Re: cron job every 5 hours

2007-07-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
2007 05:23:00 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test crontab 5 hours X-Virus-Scanned: on CSIM by amavisd-milter (http://www.amavis.org/) This is a test for crontab Only way to run a job every 5 hours is with at(1). Best regards, Olivier

Re: moving /home to new drive

2007-07-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
Or do I need to delete the symlink first and only then try to mount the new drive as /home? - delete the symlink - create a directory /home - mount the new drive - copy the files You cannot mount a disk on a symlink and you cannot mount a disk until you have created the mount point. Best

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

2007-07-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm using dynamicDNS, so I will able to specify the forward *AND* reverse lookups? Yes. No, nobody else is going to see the results your local nameserver sends since it isn't authoritative for the domains, and the delegation for the IP block isn't going to point to your server but

Re: cron job every 5 hours

2007-07-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
I want to run an updater script, every 5 hours and x minutes. I thought to use: minute 5 * * * root path/to/scriptname but that looks like it only works once a day, i want it to go every 5 hours not justa at 5 in the monrning. You could sechedule you jor at 5, 10, 15 and 20 on

Re: Transparent email proxy

2007-07-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, With the firewall, it is easy to make the use of the outgoing mail hub compulsory. Is there some reason beyond that that you want to do things transparently? Yes, I should have been a bit more specific. As university department, we receive a number of visitors, when they have been in

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

2007-07-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
I understand your problem. dyndns.com is taking care of the forward dynamic DNS for you. Now who is in charge of the reverse DNS for 58.187.106.120 (your current IP)? I beleive it is FPT. So FPT should upgrade its own reverse DNS every time it gives an IP to your server. Right now if I make a

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

2007-07-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
But my postfix only can receive mails from freebsd-questions mailing list, it can not send mail to this. There is another thing you have to consider. As it is explained in http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?p=265093#post265093 your dynamic IP has been black listed (the IP was used

Re: I've got a question for you guys (unsubscibing)

2007-07-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
I have gone to http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions days ago. It does not work. Did you receive the mail asking you to confirm the removal? Something like that: Mailing list removal confirmation notice for mailing list freebsd-questions We have

Transparent email proxy

2007-07-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, As an ISP, or the person in charge of a large organisation, have you ever set-up a transparent email redirection: all outgoing email would be proceeded to an outgoing server in order to check for virus, spam, whatever. Best regards, Olivier ___

Re: I've got a question for you guys (unsubscibing)

2007-07-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
Why, despite sending multiple e-mails to the unsubscribe address, am I continued to be subscribed to this list?? Any help would be grand. I don't know about unsubscribing from email, I always do it from the web and it works OK. Bests, Olivier ___

Re: Freebsd-update and Freebsd Security Advisory

2007-07-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
I think I am doing a bad thing mixing these two patching systems. What should I do now? Should I go back and revert some changes? No it seems you don't need to revert anything. But you should avoid mixing in the future. No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p6. That is already

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

2007-07-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
Maybe I'm stupid because I already spent 3 days creating my zone file and reverse file but I still can not sussefull. I'm running FreeBSD 6.2, I have DynamicIP: www.thecuong.gotdns.com. Could you help me to create the simple example of zone file and reverse file for me Who is assigning

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

2007-07-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm using dynamicDNS, so I will able to specify the forward *AND* reverse lookups? Yes. Forward DNS lookup: (alrw17.desktops.cs.ait.ac.th is dynamic DNS) banyanon57: dig alrw17.desktops.cs.ait.ac.th ; DiG 9.3.1 alrw17.desktops.cs.ait.ac.th ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;;

Re: Turn off server when shutdown

2007-07-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
Is it possible to have the server turn off? man shutdown? -p The system is halted and the power is turned off (hardware sup- port required) at the specified time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Lost SSH X1 Forwarding with Xorg 7.2

2007-07-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, A nice *feature* that I just noticed, I apologize if it has been mentionned earlier. xorg 7.2 tends to install all the components in /usr/loca insteal of the traditional /usr/X11R6. But sshd is still expecting xauth to be in /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth; so sshd_config has to be modified to reflect

Re: game advice

2007-07-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Another machine has P-III and Matrox 8 Mb. Is there anything peaceful but dynamic enough for an older video card? Sport game (soccer, etc.) car race games? Even older fight games were not so bloody. I won't give name because I don't know names much. If you target games that came out around

Re: FreeBSD 5.5 hangs on boot when pluging mouse/Intel Gigabit

2007-07-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am in process of upgrading a serie of servers from 4.11 to 5.5 (and them 6.2). I am on the 5.5 phase. I did 2 machines sucessfully. On upgrading the thrid one, the boot will hang after SCSI buss reset, whenver I plug in the mouse or an Intel Pro/1000 MT Gigabit card. I don't know

Recursivity of -r and -R in portupgrade

2007-07-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am wondering is the option -R and -r are mutually recursive in portupgrade. That is, if the option -R applies to every ports detected by -r and respectively if -r applies to every ports detected by -R. Lest take the example of: portupgrade -fRr gd gd depends on png, does it upgrade png

Re: Allowing noschg in multi-user mode on Mac OS X

2007-07-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
I also realize I can boot into single-user mode (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106388) where chflags noschg works just fine, but I'd like to use noschg more as advisory protection from myself, not something that requires single-user mode to undo. Too bad but the schg flag is

Migration from 5.5 to 6.2 without single user access

2007-07-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am upgrading a remote server (very remote, 10,000 km) and I have no way to access the machine in single user mode. Is there a recommended way to do the upgrade from 5.5 to 6.2? Do everything in multi-user, but kill all services but sshd? Thanks, Olivier

Re: Gradual move to own mail server - strategy for noob

2007-06-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
Are you using spamd? not sure - it's almost 2 AM here...i'm going to hit the sack as I have an earlish start - i'll try to dig out the config from that mail server and send it out, but i can't promise it'll happen tomorrow - DO ping me if i haven't done it after the w/end. I guess

FreeBSD 5.5 hangs on boot when pluging mouse/Intel Gigabit

2007-06-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am in process of upgrading a serie of servers from 4.11 to 5.5 (and them 6.2). I am on the 5.5 phase. I did 2 machines sucessfully. On upgrading the thrid one, the boot will hang after SCSI buss reset, whenver I plug in the mouse or an Intel Pro/1000 MT Gigabit card. The server I am

OT: how to increase RAID space

2007-06-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I know this is not specific of FreeBSD, but I have a server with hardware RAID 5 disk (4x35 GB). Is there a way to change to bigger disks, except copying all the RAID to a temporary disk, and replacing my RAID? Best regards Olivier ___

Re: Gradual move to own mail server - strategy for noob

2007-06-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
Install Fetchmail to get mail from my various hosted mailboxes Yes. For testing purpose, why don't you create a temporary mail account at your ISP, at yahoo, gmail, etc. provided they have IMAP, and try retreiving emails from that account. Configure Sendmail, which I accepted as the default

Re: OT: how to increase RAID space

2007-06-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
that's what a volume manager (such as LVM2 in linux, Veritas Vol Mgr , and vinum (I think) in FBSD 4 ) do - they abstract the hardware storage layer. That is hardware RAID. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: What's the best diagnostic utility for wireless signal?

2007-06-20 Thread Olivier Nicole
I want to be able to inspect the signal strength/quality so that I may adjust the antenna to get best results. What is the best diagnostic to use? I once used Retina Wireless Network Security Scanner, from eEye Digital Security. That is a Windows product and there is/was a free download

Re: Spamassassin RBL's

2007-06-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
The directive above tells postfix to add information into headers that tell Amavis the mail was sent by someone who was authenticated by the system and thus trusted. I expect that the above mentionned headers cannot be forged. Else that would be a nice way for spam to avoid filtering.

Re: Shorten delay in sending mail to SMTP

2007-06-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
Thanks for the reply. What happens during the sending of any email, is that my Thunderbird will show 'Connected to mail.xyz.com...' for a couple of seconds. Bear in mind that my (test) mails are very short, so it can't be due to data transfer. After that the text says sending mail and

Re: Spamassassin RBL's

2007-06-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
IMHO mail gateway isn't the point of checking whether machines inside are virus free or not. There should be other practises used on workstations ensuring that the inside environment is virus free at any given moment. There should be. But there are also users that decide to use their own

Re: Shorten delay in sending mail to SMTP

2007-06-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
Can anyone confirm that Qmail/ inetd/ FreeBSD does some form of dns lookup on it's SMTP? It most certainly does, that would be configurable, but you can confirm that by yourself: look at the full headers of the email you receive, you should see some headers saying something like: Received:

Re: Spamassassin RBL's

2007-06-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
How can I enable spamassasssin RBL's. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1, postfix, amavisd-new, and spamassassin with razor. I'm getting many spams that shouldn't be getting thru with RBL's. I havent been able to find anything useful on Google that can explain how to get RBL working with spamassassin.

USB switch/USB hard disk jukebox

2007-06-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am thinking (long term project) to use several USB hard disk for achiving purpose. One hard disk would be connected at a time, but that would be nice to be able to connect and disconnect the disks via software. Have you heard of some kind of USB disk jukebox? Have you heard of some kind

Re: [freebsd-questions] Best way to add SSL to Apache 1.3.37

2007-06-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
Which seems to suggest that I'd need to have installed the apache port /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl instead of the package apache-1.3.37_3. Right. So, do I need to remove the apache-1.3.37_3 package (presumably with pkg_delete, as I think that's the cleanest way, please correct me if I'm

Re: Seeking recommendation for anti-spam software

2007-06-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
And call it a quirk of mine, but I really dislike (server) software with a large number of dependencies. That rules out Spam Assassin. But I am I am not sure what you call dependencies. SA is written in Perl, using some Perl libraries, so of course you need these, but on the other hand

Re: How to understand partition sizes

2007-06-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
The /server is 9Gb smaller than I partitioned and the actual free space without any files in the partition is shown as 396.5Gb which is another 34.5Gb smaller. The number of disk sectors/blocks allocated to a partition at install is reduced by the amount of space taken by the system to put

Re: Su newbie question

2007-05-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
But that may not be the best way. You really don't want to spread root accounts around a lot. One alternative might be setting up sudo to allow the specific things that this other person needs to do. sudo woul dbe the right way to do: you have fine choice on the various priviledges you

Re: How to find disk slice layout

2007-05-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
If you have the resaources, do backup /var, it should not take much time. /var contains the log files, it is nice to ave them handy when something crashes. Bests Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: amavisd-new spamcontroll problem

2007-05-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
From the tutorial I uderstood that by installing amavisd-new will install spamassasin too ? and razor also coming with this .? If you install amavisd-new from the ports, does it have an option for installin spamassassin? If there is no option, SA is NOT installed. Razor is NOT

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
how come there is ad4s1b and ad4s1c when those names don't appear in the fstab or df? Very often ad4s1b will be the swap and ad4s1c the full slice. That is not an absolute rule, but it is very much recommended (at least for ad4s1c) to keep it equivalent to the full slice. Olivier

Re: Backup advice

2007-05-24 Thread Olivier Nicole
2 x system space would be enough for a full dump plus plenty of increments, I'd say. No? Is there a rule of thumb? 3x? 4x? That depends how much your file system change. If every ficle change befor the incremental run, dump 1 will be equal to dump 2, and 2x will be enough for just dump0

Re: 2 problems with shared libraries

2007-05-24 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Boris, However you may try to install the port I wrote: ftp://ftp.ipt.ru/pub/download/linux-qt3.tar.bz2 # cp linux-qt3.tar.bz2 /usr/ports/x11-toolkits # cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits # tar xyf linux-qt3.tar.bz2 # cd linux-qt3 # make install clean I've tested the port at tinderbox

Re: Backup advice

2007-05-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, So I feel a need to start backing up my servers. To that end, I've decided that it's easier for me to grab an external USB drive instead of a tape. It's certainly faster, easier and cheaper now days. It would seem dump/restore are the tools of choice. This really repends of what

2 problems with shared libraries

2007-05-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have the two following problems: 1) $ ldconfig -r | grep libqt-mt.so.3 102:-lqt-mt.3 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 $ ldd colorseg colorseg: libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x28279000) libjpeg.so.62 = /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x282e2000)

Re: Spamassassin not working

2007-05-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
I have installed Spamaassassin along with amavisd-new to filter spam, but I don't think it is working. I am getting a bunch of spam and spamassassin is not tagging it as spam. I have the score set at 3.0. It worked before on my old box but when I installed it on a new box using the same

Re: How to do Spam Control in FreeBSD

2007-05-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Dhanesh, ( Genaral question : Is there any port for spamassasin,amavisd in FreeBSD) Starting from the end but that is the easy part, yes there are. I have a freebsd-6.0 server with postfix and mailman running on this machine , (Side remark: You may consider upgrading to 6.2) but

USB on 4.11

2007-05-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am trying to enable USB on FreeBSD 4.11. If I boot the GENERIC kernel, my USB drive is recognized. If I boot my customized kernel, the drive is not present. in the customized kernel I have: # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required) device da

Re: How do I forward old root emails from the root mailbox to my address?

2007-04-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
but is there a simple way for me to send all these old mails in root's mailbox to my email address without logging in through pop3/imap? A combination of cat /var/mail/root | formail -s and something. cat /var/mail/root | formail -s will read /var/mail/root, separate each message and pipe it

Re: Single Instance Service

2007-04-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
Sure it is. You will need to write a small shell script to scan your disk volume and calculate the checksum of each file. When ever it finds a duplicated checksum, then it copies the file into the central store and replaces the on-disk copies with symbolic links. That's fairly trivial to

Re: Intel motherboard S5000PAL

2007-04-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
Sorry for bothering, but I coul not find the answer elsewhere. Is Intel motherboard S5000PAL supported by FreeBSD 5.5, ... No; certainly the ESB2 ATA controller isn't. ...6.2? Yes. We're running 8 of them. Great, thanks. Olivier ___

Re: PIL istallation In FreeBSD

2007-04-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
this m/c haspython-2.4.4 but no PIL module , I have to install it to support the zope/plone application that I am running in this machine But in /usr/ports there is no such port for PIL OR I can't recoganize which You have to get that directly from Python site. If I remember

Intel motherboard S5000PAL

2007-04-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Sorry for bothering, but I coul not find the answer elsewhere. Is Intel motherboard S5000PAL supported by FreeBSD 5.5, 6.2? Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: PCIe NIC for FreeBSD 5.5

2007-04-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, any particular reason why youre note going with 6.2? i have 6.2 running on several DL G4's and G5's (couple ML's in there too), and they all have no trouble with the broadcom nics. also, both my laptop and desktop have the broadcoms as well, and again, they work very nicely... in

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1 Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista Home Premium users as a Samba share. I also plan to create system recovery disks

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
Since tapes get expensive and disks are relatively cheap I went out and bought a 300 GB USB disk drive for about $90.00. Right now I have amanda configured to back things up onto 6 virtual tapes each of about 40GB, USB is a nice and cheap solution, as long as you don't have too much data to

PCIe NIC for FreeBSD 5.5

2007-04-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have been askedto install FreeBSD on a server, but I had no saying on the procurement of the server. It ends up to be an HP 380G5, with onboard Broadcom based NIC that is not supported and only PCIe extension slots. I am wondering what NIC I could buy that would be PCIe, x4 or x8, and

Mirroring FreeBSD

2007-01-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, We are considering to set-up a mirror for FreeBSD in Thailand, how much disk space should we target for a full irror? Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

cvsup'dating several machines

2007-01-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I will soon update FreeBSD on several machines from 4.11 to 5.5, they are all at the same level of 4.11. I would like to save network bandwidth, would it be OK/enough if I cvsup one machine and then copy /usr/src from that opne to the others? Best regards, Olivier

Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm using Ariff Abdullah's snd_hda driver on 6.2-RC2. The driver reports: pcm0: ATI SB450 High Definition Audio Controller mem 0xc000-0xc0003fff irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0 pcm0: HDA Codec: Realtek ALC883 pcm0: HDA Driver Revision: 20061210_0037 I'd tend to that that the thing that

Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
on other plugs. The plug I was trying had a graphics of a microphone on it, and SPDIF written next to it also. According to a quick google at SPDIF, it is a digital signal plug, so noting where you can connect earphone... Olivier ___

Re: Setting another machine as a firewall

2007-01-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
i want to set another machine as a firewall for my mail server to prevent receiving huge number of spams each day. so, how shuold i change my DNS to do this ? Have your MX reccord to point to the firewall mail server. But before you do that, you should make sure that the firewall is set-up

Re: lease line

2007-01-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
pls give me what is lease line. why do you use lease line? what is the process of configure of lease line? What is a leased line? Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leased_line Why do you use a leased line? Same reply, to connect two networks together. To make it simple, leased line for data

Re: cant able to telnet the freebsd system

2006-12-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
I put entry in /etc/rc.conf as inetd_enable=YES and after that /etc/inetd.conf I uncomment the telnet line to activate the telnet server then restarted the telnet service /etc/rc.d/inetd restart and it get restarted If you had to enable inetd, it means it was the first time it was

Re: cant able to telnet the freebsd system

2006-12-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
ls -al | grep inetd take note othe number, such as: 697 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/inetd -wW -C 60 Then kill -HUP 697 humm I doubt the ls -al will show any inetd process :) A faster way would be killall -HUP inetd but that is true if an only if inetd has been previsouly running

Re: Getting SHTML to work

2006-11-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
Secondly, I needed to either expressly place the file on the command line or else the SSI would not display, I don't understand what you mean. or chmod the file to 0755. I choose to do the later obviously since it is an index file. I run a site full of SSI, files are mode 644 and it is

Re: Password Security

2006-11-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
And how can one into the System by booting from a CD if it still requires the Password even in Single User mode? Booting from CD, floppy or hard disk is slected at BIOS level. Booting in single or multi user mode is at Operating system level. Booting is in the following order: 1) BIOS select

Re: Password Security

2006-11-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
1. Password on BIOS Knowing that it is enought to remove the battery in order to remove the BIOS password. 2. Change the order of booting i.e. When system is installed and working once, then I just the change the Booting FIRST from HardDisk. You can also consider to remove the CD and floppy

Re: Password Security

2006-11-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
I am going to place my FreeBSD server at a shared place? I am just afraid that any unauthorized person might boot machine in single user mode and steal the data? If the data are so sensible, do notplace the machine in a shared location. One could reboot in single mode, or just stop the

Re: image based stock spam

2006-11-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
Since there isn't a port for that, is there another FreeBSD solution worth mentioning here? I can't remember if there is a port or not, but I remember it was very easy to install: if fuzzyocr itself is not a port, every tools it is based upon are ports. Olivier

Re: ftp over ssh

2006-11-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
SFTP is secure, but to use SFTP you generally have to give a user SSH access. Which is not always desirable. Just a side remark, if you plan to give FTP over SSH access, you have to give SSH access, so this remark does not really apply here. Bests, Olivier

Re: Reading crashed SCSI disk

2006-11-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
I am wondering if there is a way to read the physical blocks (those that are readable) and save the data, from that I could be able to rebuild some of the mailboxes. dd if=/scsi_drive of=/some/file/name Should read anything readable, though without bs=xxx it may be quite slow. You

Reading crashed SCSI disk

2006-11-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Last week my mail server disk crashed. I restarted the machine with spare hard disk and previous night backup, but I have no backup for the emails received during the last day. I cannot do a low level SCSI verify, it may be that all spare sectors have been reallocated. I cannot run an fsck.

Re: Disable ScrollLock key

2006-10-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
Thanks, How to disable the ScrollLock key on a FreeBSD 4.11 console? I mean disable it for good, 100%, dead, like it was simply physacally not there. I'm wondering why you would want to do this. Because the machine is used for access control (opening a door) and Friday, just when I

Disable ScrollLock key

2006-10-20 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, How to disable the ScrollLock key on a FreeBSD 4.11 console? I mean disable it for good, 100%, dead, like it was simply physacally not there. Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Sendmail with SpamAssassin and ClamAV

2006-10-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
However on startup I get the following error: Starting clamav_milter. /usr/local/sbin/clamav-milter: socket-addr (/var/run/clamav/clmilter.sock) doesn't agree with sendmail.cf Do I need to edit sendmail.cf as well? I am not sure how myhost.cf is included into sendmail.cf, but myhost

Re: Upgrading in the same RELENG without shutdown ?

2006-10-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to patch (upgrading from 5.4- RELEASE-p8 to a higher version) my system without going into the classic : Considering that the system is like 10,000 km away,I cannot pay it a visit when I need to boot to single mode. So, I doeverything in multi user

User vs Kernel mode

2006-10-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have an application that is running on virtual tty 0, i start it the following way: /etc/ttys ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Door cons25 on secure /etc/gettytab Door: :ht:np:sp#115200:al=door: /etc/passwd door:*:0:0:Run the door program:/usr/local/door:/usr/local/door/door

Re: User vs Kernel mode

2006-10-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
Processes always start in kernel mode, because they're started by the kernel. They typically spend most of their time in kernel mode (for example, whenever they're idle or waiting for I/O). An active process may switch back and forward between kernel mode and user mode thousands of times a

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm getting a ton of spam every day that comes from China, Japan and Korea= =2E=20 Spam Assassin completely ignores it because it has all non-english characte= rs=20 and slows kmail to a crawl loading. Is there a way to filter on non-english= in /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/v310.pre I

Re: MySQL and Roundcube Problem - db won't start!

2006-10-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, With the gracious help of a poster here, I managed to get roundcube up and running, and had to resort to MySQL, which I know very little of. After it was all up and running, and we'd added the users and tested their access to webmail, we decided to put some more memory into the

Re: Prevent process in disk wait

2006-10-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
While installing the Ruby port on a 6.1-Release system (uname -a ... 37788 p0 DL+ 39:43.11 ./ruby18 ./bin/rdoc --all --ri --op /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system . The system is an old Pentium 5 with a standard IDE drive. Is there a I got hit bit that a couple of times too. For some

Running Perl from a C program

2006-10-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am facing a problem when running a Perl script from a C program. My C calls 2 different Perl scripts. The way to call them is completely similar. One script does a 'require timelocal.pl;' and is working. The other try to do a 'use Email::MIME::Creator;' and is not working (whatever the

Re: idle auto logoff

2006-10-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
I recently took over the adminstration of a FreeBSD machine at work and cannot figure out what is auto logging me off when I am idled on the machine. Are you ruunning something called idled? Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives

2006-10-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I'm reluctant to experiment any more than I have done: the server the drive bay has been fitted to is our live fileserver, with 120GB of user data on two drives on the other ATA channel. I know I would take time to install the drive bay in a test machine, with an old disk and play with

Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives

2006-10-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm reluctant to experiment any more than I have done: the server the drive bay has been fitted to is our live fileserver, with 120GB of user data on two drives on the other ATA channel. I know I would take time to install the drive bay in a test machine, with an old disk and play

Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives

2006-10-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
I should probably have said: we don't currently have offsite backups (we've exceeded the capacity of our tape device and our budget), and the quick-fix solution is dumping to this hard drive and then pulling it out and taking it home. USB box? At least it is known to be hot plugable. With

Playing audio

2006-10-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have an embeded system build on FreeBSD 4.11, I want to add sound facility, I have configured pcm and sbc and apparentlyit is working. In a C program, how can I play a sound file, what format should I use for that sound file? Best regards, Olivier

Re: how to block rj45 sockets.

2006-10-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
Do you recommend any good switch product and model number which has port enable.disable This is refeered to as manageable switch, or managed switch, or SNMP manageable. See with your prefered dealer according to your budget. Of course if the switches are in a closed rack, you can also simply

Re: When to use SUID Perl (5.8.x)?

2006-09-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Just wondering what do you need suid perl for? To run a Perl script that needs to get root privileges. it is a security risk having it? It is always a risk to have a powerfull tool installed when you don't need it. If a security bug is discovered in Perl, one could be able to become

Re: PART TIME JOB OFFER FOR YOU

2006-09-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
They send you a counterfeit money order/ cheque, you deposit it, your bank makes the funds available, you send the bad guy the the money, and If you are naive enough to send them money before you ever get it... Olivier ___

Re: mail to root

2006-09-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
running. I was informed that Postfix was not running. So the question, how does mail generated by the system get delivered to the root account? Local mail delivery can be specific: mail could be delivered even is no smtp server is running. This is highly dependant of your environment and of

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then OpenBSD ... 6 days later: Thailand jumped from 12 machines to 110... ahead of France and

Re: Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Just out of curiosity I tried ruby port on two machines - fast one (1.6GHz Athlon with 1GB RAM) and small one (400MHz with 96MB RAM). Fast one has no problems with ruby, it builds and installs in few minutes. The slow one is another story, however. There is definitely something in teh

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
| Our mailhub is actually a HP DL360 with one processor (Xeon 2.8 ghz) | with 2 Gb RAM and 120 Gb disks, it is 3 years old. | It runs Postfix + imap + imaps + pop3 + pop3s + squirrelmail + vexira | antivirus + postgrey | and some small auxiliary services. Your server is good enough to

Poutupgrade unsafe

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I know the mistake was on my side, I was not carefull enough when using portupgrade on a production machine but... Yesterday I froze our system for about one hour when I used portupgrade to upgrade Samba. It was a very minor upgrade (from 3.0.10 to 3.0.23c,1 I think), but it happens that in

Re: Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports

2006-09-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
Old FreeBSD on old hardware is a recipe for such problems. Hummm, I was looking at bsdstats... majority of registered hardware is pentium III. I like FreeBSD because of it's hability of running well on old hardware: why would I need a Xeon dual core to run a DNS server for 5 clients? Olivier

Re: Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports

2006-09-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
I don't know why. I'm running DNS server on old Celeron 400Mhz with 96MB RAM just fine. Why do you think you need Xeon dual core for that? Of course I don't, and won't. I was just replying to the guy that told me that I am using archaic hardware and that it makes building ruby slow. I do use

Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports

2006-09-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am upgrading a few servers. I have noticed that on pentium III, it takes a VERY long time to upgrade Ruby 1.8. It blocks at some stage saying: zlib.c: mcc...

Re: MailScanner

2006-08-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
Edit the MailScanner.conf file and set at least high scoring SPAM to bounce. Please DONT BOUNCE. There is never any usefull return address in SPAM, so bouncing will not get back to any spammer, but it will rather annoy some innocent person. It is totally useless to bounce for virus or spam,

Re: Spoofers, Spammers Other Bad Guys

2006-08-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
This might be a useful tool for doing this without blocking some of the good guys in that part of the world, like Oz and NZ. And as most of the spam is for products originating from the USA, you can also kill USA from your mail... Olivier ___

Re: local user authentification with ldap

2006-08-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
Jean, In case you read French, there are some introductory documents on http://articles.mongeurs.net/magazines/linuxmag65.html and following. There is also a very complete document from INT Evry (int-evry.fr), but I got it as file, I don't have the URL. I am working on the same thing rightnow,

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