Re: Configure 2 gateways on a freebsd box for 2 interfaces

2008-09-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, The first interface 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 The second interface: 10.228.44.1 255.255.255.0 The gateway for the first interface must be 192.168.0.254 and the second interface must be 10.228.44.254 How can I configure them? In rc.conf we have just defaultrouter but we can't

Re: tcpdump question

2008-08-29 Thread Olivier Nicole
Edward, I want to know what's meaning of 'S','.','P','F'? You should learn a bit about TCP protocol. S is for SYN (synchronize) P is for PUSH F is for FIN . is for nothing Pakets are: 3 way hand shake initiate TCP connection client server SYN sever client SYN ACK client server ACK

How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hello, Is there a command in FreeBSD that ejects a USB disk like in Windows? I mount the USB disk with automount daemone (amd). I have a script that access this disk and force an umount at the end of the script. But anyone accessing the disk will have amd re'mount the disk and at the time I

Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
I would like to have a command that makes the disk/USB port physically inaccessible, so at the end of the script a user cannot access the disk again. you should be able to use camcontrol's eject or stop command on that device, usually /dev/da[0-9]. I tried that. That would eventually

Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
Like in Windows after stopping a USB mass storage device, one has to unplg and replug the disk if he wants to access it again. What about just unplugging the disk when you are done with your skript and do not need the disk any more? I may not be around when the script finishes... Olivier

Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
Is there a command in FreeBSD that ejects a USB disk like in Windows? I mount the USB disk with automount daemone (amd). You have to umnount it using the umount command usually umount /mountpount does the tick The disk is mounted by automout daemon (amd), so any access to the

Re: Where is wrong with tcpdump?

2008-08-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
tcpdump tcp port 19 host 172.0.10.2 tcpdump tcp port 19 and host 172.0.10.2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to use automount daemon (amd)

2008-08-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have the following issue with amd. I want to write a script that will detect whenever a USB disk is plugged in and then run a backup. My configuration is described below. File /etc/amd.map: /defaultstype:=host;fs:=${autodir}/${rhost};rhost:=${key} *

Donations

2008-06-20 Thread Nicole Orban
. They were purchased from Courtesy Products and they are CV1. Please let me know if you would have any intereset in these. Thank you Nicole Nicole Orban Assistant Executive Housekeeper Hyatt Regency Crystal City 2799 Jefferson Davis HWY Arlington, VA 22202 703-418-1234

Donations

2008-06-20 Thread Nicole Orban
individually wrapped with its own filter. Please let me know if these would be any use to you. Thank you, Nicole Nicole Orban Assistant Executive Housekeeper Hyatt Regency Crystal City 2799 Jefferson Davis HWY Arlington, VA 22202 703-418-1234

[OT] PC starter

2008-02-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
Automatically turn on your PC. It's a common problem, when using desktop hardware to run a server: after a power failure, the machine needs human action to restart. High-end desktops and server hardware often have a BIOS setting to automatically start when power comes back. Using a low-end, older

Re: security of a new installation / steps to take

2008-02-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, To all the things that follow (sorry about top reply) I'd add a clever configuration of tcpwrapper (/etc/hosts.allow) whenever it is possible: allows to open a service to a list of given clients only. It is just another layer of security. Olivier So far I have had FreeBSD systems only in

Re: Get the empty space on a file system

2008-02-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
2) knowing the file system from 1), how to check the remaining space in the file system? You normally just start writing and deal with the errors that come from full file systems when they show up. The C functions set errno accordingly. The reason is that the system lies about the

Re: Is my hard ware sufficient?

2008-02-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm thinking to install FreeBSD on my old PC. --- Processor: Intel Celeron 1.3 GH RAM: 192 MB --- Is my hard ware sufficient? Sufficient to do what? Until not so long ago, my DNS server was a PIII 550 MHz, with something like 120 MB RAM, serving about 150 clients. I changed the hardware

Get the empty space on a file system

2008-02-18 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am writing a C application that would store files in a directory. Before it starts storing files, I would like the application to check is there is enough space in the file system. How to: 1) knowing the name of the directory, how toknow the file system it belongs to (not considering

Re: Error in src.conf(5)?

2008-02-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
src.conf(5) says: The values of variables are ignored regardless of their setting; even if they would be set to ``FALSE'' or ``NO''. Just the existence of an option will cause it to be honoured by make(1). So in my /etc/jail-src.conf I have a couple of options like this: WITHOUT_ACPI

Re: Install question - sysinstall

2008-02-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
Installing a fresh BSD System gives me among others the option 'X-User'. In the books I just find a hint its without source code, what I really dont need. But is there anything else but the source code what I will miss later for a desktop installation or a simple webserver?? Anybody tried

Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system

2008-02-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
possibly try fsck - i don't know (my first FreeBSD was 5.*) but maybe UFS changed a bit? Nope, I have had machines that I upgraded from 4 to 5 and 6 without changing the hard disk, and without changing the file system. So, I installed this drive as the second hard drive in a FreeBSD 6.2

Re: LDAP user authentication?

2008-02-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have googled for a very long time, but I haven't found any useful howto on this issue. Well, there is http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html but that seems to be a bit confusing an not up-to-date. I guess it

Console escape code

2008-02-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am upgrading an application that was runinng on 4.11, and I try to port it to 6.3. The application is using a couple of escape control sequences to modify the cursor on the console. On 4.11 it was OK, but on 6.3 the cursor changed from block type to overscore (? same as underscore but

Re: Console escape code

2008-02-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
On 4.11 it was OK, but on 6.3 the cursor changed from block type to overscore (? same as underscore but abov ethe character). This is not I just doubled check, it used to be underscore on 4.11, not block. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: HTTP POST

2008-02-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
bytes on network. i want to write my own www server, actually i already wrote, with working everything except post. things got much nicer than using apache+cgi, it's 100 times simpler and faster to have it all in single program when it will have this tested, i will make cutdown version

Re: HTTP POST

2008-02-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, my program gets from the browser: This part is not explicit enough. How is that what you get? Are they the bytes on the network between your browser and the HTTP server? Are they data decoded by your program? If it is the bytes on the network, I have no answer. If it is the data decoded

Re: Perl error running lint on spamassassin? [NO MORE SPAMASSASSIN!!!]

2008-02-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8: Undefined symbol PL_exit_flags You may consider updating every Perl modules after you have upgraded Perl 5.8.8. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Problem with makemap and hash tables

2008-02-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am having problem with /usr/sbin/makemap hash on huge databases under FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.3 while it is working on 4.11. By huge I mean around 380,000 lines in the /etc/mail/access file. After approximately 375,000 lines added into access.db I get: makemap: access.db: line 375135: key

Re: Problem with makemap and hash tables

2008-02-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
I am just under 300K lines in that map at present. While I have always wondered where hash was going to break, I hadn't found the limit yet. And what is even more weird is that last night it managed to build the hash, with yet about 385,000 lines in /etc/mail/access... Thanks any way.

Re: OT: Downloading file by sending email

2008-01-30 Thread Olivier Nicole
A second thought... I want to setup a service such that sending a mail to say [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a list of links per line results in my machine downloading the files at these links replying with all these files attached. So you have any direct connection to the machine that will host

Re: OT: Downloading file by sending email

2008-01-29 Thread Olivier Nicole
I want to setup a service such that sending a mail to say [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a list of links per line results in my machine downloading the files at these links replying with all these files attached. Although I don't know of such a service (I recall hearing about such service ages

Re: IP Aliasing

2008-01-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
1) is there an upper limit to configuring a number of alias addresses? I have a machine with 200+ IP without any problem. 2) if an interface is configured with an alias address, then what address is shown on the traffic leaving this interface? So, for example, if I were to ping this machine

Re: suggested size of /var/mail

2008-01-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Are there any smart ways to decide how to size /var/mail. I plan to put it on a seperate partition ... or shouldn't I? How much mail storage do you plan to offer per user, how many users do you plan to have? Multiplp, add 50% margin and you have it. Olivier

Re: Latest Stable FreeBSD version and its Dell 2950 Compatiblity

2008-01-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
I need to know which is the latest stable FreeBSD release(6.2 ?) and does it goes well with Dell 2950 ? 6.3 should be the latest stable. And yes about the 2950, with the bellow remarks (I asked the same question one month ago, check fro the tread about dell Power Edge 2950). Olivier

Postfix quota per virtual domain

2008-01-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hello, I am working on a Postfix email server for virtual domain. I was requested to implement quota per domain, not per user, have you ever seen something like that? Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Postfix quota per virtual domain

2008-01-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hello, I am working on a Postfix email server for virtual domain. I was requested to implement quota per domain, not per user: the sum of mailboxes of all the users in the domain must not exceed the quota set for the domain. (All I could find was example where all users of the domain had a same

Re: Need to re-generate the passwords in /etc/passwd

2008-01-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Due to some security purposes, I need to re-generate all the passwords for my users from the file /etc/passwd. I use the following script to generate passwords: http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/cgi-bin/phi-soft/gen-multipasswd I could send it to you as Perl script, so you could generate 500

Re: Need to re-generate the passwords in /etc/passwd

2008-01-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Due to some security purposes, I need to re-generate all the passwords for my users from the file /etc/passwd. I use the following script to generate passwords: http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/cgi-bin/phi-soft/gen-multipasswd Or use:

Re: Need to re-generate the passwords in /etc/passwd

2008-01-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
How do I use the above script for my machine which I access remotely by SSH. Yuck. I could email you a list of 1000 random strings? I could send it to you as Perl script, so you could generate 500 passwords in one run, or you call the web page enough number of times. That will be great!

Re: No spam???

2008-01-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, 2008-01-14 09:30:37.074087500 rblsmtpd: 123.20.89.67 pid 72121: 451 http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=123.20.89.67 Just one comment, in my installation of SpamAssassin, it reports in syslog as spamd, not at rblsmtpd. This looks like logs from the rblsmtpd program that is not

Re: No spam???

2008-01-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
I know this is an odd thing to worry about, but is this normal? Since the spam doesn't even seem to be reaching spamd, I'm guessing that the real hero is pf, which must be blocking 99.99% of spam at the packet level. I don't know how you configured pf, but since I use the black list

Re: Network monitoring program.

2008-01-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I need to monitor the network traffic from specific IP addresses. I need to be able to deduce the applications that are running that are generating the traffic. Unless you have full acess to the machine with that specific IP, you will never be able to do more than guessing what are the

Re: system programming

2008-01-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am a computer science student taking the operating systems course. All of our assignments are supposed run on Linux and I don't have a Linux machine. Programming the operating system is very dependent on the operating system. Talk your prof to accept a project based on FreeBSD, that

Re: need package name for setfacl command

2008-01-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
I am saravana, I am using FreeBSD 4.9 Release, in that setfacl command was not found. So I need found source package for that command to compile and use it. Can you send the name link to download the package. I am no expert but from the man page of setfacl I see: HISTORY Extended

Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND

2007-12-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
Has bind a visible advantage in the response time? Maybe not in response time, but certainly in centralisation: you only maintain one DNS instead of every machine. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND

2007-12-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
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? I think another issue is that Squid will only filter HTTP/FTP connections, while DNS would allow

dell Power Edge 2950

2007-12-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hello, This is just to confirm that Dell Power Edge 2950, with Quad Core Xeon E5420 is OK with FreeBSD 6.2/6.3. TIA, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the future (estimates if and when needed vary from ASAP to 10-15 years). I have volunteered to

Problem building R from the ports

2007-12-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am trying to upgrade /usr/ports/math/R I am using gcc 4.2.3 because at some stage it was needed by some other ports, so it is now the version in use. But I have the following problem with the fortran libraries. gcc42 -std=gnu99 -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include

Re: PDF_toTEXT Port /Package Is ther For FreeBSD-6.2 version ?UnRESOLVED issue

2007-11-30 Thread Olivier Nicole
This was my problem , I was running a Plone/Zope site in My FreeBSD machine , it cant find the program look for xpdf in the ports it has pdftotext. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Secure remote shell

2007-11-29 Thread Olivier Nicole
ssh using key authentication and sudo configured to allow a certain user to run the needed commands and only the needed commands as root. rsh? Are you living in a cave? :) Thanks for the replies. The original script was written at the cave era, only I am trying to improve it today. Would

Secure remote shell

2007-11-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Part of (un)registerings users on my system consists in connecting to various servers to add the user account to some services: Registering users is done wia a web page, and the web server will remote execute a script on the mail server to add the users in the aliases and run newaliases,

Re: Personalised patches in ports

2007-11-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, How can I incorporate my patch into the portupgrade system, so that an upgrade of Xpdf will apply my patch? If I download the bzip file, apply the patch, re-bzip the sources, and then try to force an upgrade, the checksum fails (as expected). How does one do thes properly?

What server for a mail server

2007-11-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have a project where I should set-up a mail server for approximately 12000 users, 4000 virtual domains, 15000 messages per day, 700 MB traffic per day. The machine should run Postfix, courrier-imap and a web mail (probably squirel), Apache 2, spamassassin, clamav, greylist What type of

How to reset a TCP connection

2007-11-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, On a mail server, I do some update of some lists on a daily basis, using wget. I am testing the script that will do the update, including some timestamping with wget (hopefully). I want to be able to test various combinations of parameters of wget for robust transmission, so I want to

Re: How to reset a TCP connection

2007-11-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
In the United Stated, cable television and Internet provider Comcast has recently come under criticism for managing bittorrent traffic by sending TCP RST packets to those who are over some unannounced traffic limit (i.e. hogging the bandwidth). Well I only plan to reset connections

Re: Claws+spamd: No spam is detected

2007-11-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have Claws-Mail and spamd installed (from ports) and although I have been using this combination -I've been been manually marking all spams as 'spam'- for more than 2 months, still _no_ spam message is detected. I've followed the instructions on Claws/spamd wiki. I've got

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV http://xogiving.org/ That is a difficult issue, while this is an

Re: make delete-old question

2007-11-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
Is there a clever way to run make delete-old in /usr/src so that (y) will be the default answer? Otherwise it's pressing y 437 times in my case... yes | make delete-old Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 5.2.1 to 6.2 Migration.

2007-11-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
I prefer to do [build|install]world prior to building the kernel with the new installed tools. Even with an outsynced system, the most common tools to be affected are ps and top. Even when a kernel fails to boot all the way through, you can still rebuild a new kernel after booting with

Re: DNS and IP

2007-11-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Of course, just setup a virtual host in your httpd.conf file point the dns to the same ip. Apache will take care of the rest. To be a litthe bit more precise, in your Apache configuraton you need something like: NameVirtualHost 10.0.0.1 VirtualHost 10.0.0.1 ServerName

How to write a condition in Bourne shell

2007-11-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am a lame Bourne sheel programmer, how to write: while [ ( $? -ne 0 ) -a ( $retry -gt 0 ) ] ; do that should execute as long as $? is not null and $retry is greater than 0? TIA, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

What is procmail dies

2007-10-31 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, On my mail server, I am using sendmail as transport agent procmail to deliver the mail to the final user mailbox. Procmail runs the mail trough SpamAssassin, and it some time happens that teh SpamAssassin process goes to the wild. I have seen that happening when the user disk is over quota

Re: Now it is ntpd that can't find anything

2007-10-31 Thread Olivier Nicole
Jeff, I set up ntpd on FreeBSD 6.2 and am getting complaints from ntpd that there is no route to such and such address. It gives what appears to be an interface card address. As a general rule, please copy/paste the error message. The rest respond without hesitation, both to dig and ping.

Re: Now it is ntpd that can't find anything

2007-10-31 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Jeff, Here are the console messages: ntpd (706) send to(2610:1f8:d8:2:216:cbff:fea3:4b2e:) no route to host (2001:4830:1210:0;280:10ff:fe00:48b9) #are these ipv6 addresses? Or are they expecting authentication and refusing connections? The answer seems

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-10-30 Thread Olivier Nicole
The quite annoying side-effect is having to type 'exit' twice to get out of a su shell or screen. It seems that another anoying effect is that it breaks scp(1) Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Nessus on 6.2

2007-10-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am using nessus from the ports on FreeBSD 6.2. The daemon seems to be runing fine, but the cient core dumps. syslroot103: pkg_info |grep nessus nessus-gtk-2.2.9_1 A security scanner: looks for vulnerabilities in a given ne nessus-libnasl-2.2.9_1 Nessus Attack Scripting Language

Re: Amanda failing on sendsize

2007-10-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, try the amanda users email group...seems to be someone else having similar problems, or is that that you as well?? If that was a couple days ago, it was me, only I went a bit further in investigation :) Thanks, Olivier ___

Virtual email server

2007-10-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am asked to build a virtual (couple of thousand of domains) email server: smtp, imap, pop and web mail. Sendmail is not the best choice, any sugestion about the various tools of choice for every components? So far I have only run single domain servers. TIA, Olivier

Re: Power Point Files

2007-10-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
graphics/tonicpoint ? Seems that tonic is not available anymore, Google bought them out. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Amanda failing on sendsize

2007-10-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am going further with that sendsize error, after recompiling with debug enable, here is the error I get in sendsize: (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/ports/misc/amanda-client/work/amanda-2.5.1p3/client-src/.libs/sendsize OPTIONS maxdumps=1;hostname=ufo1000; OPTIONS GNUTAR /ftp 0

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't remember details). If I am not wrong, NIS does not know anything about

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

2007-10-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
And, having evidently done the *wrong* thing, how do I fix the added users so they now appear in NIS? cs /var/yp make ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Amanda failing on sendsize

2007-10-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I just upgraded amanda-client and gtar: gtar-1.18_1 GNU version of the traditional tar archiver amanda-client-2.5.1p3_1,1 The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver on a 5.5 server FreeBSD ufo.cs.ait.ac.th 5.5-RELEASE-p15 FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE-p15 #7: Wed Oct 3 10:17:29

Re: what kind of UPS will work best?

2007-10-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, the *why*. Is there a best type to save me from this? Do any of these power supplies come with scripts to shutdown a Unix {or Linux} computer? Is there a UPS that is designed for heavy use and a very short (5- to 10-second) uptime? I'll need one that can

Re: software to cut mp3 files?

2007-10-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Sorry for an unusual request - does anyone know of software that is able to split an mp3 file into multiple chunks at specified locations (doesn't have to have gui, actually best if it didn't), one that works under FreeBSD? Not sure what you call specified location, is that at certain

Upgrade of PHP4

2007-10-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I noticed that PHP4 port has been having some vulnerabilities for some time now. Will there be a correction relased any soon? Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Upgrade of PHP4

2007-10-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
Doubtful, given the fact that php4 will reach EOL December 31. You should plan on upgrading to php5. Thanks, now that lads to the second question, what will I break when updating? What should I be carefull about? I have several servers, managing quite many sites, with a lot of home made

Re: Spam Filtering

2007-10-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
My setup is basically everything gets pumped though procmail and ends up in an Courier imap directories. I am using SpamAssassin (from the ports) inside procmail that quarantine every suspect messages and send a daily summary: http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/laboratory/email/quarantine.shtml Best

Re: Is Apache rotatelogs efficienct for real world use?

2007-10-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
Is Apache rotatelogs suitable for handling large volumes of access logs, i.e. around 50K requests per hour at _peak_ time which is 1.2M requests per day. According to Apache website (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html#rotation) this becomes about 120MB in size per day. In another

Re: determining the space used in / partition

2007-10-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
One thing that comes to my mind. Each Sunday I have a script which makes a full dump of the HD to a back-up USB drive. Last weekend someone cleaining the computer room, must have accidentally powered off the USB drive. As a result, the dump has not been completed because the USB drive was not

Re: Binding application to one ethernet interface

2007-09-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have a server with apache that serves pages to an intranet. Now we want to add another server application (cvs and pgsql) to another intranet. Of course we can buy a new server to do that, but i want to know if i can add a new ethernet card to the current server and force

Atomic actions in LDAP

2007-09-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I would like to use LDAP to manage users printer quota. Printers can be located on several servers, so I need a way to update the information without ceating deadlocks/overwrites. Is there a way for LDAP to do atomic action ? That is increase the value of one reccord by a certain amount,

Reading page count from USB printer

2007-09-24 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have an HP2200 printer connected to a 6.2 box via USB. I would luke to read the page count. I know the PCL sequence to do that, but I am unsure about the way to access the printer. The pinter shows up at /dev/ulpt0, I can redirect text to it for printing, using cat file.ps /dev/ulpt0 But

Re: device designation

2007-08-29 Thread Olivier Nicole
What is device with designation md0? md is memory disk Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Configuring OpenLDAP on FreeBSD 6.2 Release, Problems.

2007-08-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
I think it may be a problem there, do you have any how to for that configur= ation, in case I can double check. Off course besides the info provide at o= penldap.org. Thanks in advance. Sorry, I am pretty new with LDAP too :) I have no documentation beside the one I found from Googling around.

Re: isc-dhcp3-server issues with windows 2000 client

2007-08-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I built it by doing: cd /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-server make install the version = isc-dhcp3-server-3.0.5_2 for both, could their be code changes if the _2 did not change? There should not be any change BUT... I imagine the aplied patches could be different depending on FreeBSD

Get effective group id

2007-08-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, From a Bourne shell script, how to get (and test) the group id of the user that is executing the script? Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: SAS (serial attached SCSI)

2007-08-20 Thread Olivier Nicole
Jonathan, other than telling him well this is the new SCSI, i am wondering if anyone else is successfully using this technology thus far. Well you'll have to accept the fact that it is the new SCSI and you have to run with it. I bet you will have hard time finding a server with parallel SCSI.

Re: Configuring OpenLDAP on FreeBSD 6.2 Release, Problems.

2007-08-20 Thread Olivier Nicole
I am a newcomer to the FreeBSD world. I am trying to implement a openLDAP installation. It all went ok with the SASL and SERVER install in conjunction with BDB, yet when I try starting the service using /usr/local/libexec/slapd or /usr/local/etc/rc.d/slapd start, the service does not start. I

Configuring mailman with web server different from mail server

2007-08-20 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am trying to install mailman from the ports. I have different machine for the mail server and the web server and I am trying to figure if this configuration is workable. The MTA is sendmail, where could I find configure example? Best regards, Olivier

Re: isc-dhcp3-server issues with windows 2000 client

2007-08-20 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have a backup of the old system and am using that to trouble shoot. I have narrowed it down to the dhcpd binary. If I put in the newer binary built with p7 it does not work with windows 2000. If I put in the old binary it works fine. First question would be: how did you

Re: My mail could not be delivered HELP

2007-08-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
I could not send any mail to that mail server Freebsd.org But I could deliver mails to all other mail servers? Tue 2007-08-14 13:41:32: -- 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [91.103.27.98] Tue 2007-08-14 13:41:32: -- RCPT To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue 2007-08-14

Re: My mail could not be delivered HELP

2007-08-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
My mail server has 2 static IPs. Just I use Dual view Domain RRs. Can that be the cause? Then there is an issue there, because the rDNS problem is on 91.103.27.98 (see error message) and the IP fro your machine are .90 and .97 Anyway, your machine has no rDNS. Olivier

Re: FreeBSD Embedded in 3rd Party Applications and Appliances?

2007-08-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
We are trying determine cost and benefits of supporting FreeBSD platform for OEM market. Does any one have data on the installbase for FreeBSD Embedded in 3rd party applications and appliances? We are looking for ball park numbers. There is no requirement to tell anyone else that you're

Re: Question about failover with ISC DHCP

2007-08-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Luis, I am looking to replace my current DHCP server with the ISC. Right now I have to servers which are working with split scopes. Some of my schools need over 600 IP's, so I have the school with a 255.255.240.0 which give them 16 Class C, network, so to avoid conflicts I assign the

Sudo clears the environment variable

2007-08-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, On a new system that I am installing, I found out that the new version of sudo version 1.6.9p3 clears the environment variables. It was not the case on previous version like version 1.6.8p12. I tried to understand what is the configuration to perform like it was before, I tried to add the

Re: Sudo clears the environment variable

2007-08-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
env_reset now seems to be on by default. you could turn it off if you need to or fiddle with the env_keep and env_check lists. That's what I mean, how to turn it off. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: what way to update named?

2007-08-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
I think this was it. I originally used sudo but second time I did it as su and it went very well. Thank you! I always build ports using sudo (I have not been using su for years). Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Confused about version

2007-08-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
What should I be running when updating my sources? RELENG_6 or RELENG_6_2? Or is there no difference? I think that right now RELENG_6 and RELENG_6_2 are the same, but when 6.3 comes out, RELENG_6 will be the same as RELENG_6_3 and RELENG_6_2 will be something else. When running RELENG_6, how

Re: what way to update named?

2007-07-31 Thread Olivier Nicole
I am using named version 9.3.3 which comes with FreeBSD system (i.e. was not installed from ports). I know that in order to upgrade bind, I should cvsup sources and then go through the entire procudure of updating the system, installing kernel, etc. However, I tend not to use cvsup any

Re: what way to update named?

2007-07-31 Thread Olivier Nicole
Stop in /usr/ports/dns/bind9. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portinstall.12022.0 env make ** Fix the problem and try again. ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! dns/bind9 (unknown build error) --- Packages processed: 0 done, 0

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Chuck, With some delay, several answers together. For the example I gave, I am of course authoritative. Are you? Depending on which servers I query, I either get an NXDOMAIN, an answer with no authoritative nameservers listed, or the results you've shown. That implies that there is

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