Re: FreeBSD IPSec stack contains backdoors?

2010-12-17 Thread Bill Moran
> > As far as I am aware, FreeBSD contains considerable amount of code > > > ported from OpenBSD. The question is: was the FreeBSD's ipsec code > > > ported from OpenBSD's implementation? If so, what might be the impact > > > of this? > > > > > >

Re: What is loading my server so much?

2010-12-10 Thread Bill Moran
000, total shared memory required would > > be way below shmmax=8G. > > > > What am I missing here? > > Did you bump kern.ipc.shmall? The one you bumped is the maximum size of > a single shared memory request, shmall is the maximum amount of shared > memory for the ent

Re: What is loading my server so much?

2010-12-09 Thread Bill Moran
request, shmall is the maximum amount of shared memory for the entire system. They both have to be increased. To make it more confusing, shmall is in pages, not bytes, so you have to divide by pagesize (sysctl hw.pagesize). -Bill ___ freebsd-que

Re: What is loading my server so much?

2010-12-09 Thread Bill Moran
hile things are slow can quickly identify if this is the case, and looking at pg_stat_activity in conjunction with that table will usually narrow down the problem pretty quickly. Finally, if you find that PostgreSQL is the bottleneck and you can't narrow it down enough to fix, join the Postg

Re: Can MS Exchange play nice with the mailing lists?

2010-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
hange.pcam.local> > Accept-Language: en-US > Content-Language: en-US > X-MS-Has-Attach: > X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: > acceptlanguage: en-US > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Thi

Re: 32 or 64 bit as server ?

2010-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
at this point in time, my advice would be "only go 32 bit if you _know_ there's something that won't work in 64 bit." I can speak personally that we have a multitude of servers running PHP and Apache 2.2 on 64 bit FreeBSD with no trouble. I don't use MySQL, but I have a har

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-07 Thread Bill Campbell
doubt that any free software project would have sufficient funds to >pursue such a case through the courts. On the other hand, representatives from the Samba team were very instrumental in EU rulings related to Microsoft. I don't remember the details offhand, but I'm sure it's

Re: How can I know how many packets were lost and resent on particular TCP connection?

2010-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Yuri : > Just curious if I can do this. netstat -s gives you system-wide stats. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-21 Thread Bill Tillman
I once used an inkjet printer and almost went broke keeping it fed with ink. I found a refurbished Brother HL-2040 Laser printer at Tiger Direct for $89. It's been running now for almost 3 years and I'm only on my second toner cartridge. To be honest, we're all on a big paperless effort and I ra

NFS Issue

2010-09-06 Thread Bill Tillman
I have two LAN segments with a FreeBSD server on each.   Server A is 10.0.0.254 Server B is 192.168.0.102   I setup server A has two drives and I setup a share on drive #2 to be shared via NFS with the both networks. I also made a symlink on drive #2 to a folder on drive #1   On server B I can n

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010, Gary Kline wrote: >On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:29:14AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010, Gary Kline wrote: >> > >> >guys, >> > >> >this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say, >>

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Bill Campbell
er we have done this live with about 10,000 users, but when we did this, we left the Maildir stores empty before the final rsync and didn't use --delete on the Maildir directories. This allowed new mail to be processed as it came in, and the older mail wouldn't conflict as the Mail

Re: Advantage -vs- Disadvantage: SFTP -vs- SCP

2010-08-26 Thread Bill Campbell
s are through the OpenVPN tunnel so we don't have to allow outside ssh access. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:

Re: Need Res Utility

2010-08-26 Thread Bill Moran
e/10.4B2/obj-i3 > 86/bsd/sys/compile/JUNIPER i386 This is not a FreeBSD system. You should probably contact tech support at Juniper with your question. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ fr

Re: nfs server /home not responding

2010-08-24 Thread Bill Moran
look at better segmenting your network, or increasing the capacity of the NFS server to prevent the problem. If the NFS hangs occur and the mount never recovers (even after several minutes) then you probably have a different problem. Possibly a firewall is losing the state table and thus the connect

Re: Is this bunk.

2010-08-23 Thread Bill Campbell
11-us...@apple.com list. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 Many cit

Re: Favorite terminal software?

2010-08-13 Thread Bill Campbell
iSSH App on an iPad, and it works reasonably well connecting to a variety of *nix servers. I do have clients connecting to FilePro applications using the PowerTerm program from Ericom, mostly because they want something that does a good SCO emulation as FilePro's support for xterm is somewhat poo

Re: Installing wget

2010-08-09 Thread Bill Moran
t most one of them" > And the make quits. > > How do I get rid of that. make config should allow you to unselect that option, which should allow the build to then succeed. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ __

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Bill Moran
ople who will be shouting about this all over the place. But to the casual observer, all this tells you is that Linux's filesystems _may_ be faster for short, bursty work. To someone technical who might be looking to investigate the results with an eye toward fixing them, it's us

Re: lightweight Chat client/server?

2010-08-03 Thread Bill Moran
just about every OS I know of. Don't know if it could be considered lightweight, though, since it requires an SQL server on the backend. If you already have another SQL server in production, you could just install the DB there, as its DB usage is pretty light. -- Bill Moran http://www.poten

Re: USB Hard Drive Dock

2010-08-02 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Mon, 8/2/10, Roland Smith wrote: From: Roland Smith Subject: Re: USB Hard Drive Dock To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, August 2, 2010, 3:42 PM On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:18:46AM -0700, Bill Tillman wrote: > I just purchased a setup whi

USB Hard Drive Dock

2010-08-02 Thread Bill Tillman
I just purchased a setup which will allow me to access IDE and/or SATA drives through a USB port. Of course I was hoping for it to work with FreeBSD and in spite of the reviews which said it needed no Windows drivers as soon as I opened it up there was a CD with the drivers for Windows on it.  

Re: Install Apache in qjail?

2010-07-22 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ed Flecko : > Gentlemen, > Since the ONLY instance of Apache on this box will BE the one I'm > installing in the jail, I should just be able to connect to it by its > IP address...just like any other web server. > > Yes? No? Am I missing something? Ye

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Bill Tillman
Message: 24 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:05:13 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister Subject: Re: Help with setting up a mail server To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: "Aryeh M. Friedman" ,     freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100720180513.gb46...@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=is

Re: Reconstruct meaningful data from tcpdumps?

2010-07-09 Thread Bill Campbell
MAP connections. I have also used it to capture web pages that I couldn't save in a browser to see what was actually being sent. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (2

Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on

2010-07-06 Thread Bill Tillman
Thanks guys. :-) Doesn't that seem odd that the "default" partition size for root (512M) isn't quite big enough? Should I make the partition size slightly larger (on future installs) to eliminate this problem? Ed --   I had the same problem and since my drives are

Re: Fwd: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
e I first installed. Or...should you just get in > the habit of syncing / updating after you install any particular > release? http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories.html -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___

Re: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
IND, etc.)? Install ports-mgmt/portaudit and run it daily (I believe it installs so that it will email you daily results as part of periodic) and when it tells you that one of your installed ports is out of date, take care of it. There's no "schedule". Because, despite what M

Re: PDF storage software recommendations?

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Tillman
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:31:15 -0700 From: Charlie Kester Subject: Re: PDF storage software recommendations? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100618063115.ga57...@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed On Thu 17 Jun 2010 at 19:57:03 PDT Polytropon

Re: utility to all ALL strings?

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
cate Unless you've tweaked your periodic, this is already running on your system every night. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
and do their job. I recommend posting similar terms of service for all of you who host your own emails/sites/whatever. Also, if I get spam in response to this message, I will contact the spammer to notify them of the terms they are violating, which may get things cleared up all by itself. And if

Re: Sluggish Apache Server

2010-06-03 Thread Bill Moran
uch a way that the system locked up tight, in spite of the fact that there was a backup RAID card installed that should have taken over. If your budget allows, I'd make it top priority to migrate off that system and onto a new one, then get that system into a dedicated testing setup to see

Re: Add watermark to PDF

2010-06-02 Thread Bill Tillman
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 19:36:02 +0200 From: "C. P. Ghost" Subject: Re: Add watermark to PDF To: John Almberg Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID:     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:15 PM, John Almberg wrote: > So basically this script would have t

Diskless Booting Router

2010-05-26 Thread Bill Tillman
Thank to all who replied on my previous request for information about diskless booting. I am now that much closer to my goal of having a totally diskless router. It's working right now but there are still two major bugs I need to work out. 1. When the FreeBSD box which is my diskless router boot

Re: Wireless

2010-05-26 Thread Bill Tillman
Several months ago I installed a Sabarent Wireless-G NIC using FreeBSD-7.2-STABLE. It took some reading about wpa_supplicant but I got it working both and a wireless node and a wireless access point for my laptop computers. While it worked I can't say it worked well. Sometimes the laptop would

Diskless Booting Can't Set /var in mfs larger than 4MB

2010-05-23 Thread Bill Tillman
I have a diskless workstation booting nicely but for some reason I cannot get the /var directory to set larger than 4MB. The docs I read said edit /pxeroot/conf/base/etc/fstab like this: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options       Dump Pass# md         /var

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and

2010-05-14 Thread Bill Tillman
I've watched this thread for several days now and to put in my 2 cents:   1. Samba is not that complicated. I've been using it for years and can have it up and configured in a matter of minutes.   2. Samba quickly allows you to see your FreeBSD servers from your windows clients just like it was a

Re: help

2010-05-03 Thread Bill Moran
look in /dev I cannot see > that device. When I try to ./MAKEDEV cdce0 > it says command not found. I believe that you should use the cuaa# devices for dialout, regardless of which driver loads. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborat

Re: [OT] Was: Disabling DNS

2010-04-20 Thread Bill Moran
of the term was associated with the task and not the individual, the whole thing enters a grey area of interpretation. Some might consider the sentence an insult, others might simply consider the use of "dummy task" as another way to say "beginner task" or

make buildworld runs out of space

2010-03-17 Thread Bill Tillman
I have built two machines with 8.0-STABLE-201002-amd64. When I updated the sources and ran make buildworld process it would fail claiming that / was full.   It seems to be running into the problem when the make installkernel portion of my script was running. Both machines were built using the def

Re: Wow! ixsystems.....

2010-03-15 Thread Bill Moran
thing just worked out of the box, and worked well. My problem is that I like to tweak, and I'm already happy with my ability to tweak FreeBSD :) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-q

Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: "Robert Bonomi" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 2:26 PM On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > Ok

Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: "Robert Bonomi" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 2:26 PM On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > Ok

Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: "Robert Bonomi" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 2:26 PM On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > Ok

RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Tillman
) > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port > > > > > > From: Warren Block > > Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port > > Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 5:38 PM > > > > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > > >

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Tillman
) > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port > > > > > > From: Warren Block > > Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port > > Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 5:38 PM > > > > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > > >

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 5:38 PM On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: >   > Thanks again for your valuable inpu

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 4:25 PM On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > Okay, I have the setup like you show and

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Tillman
is in the queue but nothing is printing when using the USB connection. Sorry to be so much trouble. I thought this would be one of those things that would just start working. --- On Fri, 2/26/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillma

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Tillman
#x27;m still doing google and yahoo searches and will try again with the #freebsd channel.   --- On Fri, 2/26/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 10:06 AM Resending this off-list sin

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, C. P. Ghost wrote: From: C. P. Ghost Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 3:44 AM On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Bill Tillman wrote: > I tried cups but I could not g

Printing via USB Port

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Tillman
I had a nifty setup with an old computer running as my FreeBSD file and print server. Worked so good I decided to update the computer. But since most computers no longer come with parallel port for printing I'm forced to use the USB feature on my Brother HL-2040 printer.   In the previous setup

Re: Is there a command to load all swap into the memory?

2010-02-23 Thread Bill Moran
e in memory to load back all swap. Is there a > command to do that for all swap? > This will speed up immediate system response in the future. You could use swapoff, then swapon to readd the device. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://peop

Re: vi question

2010-02-19 Thread Bill Campbell
ord thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword I use this frequently to generate sequences of characters when laying out forms. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software L

Marvell Yukon LAN Adapters

2010-02-19 Thread Bill Tillman
I just built a screaming machine with X58i motherboard, i7 CPU and 12 GB RAM. But alas, besides problems with loading Windows on it I seemed to have hit a snag with FreeBSD as well.  The motherboard has two built-in Gigabyte Ethernet ports which FreeBSD-8.0-STABLE-2010002-amd64 identifies as ms

Re: FreeBSD to Cisco ASA 5505 VPN Connection

2010-02-17 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Wed, 2/17/10, Chuck Swiger wrote: From: Chuck Swiger Subject: Re: FreeBSD to Cisco ASA 5505 VPN Connection To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 5:17 PM Hi-- On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > The tech

FreeBSD to Cisco ASA 5505 VPN Connection

2010-02-17 Thread Bill Tillman
I have a small dilemma. The boss finally relented and is allowing me to work from home. This is a good deal for him too I just have to convince him. They have a Cisco ASA 5505 VPN router at the office. I have a wonderfully working LAN that uses a FreeBSD-7.2-STABLE server running NATD+IPFW. This

Re: Is it possible to see memory over 3GB on 32-bit FreeBSD?

2010-02-17 Thread Bill Moran
know why FreeBSD would see less than that. amd64 is the way to go. If you _must_ stick with i386, you can try PAE in your kernel, but I don't know if that's even supported any more. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://peopl

Re: creating htmls from a directory tree?

2010-02-10 Thread Bill Moran
pt, but > I was wondering if there is someting like > this already available from ports. I couldn't > find anything suitable. You could just turn on Apache's built-in directory listing capability and Apache will create those files on-demand. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentia

Re: for vpn connection

2010-02-09 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010, Bill Campbell wrote: >On Mon, Feb 08, 2010, D?nielisz L?szl? wrote: >>hi, > >>i also choose poptop and pptp but i'm still getting errors while >>connecting, would you be so kind to send me some configuration files? > >The attached con

Re: for vpn connection

2010-02-09 Thread Bill Campbell
find much easier to handle. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 If th

Re: for vpn connection

2010-02-08 Thread Bill Campbell
k. The easiest for the iPhone is probably PPTP. One *nix side of this is poptop. I don't know what's required on freebsd. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206

Re: Wireless Access Point

2010-02-07 Thread Bill Tillman
Okay bad news.   There were just too many problems with this setup. I recall a few weeks ago building an 8.0 server and it had troubles as well. So I reinstalled 7.2-RELEASE on this server and here's what happened:   The laptop got an IP address and connected not instantly but much quicker than

Re: Wireless Access Point

2010-02-07 Thread Bill Tillman
Thanks to everyone for the great advice. For clarity on this I erased all the other previous messages.   The bottome line is I got it to work. It was a problem with my NATD setup on the server inside the LAN which is running as AP for the wireless computers in my house. It's all working grea. An

Re: Wireless Access Point

2010-02-06 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Mark wrote: From: Mark Subject: Re: Wireless Access Point To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: "help help" Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 2:46 PM --- On Sat, 2/6/10, Warren Block wrote: > From: Warren Block > Subject: Re: Wireless Access Point

Re: Wireless Access Point

2010-02-06 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: Wireless Access Point To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 1:45 PM On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: ... > Now my new FreeBSD-8.0-STABLE serve

Wireless Access Point

2010-02-06 Thread Bill Tillman
Okay I have finally decided to scrap my old D-Link wireless router in favor of my FreeBSD-8.0 server with a wireless NIC ral0. I have thus far got the NIC to come up and work as an access point. I can connect to this AP with my laptop computer via wireless. I'm running dhcpd on the FreeBSD serve

Mac applications on FreeBSD

2010-02-03 Thread Bill White
Will Mac OS X applications run on FreeBSD? Specifically, Microsoft Office:Mac? If so, does it require special manipulation like hacking the system kernel and/or application in order to get it to run? Thanks very much, Bill ___ freebsd-questions

Re: How far to go with jailing?

2010-02-02 Thread Bill Moran
dware starts to near overload, it's much easier to tar up a jail and move it to another server than it is to move that one service when it's not jailed. In the end, you've got to weight the extra work vs. the benefits. In our case, we're ve

Re: OT: finding every file not in a list

2010-01-27 Thread Bill Campbell
m -12 /tmp/list1 /tmp/list2 > /tmp/filescommontolist1andlist2 Then of course one could remove files in list1 not in list2 with: xargs rm < /tmp/filesinlist1notinlist2 NOTE: The xargs command will not work if the files contain whitespace. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campb

Re: MRTG vs. character of traffic

2010-01-27 Thread Bill Moran
or > a tool to tell me what KIND of traffic, not just the gross bit rate? I want > to find that idiot that's causing all the bandwidth. ntop -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ free

Re: Force use of latest version of Apache

2010-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
stall an Apache port, all dependent ports use the installed port, it's only when I've installed a dependent port (such as PHP) without Apache already installed that I get an obsolete version of Apache. -Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: partly offtopic, but need feed back now.

2010-01-11 Thread Bill Campbell
and our generator kept the computers up and running throughout. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-918

Re: Accessing Computer

2010-01-08 Thread Bill Moran
t; > If someone were to use computer 1 via Putty to access computer 2, would > they then be able to access computer 3? If so, how could I prevent it > from happening? You could prevent ssh connections from 2 -> 3 on port 22 via firewall. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http:

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Bill Moran
do is reduce the number of running programs. Go through /etc/ttys, for example, and disable all but one or two consoles, and edit /etc/rc.conf to disable anything that you don't need on the system (possible sendmail, syslog?, etc) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.c

Re: FreeBSD versions

2010-01-04 Thread Bill Moran
nd IA64 are not compatible at all. If you were talking about amd64, that's a different story. Most newer CPUs are amd64. All amd64 CPUs can also run a 32bit x86 OS. Some x86 32bit CPUs are also amd64 compat. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborati

Re: alerts for stopped daemons

2009-12-26 Thread Bill Moran
monitoring/ reporting packages. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Moran
OpenBSD) with a better record than that, I'd love to hear about it. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Robert Huff : > > Bill Moran writes: > > > It's common knowledge that the default value for vfs.read_max is > > non- optimal for most hardware and that significant performance > > improvements can be made in most cases by raising it. > >

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
r most hardware and that significant performance improvements can be made in most cases by raising it. While it would be nice if FreeBSD shipped with a more performant default setting, it would also be nice if mindless benchmark drones would quit assuming that every system ships pre-configured to

Re: Spammer data mining and www.freebsd.org

2009-11-26 Thread Bill Moran
t;at" to "@", and even if the method of obfuscating is more clever than that, if it's consistent and a larger number of email addresses are available after breaking it, well ... you get the idea. Far better to complain to the ISP where the email originated. That's someone

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Bill Moran
you're not getting 120V/60H at the outlet (or whatever voltage/freq you're supposed to get in your part of the world). Not a direct answer to your question, but hopefully some useful information to consider. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativef

Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing

2009-11-16 Thread Bill Moran
I run a video inside a vbox machine, I can't access the mouse until the video is done running). Been running Windows WP inside a Virtual Box on FreeBSD 7. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: FreeBSD && remote MS ACCESS database

2009-11-10 Thread Bill Moran
ou'll be much better off, long run, to move this onto a read DB server. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Bill Moran
des, if it's not there, how are you going to send mail from things like cron? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: >> The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of >> these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit >> at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-13 Thread Bill Campbell
s. You want neither of these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the second time it hits eof while ``-E'' exits the first time. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial S

[OT] Service that provides security questions

2009-10-13 Thread Bill Moran
these systems know what I'm talking about. I have a hard time believing each of these companies sets up such a system on their own, and I have a feeling that there's a 3rd party that compiles the data for them. Can anyone refer me to such a company? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialt

Re: When is it worth enabling hyperthreading?

2009-10-08 Thread Bill Moran
etic, but we never saw a workload on PostgreSQL that was hurt by turning hyperthreading on. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: way to check an email without sending it??

2009-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
:" line, then you know the server will accept the mail and you can close the connection without completing the transaction. Note, that this is no guarantee. Some spam catching nonsense may accept the mail right up to end, then throw it away without delivering it. -- Bill Moran http://www.

Re: Swap and memory optimization

2009-10-01 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Dan Nelson : > In the last episode (Oct 01), Bill Moran said: > > bsd wrote: > > > I have a FBSD 6.4p7 box that I use as a mail server - 1Go RAM - RAID1 > > > Works quite well. > > > > > > As I plan to put 100 more mail accounts so

Re: Swap and memory optimization

2009-10-01 Thread Bill Moran
memory left. Looks like the server would run more smoothly with a bit more RAM. At least an additional 256M, I would think, but considering the price of RAM, you might as well just up it to 2G. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-

Re: lacie external hard drive supported?

2009-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
the boot on the 1TB drive from booting on a PPC Mac to boot on an Intel without losing any data, and to resize existing partitions pretty painlessly as well. I use the word partition above in the Linux sense, which are generally referred to as slices in FreeBSD-land. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@

Re: PHP5 and ldap

2009-09-18 Thread Bill Moran
k /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini to ensure the .so was properly listed. I've seen cases where it's not listed correctly. You can check the output of php_info() to make sure PHP thinks it's there. Hope this helps. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-15 Thread Bill Moran
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:03:50 -0400 Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:13:31 -0400 > Bill Moran wrote: > > > In response to Jerry : > > > > > > > > I usually discover security problems with updates I receive from > > > <http://

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-15 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jerry : > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:18:26 -0400 > Bill Moran wrote: > > > Mel Flynn wrote: > > > > > > On Monday 14 September 2009 23:46:42 David Kelly wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:13:54PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrot

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-15 Thread Bill Moran
son who discovered the problem is amenable, there is no public discussion at all until a fix is available. Apparently, Mr. Frasunek started out down that path, which is admirable. It seems as if he doesn't have much patience, however, since he thinks that only 2 weeks is enough tim

Re: About DHCP

2009-09-10 Thread Bill Moran
quired very quickly if the DHCP server is working properly and not overloaded. Even with a slow DHCP server, I've seldom seen it take longer than a few seconds. What is your usage case that this is such a concern? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collabo

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Per olof Ljungmark : > Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Per olof Ljungmark : > > > >> Dan Nelson wrote: > >>> In the last episode (Sep 01), Bill Moran said: > >>>> In response to Per olof Ljungmark : > >>>>&

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Per olof Ljungmark : > Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Sep 01), Bill Moran said: > >> In response to Per olof Ljungmark : > >>> What is a good way to find out how memory is used? Have a 6.4 box where > >>> memory is used by so

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