Re: Virus question

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Karen Donathan wrote: To Whom it may concern: My name is Karen Donathan and I am a computer science teacher at George Washington High School in Charleston, WV. We run our website (http://gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us) on a FreeBSD server. This project was given to me, and I

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Napper writes: Its been my experience that the corporate suits get the perception of "teenage hacker" from the cartoonish mascots. Agreed. And their perception is not always incorrect. Am I the only one that finds some amusement in the referen

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Greg Barniskis wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: Out of curiosity, is Beastie so terrible, a logo, that a business would be stupid enough to base their server decisions based on it? Would you care if a business were that dumb...would you actually *want* them using it

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 2:18 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: That is so not true that it makes me almost as angry as the original debate. Maybe getting angry about a mere logo is a bad sign. Just to sum up things as I understand it... People want to change the logo from Beastie to

Re: favor

2005-02-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 7, 2005, at 11:37 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Eric Kjeldergaard writes: EK> To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the EK> freebsd-questions Archives. EK> EK> Since we are discussing implicit contracts, I would think that the EK> announcement that the collection of prior

Re: favor

2005-02-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 7, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: EK> Let us make an analogue betwixt our Valerie and one who submits to the EK> local newspaper. There is a roughly equal level of consent given in EK> both cases ... Not so, on two points: (1) the newspaper is obviously available to anyone (

Re: Electricity bill [was: Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?]

2005-02-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 7, 2005, at 3:34 AM, markzero wrote: * Erik Trulsson [2005-02-05 23:55 +0100] Also keep in mind that if you leave the computer running all the time it will show up on your electricity bill, so if you wish to save power you should shut down your computer over night. Given that your house

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 5, 2005, at 3:01 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erik Norgaard Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 11:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: favor Mike Hauber wrote: Fact is, t

Re: OT: Funny disclaimers (Was: Re: ssh root@localhost)

2005-02-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 2, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: Sorry to join in on the noise: =quote= This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy

Re: How do I do a COLD Reboot on FreeBSD?

2005-01-31 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 31, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Billy Newsom wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Well, I guess I completely do not understand what you are asking. From anything I can get from what you write here, its behavior is normal and expected. What is the problem and what are you trying to fix or to get it to do?

Re: portmanager loop?

2005-01-26 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:40 AM, Michael C. Shultz wrote: Thanks Bart for your patience, this one required me to set up XFree86-4 on a FreeBSD 4.11 machine and back date all of the ports. Perfectly understandable and I thank you for the efforts you're going through to get portmanager updated so quick

Re: portmanager loop?

2005-01-26 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 26, 2005, at 4:38 AM, cali wrote: I had (have?) several packages in the ports collection that needed updating, and recently someone in the list was talking about using portmanager -u to save on problems with updating; it doesn't touch the ports database, it won't mess up the collection, i

portmanager loop?

2005-01-25 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I had (have?) several packages in the ports collection that needed updating, and recently someone in the list was talking about using portmanager -u to save on problems with updating; it doesn't touch the ports database, it won't mess up the collection, it walks dependencies automagically,

Re: Hardware RAID

2005-01-21 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 21, 2005, at 4:02 AM, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:22:36AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:57:21 -0800, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: This did teach me a lesson that I kind of knew already but didn't think too much about. That is, a so

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-06 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 5, 2005, at 5:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The "tranquility" of this list is apparently because the people on this list are too technically incompetent to realize how badly botched 5.x is. "thank you master, thank you for helping me get my mouse working, let me kiss your boots" Quick

Re: Uptime?

2005-01-06 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 5, 2005, at 10:43 PM, Tom Vilot wrote: Mark wrote: So, we know BSD is capable of stupidly high uptime, but what I'd like to know is how? I mean, we all have to patch things now and again, recompile kernels etc. Does this mean these sites are running thousand-day-old unpatched kernels,... Yep

Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?

2004-12-22 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Dec 22, 2004, at 1:42 PM, Joshua Lokken wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:02:42 -0500, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 22, 2004, at 12:29 PM, P. B. S. wrote: I'm talking about 1 (one) computer! The FreeBSD partition is on the same hard disk; the 2 operating syst

Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?

2004-12-22 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Dec 22, 2004, at 12:29 PM, P. B. S. wrote: I'm talking about 1 (one) computer! The FreeBSD partition is on the same hard disk; the 2 operating systems are not working at the same time. Samba, ftp, scp, etc. are not applicable here. That's why I mentioned explore2fs... I wanted to be clear. Wha

Re: can't get rid of this file with trailing backslash?

2004-11-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 19, 2004, at 3:54 AM, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Friday 19 November 2004 14:50, Bart Silverstrim wrote: My first instinct would be cp named.conf backupnamed.conf rm named.con* mv backupnamed.conf named.conf :-) I'm too paranoid that I know what *should* work wouldn't or would st

Re: can't get rid of this file with trailing backslash?

2004-11-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 19, 2004, at 9:09 AM, Hexren wrote: AF> I was editing my named.conf and somehow saved the file AF> with a trailing backslash and I can't get rid of it. AF> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind18314 Nov 18 11:35 named.conf AF> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind18314 Nov 18 11:07 named.conf.save.11-18 AF

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: Sex

2004-11-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 12, 2004, at 9:50 PM, Chris wrote: On Friday 12 November 2004 08:38 pm, Faso Lea-ELF012 wrote: I will be out of the office until Monday, Nov. 15 with limited access to e-mail. In my absence please contact Molly Smith at 212-885-0488 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you. Lea Faso Public Relation

Re: Squid+Privoxy or Snort?

2004-11-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 12, 2004, at 2:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 11/12/04 1:22:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The issue with proxies is that they are a drag on your network; using > squid as a firewall only isnt very smart. If you are already using it > fine. But

Re: Squid+Privoxy or Snort?

2004-11-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 12, 2004, at 12:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 11/12/04 9:38:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm trying to investigate some potential solutions to escape from > different microsoft specific malware (like gator's software). > The two mentioned in

Re: Squid+Privoxy or Snort?

2004-11-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 12, 2004, at 8:37 AM, Cristian Salan wrote: Hello, I'm trying to investigate some potential solutions to escape from different microsoft specific malware (like gator's software). The two mentioned in subject were found after some Google search. Wonder what are you guys using for this sort of

Re: RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 10, 2004, at 6:45 PM, Matthew T. Lager wrote: rdesktop (net/rdesktop) is flawless. Use it everday to manage my Windows 2000 Servers. Supports many many many different features. Highly recommened. I'd also add that the WTS is encrypted. I don't believe VNC does much to encrypt the connecti

Re: RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 10, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Quick question about interconnectivity. You OSX users may be familiar with a very slick little utility called RDC (Remote Desktop Connection). Some of you other *BSDers may also be familiar with one called VNC (Visual Network Connection ?) or RDP (

Re: difference between releases

2004-11-08 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 8, 2004, at 12:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 11/8/04 11:54:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on the "release", which should be a known, completed code base. All part of the experience I suppose. The whole world is in beta. Get over it. Only the o

Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows

2004-10-26 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 26, 2004, at 2:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Integration is what separates the men from the boys, so don't complain. If it were "easy" most of us would be doing something else. Not necessarily. Changing your oil isn't that hard. Most people pay someone else to do it though. Fixing a hol

Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows

2004-10-25 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 25, 2004, at 1:33 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I was referring to problems that require a bit of esoteric knowledge about how things work but not really a reinstallation of the entire system, i.e.: I realize that...at the same time, I don't blame the techs working on Windows that end up re

Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows

2004-10-25 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 25, 2004, at 1:07 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: And this differs from your experience in the Windows world...how? :-) I'm not sure I understand your question. Rephrase or make it more specific, because answering to such a vague question is pointless. Just a side comment from the peanut gall

Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows

2004-10-25 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 25, 2004, at 12:36 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-10-25 11:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're also missing my point on this. You don't have to get into the guts of windows to make it work. You dont have to be a programmer to tweak all of the applications, in fact I know more than o

Re: feasible w/ samba?

2004-10-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 18, 2004, at 2:26 PM, stheg olloydson wrote: --- Bart [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, it would be connectivity + bandwidth + geography. Some of the buildings are close together...close enough that you can lean on the wall of one and throw a softball to hit the other. Others are over 20

Re: feasible w/ samba?

2004-10-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 18, 2004, at 12:37 PM, stheg olloydson wrote: What you have here is a hardware, not software, problem. The root cause is the unreliable connectivity between buildings. To ensure all network resources are always available, use redundant fiber-optic connections and set your routing such that y

Re: Are these attempts by password crackers??

2004-10-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 18, 2004, at 10:29 AM, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Don't even bother when it's an Asian network. Is there an easy reference chart out there that says "these blocks belong to Asian network, these to European..."? Or "These are Chinese, these are UK, these are Russian...?" And/or "these blocks be

feasible w/ samba?

2004-10-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
random brain dropping question...still in the researching stage for implementation. Is it possible to have a setup similar to the following scenario: I have three buildings. There are users that move among the buildings on different days to use NT workstations (Win2K). I'd like to put in four

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 18, 2004, at 8:11 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Oct 16, 2004, at 2:00 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 13 October 2004 at 8:20:19 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:44 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 16, 2004, at 2:00 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 13 October 2004 at 8:20:19 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:44 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 8:42:39 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: It gets to a point

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:44 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 8:42:39 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: It gets to a point where I solve it by doing this or just no reply at all. Problem solved. I don't see a problem. What are you talking abou

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
It gets to a point where I solve it by doing this or just no reply at all. Problem solved. :-) -Bart ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 8, 2004, at 11:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys are the ones making the claims that 5.3 is "going to be so great". I just wonder how you come to that conclusion if you don't have any definitive tests. I dont have a release to test, so when its done I'll test it. I think it sums it

Re: SSH from private to public IP: Impossible??

2004-10-06 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 6, 2004, at 11:15 AM, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:00:11PM -0700, Michael Alipio wrote: Good Day, I used ssh to log-in remotely from work to my home pc which already obtained a temporary ip address from my isp, however, I failed to connect. Is it because I am ssh'ing u

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 3, 2004, at 3:12 AM, bsdfsse wrote: Ironically, I'm switching to FreeBSD because I'm already tired. My bones are aching from years of abuse. I'm tired of.. ..being told what I can and can't do with my computers. Did you know many scanners and photocopiers cannot reproduce money? Appar

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 2, 2004, at 11:50 PM, Dave Vollenweider wrote: This has nothing to do with technical problems, but rather it's more of a request for moral support. This may seem disjointed, so bear with me. Alt.sysadmin.recovery? :-) I've been using FreeBSD for over six months now, but I've been using U

Re: IP address conflicts

2004-10-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 3, 2004, at 2:11 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Yup. This is self-defense in any college setting, there's too many juveniles around. Well, that's the point of college today...real life without the real life consequences :-) It's training for taking responsibility, though. We try to have a

Re: IP address conflicts

2004-10-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 2, 2004, at 2:27 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The problem is that if the attacker has a modicum of intelligence they will have done this to someone elses' system. Yet you say this is taking place in colleges... :-) This is a college. For example, someone in a dorm room just surfing the web

Re: I'm a 'tard - I don't know what a Subject line is (Was well, no subject)

2004-10-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 1, 2004, at 3:24 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nicx wrote: Hello Guy's! Is there any emulator that i can run win32 apllications on freeBSD? ... Nicx www.ebox.gr - Dwrea'n E-mail µe 15MB mailbox www.hyperhosting.gr Apokty%ste to diko' sa*s web s

Re: IP address conflicts

2004-10-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 27, 2004, at 12:49 AM, Tim Aslat wrote: In the immortal words of "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Once again, I must assume that these notebooks legitimately owned by students and staff are NOT owned by the people that are changing the IP numbers. I actually think it's more than 1

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-10-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 27, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:39, Nico Meijer wrote: Regular folks don't understand how mail works. They have no clue whatsoever. They don't _want_ to have a clue either. They are just behaving like consumers, again. Do you *really* want to know what's on y

Re: [OT] Anyone know a good counterpart to this list for Mac OS X?

2004-10-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 26, 2004, at 9:16 PM, Eric Crist wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 26, 2004, at 8:03 PM, Kevin Stevens wrote: On Sep 26, 2004, at 17:56, Eric Crist wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the off-topic question. I was wondering if anyone is

Re: Ultimately Safe User Account

2004-09-24 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 23, 2004, at 8:56 PM, Andrew wrote: Dan Rue wrote: How's he supposed to learn anything if all you give him is a jail with ls cp mv sh and vi? sheesh. That'll turn him off unix pretty quick. Thanks for your feedback. I guess I'll just let him in and try not to worry. Well, the trouble is t

Re: Ultimately Safe User Account

2004-09-24 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I have a production FreeBSD box. My friend is starting to learn Unix essentials and is asking me for an account. He doesn't require any special rights, but he certainly wants to be able to use shell and read most manual pages. He'll access the server via Internet, SSH. How can I create an account,

Re: Which Distro?

2004-09-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 13, 2004, at 11:27 PM, Viper wrote: I am going to buy a Mac g4 soon, and I am thinking about turning it into a server. I asked around and everybody rocommended FreeBSD to me. So what distro of FreeBSD would I use for a mac computer? As far as I know, there isn't a "freebsd" release for the P

Re: Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 9, 2004, at 1:03 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suspect this is some sort of filehandle not being released issue, but I'm not sure how to track it down. I've got lsof installed, but I'm not an expert on it yet. Any hints would be welcomed. What's the b

Re: Tar pitting automated attacks

2004-09-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 9, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Mike Hauber wrote: That makes sense... I haven't gotten so much into security that I would want to "invite" a potential cracker. I would just assume they go and bug someone else (who knows, maybe it will result in more BSD admins. :) ) How difficult would it be to ha

Re: Moving MySQL database

2004-09-08 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 3, 2004, at 10:46 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: I have a server that is rapidly filling the var partition with a MySQL database. I'd like to move it to a subdirectory somewhere under /usr. If you don't want to move all the stuff in /var/db, then you will have to be more selective and make th

Moving MySQL database

2004-09-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I have a server that is rapidly filling the var partition with a MySQL database. I'd like to move it to a subdirectory somewhere under /usr. Is there a document that would outline a "best practices" approach to doing this? My first instinct was to stop the mysqld, do a mv on /var/db to /var/d

Re: mod_perl HELP!

2004-08-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Aug 13, 2004, at 12:02 AM, jason wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: Can someone help? When I try going into /usr/ports/www/mod_perl and "make install", I get: ===> Installing for mod_perl-1.29 ===> mod_perl-1.29 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/apxs - found ===> mod_perl-1

Re: perl question

2004-08-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Aug 13, 2004, at 1:10 AM, AlanSung wrote: IMHO, bsdpan-* means install via cpan directory (not via ports), p5-* means installed from ports.. Okay. Nuts. That's what I was afraid of. I guess I was a little thrown because the bsdpan modules are showing up with portversion and portupgrade, w

perl question

2004-08-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
What is the difference between bsdpan and the p5 modules in the ports collection? -Bart ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

mod_perl HELP!

2004-08-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Can someone help? When I try going into /usr/ports/www/mod_perl and "make install", I get: ===> Installing for mod_perl-1.29 ===> mod_perl-1.29 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/apxs - found ===> mod_perl-1.29 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/LWP.pm - found ===> mod_pe

portupgrade/ports question

2004-08-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Situation: I set up a portal server as per the instructions at their site; it involved installing some PERL modules from CPAN, which I have since learned on FreeBSD appears to be a no no... Now I have some updates to do, but I don't want it to interfere with the web portal software. In theory,

Re: Top posting solution

2004-08-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Aug 10, 2004, at 6:25 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Here's a good reason to top-post: I'm referring to the message as a whole, rather than to the content. What reference to a whole? Whole what? This message came in while I was writing my previous message in this thread. It shows *exactly* the

Re: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-04 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Aug 4, 2004, at 1:44 PM, Chris Shenton wrote: Tim Aslat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Try one of the multitude of rsync based scripts, you can even get some very good incremental backups happening, I have been thinking about this for my own use. One problem with basic rsync is that if (say) I tra

Re: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-04 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Aug 4, 2004, at 4:11 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 we are currently developing a small program/service for our customers exactly for this purpose. To just backup the data to a remote server is very easy, even on Windows: Use cygwin. It comes together w

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 19, 2004, at 3:26 AM, Michael W. Oliver wrote: On 2004-06-18T23:17:14-0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: So the question is, has any person, anywhere, at any time, successfully installed 5.2.1-RELEASE on any hardware whatsoever ? Or is it just a practical joke release ? That's a tad caustic, don't you

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 15, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Chris Lynch wrote: This thread cracks me up. No matter how many times the same subject has been brought up, I still can't stop laughing at the silliness of it all. Maybe FreeBSD should make a fuzzy bunny that does a happy dance...but, then we'd be stepping on the Eas

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 13, 2004, at 8:02 PM, Edward Hendrie wrote: Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD because they have religi

pkgdb -F question

2004-06-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I am working on an installation of Metadot. Running a portversion on the server yielded an error, and I suspect it's because part of the instructions had several CPAN modules installed via the CPAN shell rather than just ports. Here's what I was getting: # pkgdb -F ---> Checking the pack

Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 8, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: I have my desktop configured to run as a server and app server for a thin client laptop. Will running it all day without suspend mode use a lot of power? Not necessarily. If you want to measure it, make sure you have a decent UPS (which I'd

SSH

2004-06-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
-e in ssh-keygen is my friend...it seems to be working now. Thank you! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

SSH question

2004-06-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Hello... Sorry if this is too OT, but I recently posted about copying some files from one server to another using scp...I thought I could get that set up easily since I've done it before. Silly me! The primary server is running # ssh -V OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030924, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, Ope

Scripting backup of file naming?

2004-06-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Hello scripting gurus.. I'm sure this is an easy one for someone out there. Here's what I'd like to do, and hoping someone out there knows a simple way to do this without ripping my hair out. Scenario: *Two servers, Server1 and Server2. *I want Server1 to copy a set of files from Server2 on a

Re: x-forwarding problem - no window contents

2004-06-04 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 4, 2004, at 10:10 AM, Simon Timms wrote: I have tried using several different window managers and different users in the hopes it was some sort of setting I had accidentally triggered but to no avail. Has anybody seen this before and how do I fix it? I assume that it is a problem on the de

Re: Issues with large files on nfs-mounted filesystems?

2004-06-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 3, 2004, at 7:16 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:42:40AM +0100, Jim Hatfield wrote: I've made a large .mpg file on a Linux machine (because some tools, such as mplex, are newer than available in FreeBSD ports). Here's a directory listing: -rw-r--r-- 1 jim users 438844416

Re: 5.2.1 boot-install

2004-06-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 2, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: I have used this technique with 4.9, and it worked. On a machine i wanted to install 5.2.1 on, it won't (this is a machine the 4.9 install worked on fine). The boot process starts, and it locks up ending with this in the bootup seq

5.2.1 boot-install

2004-06-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I downloaded the 2 meg boot floppy for installing FreeBSD 5.2.1. I wanted to burn it to a CD (I usually install via ftp, and use a smaller CD that I have here to transport the media since I didn't want to burn a full ISO). I downloaded the boot image and checked the MD5. On my iBook, I ran

Re: LDAP

2004-05-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 27, 2004, at 3:49 PM, Vince Hoffman wrote: I'm using it to store posix and samba users, handles XP and 2k authentication fine (dont have any 9x on the network,) All i'm doing is runing a samba PDC for a small network, and am using ldap as it means its easy to have a BDC if needed and using

Re: LDAP

2004-05-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 27, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Vince Hoffman wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2004, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Are there any references that will step through creating an LDAP database? I have been banging my head into a wall trying to get one set up...I have it at a point where the slapd will start and monitor

Re: LDAP

2004-05-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 27, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Thompson, Jimi wrote: The question then becomes - What do you plan to use the LDAP to store? Depending on your answer, you may need to modify your schema in order to store that information. For example, there is a library which uses LDAP to store information about t

LDAP

2004-05-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Are there any references that will step through creating an LDAP database? I have been banging my head into a wall trying to get one set up...I have it at a point where the slapd will start and monitor for connections, but using ldapbrower logging in as the rootdn will yield errors whenever I

Re: Solved: FreeBSD as print server w/CUPS + samba + apsfilter

2004-05-25 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 24, 2004, at 9:56 PM, Mike wrote: Greetings: This post is a result of 2 days of thrashing trying to get FreeBSD (4.9) to act as a print server to Win2K/XP clients. I have included links to a how-to that I wrote that includes a full install and configuration of CUPS and Samba so that loca

Re: FTPD & SSHD server

2004-05-23 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 23, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Andri Kok wrote: Hi Bart, Thx for the reply. The problem that I had from windows was "connection timeout". When I try to ssh to my BSD box, it prompts the login name, than it hangs till it finally get connection time out. The same goes with ftp and telnet. There is a

Re: FTPD & SSHD server

2004-05-23 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 23, 2004, at 10:04 AM, Andri Kok wrote: Hello fellas, I have FTPD and SSHD running. The way enabled it was by uncommenting lines in inetd.conf. Now, If I access it from the outside (school's lab to my home computer, we have static IP) it works. But If my friends try to access it from the

Re: Transfering Files

2004-05-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 13, 2004, at 10:11 PM, Bruce Hunter wrote: I have two computer systems. 1 windows 2k system where I do web development work, specifically php development. The other system is a FBSD headless system that I control via ssh, from my windows system. The FBSD system is my local webserver wher

Re: Is there any hardware RAID (SCSI) that is fully supported?

2004-05-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 7, 2004, at 7:13 PM, Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, is there any hardware SCSI RAID controller that is fully supported in FreeBSD? By "fully supported" I mean being able to monitor and talk to the controller on a live system in order to initiate a rebuild on a replace drive and such. Myl

Re: ntfs mount

2004-05-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 7, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Mark Ovens wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: On May 7, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Mark Ovens wrote: J. W. Ballantine wrote: It a Dell, but given the configuration, i do not believe it came pre-installed from the factory. I would have thought that a Dell would have had *an* OS

Re: ntfs mount

2004-05-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 7, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Mark Ovens wrote: J. W. Ballantine wrote: It a Dell, but given the configuration, i do not believe it came pre-installed from the factory. I would have thought that a Dell would have had *an* OS pre-installed. Not always. I am running FBSD 4.9 on a couple Dell 2650's

sysinstall/ports?

2004-04-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Silly question but it's the first time I've played with X under FreeBSD... I am in the process of installing X with Gnome from /stand/sysinstall. Will the packages added through this be the same as those from ports, or is there a way to use ports (portupgrade) to update the packages? Do I hav

Re: Problems mailing FreeBSD Lists

2004-04-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 20, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Ben Pratt wrote: Hello - I've been having problems recently sending e-mail to FreeBSD lists. For some reason I'm able to receive messages without a problem but when I try to send them I'm getting rejected by the list server. I've tried using Mozilla Thunderbird

Re: What happened after gnome upgrade??

2004-04-15 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 14, 2004, at 10:08 PM, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:48:32 -0400 "R. M. Los" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, Something strange has happened. In gnome-2.4 I had the CPU/Memory/Network monitors setup on my bottom bar, as well as my battery meter, etc. Now with Gnome-2.6

Re: have i been hacked?

2004-04-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 14, 2004, at 1:47 AM, Luke Kearney wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:51:06 -0400 "dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> granted us these pearls of wisdom: Hello, Wondering if a system on my network has been hacked? At approx 12:30 this evening the hard disk went crazy, i have been out of town lately

Re: MS Excel/Word compatible ports?

2004-04-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 13, 2004, at 11:52 AM, Joshua Lokken wrote: * Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-13 06:41]: I know, I know, I could probably find the answer to this question myself, but I thought I'd save myself the time and trouble. :-) Looks like someone already pointed out the flaw in that l

portupgrade-razor-agents, amavis, sa errors

2004-04-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Unfortunately, it rebuilt many things and the output of the compile had scrolled off (is there a log somewhere of what happened?), but after a portupgrade I was greeted with the following error: * [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 118 packages found (-0 +1) . done] ** Listing the fai

Re: OS X and FreeBSD: What could be a good setup

2004-04-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 12, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: [ ... ] I'm looking at using FreeBSD on a server (web, mail, file server) with OS X, Windows, and probably Linux clients. I'd like the FreeBSD server to handle authentication, but that may be a pipe dream to

OS X and FreeBSD: What could be a good setup

2004-04-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 2, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Doug Poland wrote: Panna wrote: You see I'm in a state of confusion.. You're simply using a FreeBSD as a file server. You serve up files to the client via NFS (OS X) or CIFS (Windows). FreeBSD doesn't care. Now if you want FreeBSD to understand and manipulate tho

Re: Is Anyone Receiving List Mail?

2004-04-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 1, 2004, at 8:40 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I haven't received any mail from any of the several FBSD lists to which I subscribe since this morning, April 1 at around 06:00 PST. I am receiving mail from other sources so I don't suspect my system. If others are receiving mail, please resp

PERL question

2004-04-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Okay, this is probably off topic, and I'll gladly take it offlist if someone can contact me directly with an answer...I was hoping that with the BSD Unix gurus here, someone may have experience in the area of this question :-) I'm looking for a PERL script that can act kind of like a proxy (fi

Re: sf.net: host not found

2004-03-31 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 31, 2004, at 10:52 AM, Shantanoo wrote: I told you how to setup your _own_ _DNS_ server. You won't need to use other DNS server. Shantanoo Forgive me, but does the country block access to the root Internet servers? If so, wouldn't it only cache information that is available...i.e., if hi

portupgrade problem w/ dependency?

2004-03-30 Thread Bart Silverstrim
After doing a make install on openssl and then a portupgrade -f portupgrade, here's what I ran... server# pkgdb -F ---> Checking the package registry database server# portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.. Done. done [Updating the portsdb in /usr/ports ..

Re: Anti-virus

2004-03-30 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 29, 2004, at 9:52 PM, Earl Larsen wrote: I was wondering what is a good, free ;) anti virus program for FreeBSD. Clamav has worked very well for me... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

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