Re: How to share directories b/n jails on 6.0?

2006-02-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:58PM -0600, Philip Hallstrom wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 07:02:43PM -0600, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi - I've got a new 6.0 box and have setup some jails. I'd like to share /usr/ports from the host, to each of the jails. I tried mount_unionfs and while

Re: How to share directories b/n jails on 6.0?

2006-02-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I've got a new 6.0 box and have setup some jails. I'd like to share /usr/ports from the host, to each of the jails. I tried mount_unionfs and while it worked, the box would crash if I did anything intensive (ie. compile a port). Googling around and people say they are using nullfs okay, but

Re: Freebsd kernel guide

2006-02-02 Thread Philip Hallstrom
hi all, Is anyone aware of a good book that teaches the internals of freebsd kernel? ie. books for understanding kernel internals, kernel module programming and kernel source (tree)guide. I'm sure there are more, but here's some...

Re: How to get latest and greatest FAMP

2006-01-31 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I wanted to do a quick test of Apache21, MySQL5 and PHP5 I tried a minimal install of FreeBSD 6.0 then pkg_add -r which worked fine up until PHP5 where I was told that Apache21 conflicted with Apache13 that was to be installed as aPHP5 dependancy. I pkg_delete and went ahead with installing PHP5

Re: freebsd hosting

2006-01-29 Thread Philip Hallstrom
www.LayeredTech.com is good for FreeBSD servers, they are flexable and offers any version of FreeBSD you need. They might. But by default they install 5.3. I just signed up with them and that's what they gave me... I upgraded to 6 though and so far have been happy with them.

Re: rm - Argument list too long

2006-01-27 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I am getting error Argument list too long. when deleting files from /tmp directory. server20# pwd /tmp server20# ls -l sess* /bin/ls: Argument list too long. server20# rm -f sess* /bin/rm: Argument list too long. server20#

Re: Apache not included

2006-01-25 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I'm a bit of a new user to BSD from Windows/Linux. But I recently went thru the 5.4 version installer and was pleased at how simple it was to install the Apache web server thru the sysinstall menus. After reinstalling with 6.0 I was surprised to find that apache wasn't an option from this

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Philip Hallstrom
The computer is currently without keyboard, mouse or monitor. I am adding applications to the computer via ssh while I work. As soon as I get openbox and tightvnc installed, I'll switch to tightvnc so I can disconnect without disrupting jobs. (Hmm, I wonder if I'll have to add a mouse or

Re: generating new passwords

2006-01-17 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Is there a command in FreeBSD 5.4 that will assign a specified user a new password without having to create one manually using passwd? Is there also a way to generate new passwords for multiple users at once? man pw ... -h fd This option provides a special interface by which

Re: Looking for SW Firewall

2006-01-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I am interested implementing a firewall in SW that has similar features as a Cisco PIX firewall. But, I don't want to roll my own ipfw statements. A nice gui would be nice. From the ports index I see things like: dante-1.1.15 A circuit-level firewall/proxy cp2fwb-0.6

How to boot from a slice other than a?

2006-01-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I've got a remote server and for one reason or another have it setup like this: Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a248M180M 48M79%/ /dev/da0s1h 14G496M 13G 4%/mnt /dev/da0s1h has an exact copy of /dev/da0s1a

Re: How to boot from a slice other than a?

2006-01-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a248M180M 48M79%/ /dev/da0s1h 14G496M 13G 4%/mnt /dev/da0s1h has an exact copy of /dev/da0s1a using dump/restore. I want to configure things so that the next time I reboot it will

Re: Remote backups, reading from and writing to the same file

2006-01-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
For a while I have been doing remote backups from my little server at home (which hosts some personal websites and also serves as my testing webserver) by tarring everything I wanted to be backed up and piping it to another machine on my network with nc(1), for example: On the recieving

Upgrading a remote box from 5.3 to 6-stable....

2006-01-11 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I recently got a leased server that's running 5.3. It's in Texas. I'm in Washington. I want to upgrade it to 6-STABLE. In the update docs it says that when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. Which obviously

Re: 6.0, lighttpd not starting up on boot

2005-11-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On 19 Nov 2005 08:39:19 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat Maddox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a 6.0 system with lighttpd installed. I have a lighttpd_enable=YES line in /etc/rc.conf, but lighttpd doesn't start up when the machine boots. I have another machine with the

Re: help with shell script

2005-10-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi. I am writing up a doc for the fbsd community that covers usage of ports. I have two commands that allow me to assertain the amount of disk space being utilized by currently installed ports. I would like to make a shell script (bourne or bash) out of them but I am not sure how. 1. This

Re: 3 questions

2005-10-11 Thread Philip Hallstrom
1.i want to know if exist in freebsd something to make flash banners (like macromedia flash in windows?)? it is free to put on website? 2. i want to use one application like macromedia fireworks to slice one image, and many others to make my web site design. But i want to use something free.

Re: DNS caching locally ...

2005-10-07 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I understand that it is possible to speed up surfing, especially using a wireless Internet connection, by using DNS caching locally. This has to do with enabling the named daemon or something, but I understand that there are some restrictions. Is there a simple recipe explaining how to do this?

How can I programatically eject a live cd?

2005-10-07 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I've built a live CDROM based off of the cdroot package and 4.x. It's designed to be popped into a machine, wipe the hard drive, install a custom image, and that's it. Everything works great with one exception. I would *love* to be able to have the CDROM automatically eject when

Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?

2005-10-05 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:55:18AM -0700, Joe S wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : the company where I work (with Windows) is evaluating a copy protection : product that stores info somewhere on the HDD where the user cannot touch : it, : a format will not erase it, and Norton Ghost will not

Re: pppd server help

2005-10-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I have only one modem, my doubt is how and where ppp or pppd are started? The Handbook make references to scripts to manage them, but who launch those scripts? I don't know if I make myself understand Thanks for your time... This is what I did... hopefully I'm not forgetting

POP server that supports virtual users/domains (other than dovecot)?

2005-09-28 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - Looking for recommendations for a POP server that supportts virtual users and domains and preferably hooks into PostgreSQL. dovecot does this and I'm looking at it now, but it's got a lot of IMAP stuff that I will never ever use (really I won't). Anyone have recommendations for

Re: Backup

2005-09-26 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Aguiar Magalhaes wrote: Hi list, can I make a copy using dd command from a HD scsi Maxtor 36 GB to a HD IDE Sansung 40 GB ? How can I do it ?? Is there an example ?? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK

Re: Restore System

2005-09-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I did a full backup of a server with tar using the following command: tar cpzf servername`date +%m%d%y`.tgz / I'm trying to restore it on another server with the following command: tar -xzpf /path to backup file The problem I'm running into is that the original system is has an IDE harddrive,

Re: how to convert lower case to uppercase in a word in a line ?

2005-09-16 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On 9/16/05, Jonathan Glaschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:51:16PM +0300, Yavuz Maslak wrote: Hello There is a word that consists lowercases. How to change all of letters capital letters in stead of lowercase ? is there any script about that ? Thanks

Re: FTP Permissions

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 STABLE and the latest Proftpd. I have a little problem I need help with. I want about 10 users to have access to the same directory/subdirectories on the FTP server and all must be able to upload, delete and retrive (full access) to the files in these directories.

Re: Doing a modulo in /bin/sh??

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I can grab the results of w=$date+%U); in C an use the modulo operator; is there a way to do this is /bin/sh? ot zsh? tia, guys, gary #/bin/sh w=$(date +%U) echo w is $w; (even=$(w % 2 )); ## flubs. echo even is $even; ## flubs. if [ $even -eq 0 ]

Re: VNC + SSH question..

2005-08-30 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hey guys had a SSH forward question so here goes... I have 2 computers on my lan one of them is a server and the other is my desktop. Desktop 192.168.1.104 Server 192.168.1.103 Now I have port forwarding setup on my crappy linksys router so 22 is pointing to my Server (192.168.1.103) My

Re: Pine alternative?

2005-08-25 Thread Philip Hallstrom
We have been using pine for years on our Sun Solaris box. We are in the process of moving to FreeBSD. I installed Pine from an updated ports collection and received a message about pine not being very secure. Is anyone using an alternative to pine that can also read pine's folders and

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-23 Thread Philip Hallstrom
2) If all you have to deal with are static files and a not-super-giant-filesystem, use rsync. rsync -avz --delete once a night will mirror your data between drives or between machines without any trouble. The only disadvantage is there is no file retention if you want to restore a corrupt /

Re: how to set backquote on PC keyboard telneting to FREEBSD

2005-08-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
i'm sure this is simple ... I am using a PC to telnet to a FreeBSD system. The backquote key does not work. I believe the STTY command is used to set the backquote key on FreeBSD. Can anyone tell me the STTY command syntax to do this?? I've always used... stty erase

Re: FreeBSD dialin server

2005-08-18 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I have freebsd 5.4 and i want to have dialin server. How can i configure my freebsd as dialin server. I set up a 4.x box to do this for three modems awhile back and while I didn't write down how I did it, here's the various config files which I hope will help. Seems I never learn to write it

Re: how to know the file system type [programming]

2005-08-17 Thread Philip Hallstrom
hi there I've been looking for a way to check the fs type I need to do something like this if NTFS do this if msdis do that if ufs2 do that if ext2 do this other stuff Parse /etc/fstab? I'm sure there are lots of other ways too... ___

Re: Determine processing holding open a 52+Gig file ...

2005-07-28 Thread Philip Hallstrom
'k, this is the second time its happened ... on a file system that is currently 35% full (52G free), all the disk space disappeared ... Is there a way of finding out what process is holding open this immense file? I'm pretty sure lsof can tell you... either just plain lsof or maybe with the

Re: First post

2005-07-22 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Dears, I'm newbie.I believe that BSD as server Linux as desktop. Now,I have a machine that i wanna install FreeBSD5.4,Slackware10.1,Debian Sarge windows on it. Of course,I installed slackware WinXP on it. Please explian me on multiboot process. Yours,Mohsen. Hi - Installing and Using

Re: OT: Helpdesk/Call tracking software

2005-07-20 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Never used it, but RT always seems to get good praise... http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/ On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Cezar Fistik wrote: Dear group, Sorry for OT, but I'm sure someone in this group can help me. I'm looking for an open source helpdesk/call tracking application for use in an ISP

Re: Using Multiple Internet Connections with FreeBSD

2005-07-13 Thread Philip Hallstrom
:35:23 2003 Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:34:48 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Simon Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two ISP's. Two IP. One default route... Resent-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:35:16 -0800 (PST) Resent-From: Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OT: Shell script

2005-07-11 Thread Philip Hallstrom
All, I am trying to write an SH script that i need some functionality. I want it to be able to get a filename without the extention on the end. for example. file.mp3 i would like it to return 'file'. Probably lots of ways. Use sed in a pipe... sed 's/\$//' -philip

Re: OT: Shell script

2005-07-11 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I am trying to write an SH script that i need some functionality. I want it to be able to get a filename without the extention on the end. for example. file.mp3 i would like it to return 'file'. basename(1); it's even POSIX, so it's pretty portable. But only if he knows the file extension

Re: recommended behaviour for example configuration files

2005-06-30 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Kindly advice what is recommended actions for the example configuration files after the port application install. From the point of package database the removing or moving those files will cause database inconsistency. From the point of administrator to have a lot of useless files in

Re: VNC multiplexer

2005-06-30 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On 6/26/05, Anthony Chavez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a client that would like to be able to connect to VNC servers behind a FreeBSD gateway. Said servers are assigned dynamic IPs via DHCP, so port mapping (via pf) is not an option (AFAIK). However, we intend to make use of dynamic DNS,

Re: Running Programs from CRON as root

2005-06-29 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Gerard Seibert wrote: I am not sure how to go about this. If I do not want to touch the system CRON, is it possible to create a personal CRON that could run two programs, both at the super user level Example: I want to update the ports tree and then run portmanager to

Re: df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why...

2005-06-15 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi All, df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why... After searching google freebsd.org I am no nearing to figuring this out, other than this is a known problem. Either I or the system managed to get the root partition back to under 100% but only just... I have looked for any large

Re: system cloning

2005-06-13 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I have a system that we are running in production that there was an oversight on, and it has a single hard drive installed (32GB SCSI I believe), rather than a 3 drive raid5 array. We would like to correct this, but we have all sorts of up-to-date packages and config files that we've tweaked

RE: Outsourcing a modem pool for dialup? Any advice?

2005-06-10 Thread Philip Hallstrom
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philip Hallstrom Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:38 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Outsourcing a modem pool for dialup? Any advice? Hi all - Our company has a product such that a small server

Re: system cloning

2005-06-10 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Here's my scenario: I have a system that we are running in production that there was an oversight on, and it has a single hard drive installed (32GB SCSI I believe), rather than a 3 drive raid5 array. We would like to correct this, but we have all sorts of up-to-date packages and config

Outsourcing a modem pool for dialup? Any advice?

2005-06-09 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - Our company has a product such that a small server is installed at each customer site. This server dials up to the Internet every night and exchanges some content with a central server in our data center. Total transaction takes about 5 minutes. Customers can have multiple sites.

Re: Network AV server

2005-06-08 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Could someone point me in the right direction to create a network server that scans networks systems for Virus and acts on the viruses accordingly. I have a FreeBSD system that I would like to turn into a virus scanner (among other things) but I don't know how or what scanners are available

Re: Running cronjobs

2005-06-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Check the value of $PATH when run manually and when run via cron. That's what always bites me... the PATH set by cron is usually pretty minimal... -philip On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, ESMTP Admin wrote: Always worked well when I dump a script into the /etc/periodic/daily folder and set permissions

Re: postgrey question

2005-06-01 Thread Philip Hallstrom
[description of postgrey snipped] The main advantage of this is that spammers and viruses have massive amount of email lists and just try to send it to as many people as possible. They are not going to wait and try to send the e-mail again, thus you effectively block many amount of spam and

Re: Rewinding tapes

2005-05-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I've written a small script that backs up data to a tape, rewinds it, then reads back the data that was stored as a test. The problem I've run into is that 'mt rewind' is asynchronous, and subsequent tape operations will fail until the rewind operation has finished. Is there a way to find out

Re: Scripting help

2005-05-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
install the 'mmv' port. From the description... This is mmv, a program to move/copy/append/link multiple files according to a set of wildcard patterns. The wildcard matches can be reused in forming the target names. You can i.e. move all *.c.or? files to or?.new.*.c by saying 'mmv *.c.or?

Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Nagios. http://www.nagios.org/ On Thu, 12 May 2005, Duane Winner wrote: Hello, This may not be FreeBSD specific, but since I'm running nearly a 100% FreeBSD shop, I figured this would be as good as place as any to ask a question. Also, it might just turn out that the solution for me might be

Re: System clean-up tool / technique?

2005-05-05 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hey. I am a very meticulous person. I try to keep my systems as clean as possible. I was wondering that others like me out there do to keep their systems clean for stale files and files with no reference to either the system, its ports and its users. The portupgrade port will install portsclean

Re: Raid Array Over 2Tb on Samba

2005-05-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On May 3, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Richard Collyer wrote: I plan on building a raid array of 8*400GB disks raid 5. Now as win2k cant support partitions over 2tb and I right in thinking that this is for the local machine only and that over samba (array in FreeBSD 5.4 machine [when it comes out]) it

Re: Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*)

2005-04-30 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Is there a way to determine exactly what a particular port will install on my machine? Doing a `make pretty-print-run-depends-list` will show me all of its requirements... but I am interested in the difference between its requirements and what I already have on my machine. If I have 7 out of

Re: Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*)

2005-04-30 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Philip Hallstrom wrote: Is there a way to determine exactly what a particular port will install on my machine? Doing a `make pretty-print-run-depends-list` will show me all of its requirements... but I am interested in the difference between its requirements and what I already have on my

Re: How to delete a not empty directory on FTP Server via ftp on freebsd 5.3

2005-04-29 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I signed up a account to have a ftp space to upload my web files. And it needs manangered by myself via ftp. But I have to said that I am a newbie on freebsd. when I type ftp at my shell, and successed long in ftp server. But I don't know how to delete directory via the command of ftp. I had

Re: resizing partitions

2005-04-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello, I've got a 5.3-RELEASE box which has a /usr partition /dev/ad0s1e that is to small by approximately 700 mb. I've got the space on /var /dev/ad0s1d to do a resize, but i am unsure as to the procedure. I tried this once a while back on a test

Re: Reusing a port after a crash

2005-04-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
From time to time, my torrent filesharing application will crash or need to be killed. The application is configured to listen on a specific port. If I try to restart the application after improper termination, I receive a fatal error message stating that the port is already in use. Before

Re: Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box

2005-04-20 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I have been using FreeBSD 5.3 now for a couple months on a P4 box at home and I have been backing up the box nightly by doing a simple .tgz of the /etc, /usr/home and /var directories to a FreeBSD backup server at home (the backup server is a PI box). I’m at the point now, because I’m using

Re: df question

2005-04-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi people I do df -h on my machine and got this RARE ouput %df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a7.7G2.2G4.9G31%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1d 65G9.5G 50G16%/usr/home %df Filesystem

Re: IRQ problems b/n USB and PCI modem... help! (SOLVED)

2005-04-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
modems just fine. Strange, but I'm glad it's working :) Thanks all! On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi all - I am in IRQ h*ll. I'm trying to setup an box to use as an inbound modem server... Here's what's happening... FreeBSD 4.9 Dell Dimension XPS T450 (ie. several year old dell

IRQ problems b/n USB and PCI modem... help!

2005-04-18 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I am in IRQ h*ll. I'm trying to setup an box to use as an inbound modem server... Here's what's happening... FreeBSD 4.9 Dell Dimension XPS T450 (ie. several year old dell). Default BIOS settings (switching the PnP OS has no effect). One NIC recognized as fxp0. One IDE drive, one

RE: IRQ problems b/n USB and PCI modem... help!

2005-04-18 Thread Philip Hallstrom
end initially and it didn't work because it conflicted... *sigh* Thanks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philip Hallstrom Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:24 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: IRQ problems b/n USB and PCI modem

Re: Hard drive fullness limits information help request

2005-04-11 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all I know hard drives tend to not run well when near full. They have trouble performing self adjustments (hardware), self defragging(unix/FFS) etc.. (as I can express it) However, I need to find some documentation or some help in explaining this better. I am working with some people who

Re: too many illegal connection attempts through ssh

2005-04-06 Thread Philip Hallstrom
shown below is snapshot of too many illegal attempts to login to my server from a suspicious hacker. this is taken from the /var/log/auth.log. my question is, how do i automatically block an IP address if it is attempting to guess my login usernames? can i configure the firewall to check the

Recommended search engine for web pages and maybe email?

2005-04-06 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - Recently I've found myself searching the freebsd ports web site quite frequently as well as some other online documentation (php, mysql, postgresql, freebsd faq/handbook) and it always bothers me because I know I can mirror that stuff and search it locally and in general cut down on

Re: how to be a freeBSD mirror

2005-04-05 Thread Philip Hallstrom
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/index.html On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: Hello, We're the stuff of the free software department at the university of Orléans (France) We'd like to be a mirror of freee BSD (all arches, all branches) What

Any experience with iPowerWeb.com's dedicated FreeBSD server package?

2004-02-07 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi - I was wondering if any of you have used iPowerWeb.com's dedicated server package that runs on FreeBSD? Seems like a good deal. For $50/mo you get full root access on your own box and can do whatever you want. http://www.ipowerweb.com/products/dedicatedserver/index.html If anyone

Installing PCI modem in machine with 4 serial ports (HELP!)

2004-01-05 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi - I've got a little computer that has four serial ports built-in to the motherboard. I want to add a PCI modem (USR 5610B) and am having a devil of a time. I know this modem works since I've used it (well, another one just like it) in another machine no problem. Here's the computer's

RE: Installing PCI modem in machine with 4 serial ports (HELP!)

2004-01-05 Thread Philip Hallstrom
you tell user ppp to use to connect with your PIC modem. If you are running 5.x version of FBSD then you do not have to makedev it auto in 5.x. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philip Hallstrom Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:03 PM

List of absolutely required files for FreeBSD?

2003-12-31 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi - I was wondering if there is a list of absolutely required files for FreeBSD? I'm trying to trim an installation down as small as possible (to put on Compact Flash). If I start out with just the 'bin' directory for the release there's around 100megs of files. Obviously a lot of them

Re: List of absolutely required files for FreeBSD?

2003-12-31 Thread Philip Hallstrom
256mb, but I'd like some extra room for some data files. If I could get it down to say 80mb then I could use a 128mb card... On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Sean Hafeez wrote: what size flash? i have 4.9 down to 220mb for a 256mb flash. Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi - I was wondering

FreeBSD Motherboard survey...

2003-11-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I'm wanting to build my own computer to run FreeBSD, but don't have the slightest idea (well, maybe the slightest :) what motherboard to buy. I'd like one that has built-in lan/audio that works in FreeBSD, but in my searching efforts I've turned up very little. I know the

Re: FreeBSD Motherboard survey...

2003-11-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Nov 21, 2003, at 9:53 AM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi all - So... I wrote a survey app that I'm hoping lots of you will fill out. It let's you pick the brand/model of motherboard, then indicate what onboard features work (lan, audio, video, usb, firewire, ide, sata, scsi, raid, smp

Anyone using a SOYO KT600 Dragon motherboard?

2003-11-06 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - Looking at building a new system and was wondering if anyone is using one of the SOYO KT600 Dragon motherboards (either the plus or ultra platinum)? http://www.soyo.com.tw/products/proddesc.php?id=257 http://www.soyo.com.tw/products/proddesc.php?id=256 I've searched, but haven't

ppp -auto dials immediately? (already tried the usual things)

2003-09-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi - I'm setting up ppp for the first time and it works with one exception. It always dials immediately. I've done the usual things and stopped all the processes, etc... What's weird is that logging seems to indicate that this is causing it: tun0: TCP/IP: OUT 0:

Re: ppp -auto dials immediately? (already tried the usual things)

2003-09-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:29:21PM -0700, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi - I'm setting up ppp for the first time and it works with one exception. It always dials immediately. I've done the usual things and stopped all the processes, etc... What's weird is that logging seems

List of popular DNS blacklists for spam?

2003-06-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I'm testing the use of some DNS blacklists to cut down on my spam and there are a lot of servers to choose from. I was wondering if there is a list of popular servers. I've seen comparison lists, but I'm hoping for more of a survey of sysadmins and what they use (if anything).

Re: /kernel: file: table is full

2003-03-25 Thread Philip Hallstrom
play around with and read up on... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% pstat -T 226/14000 files 0M/1023M swap space [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% more /etc/sysctl.conf kern.maxfiles=14000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% -philip On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Worth Bishop wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.2, Apache Webserver, and send ~20k

Re: Help with scripts?

2003-03-20 Thread Philip Hallstrom
It completely depends on what shell you are using. Under tcsh you would add something like the following to your ~/.tcshrc and then relogin. alias 'on' 'mount /cdrom' it's something similar under bash, but I don't use bash so don't know. On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Earl Larsen wrote: What I would

Re: make

2003-03-18 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Greetings, I have a silly question.. what is the difference between the following commands: cd /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw make make install runs cd ... if previous command succeeded runs make if previous command succeeded runs make install cd /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw ; make ; make install

Re: good compact flash/smart card readers?

2003-03-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:30:46AM +1100, JacobRhoden wrote: Im about to buy a usb cf card reader (i want to be able to write to cf cards) does anyone here have one they would reccomend which works well in FreeBSD? Search the lists for SDDR. It's at home, but I think I have the

DHCP Server learning name servers since server itself is dhcp'd??

2003-03-07 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I'm setting up a server/gateway on a cable modem whose external interface has to use DHCP. There will be several clients on the internal network and the gateway will be running isc-dhcp. I know I can setup a nameserver on the gateway and configure DHCP to send it's own IP as the

Re: saving port settings (Was: stupid question)

2003-02-25 Thread Philip Hallstrom
# e.g.: # MAKE_ARGS = { # 'databases/mysql323-*' = 'WITH_CHARSET=ujis', # } That looks like exactly what you're looking for. Sorry, I didn't see it... Well, this is great ;-) It only work for portupgrade though, right ? There's no other place to save those args...

Re: samba in a jail

2003-02-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Is there anything in the samba log files that might help? Turn the logging way up one day and see what happens just before it crashes... -philip On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, taxman wrote: Anyone successfully running samba inside of a jail on 4.7R? I'm trying te get it to work for a friend of mine.

Re: SquirrelMail port problems

2003-02-13 Thread Philip Hallstrom
If you are having the...You must be logged on to view this page error, you might try turning globals = on in php.ini but otherwise what error do you get when you try to logon? Problem was the imap-uw from ports didn't allow plain text logins no matter what I tried. I built it from

Portable MP3 player integration with FreeBSD?

2003-02-13 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I'd like to get my wife a portable mp3 player, but it seems like they all require Windows and special software... and I'd rather not have a windows box just so she can copy mp3s... I noticed the urio driver, but it's only for a couple of players (not the SONICblue Rio S35S which

Re: Does spamd use Razor?

2003-02-06 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Spamd might not be running as root so it may not have write access to /var/log/razor-agent.log. Indeed, I have spamd running as the special, unprivileged user spamd. But you were right: spamd did not have access to /var/log/razor-agent.log. I could have sworn that I had done a chown

Re: building a VPN with FreeBSD 4.7p3

2003-02-04 Thread Philip Hallstrom
http://stuff.adhesivemedia.com/freebsd/vtund.php is what I use... also check onlamp.com for one of dru's articles about ipsec. On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: Hi everybody, Does anyone know where i can find some good documentation on building a VPN between 2 systems running

Re: FBSD firewall in front of windows IIS servers HOW

2003-02-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
You could do natd it or use a bridged firewall so to everyone else it would appear that the Windows box is on the net. The other nice thing about the bridge is that you can set it up so that it doesn't have an IP address at all... which makes it pretty hard to break into :) Sometimes that can

Re: Samba and XP?

2003-01-31 Thread Philip Hallstrom
If you don't want to install samba, find a windows ftp client that is easy to use... seems I've seen some that pretend to be hard drives on your desktop... can't remember the name, but the friend that had it seemed to like it. -philip On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Wilson wrote: Good Day, I am

Re: Make Apache case incensitive

2003-01-30 Thread Philip Hallstrom
you might try the mod_speling module... On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Jonas Fornander wrote: Is it possible to make apache case-insensitive so an image called myimage.JPG will be found even if the link is MyImage.jpg? Jonas Fornander - System Administrator Netwood Communications, LLC -

Need helping lengthening timeouts for sendmail...

2003-01-29 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - Two weeks ago nwlink.com upgraded it's mail servers. Ever since that time I can not email anyone whose email is handled by those servers. What's even more frustrating is that my home server, same setup, same DSL (through nwlink.com even), but on a different subnet cause it's in a

Re: Need helping lengthening timeouts for sendmail...

2003-01-29 Thread Philip Hallstrom
by till they fix it. What would be really cool is if I could add: mx:mx1.pacifier.net smtp:[smtp.nwlink.com] and have it redirect all mail that would have gone to mx1.pacifier.net to smtp.nwlink.com :-) -philip On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi all - Two weeks ago

Re: Deleted files not releasing their space (was Re: syslog messagewrt inodes)

2003-01-28 Thread Philip Hallstrom
(skip down) On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Bill Moran wrote: David Bear wrote: I'm getting messages like below that I'm out of inodes on /var. asu.edu kernel log messages: id 25 on /var: out of inodes syslogd: /var/log/auth.log: No such file or directory syslogd: /var/log/maillog: No such

Re: chown and chmod using crontab?

2003-01-27 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Try using the full paths... /bin/chmod and /usr/sbin/chown On 27 Jan 2003, Jon Reynolds wrote: I have a directory that 2 different groups have access to. When one group writes to the folder it retains the permissions of that group. I need the permissions to change to the permissions of the

Re: ZIP Drive

2003-01-17 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Read... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/x86.html On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Schrodinger wrote: I'm looking for help with mounting a zip drive under FreeBSD. I have Googled around on this but haven't found anyone with the same problem or even better a solution. I

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:09:11PM -0600, Dave Uhring said: You do realize, I hope, that Linux and Solaris roll over their uptimes at something like 492 days. from http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#whichos -- Additionally HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD

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