Re: showdown transfering files with scp

2006-02-08 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using scp to copy several large (300-800mb) each files between two Freebsd machines. Both are on the same hub, 100MB Ethernet connection. The source box is FreeBSD 5.4 stable at a late October build date. The target is running 6.0 stable at a current build date.

syslog logging recommendation

2006-01-17 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I'm looking for a recommendation for capturing syslogs from my small network. Specifically, initially I'd like to capture the syslog from my Netgear router and store it on my FreeBSD machine. Later I'd add other machines on the network. I've seen msyslog in the ports, but there's virtually no

Re: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Gestur A. Grjetarsson wrote: after alot of time spent in this problem, I still have no solution to this and no help yet, is there nobody using IBM Blade and FreeBSD? I've used FreeBSD since 1994 and never had a problem like this. but, I tried to boot from Gentoo Linux, and it detects

Restoring Data from a DD image

2005-10-06 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I've just replaced a hard disk that was dying fast. I've done a full installation of 4.9 (later releases won't install, which I've submitted a problem report on already). The old disk is connected but not mounted. Searching around, I found some suggestions to try to read the old disk to

Re: Restoring Data from a DD image

2005-10-06 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Gayn Winters wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Schmitt (SW) Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Restoring Data from a DD image I've just replaced a hard disk that was dying fast. I've

Cannot Boot 5.4

2005-10-01 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I have a 300MHz Gateway that was resurrected with new memory (128MB) and an additional Maxtor 60GB IDE hard disk to run FBSD about a year and a half ago. At the time, when I tried to install an early 5.x release (I don't recall which), I could boot the CD and go through the installation, but

Fingerprint Reader?

2005-09-09 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Does anyone know of a fingerprint reader that has been successfully used with FBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OpenWebMail won't make

2005-06-27 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I've been trying to install openwebmail. I've tried portupgrade and make and both seem to have the same issue. I get an error message that perl 5.6.1 or higher is needed and suggesting that I install 5.8. I've done that (several times) but I still get the error message. Has anyone come across

Re: OpenWebMail won't make

2005-06-27 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bill, On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: |I've been trying to install openwebmail. I've tried portupgrade and make |and both seem to have the same issue. I get an error message that perl |5.6.1 or higher is needed and suggesting that I install 5.8. I've

General PHP Port Question

2005-05-31 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I think I'm missing something pretty basic. There appear to be two ways to install php4; using the port under lang/php4 and using the port under www/mod_php4. The Long Description under each is the same. Under Lang, the Short Description refers to CLI, but otherwise they appear to be the same

hostname problem on a local network

2005-05-02 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I have a FreeBSD 4.9 system on a private network, connected to the internet through a Netgear router/firewall which acts as a DHCP server and receives its names through netbios. I'm trying to set it to respond to the fully qualified name schfrbsd.lan. In my rc.conf, I have the line:

Domain Name in postfix on a Local Network

2005-05-01 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I've been struggling through setting up a mail server on my home network, with the goal to be running an imap server. As I've indicated on some other related postings I've made, networking is probably my weakest side and I need a little help. I have no real internet name for the box, which I

Need help setting up an IMAP Server on a local network

2005-04-23 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I would like to set up an IMAP server on a FreeBSD box for my home network. I don't have a lot of depth in this area, so could really use some help or pointers to how to pages. Searching the web and reading the documentation has left a couple of gaps that I would appreciate someone filling in.

Need a recommendation for Log File Analysis

2005-01-24 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I'm looking for an application to run on our FreeBSD 4.9 server that will allow some mining of data from our mail logs (Postfix). For example, what ip's are rejected because they are incorrectly formatted or what domains are not providing reverse dns entries (which we reject). Being able to

Increasing Semaphores

2005-01-14 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Over the past few days, I had some problems with too few connections availabe for postgresql. I resolved them for the short term, but when I tried setting the max_connections for postgresql as high as 64, I received a message indicating that I had to increase the semaphores available in the

Defining MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf

2005-01-12 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I'm trying to define some arguments in pkgtools.conf to use in a portinstall of moregroupware (deskutils/moregroupware). I haven't used pkgtools.conf before, and I'm apparently doing something wrong. I'm doing this under FBSD 4.9. In the Makefile, there is a section that states: .if

Re: Defining MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf

2005-01-12 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-01-12 18:28, Bill Schmitt (SW) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, in the pkgtools.conf file, I added: MAKE_ARGS = { 'deskutils/moregroupware' = 'WITH_APACHE2 WITH_MODULES' } But, when I execute portupgrade moregroupware, I receive a message that states: make: don't know

Which opengroupware port to install

2005-01-10 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I want to try the opengroupware application, but am not sure about which version to install. Specifically, the ports collection has a linux version of the software listed, but the opengroupware.org site lists a version specifically for FreeBSD, which also appears to be a linux version. But the

Openwebmail with maildir patch on FBSD?

2004-12-15 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I know it's not technically a FreeBSD question, but answers on the openwebmail forums are slow in coming and I was wondering if anyone here had tried to use openwebmail with the maildir patch. The patch is listed as for openwebmail 2.32, and the current port of openwebmail in the FreeBSD Ports

Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There seems to be a lot of documentation on doing it with mySQL, but I can't seem to find anything using PostgreSQL. Does anyone here have any documentation, suggestions, or pointers to web sites?

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There seems to be a lot of documentation on doing it with mySQL, but I can't seem to find anything using PostgreSQL. Does anyone here have any documentation, suggestions

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There seems to be a lot of documentation on doing it with mySQL, but I can't seem to find anything using PostgreSQL. Does anyone here have any documentation, suggestions

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Manuel Rabade Garcia wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:43:04 -0500 Bill Schmitt (SW) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There seems to be a lot of documentation on doing it with mySQL, but I can't seem to find

Problem with portinstall of mod_perl

2004-11-09 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I'm having some difficulty installing mod_perl (I tried make install, as well with the same results). I've tried reading through the various files I can find, and did several web searches, but haven't found anything pointing me in the right direction. When I try to execute portinstall -r

Portinstall question

2004-10-24 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I think I'm missing something basic, so if someone could point me to where that is, I would appreciate it. I been installing software using portinstall, but I think I'm missing something basic because there seems to be more guesswork involved that I expected there to be. How do you know what

Re: Portinstall question

2004-10-24 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 05:44 am, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I think I'm missing something basic, so if someone could point me to where that is, I would appreciate it. I been installing software using portinstall, but I think I'm missing something basic because

Re: Portinstall question

2004-10-24 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 07:27:16AM -0500, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 05:44 am, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I think I'm missing something basic, so if someone could point me to where that is, I would appreciate it. I been installing software

Re: Portinstall question

2004-10-24 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 09:27 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: I was just wondering why you would want to use portinstall to install new software, rather than (using your example port): cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql-server41 make install Is using portinstall magical

Host name question

2004-10-20 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I know I've seen the answer to this question somewhere here, but I can't seem to find it. I'm running FBSD 4.9 on a machine which is connected to a router (Netgear) that provides DHCP services. The FBSD box gets the IP correctly (assigned based on the MAC address), but the router never sees it

Re: Host name question

2004-10-20 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName. Ruben de Groot wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:09:49AM -0400, Bill Schmitt (SW) typed: I know I've seen the answer to this question somewhere here, but I can't seem to find it. I'm running FBSD 4.9 on a machine which is connected

Re: Host name question

2004-10-20 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:18 am, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: Alexey Karguine wrote: Bill Schmitt wrote: Well, every other computer on the network is listed as an attached device except the FBSD box. And, when I've booted Knoppix in the past

Gnome Package

2004-10-09 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I've been getting my feet wet with FreeBSD. I have a package/ports question that I'm hoping someone can shed some light on. I think the question belongs here rather than on a Gnome list, because it's related to the various types of installations available to FreeBSD, but if I should go over to

firefox help

2004-09-30 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I'm a newbie who is trying to install a recent release of firefox under version 4.9 of FreeBSD. I downloaded the installer (for linux since there doesn't appear to be a FreeBSD version, yet) from Mozilla, but when I try to execute it, I get the message error while loading shared libraries:

Re: help: booting 5.2.1 hangs on pcm

2004-09-14 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I've been having similar problems with the system hanging. I received a lot of helpful information and suggestions here, and haven't tried installing X yet, but have gotten past the boot. Unfortunately, the solution (so far) has been to use an older release. Nvidia has FreeBSD drivers posted

Need advice

2004-09-11 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I'm a newbie to FreeBSD, and I like what I've seen so far. I've been trying it on a machine I have here to get an idea of the plusses and minuses of using it as a basic desktop system. I could use a little advice to guide me in the process. I'm working with Version 4.10 now, simply because at