Re: (postfix) SPAM filter?

2007-12-17 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:20:50 +0530, Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14:48:35 Dec 15, Jorn Argelo wrote: Greylisting only works so-so nowadays. There was a couple of months it was very effective, but that is long gone. Spammers aren't stupid, and they follow the development

RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Matt LaPlante [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 2:18 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Andrew Falanga; Rob; FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use It's a chicken and egg problem.

Re: /usr/local/rc.d/apache22 start doesn't start Apache

2007-12-17 Thread Yuri
Quoting Erik Cederstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ok, that was pretty easy: # diff rc.subr.orig rc.subr 608a609 echo $name not started. Set ${rcvar} to YES in /etc./rc.conf or use '$name force'. which gives the output: # rc.d/ftpd start ftpd not started. Set

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Chad Perrin wrote: That being the case, there is some data I would like to keep available to both FreeBSD and Linux systems, in stable read/write access with reasonably high access performance for both (fast enough to achieve decent frame rates, for instance). This seems to rule out both

RE: Dependencies. (was: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is forbidden: Remote Code Execution...)

2007-12-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Modulok Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 3:35 AM To: Tino Engel Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dependencies. (was: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2,1 is forbidden: Remote Code Execution...)

Re: OS bug in taskq

2007-12-17 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Elliot Finley wrote: in the kernel and I'm still unable to obtain a crash dump. Hopefully there is enough info in this email for a hacker to point me in the right direction to debug this. If you're unable to obtain a crash dump, you should still be able to use

Re: Dependencies. (was: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is forbidden: Remote Code Execution...)

2007-12-17 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2007 11:29:01 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: For you to ask that question shows without a doubt that it has been too long since you have sat back, put on Pink Floyd, taken a few bong hits, and contemplated the Universe. Thanks for cheering up my workday! ;-) -- Heiko

Re: Cannot get Script to Run Via Crontab

2007-12-17 Thread Robert Huff
Giorgos Keramidas writes: The lines from my script that are causing the problem are: my $scomd = /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceGray -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dDownsampleMonoImages=true -dMonoImageDownsampleType=/Average

Re: Cannot get Script to Run Via Crontab

2007-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-17 07:19, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas writes: The lines from my script that are causing the problem are: [...] The cron message to mail/root ends with: exec: ps2pdf12: not found I am assuming that cron cannot find a path or a config file for

How to know total number of bytes of a directory

2007-12-17 Thread DSA - JCR
Hi all I would like to know the total number of bytes of a directory and its related subdirs, occupied by the files inside it. I haven't found any command for knowning it. Thanks in advance!! Sincerely Juan Coruña Desarrollo de Software Atlantico

RE: How to know total number of bytes of a directory

2007-12-17 Thread Barry Byrne
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DSA - JCR Sent: 17 December 2007 13:38 Hi all I would like to know the total number of bytes of a directory and its related subdirs, occupied by the files inside it. I haven't found any command

Re: How to know total number of bytes of a directory

2007-12-17 Thread Andy Greenwood
DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I would like to know the total number of bytes of a directory and its related subdirs, occupied by the files inside it. I haven't found any command for knowning it. # du -s /etc 17008 /etc You need read privs to all the subdirectories, otherwise you'll get

Re: Bash script to find out the summary of user memory usage [not working]

2007-12-17 Thread Patrick Dung
I have correction with the script but still doesn't work: #!/usr/local/bin/bash for user in `ps -A -o user | sort | uniq | tail +2` do echo user: $user ps aux -U $user | tail +2 | while read line do mem=`echo $line | awk {'print $4'}` echo mem: $mem

Re: How to know total number of bytes of a directory

2007-12-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Andy Greenwood wrote: DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I would like to know the total number of bytes of a directory and its related subdirs, occupied by the files inside it. I haven't found any command for knowning it. # du -s /etc 17008 /etc You need read privs to all the

Re: How to know total number of bytes of a directory

2007-12-17 Thread DAve
Andy Greenwood wrote: DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I would like to know the total number of bytes of a directory and its related subdirs, occupied by the files inside it. I haven't found any command for knowning it. # du -s /etc 17008 /etc You need read privs to all the

Re: How to know total number of bytes of a directory

2007-12-17 Thread Andy Greenwood
DAve wrote: Andy Greenwood wrote: DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I would like to know the total number of bytes of a directory and its related subdirs, occupied by the files inside it. I haven't found any command for knowning it. # du -s /etc 17008 /etc You need read privs to

Re: Problem With PoEdit

2007-12-17 Thread Victor Subervi
I've never used X before...grown to love the command line ;) I didn't have X cranked up...don't even know how to do that. I just entered poedit at the command line and assumed X would kick in. Should I start X? How? TIA, Victor On Dec 14, 2007 3:50 PM, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

backuppc port?

2007-12-17 Thread Dave
Hello, I've been googling and i've read that a FreeBSD port of backuppc is either in production or near completion or actually done. I haven't been able to find out anything else. Does anyone know anything about this port? Thanks. Dave. ___

Re: mounted cd and tray locking

2007-12-17 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
The PR I sent: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=118779 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread David Robillard
That being the case, there is some data I would like to keep available to both FreeBSD and Linux systems, in stable read/write access with reasonably high access performance for both (fast enough to achieve decent frame rates, for instance). This seems to rule out both ext3 and UFS2. What

Re: Problem With PoEdit

2007-12-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Victor Subervi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've never used X before...grown to love the command line ;) I didn't have X cranked up...don't even know how to do that. I just entered poedit at the command line and assumed X would kick in. Should I start X? How? See the FreeBSD Handbook section

Re: Bash script to find out the summary of user memory usage [not working]

2007-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-17 06:00, Patrick Dung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have correction with the script but still doesn't work: #!/usr/local/bin/bash for user in `ps -A -o user | sort | uniq | tail +2` do echo user: $user ps aux -U $user | tail +2 | while read line do mem=`echo

Re: (postfix) SPAM filter?

2007-12-17 Thread Eric Crist
On Dec 17, 2007, at 2:36 AM, Jorn Argelo wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:20:50 +0530, Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14:48:35 Dec 15, Jorn Argelo wrote: Greylisting only works so-so nowadays. There was a couple of months it was very effective, but that is long gone.

Re: Installation CD

2007-12-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:41:50PM -0500, Zeeshan Ahmad wrote: Hi, I want to ask which iso image i have to download from this link: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/ that will install FreeBSD from CD ROM direclty because there are bootonly iso, disc1 and

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-17 Thread Matt LaPlante
On Dec 17, 2007 4:03 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Matt LaPlante [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 2:18 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Andrew Falanga; Rob; FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Suggestions please for

Re: How to know total number of bytes of a directory

2007-12-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:09:36AM -0500, DAve wrote: Andy Greenwood wrote: DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I would like to know the total number of bytes of a directory and its related subdirs, occupied by the files inside it. I haven't found any command for knowning it. # du -s

Jail question

2007-12-17 Thread jhall
Ladies and Gentlemen, I want to check the understanding of jails. My understanding is a jail uses the existing kernel configuration and cannot use its own kernel configuration. Is this correct? Thanks, Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Ethernet Card Times out on Transfer of Large Files

2007-12-17 Thread Daniel Bye
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:07:57AM -0600, W. D. wrote: Hello Gentlemen: The NVidia Ethernet card, nve0, seems to burp on transfers of large files. After browsing the Web, apparently this is a fairly common problem: http://www.google.com/search?q=nve0+device+timeout+FreeBSD From what I

ipfw rules for all interfaces not working ...

2007-12-17 Thread Gore Jarold
My main goal is to lock down my ipfw rules so that when I run nmap, all I see is: Interesting ports on 192.168.0.10: Not shown: 1677 closed ports PORTSTATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh MAC Address: 00:12:D8:A2:23:C2 Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 9.791 seconds So that

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-17 Thread Peter Schuller
other BSDs for that matter. It being GPL guarantees that quite apart from it general suckiness. Can someone please explain why bash sucks? Everyone keep's saying this but I have never heard anyone explain why, other than the GPL issue. I really want to know. (This is not because I'm a bash

Re: Jail question

2007-12-17 Thread Peter Schuller
I want to check the understanding of jails. My understanding is a jail uses the existing kernel configuration and cannot use its own kernel configuration. Is this correct? Yes. The jail is being executed by the same kernel as the host system. The jail just has restricted access to certain

cvsup-mirror: clients never get past 'running' (server 100% idle)

2007-12-17 Thread Hugo Silva
Hello, I've set up a local cvsup mirror for a freebsd server farm but I'm having some trouble making it work. I went with all the defaults on the install, only skipping gnats www and mail. The initial update went well, took awhile but I have all files in place now. However, when

Re: csh programing book

2007-12-17 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
On Saturday 15 of December 2007 21:36:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Csh.html ? There are some other under index.html Thank you all for your help. I want to learn only some stuff with csh. I know how to that in sh or bash but I don't know how in csh, so I simply ask

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 07:33:22PM +0100, Peter Schuller wrote: other BSDs for that matter. It being GPL guarantees that quite apart from it general suckiness. Can someone please explain why bash sucks? Everyone keep's saying this but I have never heard anyone explain why, other than

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 07:21:23PM -0500, Tom McLaughlin wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 04:13 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Hi Frank, Now that you mention pdksh, have you tried mksh (in Ports too)? I've installed it and successfully run moderately large ksh scripts (like the

Re: Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?

2007-12-17 Thread n j
Tried looking for the adduser program, but could not find adduser.c Just to point out that adduser is a shell script, as witnessed by: # file /usr/sbin/adduser /usr/sbin/adduser: Bourne shell script text executable and the response to the original question - how does the system generate new

Re: csh programing book

2007-12-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 02:57:12PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Actually, I like ksh better, if you are really going all out for a programming shell, but if you're really after a scripting language, why restrict yourself to shells? things like Python Ruby knock hell out of

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Michaël Grünewald wrote: Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As long as folks don't stop me from running whatever I want, I don't care if you use bash, but it really irks me, that most Linux systems are broken in that respect: Most of them break badly in random ways, if you don't run bash as

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Jurjen Middendorp wrote: If you're familiar with pdksh, are you also familiar with ksh93, which is (I believe) Mr. Korn's own shell? If you are, I would be interessted in your opinion of the two, any comparisons you might give. I've never used ksh93 so I really can't say. There is a NOTES

Re: csh programing book

2007-12-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:23:52PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 02:57:12PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Actually, I like ksh better, if you are really going all out for a programming shell, but if you're really after a scripting language, why restrict

No audio whatever....

2007-12-17 Thread Gary Kline
I realize this may have no easy answer, but suddenly, after a portupgrade -aP. I have no sound. catting /deev/snstat does tell me that my sound card is there. my volme is set to 100%. Where else shoulf I be looking. gary -- Gary Kline

PATA on DQ965GF

2007-12-17 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm trying to add a PATA drive to a machine based upon a DQ965FG motherboard. The BIOS sees the drive quite happily, but FreeBSD sees nothing. I vaguely seem to remember some discussion about trying to set up PATA CD-ROM drive with this board, and I think a kernel patch was

Re: No audio whatever....

2007-12-17 Thread Jonathan Horne
Gary Kline wrote: I realize this may have no easy answer, but suddenly, after a portupgrade -aP. I have no sound. catting /deev/snstat does tell me that my sound card is there. my volme is set to 100%. Where else shoulf I be looking. gary

Re: portaudit in periodic

2007-12-17 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Cristian KLEIN ha scritto: I used to have problem with cron scripts, because cron uses another PATH then what the script gets if it's run from the shell. Could you try the following (assuming sh): export SHELL=/bin/sh export PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin export HOME=/var/log periodic

Re: csh programing book

2007-12-17 Thread Kurt Buff
On Dec 17, 2007 12:50 PM, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aren't MS developing an OO shell? Called Monad (although it wouldn't surprise me if they haven't changed the name). I suppose we should expect something cruel unusual from them ;) Anybody used Vista's Explorer? That's damned

Re: csh programing book

2007-12-17 Thread Peter Schuller
Well, I was only giving my personal opinion. I've never used irb, but it seems to me that using any sort of OO tool as a shell would be cruel and unusual, but I guess it takes all kinds, and I certainly wouldn't prevent you from enjoying yourself, same as I'd expect from you to mine. The OO

Regarding Advanced Networking Technologies in FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Diego Salvador
To Whom It May Concerned: Hello and good day! What will be the status of the advanced networking technologies in FreeBSD such as mobile IPv6 (MIP6) and network mobility (NEMO)? Since then KAME snap kit will be discontinued for FreeBSD and OpenBSD development at the moment and only NetBSD will

Re: No audio whatever....

2007-12-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:46:22PM -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I realize this may have no easy answer, but suddenly, after a portupgrade -aP. I have no sound. catting /deev/snstat does tell me that my sound card is there. my volme is set to 100%.

Re: No audio whatever....

2007-12-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:06:10PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: I realize this may have no easy answer, but suddenly, after a portupgrade -aP. I have no sound. catting /deev/snstat does tell me that my sound card is there. my volme is set to 100%. Where else shoulf I

Re: portaudit in periodic

2007-12-17 Thread Cristian KLEIN
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Cristian KLEIN ha scritto: I used to have problem with cron scripts, because cron uses another PATH then what the script gets if it's run from the shell. Could you try the following (assuming sh): export SHELL=/bin/sh export

Re: No audio whatever....

2007-12-17 Thread David J Brooks
On Monday 17 December 2007 03:46:22 pm Jonathan Horne wrote: speaking of catting ive had to on more than one occasion, make sure that my cat didnt bite thru my audio wire. Heh.. thanks for the tip. That explains why I lost all audio on the right channel. Sure enough, kitten-sized

Re: No audio whatever....

2007-12-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:41:34AM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:06:10PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: I realize this may have no easy answer, but suddenly, after a portupgrade -aP. I have no sound. catting /deev/snstat does tell me that my sound card is

Re: No audio whatever....

2007-12-17 Thread Joshua Isom
On Dec 17, 2007, at 7:02 PM, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:41:34AM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:06:10PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: I realize this may have no easy answer, but suddenly, after a portupgrade -aP. I have no sound. catting

SSH through port forwarding

2007-12-17 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm having a difficult time working with my father to get the port forwarding working on his Linksys router to forward SSH requests to his FreeBSD machine at home. As near as we can figure, it's setup correctly. In case anyone here uses this router it is WRT54G and details (including a users

Re: SSH through port forwarding

2007-12-17 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I'm having a difficult time working with my father to get the port forwarding working on his Linksys router to forward SSH requests to his FreeBSD machine at home. As near as we can figure, it's setup correctly. In case anyone here uses this router

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-17 Thread Tom McLaughlin
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 19:38 +, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 07:21:23PM -0500, Tom McLaughlin wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 04:13 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Hi Frank, Now that you mention pdksh, have you tried mksh (in Ports too)? I've installed it

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:39:31AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: That being the case, there is some data I would like to keep available to both FreeBSD and Linux systems, in stable read/write access with reasonably high access performance for both (fast enough to achieve

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:38:54AM -0500, David Robillard wrote: That being the case, there is some data I would like to keep available to both FreeBSD and Linux systems, in stable read/write access with reasonably high access performance for both (fast enough to achieve decent frame

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:05:08 Dec 17, Chad Perrin wrote: Are you suggesting I put the filesystem on another machine and use NFS to make it available to both OSes on this machine? I'm looking to have a filesystem on *this* machine that is available to both OSes, running one at a time. Chad, I saw your

Re: No audio whatever....

2007-12-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:02:32PM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: On Dec 17, 2007, at 7:02 PM, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:41:34AM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:06:10PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: I realize this may have no easy answer, but suddenly,

Re: SSH through port forwarding

2007-12-17 Thread Pollywog
Make sure the ISP is not blocking port 22. If they block it, you will need to change the SSH port in sshd_config and then set the router to forward the port to the server's internal IP address. It's a good idea to change the port anyway, in order not to be obvious to script kiddies.

Re: SSH through port forwarding

2007-12-17 Thread sham khalil
On Dec 18, 2007 12:08 PM, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I'm having a difficult time working with my father to get the port forwarding working on his Linksys router to forward SSH requests to his FreeBSD machine at home. As near as