Re: Web Ranking Software in ports?

2003-08-23 Thread Matt Heath
Grant Cooper wrote: Is there any web ranking software in the ports I can use? I've been looking but was hoping someone could recommend one. #!/bin/sh echo 'your web page is rubbish' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: help transistiong to Gnome 2

2003-08-20 Thread Matt Heath
stan wrote: I've decided to try the transition from Gome 1.4 to Gnome 2. I delted all teh Gnome 1 packages, and built the Gnome 2 packages (after cvup'ing the ports tree). So far so good, as I'm able to log in and get a session as a normal user. However, i have a few questions. 1. How can I set

Re: help transistiong to Gnome 2

2003-08-20 Thread Matt Heath
These are FreeBSD relevent because ? Well, perhpas because it's FreeBSD ports that install this! sorry, that is good enough to fill up the list with how do I configure Gnome? Free BSD Questions list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Terminal program on fbsd

2003-08-19 Thread Matt Heath
for that MS-DOS feeling try minicom --On 19 August 2003 02:20 -0700 Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the novice question. I have connected the console port on a Cisco router to COM1 on my fbsd box. Which program on the fbsd can I use to access the router? Does the COM port need to be

Re: Flood of infected emails

2003-08-19 Thread Matt Heath
Charles Howse wrote: Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails? All the emails have the same subject lines: Thank you! RE: That movie RE: RE: My Details RE: RE: My Details RE: Details RE: Wicked Screensaver RE: Approved RE: Your application But are from different users.

Re: Flood of infected emails

2003-08-19 Thread Matt Heath
Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails? could it be that the blaster patch opens up the sobig vector? I think my address is being used for parts of a flood of virus or spam mail. It seems plausible the harvesting was done from 'freebsd-questions'. all mine

Re: Why did you reply?

2003-08-19 Thread Matt Heath
Thanks. Best Boards :: BbBoard http://bb.bbboy.net Why do idiots do this? get a clue mate. The mailing list address is snatched from the address book by the Windows virus and then spams everyone using random email addresses as the From: in order to generate misplaced trust in the

Re: NTFS filesystem in hard, but: @/:write failed, filesystem isfull@

2003-08-16 Thread Matt Heath
Denis wrote: !!! Saturday, August 16, 2003, 9:40:38 PM, : m Denis wrote: Hello Matt, Saturday, August 16, 2003, 8:13:50 PM, you wrote: MH delete the NTFS partition and start again And what partition I must create? Without partition I see it message again:( Maybe I bought bad hard?

Re: NTFS filesystem in hard - FIXED

2003-08-16 Thread Matt Heath
Denis wrote: Yeah!!! I got it! I just connect my second hard with WinXP and connect first 60gb which i bought today. And freebsd think that i will be install to second... and I don't see errors message. So, when I started FDisk I just create partition on 60 gb(my new hard!) And I installed freebsd

Re: Think outside of the box (Gawd, I hate that term)

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Heath
Just don't try to use it in a commercial product unless you have a commercial license or a small army of laywers to help you through the license morass. Compare the Plan9 license[1] with the OpenBSD license policy[2] and recommended license[3] sometime. -d [1]

Re: Think outside of the box (Gawd, I hate that term)

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Heath
don't worry, we're working on it http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ Theo occasionally pops by to comp.os.plan9 (last time to discuss licences) (he coverts the plan9 compilers) plan9 is an OS research platform some of it's tools have been kind of back-ported to the unix likes (wily, 9wm) I

Re: ftp.gnu.org got cracked... how does this affect FreeBSD?

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Heath
Lucas Holt wrote: Are you sure it was a guy? Male hackers usually aren't that patient. you can blame my drama teacher for that one, she used to use it in a gender free sense and it's stuck with me I doubt the source was altered anyway. Someone would have caught it by now.. they did when

Re: ftp.gnu.org got cracked... how does this affect FreeBSD?

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Heath
So far there's no evidence that any distfiles were compromised. For files in the ports collection, they would have been caught by the md5 checksum. I wouldn't be so sure, the guy was harvesting passwords. Although I don't know the details of the commit procedure he would surely be able to

Re: setting up remote X

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Heath
george wrote: I have a few headless boxes and would like to be able to bring up the xserver remotely using Exceed but have no idea on how to go about it. anyone point me to a tutorial or instructions for this? I dont want to run vncserver but i would like a similiar approace without the web

Re: FreeBSD loader and Linux

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Heath
No, that's correct. You must install either LILO or GRUB in your Linux partition. (Side note: I have two hard drives -- ad0 has linux (from scratch) and ad2 has FBSD 5.0. I made ad2 dangerously-dedicated (silly me!) so neither GRUB nor LILO will work in ad0. So I had to make a boot floppy.)

Re: high-pitched tone from pc speaker

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Heath
Michael Haro wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a server at work. I cvsup'd and installed an updated world and installed a few ports. I also rebuilt the kernel to support dual processors. I don't know if this always happened, but now the on-board pc speaker (the one that goes beep, not

Re: looking for http/web copy program - I think

2003-07-21 Thread Matt Heath
wget will do mirrors but can only follow links or urls from a script curl will retrieve files in a sequence curl http://domain/file[1-100].rm; -o file#1.rm will get you file1.rm file2.rm ... file100.rm (it can also cope with leading 0's file001.rm etc.)

Re: Which server-side programming should i choose.

2003-07-04 Thread Matt Heath
Joel Rees wrote: PHP!! All the way...easiest, free, likely to be more secure than Perl if used as Apache module than CGI. More secure, how so? Less arcane syntax to hide holes in, maybe? However, for people who know what they are doing, perl code can be made more secure than php

Re: Which server-side programming should i choose.

2003-07-03 Thread Matt Heath
PHP!! All the way...easiest, free, likely to be more secure than Perl if used as Apache module than CGI. More secure, how so? mod_php runs as the same user as the Web Server, giving file permission to look at any file the web server can. Safe_dirs are turned off by default I've been hosted on

Re: mozilla stalls

2003-07-03 Thread Matt Heath
I've had a recurring issue with Mozilla and Firebird (was Phoenix): The browsers will stall in a seemingly non-deterministic fashion. I get that too ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Apache Security

2003-07-03 Thread Matt Heath
Dead Line wrote: Hello Everyone, Is Apache with fp extention (apache-fp) not secure to run in a machine ? it is best to assume that nothing is secure 8) In the meantime that this machine is made for this purpose, web hosting! im on FreeBSD 4.8-R Please Advise. your

Re: performance tuning?

2003-07-01 Thread Matt Heath
mpg123 plays mp3 audio just as slow as when I'm using X. presumably you are doing this from the console before running startx? what's your system load straight after login? uptime will tell you % uptime 11:03AM up 33 mins, 6 users, load averages: 0.37, 0.26, 0.17 if any of your load

Re: Small Database Software Recommendation

2003-06-23 Thread Matt Heath
the file system and associated tools is exactly what you need man join man sort man cut man awk ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to view and open file.db file.mdb?

2003-06-23 Thread Matt Heath
Marlon Corleone wrote: hi, im running 4.8 do do i open this type of file extension, file.db and file.mdb is there in ports collection that can manage to view and open this type of file? looks to me like Microsoft DataBase - afaik you'll need Microsoft Access for that Open Office lays claim

Re: Telnet in a script

2003-06-20 Thread Matt Heath
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'man expect' will make you happy! --chris cat /usr/ports/lang/expect/pkg-descr 8) ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] command set up passwordless logging in via .ssh/authorized_keys (generate a key with no password) and you're away

Re: safely running php scripts

2003-06-03 Thread Matt Heath
Maarten de Vries wrote: Hi, I would like the php scripts that are hosted on my Apache server (FreeBSD 4.8), to run under the UID/GID's that belong to the useraccounts in question; not the webservers'. Before, I patched Apache so it ran php's under SuExec, but now the php standalonebinary port

Re: Can you copy freebsd from one of my present machine and loadit to a new

2003-06-03 Thread Matt Heath
DanB wrote: Can you copy freebsd and its configuration from one of my present machine and load it to a new machine so I can do some repairs on it. Maybe copy to a CDR and boot from that. Dan sure, for $500 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: REPLY: Please Confirm Lockergnome's Tech Specialist Subscription

2003-06-02 Thread Matt Heath
Frank Tegtmeyer wrote: We just received notice that you wish to subscribe to the Lockergnome newsletter Time to set the list to subscribers only? how would that help? it would be trivial to write an auto subscribe, post spam, unsubscribe bot ___