Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrew Falanga wrote: *Not having* a reverse entry for a mail server is often the cause of issues. This I do know very well. I had similar problems when running a sendmail backup spooler for Syracuse Networks back in 2000. The eventual solution was that our ISP delegated control of our sub

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
nswer all your questions, but --- you don't specify what "problems" are being experienced at the location, and, are you certain it's not about this? [25] Sat 06.Sep.2008 21:58:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/logs] host 72.24.34.252 Host 252.34.24.72.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

Re: Auto Mount USB

2008-08-18 Thread Kevin Kinsey
amd ... and, according to the manpage, has been since before FreeBSD existed. CVS seems to concur, with the initial revision of amd.c being committed by rgrimes@ on May 26, 1994. Kevin Kinsey -- Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance. ___

Re: Video streaming with freeBSD

2008-08-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
timedia" mailing list, I believe, which might have people on it who are more finely tuned (excuse the pun) in that direction. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Lost interest? It's so bad I've lost apathy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: Interpreting top, vmstat, and company

2008-08-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Christopher Cowart wrote: I have a couple FreeBSD boxes that are providing a captive portal wifi authentcation system. Without delving into the implementation details, I'm running dhcpd, squid, and apache. We have in-house perl CGI scripts that handle session and IP management, dynamically creat

Re: Freebsd auto locking users

2008-08-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
erstand what I'm doing wrong, and what should be done solve this issues? I'm not an expert Freebsd administration, so any comments and suggestions are welcome. Kevin Kinsey -- //GO.SYSIN DD *, DOODAH, DOODAH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

[Fwd: Re: src.conf: WITHOUT_SOMETHING]

2008-08-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Subject: Re: src.conf: WITHOUT_SOMETHING Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:34:59 +0200 From: Redd Vinylene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Redd Vinylene wrote: Let's say I add WITHOUT_SOMETHING to /etc/rc.conf, and remake and reinstall my world. What w

Re: secure access to AS/400 ?

2008-08-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
/network/pcomm/features/ IBM's "Personal Communications" (which you list) supports secure connections via SSL/TLS. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- The price of success in philosophy is triviality. -- C. Glymour ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0

2008-07-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
recall much trouble ... aside from rebuilding all ports. In some cases, 'twas easier to "make deinstall" and then rebuild or even pkg_add. Kevin Kinsey -- Lee's Law: Mother said there would be days like this, bu

Re: new vanilla system fails to install many packages/ports

2008-07-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Steve Franks wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve Franks wrote: I must be missing something obvious. About 25% of my dependencies fail to install with errors like: "install-info: /usr/local/info/dir: empty file" "pkg-add:

Re: new vanilla system fails to install many packages/ports

2008-07-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
aren't Linuxolator stuff? Always ready to help grasp straws, Kevin Kinsey -- Zero Defects, n.: The result of shutting down a production line. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: system hangs on boot up if no internet available

2008-07-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
erhaps: set "UseDNS no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and try again? Perhaps better to run named or something locally, if that helps, but doing this would at least test Chuck's theory (which seems about correct to me, though why it *never* g

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
act OS described is quite old*; however, it's of great value not only as history but as 4.4BSD has fed code into not only FreeBSD, but NetBSD, OpenBSD, and others. (see /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree). If that's not of interest to you I'd not worry about this book --- no offence to

Re: Upgrade 6.2-Release to 7.0-Release - stuck!

2008-07-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
{ type slave; file "slave/in-addr.arpa.slave"; masters { 192.5.5.241;// F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. }; notify no; 7.0-RELEASE }; */ /* Serving the following zones locally will prevent any queries for these zones leaving y

Re: Slapd not starting

2008-07-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
nvoking it that way should produce lots of output, some of which might give you valid information about the problem. Kevin Kinsey -- UNFAIR COMPETITION: Selling cheaper than we do. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Extracting tracks as WAV from a worn-out CD

2008-07-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
d. YMMV, #include disclaimer.h and all that. Kevin Kinsey -- He who steps on others to reach the top has good balance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 7 AMD64 Console resolution

2008-06-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi, Is there any way of changing the console resolution in FreeBSD for AMD64? AFAIK, the VESA option is only available for i386. I really hate the default mode :S... Any hints? Thanks in advance Err, isn't vidcontrol(1) helping? KDK -- Toothpaste never hurts the

Re: restart named in a cron

2008-06-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
can restart named manually, but not with a cron. Do you have an idea to solve this problem? Why could I restart it manually and not with a cron? cron doesn't know about your $PATH, but has a very limited $PATH of its own. Rewrite the script using the full pathnames to the desired exe

Re: PHP5 install error

2008-05-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
long manpage, so I'll leave this exercise to the reader. Oh, and <#include disclaimer.h> and all that HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- FORCE YOURSELF TO RELAX! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: apache 2.2.8 uid 80: exited on signal 11 (was signal 4)

2008-03-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey
causing your httpd to die with sig 11. In my experience, signal 11s are generally caused by incompatible modules (*.so) loading along with httpd during Apache startup. PHP, in particular, after a portupgrade. Any resemblance to your situation? Kevin Kinsey -- Marry in

Re: faster booting

2008-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
uot;last console message" doesn't necessarily mean it's the ATA controller, but whatever is *next* in the bootup process, AFAICT, *after* the probe of /dev/ad2, which, on my systems is the mounting of the root filesystem. OTOH, turning off BIOS

Re: Uname borked on ??-Release...

2008-03-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
's so unstable I'm not sure I wanna waste any more time fighting with it at this point. Kevin Kinsey #sysctl kern.bootfile kern.bootfile: /boot/kernel/kernel #strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep -i bsd freebsd6_ftruncate freebsd4_fhstatfs freebsd4_sendfile sysctl__security_bsd_

Re: Uname borked on ??-Release...

2008-03-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kris Kennaway wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: I get the following from uname -a: FreeBSD archangel.daleco.biz 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #6: Sat Jun 2 09:22:50 CDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/obj/backup/src/sys/GENERIC i386 However, I rebuilt world, more or less

Re: Uname borked on ??-Release...

2008-03-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kris Kennaway wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: I get the following from uname -a: FreeBSD archangel.daleco.biz 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #6: Sat Jun 2 09:22:50 CDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/obj/backup/src/sys/GENERIC i386 However, I rebuilt world, more or less

Re: Uname borked on ??-Release...

2008-03-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
question is, with what I have above, why do I still have: sysctl -a | grep kern.osre kern.osrelease: 6.2-RELEASE kern.osrevision: 199506 kern.osreldate: 602000 ?? Thanks in advance, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Uname borked on ??-Release...

2008-03-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kris Kennaway wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: I get the following from uname -a: FreeBSD archangel.daleco.biz 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #6: Sat Jun 2 09:22:50 CDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/obj/backup/src/sys/GENERIC i386 However, I rebuilt world, more or less without issues, twice

Uname borked on ??-Release...

2008-03-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
xecutables"). There's more, but I'll wait until something moves with this data, I think. Question: why is uname reporting the {wrong} build? Kevin Kinsey -- I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD & Linux distro

2008-02-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Lone Wolf wrote: Hi. How FreeBSD differ from any Linx distro like Ubuntu? Thanks. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dreamed before. E.A Poe http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linu

Re: X configuration errors

2008-02-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ut maybe something will click. Xorg configuration is a tad magical; not difficult after you've done it a few times, but not exactly, err, intuitive (not sure that's what I mean exactly, tho) if you're not completely immersed in the documentation. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Never be afraid

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
nterface that could be causing route problems and therefore "network unreachable" from ping(8)? It does seem rather odd, so I wonder if there's something we are all overlooking. Since no one but you is there, we can't tell you what it is, but only guess. Maybe something above w

Re: Fortune

2008-01-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
an 'all thumbs' newb. No problem --- we mostly remember when we were "all thumbs", too. Kevin Kinsey -- I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. -- Will Rogers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND

2007-12-31 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Darren Spruell wrote: On Dec 28, 2007 8:49 AM, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the absence of egress filtering on the firewall, that would definitely be an advantage. Does anyone use BIND for filtering in a small to medium business environment then? How does it p

Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND

2007-12-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
n? How does it perform? Kevin Kinsey -- I trust the first lion he meets will do his duty. -- J. P. Morgan on Teddy Roosevelt's safari ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: Kernel Log Messages in Security Output

2007-12-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
list -v" say? Could maybe also be some unsupported device that *looks* like a umass(4)device, too, but I'm not guru enough to guess much about that. It's just that the error looks a lot like what I described above. Maybe FBSD senses something interesting with the HW Raid? HTH, if gras

Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND

2007-12-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
h is a more typical application as I understand it? Again, I'm not trying to convince you otherwise or say that using BIND is a bad idea. It's just that I'm curious because we use Squid for this sort of thing, and I was wondering why BIND instead? Kevin Kinsey In that file I ma

Re: Bare Metal Recovery FreeBSD How To

2007-12-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Right Way(tm). Also, I'd consider installing a newer release than 6.0, and only restoring the important stuff. Again, it depends on your situation. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey -- You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive. -- Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet _

Re: Intel 82566DM-2 support (was: no subject)

2007-12-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
;t really know; it is/will be supported in 7.X. For an overview, read /usr/src/sys/dev/em/README. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing. -- Bertrand Russell ___ freebsd-ques

Re: cron pile up! Lot's of "cron: running job (cron)"

2007-12-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
"/path/to/script.sh" and "ARG" as two jobs instead of one, and hanging on "ARG" since CRON is something of a reserved word. IANAE, YMMV, and all that. Kevin Kinsey -- I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bul

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey
#x27;d have been a smaller and cooler flame war. He didn't say "Tux Sucks". Kevin Kinsey -- There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone. -- Gloria Steinem

Re: cron pile up! Lot's of "cron: running job (cron)"

2007-12-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
??0:00.00 cron: running job (cron) # grep 85940 /var/log/cron Dec 13 12:16:00 pita /usr/sbin/cron[85940]: (root) CMD (/root/bin/raid-status.sh CRON) - Rudy Just as a favor to an old coot, could you change your crontab entry to read like this: */16 * * * * "/root/bin/raid-status.

Re: NIC "crashes" on heavy compile or HD action!

2007-12-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
u already know, and what you suspect the problem is, what about systat(1), top(1), ktrace(1), ptrace(1), iostat(8)? Try and use the console if possible; if disk, CPU, etc. seem to be OK, then suspect an issue with the NIC. As I said, YMMV. Good luck. Kevin Kinsey -- I have a hard time bein

[Fwd: Re: Help with Crontab]

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kevin Kinsey wrote: ] Well, as the sage said, "the light at the end of the ] tunnel is an oncoming train." Note the word "restricted" ] there, and realize that it means that both fields are ] checked and the "job" is constrained by both of them. ] ] In other words

Re: Help with Crontab

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/7/2007 10:49 AM Kevin Kinsey wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to use cron to run a script on the first Sunday of every month at 0930. I used this entry in the crontab: # Run 1st Sunday at 0930 - Fulls 30 9 1-7 * 7 /usr/local/scripts/backup_bootstr

Re: Help with Crontab

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ill be run when either field matches the current time. For example, ``30 4 1,15 * 5'' would cause a command to be run at 4:30 am on the 1st and 15th of each month, plus every Friday. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: more then 2G shm on RELENG_7

2007-12-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
exceeds the kernel limit. You might look in the FreeBSD GNATS database at bug 77353, and see if the advice there assists you in correction of the problem. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- If people see that you mean them no harm, they'll never hurt y

Re: Determining kernel?

2007-12-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Patrick Baldwin wrote: I was reading through the handbook section on updating, as I'd like to update a FreeBSD 6.2 system. One of the things I noticed is that you need to specify what kernel you want in the KERNCONF line. Is there any way to get a running FreeBSD system to tell me what kernel i

Re: Confusion about installing X and release upgrading?

2007-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Zachary Kline wrote: "Kevin Kinsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Zachary Kline wrote: Hi, I'm currently using FreeBSD 6.2 release with security patches from Releng6-2. This is in a Qemu virtual machine, if only because I don't

Re: cron pile up! Lot's of "cron: running job (cron)"

2007-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Rudy wrote: cron jobs seem to get stuck. Not always, but within a day, there are at least 20 stuck. It is not always the same cronjob that does the sticking. :) When this occurs, I can run ps ax| grep cron and get a bunch of lines like this: 51921 ?? D 0:00.00 cron: running job (cro

Re: Confusion about installing X and release upgrading?

2007-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ee. 2. As root, do this: # cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 # make install clean Kevin Kinsey -- You must dine in our cafeteria. You can eat dirt cheap there ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: Any experience using cellphone as a modem on FreeBSD?

2007-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
th", don't they? Too bad it's not *BSD; we could just ssh into that puppy and turn on NATD ... :-D Kevin Kinsey (if thread continues [and we should hope not, I think, at least in this direction] plx remove questions@ from CC list. I only left it in for "origin"'s sake

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
d1s1a /mnt dump -0 -a -L /usr | ( cd /mnt ; restore ruvf - ) Copying with dd(1) is not as fast :) ------ HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- There is no royal road to geometry. -- Euclid ___ freebsd-

Re: looking for suggestions: multiple users on the same desktop

2007-11-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:31:15 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but I don't want to logout and login back in and/or have to invoke the app from the cmd line (i.e. xhost +; setenv DISPLAY :0; app

Re: Finding and installing new locale

2007-11-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Westin Shafer wrote: Hello everyone, I am having a hard time locating a Locale for Indonesia on our installation of FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. The locale definition id_ID.(whatever) is missing. Does it exist, and if so how can I get this and install it? I have spent countless hours searching the n

Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
sed on my experience with the lists, and not taking into account whether or not the OP is a known troll, in which case it's 2 to 3 times faster, at least. :-D Kevin Kinsey -- An American's a person who isn't afraid to criticize the president but is always polite to tra

Re: Desktop printing, a request for your experiences

2007-11-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Dominic Marks wrote: List, Can anyone give me their experiences of desktop printing (OpenOffice/KDE/Gnome/Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, etc) recently? I haven't tried for a while but it was a pain to setup and maintain the last time I looked at it. If you are using this for "real-work" and

Re: Updating samba fails

2007-11-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ports@" if you are the first. 5. Contact the port maintainer. HTH, Kevin Kinsey The following command failed: cc -I. -I/usr/ports/net/samba3/work/samba-3.0.26a/source -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_SAMBA_BUILD_=3 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/ports/net/samba3/work/samba-3.0.26a/sour

Re: arbitrary build can't find libs - right way to do this?

2007-11-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
27;t. The developer swears something must be 'different' about freebsd because his gcc finds the same file in /usr/local/include. Appears his system is gentoo... Steve # setenv CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" # setenv LDFLAGS=&quo

Re: mysql install Q

2007-11-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
k to it as well. As for the problem above, the current libcrypt.so is linked to libcrypt.so.3, so your tarball is too old for your current system. Use ports instead ;-) And, finally, what does `hostname` return on your system? Kevin Kinsey -- I refuse to consign the whole male

Re: Failing Drive

2007-11-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
y cost some time and energy to find out; apart from a bad disk, could be a bad disk *controller*. I bought two new HDD's recently because of similar problems, but all of them are now working fine on a new motherboard :-/ Sorry no help here :-/ Kevin Kinsey -- Recursion: n. See Recursion.

Re: Kernel pty limit

2007-11-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
SD 4.3 (still open). What can I do to help get that limit raised? Does anyone have a patch against 6.2? If not, would anyone be interested in writing one? Thanks for any help, HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Break into jail and claim police brutality. [1] http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
little more geeky, perhaps. Plugging a child's computer into the network without knowledgeable and *personal* guidance will pretty much guarantee that most kids end up on the baser end of the 'Net, rather than the best. And, for the most part, teachers are no less busy than they were 10, 2

Re: install

2007-11-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Simon Chang wrote: ...COMPLAINING... For someone who speaks five languages and works in IT, he sure seems rather obtuse. There are only two CDs, with one of them being "Disc 1" and the other "Disc 2". If he can't follow simple directions I suggest that he checks out Fedora Core, which at las

Re: 5.2.1 to 6.2 Migration.

2007-11-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ibly, that person (you?) will also have to be able to do some other magic. But the phrase "reinstall most of the system" doesn't, at the very least, *sound* like the BSD Way(tm). Granted, sometimes it's quicker --- I know that's why it's used so often on that "Ot

Re: pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format

2007-11-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
s there anything I can do to fix this. I've seen no responses, is this still a problem? First off, what does `file /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db` report? And have you looked at pkgdb(5)? I'm only guessing, but maybe `pkgdb -aF` for starters, and maybe you'll have to do `pkgdb -u`.

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD

2007-10-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrew Wasilczuk wrote: I haven't dealt with HP yet, but I'm starting to seriously consider them. How is good is their support when things go wrong? I was not impressed with how difficult it was to actually get them working with me; but, I was a 3rd party, or maybe even 4th party, in the dea

Re: i810 driver problem

2007-10-29 Thread Kevin Kinsey
and configure xorg.conf file. I did notice some discussion yesterday about i810 but I thought it was relevant just for upgrading not for the new installation. Any input or suggestion will be appreciated. Predrag Punosevac Hoping it helps, Kevin Kinsey -- Your

Re: pkgdb -Ff and autoconf question...how do I respond?

2007-10-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ot), you should have a pkgdb that portupgrade is comfortable with. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. -- Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man ___ freebsd-questi

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Donovan R. Palmer wrote: Hi, could you tell me how hard it is to make the shift from Linux? http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/ :-D More sincerely, welcome to FreeBSD! Set your mail filters, subscribe to the lists, grab your handbook, phasers on stun... Happy computing! Kevin

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
eel' is; any BSD historians here - you'd be welcome to let us know!) Not sure, but I believe "wheel" predates UNIX. I have certainly seen the idea on OSes that do. Some anecdotal evidence on the web suggests that the idea was present in BBN's TENEX in 1969. Shro

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
evant lines from /etc/ssh/sshd_config? Kevin Kinsey -- Usually, when a lot of men get together, it's called a war. -- Mel Brooks, The Listener ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
s maps and "pushing" the maps. And, having evidently done the *wrong* thing, how do I fix the added users so they now appear in NIS? Stupid question here, so I'll be the one to ask (seems a perfect job for a troll like me), did you read pw.conf(5)? Kevin Kinsey -- Join in the

Re: php4 to php5 upgrade

2007-10-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
bling" of entries in extensions.ini, but I'm thinking a new installation would fix that problem. As far as PHP goes, getting rid of "short tags" in the PHP code was all we had trouble with when migrating 4.x->5.x, other than getting my head around new O

Re: Problem with ppp

2007-10-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
;ve hit a new bug. Got any strange routes set? What does `netstat -nrf inet` show? Kevin Kinsey -- We read to say that we have read. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: php4 to php5 upgrade

2007-10-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
if possible. Definitely possible. P.S. one thing I have always tripped over is weather to build php first, then, run the meta port for extensions or vice versa ... ? The extensions meta-port will pull PHP in as a dependency if you haven't already installed it*, so the answer is not vic

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
program. This sort of thing bites in any number of ways, especially after a reboot. I'd probably try to wait for a period of relatively low demand on the box, then do the reinstalling. And get some sleep first ;-) But, as I said, IANAE. Kevin Kinsey -- One way to make your old car run better

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
from this? I have other FreeBSD boxes available to me, none with the same pkg list, though. I'll be reading man pkgdb in the meantime.. I'm guessing you might be Real Tired(tm). Do you mean /var/db/pkg? $ ll /var/lib/pkg ls: /var/lib/pkg: No such file or directory Kevin Kinsey -- T

Re: sysutils/lockdown

2007-10-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ation. Kevin Kinsey -- As of next Thursday, UNIX will be flushed in favor of TOPS-10. Please update your programs. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: Installing Thawte Certificate on imap pop smtp

2007-10-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
THANKS! Maybe you already got this solved? Mebbe `openssl x509 -inform der -in MYCERT.crt -out MYCERT.pem` ? IANAE, so I'd use make sure I had a backup copy of your *crt. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Most people have a mind that's open by appointment only.

Re: Upgrade of PHP4

2007-10-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
too handy to have all those variables suddenly disappear from the HTML forms. OTOH, it's fairly trivial to replace with some scripting work, IIRC. But, that could depend on the number of servers/sites, as you observe. Kevin Kinsey * "deprecated" might not be the right word; it'

Re: portupgrade SOS

2007-10-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
cial attention to the upgrade to xorg-7.2 --- Kris wrote very explicit instructions for that. I'd just force a reinstall of /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade and go from there ... after reading UPDATING. Kevin Kinsey -- What the hell, go ahead and put all your eggs in one basket. _

Re: PHP4 v. php4-4.4.7_2 refuse to up grade …

2007-10-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
judge without further research, but perhaps the development team is dragging their feet on purpose for some reason, or they've maybe handed PHP4 off to a couple of junior guys who are pulling their hair out on it? All conjecture. I'd advise moving to PHP5 now. It doesn't hurt

Re: too late to change to security branch?

2007-10-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
g/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/small-lan.html HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- APL is a natural extension of assembler language programming; ...and is best for educational purposes. -- A. Perlis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: Problems with www.freebsd.org

2007-10-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
#x27;t think freebsd.org should ever be there (do we have a Florida mirror?). 69.147.83.33 is Yahoo!, and I! think! that! seems! a! lot! more! correct! ;-) DNS problems/poisoning, perhaps? Kevin Kinsey -- One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day. ___ freeb

Advice on "new" hardware.... (long post)

2007-10-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
I guess). So, is there any hope for this hardware? I could try HEAD, I guess, but it doesn't appear that any work's been done in ICH on HEAD for 2 months or so (I'm currently running STABLE from yesterday). What about the ACPI? Should I beg over on [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where do I find the PERL compatible functions for php

2007-10-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrew Falanga wrote: On 10/2/07, *Kevin Kinsey* wrote: Actually, it's been "split out" for some time now; you can get PCRE support for your pre-existing PHP installation by installing ports/devel/php5-pcre. But, since most users want PHP to support many techn

Re: Where do I find the PERL compatible functions for php

2007-10-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
and Perl-compatible regular expressions (or at least whatever you enabled). HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. -- John Naisbitt, Megatrends ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Incoming Mail Announcement

2007-10-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
s for the 'set mail' line. On mine, it is: set mail = (/var/mail/$USER) Which I believe defaults to checking the mail every 5 minutes. Change that to: set mail = (86400 /var/mail/$USER) and the old lady will only nudge you once each morning ;-) Probably somethin

Re: Long msg: Unable to enable audio in FreeBSD 6.2 - Chipset VT8233A

2007-10-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
If not kindly guide me. Yes, more or less, that's what he means. You should have: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 in your supfile. The remaining steps are well-documented, also. For a complete overview, see Chapter 23 of the online handbook at www.freebsd.org/handbook. HTH,

Re: Ports tree is already up to date.

2007-10-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
could have something to do with the effect you have noticed. "'Tis a puzzlement!" Kevin Kinsey -- The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D. Cohen ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: X11 keyboard

2007-09-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
se for all applications? If not, which apps? Are you using a terminal emulator? If so, which one, and what does $ env | grep TERM say? HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Fortune favors the lucky. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: php failing

2007-09-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
reinstall. However, now I have a problem. I tried "pkg_add -r php5" and the latest PHP5 from www.php.net(www.php.net used to work, but that was before php5 existed). Kevin Kinsey wrote: The first thing to note is that PHP can install three different executables: a CLI (co

Re: php failing

2007-09-18 Thread Kevin Kinsey
on't know much about running Apache in a jail; you'll need to keep in contact with the list and hope that someone with a clue notices your problem. Since the question is really about PHP instead of FreeBSD, you might try some PHP forums/ma

Re: Hello!

2007-08-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
to getting involved in the whole BSD scene. Nice meeting (sort of) you all! Greetings and welcome! Kevin Kinsey -- QOTD: Our parents were never our age. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: buildworld inquiry-Failing

2007-07-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Ok this has run 2 times with the same result- is this a "sign" that my box is doomed for disaster- sysinstall upgrade failed - the CD upgrade failed - and now CVS upgrade is failing- Is there anywhere that would tell me WHY its failing? arsing supfile "standard-supf

Re: Starting Scripts

2007-06-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Scott Mayo wrote: Hello from SW Missouri! I have set some things to automatically start in the rc.conf like ssh and apache by doing 'sshd_enable="YES"' and 'apache22_enable="YES"'. How do I start things like Zope and Cyrus? From the command line I can just: '/usr/local/cyrus/bin master &'

Re: (OT?) Anyone wanna address my ISP's issues? [CIDR/BGP question]

2007-06-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey
vestigation and configuration. Those will be the most likely problems. I'm betting on your modem being faulty. Well, hopefully not anymore. Maybe somebody *smart* will take up my case. Should I have 'em call you ;-) ?? Thanks (very much! .. once) again, Kevin Kinsey PS > Hah

Re: (OT?) Anyone wanna address my ISP's issues? [CIDR/BGP question]

2007-06-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ions? The .70 --> .69 route on the modem has a metric of "5", but with the .252 mask, shouldn't it be required to be one hop away? Guess I need to head back to "class", Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

(OT?) Anyone wanna address my ISP's issues? [CIDR/BGP question]

2007-06-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey
he ISP intends to route me TCP/IP traffic? I apologize for my ignorance, but BGP isn't something I figured to need to know at this point in my life (although, it doesn't hurt to learn, usually) Thanks again, Kevin Kinsey -- Progress is impossible without ch

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 02:34:28PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: Someone I know tried installing Slackware on a Thinkpad R52 to create a triple-boot system (MS Windows and FreeBSD 6.2 as the other two, already present on the system). The Slackware install

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
y McAllister, Beech Rintoul "Changing Boot Loader", March 3rd, Tom Marchand, "Vince", Thomas Sparrevohn, Kevin Kinsey "Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot", May 12-15th, David Landgren, Matthew Seaman, Sam Lawrence, Pieter de Goeje HTH, Kevin

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