Re: Reinstalling Sendmail?

2006-08-10 Thread Derek Ragona
You should check your log file and see why sendmail is exiting. -Derek At 06:33 AM 8/10/2006, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: I have some problems with Sendmail (ref an older thread I posted): pid 72284 (sendmail), uid 0: exited on signal 11 pid 72505 (sendmail), uid 0: exited

Re: Using putty as a ssh client on FreeBSD

2006-08-10 Thread Derek Ragona
You are trying to automatically login and either the key is bad or missing. You should try creating a new key. -Derek At 10:13 AM 8/9/2006, Josh Paetzel wrote: I'm trying to use putty on my FBSD 6.1-R box to access another FreeBSD box. I can get in fine using the command line ssh

Re: Sendmail FreeBSD 5.3 Issue

2006-08-09 Thread Derek Ragona
Make sure you have nsswitch configured correctly, and your hosts file, and the reverse DNS maps setup correctly. -Derek At 09:31 AM 8/9/2006, Derrick Schimcek wrote: I have a machine that I have installed bind and sendmail from the ports collection it is a mail gateway. When I do

Re: Filtering mail based on header contents

2006-08-09 Thread Derek Ragona
will get tedious for you to manually filter through. This is a bit off topic for this list, so if you need help with configuration settings, you can email me directly. -Derek At 12:44 AM 8/9/2006, Christopher Martin wrote: I have a mail system on which I have recently implemented

Re: Booting more than 4 OSes from a hard disk?

2006-08-08 Thread Derek Ragona
the BIOS. A simple solution is to use 2 disks. Each with four partitions. The FreeBSD bootmanager will offer to boot from disk2. On disk 2 you can have your remaining OS's. -Derek At 10:40 AM 8/8/2006, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Dear all, I was wondering if the 4 primary parition

Re: Sendmail Question; unable to send mail as normal user

2006-08-07 Thread Derek Ragona
Make sure you have the following files in /etc/mail setup: local-host-names domaintable mailertable These last two need a database file too which is make by: /usr/sbin/makemap hash domaintable domaintable /usr/sbin/makemap hash mailertable mailertable -Derek At 12:41 PM 8/7/2006

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-07 Thread Derek Ragona
, the only positive to X-terminals is in configuration and maintenance. That's my 2 cents anyway. -Derek At 02:19 PM 8/7/2006, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3?= wrote: Hello, I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees) will use terminals to run programs

Re: DNS Blacklist Script?

2006-08-04 Thread Derek Ragona
Your best is to report them to spamcop. I believe there is a plug-in for thunderbird to do that. -Derek At 03:24 PM 8/4/2006, Chris Maness wrote: Does anyone know of a script (or application) to automagically add a host to a dns blacklist? It would be very convenient to blacklist

Re: 17 or 19

2006-08-03 Thread Derek Ragona
faster update speeds when given a choice. The update speed effects how crisp the image is when changing, say viewing a video of gaming, but even in regular refreshing of the screen. -Derek At 04:58 PM 8/2/2006, dick hoogendijk wrote: Two LCD screens. Both have the same resolution

Re: FreeBSD crashes on my laptop...

2006-07-29 Thread Derek Ragona
Are the crashes always with X running? ATI support is not good for X. -Derek At 01:15 AM 7/29/2006, Ahmed Parkar wrote: Hello... I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE (AMD64) on an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop... Specs... Mobile AMD athlon 3000+ 128mb ATI radeon 9700... I install

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-26 Thread Derek Ragona
I use the ASCII headers for portability incase I need to restore to another server with a different tar version. -Derek At 06:29 PM 7/25/2006, Jaime wrote: On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: Using tar with a SDLT I set the blocksize at 1024 and use ASCII headers (-c

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-25 Thread Derek Ragona
Using tar with a SDLT I set the blocksize at 1024 and use ASCII headers (-c) -Derek At 05:18 PM 7/24/2006, Jaime wrote: I'm attempting to use tar to feed my filesystem(s) to a DLT tape drive. I've done this with FreeBSD 3 through 5 and DAT (DDS-3 and DDS-4) tapes for years

Re: Serious disk problems

2006-07-25 Thread Derek Ragona
. -Derek At 11:49 AM 7/25/2006, Jonathan Arnold wrote: My power supply died and now my root file system seems to be having major problems. I run fsck -y on it and after complaining about dozens of sectors having problems being read and Unexpected soft updates, fsck ends with: fsck_ufs

Re: FreeBSD 6 Hard Lock no logs

2006-07-25 Thread Derek Ragona
echo to give separation and see what is running, then closes the file and sleeps again. Obviously you will only be interested in the last couple of entries in this file. -Derek At 01:19 PM 7/25/2006, Rob Connon (Info) wrote: Hi, I have a web/mail server thats running the lastest

Re: Simple DNS Configuration

2006-07-24 Thread Derek Ragona
Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. You want the line for hosts to be: dns files Also be sure named is running. While it says it is starting do a: ps -ax|grep name -Derek At 04:53 PM 7/24/2006, David Stanford wrote: On 7/24/06, Matthias Fechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David

Re: Corrupt MBOX

2006-07-23 Thread Derek Ragona
or no pop email at all. The only way I have found to fix this is to either use pine and delete the bad message. Pine is better at handling mal-formed headers. Or to use a webmail interface to delete the bad email. -Derek At 12:18 PM 7/22/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: Derek Ragona wrote

Re: Corrupt MBOX

2006-07-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Install pine and try reading it using pine. -Derek At 07:43 AM 7/22/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: For whatever reason, once the size of any MBOX in /var/mail exceeds approximately 30M it becomes corrupt. Qpopper refuses to deliver the mail. Attempting to open the MBOX with pico causes

Re: mbox retrieval

2006-07-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Install pine and reading locally using pine, don't delete the messages in pine and you can pick them up remotely. -Derek At 04:06 AM 7/22/2006, Robert Davison wrote: I've received some email and read it using the simple 'mail' command. I use qpopper to pick up the email remotely

Re: Corrupt MBOX

2006-07-22 Thread Derek Ragona
It may be corrupted by spam. This happens when SPAM has bad headers. This effects all POP clients/servers. -Derek At 11:07 AM 7/22/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: Install pine and try reading it using pine. -Derek That does not correct the problem. I

Re: traps and interrupts

2006-07-21 Thread Derek Ragona
Traps go along with signal handlers. You should do a man on signal for more information. The interrupts you are referring to are at a device driver level, where a driver interacts directly with the hardware. -Derek At 03:21 PM 7/21/2006, Jamie wrote: I'm going through Design

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Derek Ragona
Check your BIOS that you don't have protection of the boot block enabled. If you do, remove that protection and reinstall. Some laptops can get stuck, and you have to pull the battery and AC power then restore the AC power to get them to restart. -Derek At 05:35 PM 7/18/2006

Re: Windows FreeBSD

2006-07-19 Thread Derek Ragona
You can run the install from windows. Look for booteasy in the tools directory on the FreeBSD CD. -Derek At 04:22 AM 7/19/2006, horn wrote: Now i have FreeBSD 6.1 on my computer. I want to install windows. Windows is erased FreeBSD boot loader. How it is possible recovery boot

Re: tempreture shutting down.

2006-07-19 Thread Derek Ragona
That is on your motherboard. You probably have a fan that isn't running right. -Derek At 11:28 AM 7/19/2006, Marwan Sultan wrote: I Finally installed 6.1 on my HP Laptop dv5000 serios. when i restarted for the first time, and During booting, it gives the following error and it shuts

Re: radeon option agpmode 4 hangs system

2006-07-18 Thread Derek Ragona
I have no other ideas. Unfortunately ATI doesn't support anything but windows and Mac OS X. And with agp being replaced with PCI Express, this issue is unlikely to get resolved. You might want to change to an nvidia card. -Derek At 02:23 AM 7/18/2006, Gobbledegeek wrote: Removing

Re: radeon option agpmode 4 hangs system

2006-07-17 Thread Derek Ragona
Do you have the agp kernel module not loaded? In 6.x there are known problems with the agp kernel module which is compiled in by default. If you haven't tried removing it, try that. -Derek At 02:15 PM 7/17/2006, Gobbledegeek wrote: After a long search and no solution in sight

Re: chipest real hardware raid for FreeBSDWindows XP

2006-07-11 Thread Derek Ragona
Rudeness gets you nothing! At 12:38 PM 7/11/2006, Eugeny Kuzakov wrote: On 7/10/06, Derek Ragona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly I asked chipest HARDWARE raid MB doesn't has contained hardware raid... Please see http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.htmlhttp

Re: Bind problem

2006-07-11 Thread Derek Ragona
If you have specific questions to any of the file entries you can email me directly. -Derek At 01:20 PM 7/11/2006, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, The installed bind is not in /usr/local/bin that is where the port is installed. You might want to do a: # which bind and set rc.conf to the right

Re: chipest real hardware raid for FreeBSDWindows XP

2006-07-10 Thread Derek Ragona
That is about the cheapest true hardware RAID. You can use lower cost adapters or get a motherboard with built-in RAID. -Derek At 04:12 AM 7/10/2006, Eugeny Kuzakov wrote: Hi guys! Can anybody advice me chipest REAL HARDWARE raid for sata? At the moment I found that chipest

Re: Bind problem

2006-07-10 Thread Derek Ragona
The installed bind is not in /usr/local/bin that is where the port is installed. You might want to do a: # which bind and set rc.conf to the right value for the program. -Derek At 04:34 PM 7/10/2006, Lisa Casey wrote: - Original Message - From: Jonathan Chen [EMAIL

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Derek Ragona
Yes DNS will work with your port forwarding assuming you have it set up correctly on your router. Are you trying to be the authoritative DNS for your domain? If you are you will still need a secondary DNS. -Derek At 05:56 AM 7/6/2006, Michael S wrote: The open ports are simply

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Derek Ragona
host records. -Derek At 06:33 AM 7/6/2006, Michael S wrote: Derek, Actually my domain is a subdomain (e.g. mysubdomain.domain.com), and obviously the domain server for domain.com points correctly to my site. What I want to have (mostly for the sake of configuring DNS) is something like

Re: Installation on private network

2006-07-04 Thread Derek Ragona
The simplest way is to take the ISO of the release you want to load and install as an upgrade. You will need to remove or move /usr/src first as an upgrade won't overwrite it if it is found. -Derek At 11:58 AM 7/4/2006, Raymond Owens wrote: I have a freebsd system which

Re: Sendmail Bind FreeBSD 5.3 Issue

2006-07-03 Thread Derek Ragona
It sounds like your server is expecting to be the authoritative server for this domain, but is not. The authoritative server's records always are assumed to be the correct ones. -Derek At 11:30 AM 7/3/2006, Derrick Schimcek wrote: I have a machine that I have installed bind

Fixed my server crashing in X with AGP video

2006-07-01 Thread Derek Ragona
the server is completely stable running X. I have seen other messages with other video card problems, and wanted to share my experience as it may help other agp video card users. -Derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content

Re: New install, rebuilding world

2006-06-27 Thread Derek Ragona
use, you can ignore it. -Derek At 09:31 AM 6/27/2006, AB wrote: I'm new to FreeBSD, but I've been reading alot in the Handbook about building custom kernels and rebuilding world, and still can't seem to find what I'm looking for. I want to be able to recompile my whole system so that it's

Re: Need urgent help to get Sendmail running again

2006-06-26 Thread Derek Ragona
sendmail configured to do authentication. I have seen this error a number of times, when the authentication you have configured in your .cf files is not matched by the sendmail compiler flags. Also in /etc/make.conf you should have any special sendmail compile options. -Derek At 08

Re: Monitoring Server Health

2006-06-26 Thread Derek Ragona
be configured on a server by server basis for what you want to monitor, to limit any overheard you can. You can also configure bigsister to store the data in a database such as mysql for more detailed analysis. Hope this helps, -Derek At 01:02 AM 6/25/2006, Jerlique Bahn wrote: Hello, What

Re: problems running freebsd 6.0+

2006-06-25 Thread Derek Ragona
You should post with your dmesg output and uname -a as well. It would also help if you also included the task list from ps -ax -Derek At 08:16 PM 6/24/2006, Tom Cruickshank wrote: Hello, I'm hoping is the correct mailing list for this, if not, please feel free to direct me

Re: IBM 440 8CPU + RAID 4LX

2006-06-23 Thread Derek Ragona
You need to give more details on your server hardware and on the version you are trying to install. By default SMP is turned off in the generic kernel in 6.X, which is why booting the live cd is only in single CPU mode. -Derek At 03:03 AM 6/23/2006, Miki Klein - Wisedot

Re: Serial programming on FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE

2006-06-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Andy, Did you kill the getty running on the port? Are you getting any errors? -Derek At 10:28 AM 6/22/2006, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hello, I've got a case where I'm writing a simply serial program to send bytes from one system to another over a serial cable. The program works

Re: Serial programming on FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE

2006-06-22 Thread Derek Ragona
, some don't run getty on all physical ports, some do by default. Some are more exclusive in the perms as well, or should be. -Derek At 01:19 PM 6/22/2006, Andrew Falanga wrote: Derek, No I didn't disable the getty on the port. To be honest, I didn't know one was running. Second

Re: Serial programming on FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE

2006-06-22 Thread Derek Ragona
in the flags when you do the open call. -Derek At 02:55 PM 6/22/2006, Andrew Falanga wrote: I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Andy On 6/22/06, Derek Ragona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kermit may be manipulating the uart directly. Unless you are not getting

Re: Sendmail and high kernel CPU utilisation

2006-06-19 Thread Derek Ragona
. Then you can look in your sendmail log in /var/log/maillog for what sendmail is actually doing. Hope this helps. -Derek At 08:56 PM 6/18/2006, Travis Fitch wrote: Hello, I was hoping someone might be able to shed some light on an issue I am having with sendmail on FreeBSD 5.2.1

Re: don't know how to make libsmutil.a

2006-06-18 Thread Derek Ragona
You may need to cvsup again, as you may have done it before the makefile for sendmail was properly updated. Or, you can download and build sendmail from source. -Derek At 03:10 PM 6/18/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to follow these directions for setting up a secure

Re: pop passwords no longer working after hacker got on my server

2006-06-16 Thread Derek Ragona
You should first verify your pop daemon is running, either from inet or on boot. What errors are you getting? -Derek At 08:36 AM 6/16/2006, Scott Kaplan wrote: After a hacker got on my server pop passwords are no longer working I tried deleting and re-adding popa3d but it didn't

Re: spontaneous reboot

2006-06-15 Thread Derek Ragona
NMI means a non-maskable interupt. So this would be a hardware component generating this. -Derek At 06:33 AM 6/15/2006, D G Teed wrote: Hi, A server spontaneously rebooted last night. I don't see why. The last item in the messages file prior to reboot was: Jun 15 01:40:39

Re: how to debug a lock-up?

2006-06-15 Thread Derek Ragona
First you should cvsup and rebuild everything to the latest release versions so all security fixes are loaded. With everything rebuilt, let it run and see if it still locks up. Did you change any hardware recently? -Derek At 07:17 AM 6/15/2006, George Donnelly wrote: hi two

Re: how to debug a lock-up?

2006-06-15 Thread Derek Ragona
are using this server for, you may want to add more logging for those services such as mail, web, etc. Run the manufacturer's diagnostics. It sounds like a hardware problem. -Derek At 09:05 AM 6/15/2006, George Donnelly wrote: hi Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First you should

Re: Trying to revive a server... AIC-7896 freezes pre-POST completion

2006-06-14 Thread Derek Ragona
. Also, unplug any cards and drives, leave the system board with just ram and cpu and video (unless it is built in) until you get it configured. -Derek At 12:11 AM 6/14/2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hello again all, I know this isn't a FreeBSD question really, but I just started

Re: adding an old' disk as a new mount point?

2006-06-14 Thread Derek Ragona
You may want to repartition the disk and do a newfs to update the filesystem, and be sure the whole disk is used. -Derek At 04:10 PM 6/14/2006, Jeff D. Hamann wrote: I'm sure this is a very RTFM question, but I'm getting a little lost in the minutae about just exactly what I'm

Re: Making a L440GX+ work (was Trying to revive a server... AIC-7896 freezes pre-POST completion)

2006-06-14 Thread Derek Ragona
you need, just usually wastes money that faster RAM costs. But speed isn't the only issue with ram, some are ECC or non-ECC, plus the CAS timing can be different. So your RAM while it seems to work,may not be quite right. -Derek At 03:27 PM 6/14/2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: Derek

Re: Making a L440GX+ work (was Trying to revive a server... AIC-7896 freezes pre-POST completion)

2006-06-14 Thread Derek Ragona
Look for just the DOS flash update. It will be smaller and from intel comes with its own boot image. You will have to run that on a windows PC to make the floppy. -Derek At 05:18 PM 6/14/2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: The halt could be anything from bad RAM

Re: EM64T chipset and FreeBSD instalation

2006-06-13 Thread Derek Ragona
GB drive, the second is the RAID volume. Hope this helps. -Derek At 06:39 AM 6/13/2006, DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I am going to install several NFS server in FreebSD for several customers and the computer has the following characteristics: - MSI 945PNeo Platinum Main Board, chipset

Re: cron job limits

2006-06-13 Thread Derek Ragona
Is your shell different from the account running the cron job? Is there any other jobs that might kill this cron job? Add echo statements to your script and save a log file. Be sure to redirect stderr as well as stdout to the log file. -Derek At 10:34 AM 6/13/2006, Jim Pazarena

Re: Error in logs

2006-06-13 Thread Derek Ragona
You might want to get the diagnostic utility from the hard drive maker and use that to check the health of the drive. -Derek At 12:00 PM 6/13/2006, pete wright wrote: On 6/13/06, Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning my kernel.log is full of the following messages

Re: Promotional Info

2006-06-13 Thread Derek Ragona
These are for sale at the FreeBSD mall website: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/search?id=tewasMttmv_pc=6 At 12:07 PM 6/13/2006, Gregory Warner wrote: To whom it may concern, My name is Greg Warner and I work as a tech specialist for a public school district in Arkansas. I am interested

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-11 Thread Derek Jander
On 6/11/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/10/06, Sergio Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you looking for a first time BSD desktop (KDE) then try PC-BSD. and If you can't get that to run (PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD) give SuSE 10.1 a go. Good option I tried... fast

Re: FreeBSD Boot Problem on Multiple HDDs

2006-06-11 Thread Derek Ragona
You may need to do an upgrade reinstall. It sounds like the boot block is foobar. If you reinstall the same version using the upgrade option, that should take care of the problem. -Derek At 01:38 AM 6/11/2006, Sean M. wrote: I just did my first ever bit of hardware hacking

Re: Full screen graphics hangs my system

2006-06-11 Thread Derek Ragona
You might need to force the rebuild of every port portupgrade -a -f Depending on which X window manager you are using, sometimes the a rebuild doesn't catch all the real dependencies that will be caught in a complete forced rebuild. -Derek At 03:29 PM 6/11/2006, Andrea Venturoli

FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-10 Thread Derek Jander
Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP Professional to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some firend told me about FreeBSD. I just tested it on a Virtual Machine and it

Re: Full screen graphics hangs my system

2006-06-10 Thread Derek Ragona
You probably need to do: portupgrade -a I have had similar issues moving 6.0 to 6.1 with an nvidia card. My box was not locked up, but the console sure was. -Derek At 09:35 AM 6/9/2006, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I had a 6.0/i386 box with a Matrox card. Sometimes I used to run

Re: Beginner Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Derek Ragona
Look at the file .xinitrc in your home directory, this is where the window manager is usually run from. -Derek At 07:14 AM 6/8/2006, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure

Re: Weird apache problem

2006-06-05 Thread Derek Ragona
I just tried that page in firefox on a windows and it worked fine. You may have your firefox install foobar, and might want to uninstall and reinstall it. -Derek At 02:14 PM 6/5/2006, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm having a problem figuring out what the heck is wrong with a webserver. Any

Re: Adding as a second hard drive

2006-06-01 Thread Derek Ragona
the new drive drive, then run newfs on the new partitions to create the file systems. Once the filesystems are created you will need to edit /etc/fstab to set the mounting of these filesystems. I would recommend you reboot to test the setup of the new mounts. -Derek At 07:03 PM 6/1

Re: Problems with sshd on FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE

2006-05-31 Thread Derek Ragona
You may have an old key on the system you are ssh'ing to the downgraded server. Clear your ssh keys and try it again. -Derek At 05:26 PM 5/31/2006, Andrew Reitz wrote: Hello, For reasons that I don't want to go into here, I have recently downgraded my principal FreeBSD server from

Re: Sendmail / Mailscanner issues

2006-05-29 Thread Derek Ragona
I think you may need to change the way sendmail starts. rc script for sendmail changed in 6.X so you may not have one of the additional queues running. -Derek At 01:57 PM 5/28/2006, Robert Davison wrote: I've installed sendmail on a 6.1 system. It will send mail internally

Re: FreeBSD loader booting xp

2006-05-27 Thread Derek Ragona
. -Derek At 11:53 AM 5/27/2006, Dave wrote: Hello, I've got a machine with multiple hard drives. I've got freebsd on the first, now i unfortunately have to put xp on the second. I'm wondering can freebsd's loader boot it? Thanks. Dave

Re: Trouble installing FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 210?

2006-05-26 Thread Derek Ragona
If you have nothing of value on the hard drive, I would suggest low-level formatting the drive, then verify the boot order is CD first. -Derek At 04:22 PM 5/26/2006, Jason Curole wrote: Hello all, I am a newbie to FreeBSD, though I currently use Mac OS X and am reasonably

Re: Trouble installing FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 210?

2006-05-26 Thread Derek Ragona
You can low level format any hard drive. Just go to the manufacturer's website and download the utility. -Derek At 05:30 PM 5/26/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: If you have nothing of value on the hard drive, I would suggest low-level formatting the drive

Re: How to adjust the irq of the device?

2006-05-25 Thread Derek Ragona
You will need to change the irq on the device, and possibly on your motherboard too. Last thing is to add the change into device.hints. -Derek At 07:55 AM 5/25/2006, yashhappy wrote: I met some interrupt conflict problems ,and like to change the device's irq to solve this, I had

Re: Spam problem!

2006-05-25 Thread Derek Ragona
There are many ways to combat spam. One of the easiest is to use mailscanner in the ports. You can configure mailscanner to compare senders against known lists of SPAMers, in addition to it's own rules. -Derek At 09:53 AM 5/25/2006, Olga Zenkova wrote: I use sendmail 8.13.3

Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-25 Thread Derek Ragona
and the one with the BIOS flash utility. Or use a winpe bootable CD. You can find one and information at: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ You can customize the image you build including your Windows BIOS utility. Or buy or borrow a USB floppy drive. -Derek At 02:38 PM 5/25/2006, Svein

Re: upload-only ftp server

2006-05-24 Thread Derek Ragona
I use vsftpd -Derek At 09:32 AM 5/24/2006, User Gandalf wrote: Dear List, I would like to install an ftp server. Some of the users want to upload files to the server. I would not like to start an ftp server at all, because I'm too paranoid. But my users demand it. I looked

Re: Anyone using sysutils/nut ?

2006-05-22 Thread Derek Ragona
I use nut. The port puts an rc script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start and stop nut. -Derek At 09:54 AM 5/22/2006, Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H wrote: Hi, I'd like to find out where to put the upsdrvctl shutdown in the shutdown process. Putting it in rc.shutdown causes me

Re: e-mail server farm question

2006-05-22 Thread Derek Ragona
If you are using sendmail, as most FreeBSD users are, you can check the sendmail.org site for information on mail handling. There are a number of methods that depend on your setup. -Derek At 07:17 AM 5/22/2006, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Hello, I was wondering how does services like

Re: system freezes.

2006-05-22 Thread Derek Ragona
are seeing is most likely a hardware problem as you see nothing in the logs, but could be from an exploit of some kind. -Derek At 10:56 AM 5/22/2006, Brent Rieck wrote: Hello, I've been having some freeze problems with my managed freebsd server that my host has been less than helpful

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-21 Thread Derek Ragona
Download the utility to low-level format the drive from the drive makers website. -Derek At 06:46 PM 5/20/2006, Gary Kline wrote: Gang, A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid

Re: sendmail problem

2006-05-20 Thread Derek Ragona
You can look in /var/log/maillog after you try to send one and post the errors from that log. -Derek At 02:59 AM 5/20/2006, josemel esleta wrote: I'm very new at using sendmail. i can send email to my own domain, but when i send to others domain emails cannot be receive. Can anyon

Re: Upgrading and Disk Space.

2006-05-20 Thread Derek Ragona
The most obvious thing is to remove the ports, then add them later after the upgrade. -Derek At 07:34 AM 5/20/2006, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I am about to upgrade a 6.0 machine to 6.1R. I am running a little tight on space on the3 /usr part. I was wondering what can be safely

Re: apache not working

2006-05-20 Thread Derek Ragona
You must have upgraded and didn't build the compatibility libs or deleted them as part of the upgrade. Add the compatibility statements to /etc/make.conf and rebuild and reinstall the world. -Derek At 08:14 AM 5/20/2006, Imran Imtiaz wrote: My apache server is giving me

Re: About FreeBSD on Celeron D

2006-05-20 Thread Derek Ragona
The regular i386 branch runs on the celeron chips. -Derek At 10:38 PM 5/19/2006, Robe wrote: Hi, Does any body know if the distribution of FreeBSD for IA-64 run in a Celeron D microprocessor? -- Robe. You must be the change you want to see in the world

Re: lines on my screen with xorg

2006-05-20 Thread Derek Ragona
Sounds like you have the refresh rate set wrong for your monitor. -Derek At 08:35 AM 5/20/2006, Justins Schlingmann wrote: Hello, I`m configuring xorg server with windowmaker and xdm. When I start the server I get a screen full of lines. Everything works normal except for these lines

Re: Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-19 Thread Derek Ragona
If memory serves YP will grab the first interface. If you switch the stacks/IPs on the interfaces I think you will get what you want. -Derek At 05:48 PM 5/19/2006, Steve Kargl wrote: I have 2 NICS in the master node of a small cluster. bge0 is connected to the outside world

Re: Problem POPing mail

2006-05-19 Thread Derek Ragona
Some SPAM has badly formed headers that trip up POP. You can log onto the system with the bad mail file and use pine to clear it. -Derek At 06:20 PM 5/19/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I am using fetchmail to collect my mail and store it on my server. I currently have three

Re: Nubie can't connect to X-Server

2006-05-17 Thread Derek Ragona
Assuming you loaded all the X stuff and servers, first run either: xorgcfg or xorgconfig Both are in /usr/X11R6/bin -Derek At 08:07 AM 5/17/2006, Joshua Larkin wrote: Hello, I'm a newbie trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 on a Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop. I've been reading along

Re: libm.so.4 not found

2006-05-17 Thread Derek Ragona
Sounds like you recently upgraded but don't have the compatible libraries in /etc/make.conf make sure you have: COMPAT4X= yes And then rebuild the world. You might also want to have: options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 In your kernel config file. -Derek At 12:13 AM 5/17/2006

Re: moving /usr

2006-05-17 Thread Derek Ragona
That should work fine. I would also still mount the old /usr on a different mount point so if something doesn't get copied right you will still have it available. -Derek At 08:35 AM 5/17/2006, Perttu Laine wrote: I running freebsd 5.4 and I have /usr on one single drive now. I have

Re: moving /usr

2006-05-17 Thread Derek Ragona
Check the hardware list. In most of the supported ones, they work fine with one RAID volume. More than one RAID volume can be problematic. -Derek At 10:55 AM 5/17/2006, Perttu Laine wrote: On 5/17/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That should work fine. I would also

Re: Cluster solution

2006-05-17 Thread Derek Ragona
You'd need to be more specific particularly with how much money you want to spend. HA Clusters are expensive to build. -Derek At 10:18 AM 5/17/2006, Ludovit Koren wrote: Hi, I need help in designing of cluster solution based on FreeBSD. I tried carp for switching IP addresses

Re: moving /usr

2006-05-17 Thread Derek Ragona
Soren is the one who would know. Hopefully he will reply soon to you. -Derek At 11:20 AM 5/17/2006, Perttu Laine wrote: Ok. So XFX Revo64 seems to be same with NetCell NC3000 and I can't find any info about that. Some stores are saying that Adaptec 1420SA works with FreeBSD

Re: Questions about monitoring Dell servers

2006-05-16 Thread Derek Ragona
You might want to look into using BigSister, in the ports: /usr/ports/net-mgmt/bigsister There are also binaries available for windows. The sensors are configurable, with various alerting options. I use it across both FreeBSD and Windows servers. -Derek At 11:33 AM 5/16/2006, Jason

Re: Bandwidth Troubleshooting

2006-05-15 Thread Derek Ragona
You might want to try: /usr/ports/net-mgmt/bandwidthd It will give you an idea of what your entire usage is and if it is on this server or somewhere else causing the slowdowns. -Derek At 08:13 PM 5/15/2006, Gunter Wambaugh wrote: I have been having this off and on problem with my

Re: upgrade 5.4 - 6.1

2006-05-14 Thread Derek Ragona
Read /usr/src/UPDATING after you cvsup the new files for the exact steps and extra things you need to do. -Derek At 07:09 AM 5/14/2006, Perttu Laine wrote: I'm running production servers with 5.4 now and wondering if this is all I need to do when upgrading to 6.1: 1. change

Re: sendmail configuration

2006-05-14 Thread Derek Ragona
. Hence why you will get better results with the sendmail lists. -Derek At 04:08 PM 5/14/2006, Jona Joachim wrote: Hi! Sendmail drives me mad. The only thing I want it to do is change the sender's E-Mail address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and forward everything to smtp.web.de whenever I send

Re: An FTP alternative ?

2006-05-13 Thread Derek Ragona
You might want to look at vsftpd in the ports. You can use this for secure and encrypted connections, as well as varying permissions. -Derek At 09:57 PM 5/12/2006, Leo Lapousterle wrote: Hello :) I'm fed up with FTP servers : FTP is great, but I need some admin stuff like

Re: Pros and Cons of running under inetd....

2006-05-13 Thread Derek Ragona
installed on one 6.1 server, but I believe it is being run from within gnome, as there is no entry for it to run in inet, rc scripts, or cron. -Derek At 05:24 AM 5/13/2006, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 12 May Eric Schuele wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: Yes it is still true today

Re: Pros and Cons of running under inetd....

2006-05-13 Thread Derek Ragona
previously said, you can look it up in the security archives on the FreeBSD lists or in SANS postings at sans.org. -Derek At 08:35 PM 5/12/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:42 PM 5/12/2006, Eric Schuele wrote: You say tcpwrappers are compiled into ftpd? Are you sure? How can I enable

Re: after upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Derek Ragona
If you followed those instructions, you used the wrong cvsup tag. Set the tag to: *default release=cvs delete tag=RELENG_6_1 in your cvsupfile, and rebuild everything again. -Derek At 10:27 AM 5/13/2006, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello everyone, After years of using freebsd i decided

Re: No 'root' entry in /var/mail

2006-05-13 Thread Derek Ragona
You can create that file, or set your account to get the root mail in /etc/mail/aliases. Be sure to run newaliases if you do that. -Derek At 12:47 PM 5/13/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: I just installed the new FBSD 6.1 on a new HD. The installation went well. Shortly after installation

Re: No 'root' entry in /var/mail

2006-05-13 Thread Derek Ragona
I don't know why it wasn't created. It was in older versions of FreeBSD. -Derek At 01:08 PM 5/13/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: On 5/13/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can create that file, or set your account to get the root mail in /etc/mail/aliases. Be sure to run

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