to find a way to
make 'make' less chatty during 'make install clean' (at least the
'make' part, I'd like to see the install stuff if possible... if not,
I'd rather not.)
On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:31 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote:
Maybe I'm Googling the wrong terms, but I'm trying to find a way to
make 'make' less chatty during 'make install clean' (at least the
'make' part, I'd like to see the install stuff if possible... if not,
I'd rather not.)
There seem to be a lot
[two replies in one]
On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:05 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:
A local proxy won't help you any more than simply cranking up your
browser cache.
rats. I was thinking that if it was coming from one traceroute hop
away would be faster than from however many hops the other sites would
be.
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Friday, 14 January 2005 at 18:36:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have a name?
In a message dated 1/14/05 5:56:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why are you abandoning support for new hardware in 4.x when you
admit that 5.x is not
Eric F Crist wrote:
On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:05 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Welcome back to my killfile (although I doubt you'll stay there long
because of your desperate need to hear your own voice).
Kris
Now, I understand his/her/it's words are harsh, but is killing them
really a fair alternative?
On Jan 15, 2005, at 1:05 AM, Scott Bennett wrote:
You've tried -s? And that was still too chatty?
-s looks promising (d'oh, checked make.conf settings but not man
page... far too late, must sleep)
Actually the redirect works well, esp. now that someone explained the
redirect (new to
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On Saturday 15 January 2005 04:52, Doug Poland wrote:
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:12:28AM +0100, Christian Hiris wrote:
On Friday 14 January 2005 20:43, Doug Poland wrote:
Yes, I tried it under both tcsh and sh. I didn't take it apart the same
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