Re: no pv entries: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc

2007-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
... But that discussion belongs on the Apache lists ... -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rsync issues

2007-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
or not. *) fsck your disks? Hope some of this is helpful. Generally, when I have mystery errors, I start with ktrace. If you're not familiar with it, ktrace can be a bit overwhelming, but it's got lotsa useful information. Same can be said for gdb. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: no pv entries: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Moran
seen to a sysctl -- usually the recommendation is to rebuild the kernel. Google for PMAP_SHPGPERPROC and you'll find some other (albeit few) discussions. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: no pv entries: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In response to peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, My freebsd box runs the apache httpd2.0 server, postgresql8.1server, Recently, I got the below info in /var/crash. “Dump header from device /dev/da0s1b Architecture: i386 Architecture Version

Re: Mail etiquette

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Moran
fairly certain that Greg is specifically referring to paragraphs that are one _long_ line ... as in scrolling off the right side of the screen, out the window and down the street. If you're referring to short paragraphs, like this one, you're OK (IMHO). -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , What do we mean by top-posting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting And those who

Re: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , What do we mean by top-posting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Balancing outgoing SMTP relay

2007-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
this apparently simple problem? Thanks pf has the ability to do round-robin dispatching, which will sort of work like load-balancing: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: (6.2 install) Offering both install ISO's via nfs?

2007-01-17 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
At Wed, 17 Jan 2007 it looks like Garrett Cooper composed: On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, Hmm, in doing installs with more than one install iso (disk-1 and disk-2) via NFS I'm not clear on the instructions where it states to simply copy the FreeBSD

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
. While it's impossible to compare apples to apples when pitting Windows against FreeBSD, you at least want to be comparing two fruits -- not apples and buffalo steaks or something like that. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Steven Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, January 16, 2007 18:13, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Steven Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have been very impressed with my FreeBSD 6.2 install, I have nearly everything working but there are a few things which I need help

Re: CRON Script not working right.

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Campbell
``env | sort /tmp/cron.cli''. Now run something like ``diff -u /tmp/env.cron /tmp/cron.cli'' to see what is different. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186

Re: Origin of LINT?

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Campbell
uses it as well (it's the command line argument to just regression-test everything). I think the name came from removing the lint from a suit. It's designed to clean up code -- initially C. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software, LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com

(6.2 install) Offering both install ISO's via nfs?

2007-01-16 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
are getting “permission denied” messages from the server, then it is likely that you do not have this enabled properly. # It seems to be written for the time when there was only a single ISO cd. -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com

Re: Mystery Spam Piling Up in Mqueue

2007-01-15 Thread Bill Moran
://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 IMPORTANT: This message contains

Re: advice on compiling a new kernel upgrading to the latest sources

2007-01-14 Thread Bill Moran
. mergemaster can be a tedious task, and making a local backup of /etc has allowed me to undo some careless keystrokes a number of times. I don't disagree with the dump advice, but an additional copy of /etc around doesn't hurt anything and occasionally makes fixing a mistake much faster an easier. -Bill

Re: [OT] advice on wikis and bulletin boards

2007-01-13 Thread Bill Moran
the wiki would have been nearly as useful without the mailing list. -Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-12 Thread Bill Moran
it. There are, however, less drastic workarounds. An exercise with google will turn up a number of programs that will reduce the problem to a manageable level. This topic comes up about once a week on this list alone. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
happened. I'm not that informed historically and was glad to get this little tidbit a while ago when tracking down the history of Unix/Linux... http://wiliweld.com/history.jpg -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com ~ When a fly lands on the ceiling, does it do a half roll

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Bill Moran
because of it, or I would have filed some bug reports. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Bill Moran
Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:46, Jay Chandler wrote: On a related note for this hardware platform, has anyone gotten past the randomly decides not to reboot when told to issue? Requires a hard shutdown by hand, as the console becomes completely

Re: How can we check that if a system is affected by a Bad User?

2007-01-10 Thread Bill Moran
In response to VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Friends How can we check that if a system is affected by a Bad User? http://www.la-samhna.de/samhain/index.html It's in ports in various incarnations. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: Nmap Scan from FreeBSD OS - Coding Question

2007-01-09 Thread Bill Moran
someone can show me a simple coding to invoke nmap scan, thanks :) [Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so] It seems to me that C would be overkill for such a task. You could easily use cron + a shell/perl/python/etc script to get the task done. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: stopping my server from spamming

2007-01-08 Thread Bill Moran
the problem is occurring. The block you've implemented is a good idea -- I think everyone should do it as a matter of course, but there's no guarantee that it will fix your particular problem until you know what that problem is. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: FreeRadius 1.1.3 segmentation problem in Freebsd

2007-01-07 Thread Bill Moran
be a FreeBSD issue? I am following this material from: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/excerpt/radius_5/index1.html Try installing from the port instead. -Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: change port dependent...

2007-01-07 Thread Bill Moran
using portupgrade with the -o option. See the man page for details. -Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev/null in a chroot

2007-01-07 Thread Bill Moran
this now. You can mount a second devfs under /www/dev/, or anywhere else for that matter. Controlling which device nodes show up is done by devfs rulsets. See the man page for devfs for details. -Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Stuck on win32-codecs compilation.

2007-01-04 Thread Bill Moran
the following: cd /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs make config Then deselect quicktime from the menu and save your change. Then go back to building mplayer and it should succeed. -Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Help Please !

2007-01-04 Thread Bill Moran
it is that made you determine that suidperl was the problem in the first place ... what gave you that idea? Barring that, the output of ps -axu | grep perl would be helpful. On 1/3/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Mohamad Babaei [EMAIL PROTECTED]: why suidperl rises my

Re: Newbie Lynx and Mozilla Firefox Questions

2007-01-04 Thread Bill Campbell
to type to run Lynx on FreeBSD? You might also want to look at ``links'', a character browser that does frames which may be more useful than lynx. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX

Re: Help Please !

2007-01-03 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Mohamad Babaei [EMAIL PROTECTED]: why suidperl rises my CPU usage to 100% ??? please help ! It's probably a result of the script that suidperl is running. Without knowing what that is, however, we can't help much. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: FreeBSD Installer vs RedHat Linux Fedora Core Installer?

2007-01-03 Thread Bill Moran
the biggest problem is that the installer is good enough -- so nobody is particularly interested in rewriting it until it's not good enough any more -- even though it could be better. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: OT: stupid sh scripting question

2007-01-03 Thread Bill Moran
not exist. return 1 fi The ; after the ] ? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Clutz-Proof Logging

2007-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
in the foot? Many shells keep a history as a matter of normal operation. You might find that enough for you. Personally, I use bash, and the command history brings the last 100 commands or so. HTH, Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: What is involved in switching from i386 to AMD64?

2006-12-31 Thread Bill Moran
in my opinion) or give up the RAM over 3.5G. -Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sharing ports tree, possible?

2006-12-29 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Simon Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it possible to share ports tree directory? If so, what's the procedure? Yes. You generally want to set WRKDIRPREFIX to something like /var/ports or /usr/obj to ward off conflicts. Otherwise, just put it on an NFS server an NFS mount it. -- Bill

Re: Sharing ports tree, possible?

2006-12-29 Thread Bill Moran
Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Simon Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it possible to share ports tree directory? If so, what's the procedure? Yes. You generally want to set WRKDIRPREFIX to something like /var/ports or /usr/obj to ward off

Re: No driver for NIC...

2006-12-28 Thread Bill Moran
miibus out his kernel would never have compiled. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: system failed, save tasks

2006-12-26 Thread Bill Moran
overloaded with work at one point and the HDD was having trouble keeping up, as it seems to have recovered. I don't know what the NVRM messages are, but they have the look of a sound card. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Problems with UBUNTU mounting NFS share from FreeBSD

2006-12-24 Thread Bill Moran
as root from the assigned port. -Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Bill Moran
always hardware problems. Have you verified that your RAM, hard drive, cooling, power, and all other hardware factors are in proper operation? That would be the first logical step in diagnosing this. -Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Is there UNIX analog of ftp command pls?

2006-12-21 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there UNIX analog of ftp command pls, i. e. ls | less ? There's a Windows analog of the UNIX ftp command (pretty much everything from DOS 2.0 on was taken from UNIX starting with the hierarchical file system). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What is .mail_aliases?

2006-12-21 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What the file .mail_aliases in home directory is intended for? May I remove it? It's usually an aliases file for the mutt mailer. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820

Re: undeliverable mail

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Vermillion
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 23:58 , Men gasped, women fainted, and small children were reduced to tears as Ian Smith confessed to all: On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Beastie MRA wrote: On Dec 20, 2006 10:31 AM, Bill Vermillion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [bunches deleted - wjv] But I doubt we get 260,000

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Moran
are capable of. Please don't feed this Troll. Not much would make me happier this holiday season that to see this jerk's rants fall on deaf ears. Happy Holidays. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Moran
to investigate kerberos or LDAP if there's any chance at all that this might grow into a larger desire to replicate user accounts. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: undeliverable mail

2006-12-19 Thread Bill Vermillion
/null On one of the mail servers I maintain I just checked and I had 260,000+ messages routed to *file* in the maillog - which shows up as mailer=*file* in the logs. That maillog rotates every night at midnight. Is not really a freebsd-net problem so I removed that from the reply to line. Bill

Re: Process States Explanation

2006-12-18 Thread Bill Moran
will produce enough information to satisfy you. The other 20% of the time, you'll either need to read the source code or find a helpful developer to explain. Don't hesitate to ask on this list if you come across a state you can't find information on. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: FreeBSD as VM host OS?

2006-12-18 Thread Bill Moran
, but _only_ for FreeBSD guests. i.e., you can't run Linux in a FreeBSD jail *) qemu works well on FreeBSD in my experience, but there is a considerable performance hit. *) Xen should give you what you want, but I've no information on the status of Xen on FreeBSD at this time. HTH -- Bill

Re: i finally got wireless working

2006-12-16 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
only speak for myself but I'd love to hear how ya did it. -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -- Redd Foxx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Dell 2950 1950

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Moran
, but it's been so intermittent that we can't seem to isolate the cause. Symptom is that it gets to the final stage of reboot/shutdown and then waits indefinitely without issuing the final ACPI command. Do some searches on my name and/or those topics on the stable@ list archives for more details. -- Bill

Re: PowerEdge 6850 Install

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Moran
want the amd64 version. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Dell 2950 1950

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Moran
series uses a newer RAID controller that doesn't use the same driver and is incompatible with megarc. My point is that there's no equiv at this time. BTW, are you in Pittsburgh too? :) Yes. On 12/14/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Peter Grigor [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Dell 2950 1950

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Moran
Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Peter Grigor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've just gotten some quotes on a few dell machines and I was wondering now if freebsd 6.x is able to run on them properly. Perc/5i cards and 64-bit Intel chips are my worries

Re: Shar question

2006-12-13 Thread Bill Moran
. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dummynet fragmenting packets

2006-12-12 Thread Bill Moran
related filtering rules is breaking it. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS question - which is the server

2006-12-12 Thread Bill Moran
client? You're question is worded somewhat ambiguously. I'm unclear as to which server is doing what, however: * The server that _has_ the files will be the NFS server. * Any system that accesses those files across the network is an NFS client. Hope that helps. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion

Re: Routing Question

2006-12-12 Thread Bill Moran
, and is the approach I would recommend. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: network analyse tool? To debug IMAP related problems

2006-12-11 Thread Bill Moran
can watch the entire conversation occur. This doesn't help if you're trying to debug IMAP client problems, though. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

dd mini-iso image to USB pendrive?

2006-12-11 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I'm trying to get my server to boot off my Sandisk Cruzer 1-gig pen drive with an ISO image dd'd to the pendrive. It fails and the same ISO image will boot off the USB CDROM with no issues. Is there any specific howto on doing this? TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft * http

shmmax tops out at 2G?

2006-12-11 Thread Bill Moran
as well as would be expected on 64-bit arch. Is this a mistake, or intentional? I'm working with some big memory systems, and I sure would like to allocate more than 2G for PostgreSQL to use ... -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd

Re: cant able to telnet the freebsd system

2006-12-06 Thread Bill Moran
couldnt able to telnet the server both locally or remote sockstat -4 will show you whether it's listening or not. The actual error messages would be more helpful than a generic it doesn't work -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output

2006-12-06 Thread Bill Moran
network connections on the system. You can also set it on a per-socket basis using setsockopt and the TCP_NODELAY option. Some google searches on TCP_NODELAY will provide interesting technical details. -Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

issues with NgMkSockNode

2006-12-04 Thread Bill Thompson
Hello, I'm implementing a program using netgraph, and I'm having some issues when calling NgMkSockNode and would like to know if this is the right list to post questions for this subject or is there a better list that I should use. Thank you. Bill T

Re: Soft Updates Help

2006-12-01 Thread Bill Moran
blocks in use that don't belong to any file, and it can free them up for the filesystem to use. That's somewhat simplified, but it gives you the basic idea. HTH Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Memory addressing ?

2006-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
than 4g, you have to rebuild the kernel with PAE. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question on batch email sending

2006-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
PROTECTED] So that Frank can just get it into his regular inbox. I realize that I could just ask Frank to pop it off the server but then he would have to setup for just one occasion. Is there a way to do what I want? fetchmail was designed for this sort of thing. -- Bill Moran Collaborative

Re: stop a freebsd server from responding to pinging?

2006-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
services are properly secured If you do those two, who cares if you get portscanned? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: mouse ??

2006-11-29 Thread Bill Moran
if you provide some details that folks will be able to assist. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: running windows applications and making use of existing ms windows installation

2006-11-28 Thread Bill Moran
mato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:09:50 +0200, albi albinootje wrote On 10/19/06, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading for some time about VMWare, Wine, Qemu, Bochs and some others, but I'm still not sure which one would (best) fit my needs:

Re: running windows applications and making use of existing ms windows installation

2006-11-28 Thread Bill Moran
In response to mato [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:40:43 -0500, Bill Moran wrote mato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:09:50 +0200, albi albinootje wrote On 10/19/06, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading for some time about VMWare

Re: not enough free resources

2006-11-25 Thread Bill Moran
resources are missing and how to change them? Check the output of 'netstat -m' to see if there are any clues as to what is being starved. Once you know, it shouldn't be too hard to figure out how to increase it. -Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Password Security

2006-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:45:19 +0100 VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/23/06, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And how can one into the System by booting from a CD if it still requires the Password even in Single User mode? Booting from CD, floppy or hard disk is slected at

Re: Password Security

2006-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:56:23 +0100 VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, does it mean that Windows 2003 Server provides more Password Level Security with Unauthorized Access? Where is this presumption coming from? Windows OS suffer from the same difficulty protecting from physical intrusion

Re: Password Security

2006-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:08:18 +0100 VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/23/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:45:19 +0100 VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/23/06, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And how can one into the System

Re: Does disk encryption causes a performance penalty for Data Access/Read/Write, etc

2006-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
faster than the disk can write the data. The result would be that you won't notice the penalty unless you've got other CPU-intensive tasks running that reduce the amount of CPU available to the encryption process. HTH -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains

Re: IPFW NFS

2006-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output

2006-11-19 Thread Bill Moran
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:42:31 + Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Bill writes: Bill My guess would be that your process blocked on stdout. Bill You don't mention what you're doing with stdout from the program, are Bill you just letting it scroll on the terminal, or redirecting

Re: Where is that branch ???

2006-11-18 Thread Bill Moran
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:46:39 -0500 Ne'Bahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I was reading the handbook for the -STABLE branch, but no answer, the actual realeases are -CURRENT and -PRODUCTION; I don't see any -STABLE on site, I should assume that -PRODUCTION is the stable branch ??? Am I

Problems with openldap version conflict (was Re: upgrade packages)

2006-11-18 Thread Bill Moran
is portupgrade with the -o option. Something like: portupgrade -fo net/openldap23-client openldap-client-2.2.30 will replace the 2.2 version with the 2.3 version. I've done this on a few systems without problems. You can then install packages that require the 2.3 verison without hassel. -- Bill Moran

Re: PowerEdgeTM 1950

2006-11-18 Thread Bill Moran
every time you have to update world or kernel due to security patches. Another option is to wait a month or two for 6.2, which already incorporates these fixes. You can try out the 6.2-RC sets, and it will be trivial to upgrade form RC to RELEASE. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http

Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output

2006-11-18 Thread Bill Moran
My comments are based both on the packet dump here and the source code you posted earlier ... On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:20:33 + Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the tcpdump output below, the src machine is sending data to the bsd machine. At one point during this test, the bsd machine is

Re: TCP parameters

2006-11-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bob M. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 19:17 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: Window scaling is enabled by default. I'd assumed that there would be a sysctl to disable it, but I can't seem to find one. fwiw, the net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 sysctl is for window scaling

Re: TCP parameters

2006-11-16 Thread Bill Moran
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:17:26 + Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the process of debugging a not-working-so-well TCP application, I've been asked to provide: cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem Which of course results in No such file or

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-15 Thread Bill Moran
debugging, you probably want to go with SCHED_4BSD. It would appear that some day SCHED_ULE will replace it, but not yet. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message

Re: Network Monitoring Application Help, What do you use?

2006-11-15 Thread Bill Moran
. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient

Re: OS-BS replacement

2006-11-15 Thread Bill Moran
) Create a port for your program. 3) Submit a PR based on the guidelines in #1, be sure to note in the PR that this port supersedes the old os-bs port, so the committer can do the right thing. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information

Re: FreeBSD UFS vulnerability: Is NIST off its medication, or am I missing something?

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-5824 Following the links around, it seems that you would have to mount a corrupt or malicious filesystem in order to exploit this vulnerability. Yes, NIST claims

Re: net-snmp and 6.1 (confusion)

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
, a killall should shut it down. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
hyperthreaded, which is different. Hyperthreading is disabled in FreeBSD by default because of possible security issues. It can be enabled by setting a sysctl ... I recommend you do a bit of reading on the sysctl mechanism or it's behaviour might confuse you. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: image based stock spam

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
these to the ports team, they're unlikely to get fixed. Then, a little further here comes an x windows install, a 31 mb download. I don't want that on my server. Put NO_GUI=yes and NO_X11=yes in /etc/make.conf -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023

Detailed questions about kernel operation (was Re: 'help')

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
covers these in detail. And I suggest using a more descriptive subject line. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient

Re: cant login to my server machine(FreeBSD-6.0)

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
it obviously is, see /etc/ttys) then it doesn't ask for a password when forced to boot to single user mode. The most likely course to correct the problem now, is to do the following: fsck -p mount -a then fix the problem in /etc/rc.conf. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT

Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
or by recompiling your kernel. We have some PostgreSQL servers that require the filehandle limit be raised to 5, for example. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message

FreeBSD UFS vulnerability: Is NIST off its medication, or am I missing something?

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-5824 Following the links around, it seems that you would have to mount a corrupt or malicious filesystem in order to exploit this vulnerability. Yes, NIST claims there is no authentication required to exploit? Are new versions of FreeBSD suddenly

Re: freebsd help

2006-11-09 Thread Bill Moran
In response to mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can this OS support Dual-CORE intel CPU?? Yes. We're using 6.2-PRERELEASE on dual-core units at my work. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named

Re: access-lists and QoS implementation

2006-11-09 Thread Bill Moran
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Re: hp 1020 printer not working

2006-11-09 Thread Bill Campbell
, usb status is 0x00 and error is 15 Have any solution to this I think that the HP 1020 is a host-based Windows printer so would require special support. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software, LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E

Questions on first-time installation (Re: (no subject))

2006-11-07 Thread Bill Moran
to have to provide more information. You say you have 3 - 73G drives and a 146G drive, but you don't describe how they are laid out. What kind of RAID? What do you think you should see, and what do you actually see? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-07 Thread Bill Moran
out which drive it should be mounting off. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, all I'm saying is that it might not produce a long-term usable installation. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual

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