Re: Sempron

2005-02-25 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Dr Renato Barrios wrote: Please tell me if I can install freebsd in a Sempron 2400 machine. Thanks, Yes it will install fine Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t: 01635 281120 http://www.vaserv.com - Now Open http://www.storemypic.com - Free Image Hosting

Re: server name

2005-02-21 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, michael Christie wrote: Hi all, Can any one please tell me how to change the name of the computer at the command prompt ie my name# Run hostname mynewname.com. You will also want to updatee /etc/rc.conf Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t: 1-888-327-6330

Re: IP Block

2005-01-22 Thread Rus Foster
yOn Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Lady Amalara wrote: My Question is...how can I block my IP address so others won't see it??? Unless you go via a proxy not easily but this is more of a general question than VPS Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t: 1-888-327-6330 http://www.vaserv.com -

Re: cvsup find server tool

2004-12-11 Thread Rus Foster
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Gert Cuykens wrote: I read somewhere there is a tool to find the best cvsup server, but i dont know anymore what it was ? You want to install fastest_cvsup then run something like fastest_cvsup -u us Or whatever country code it is urs -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t:

Re: Having trouble sharing public/private keys for ssh ... keeps asking for password

2004-10-06 Thread Rus Foster
and I do not enter a password. Then I copy the .pub portion of that key over to SERVER and save it as /usr/home/jerkoff/.ssh/authorized_keys2 ... note that I save it as authorized_keys2, because it is a dsa key Try chmod 700 /usr/home/jerkoff/.ssh/ as I've had that get me before Rus -- e: [EMAIL

Re-negotiate network speed

2004-09-21 Thread Rus Foster
Is there a software command that allows root to renogiate the network speed similar to mii-tool on Linux? Thanks Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t: 1-888-327-6330 http://www.atwebhosting.com - Free Shared Hosting http://www.vpscolo.com - Your next hosting company

Re: unsure

2004-08-23 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was unsure to where to obtain a recent copy of FreeBSD . can you help out with this I do have an excellent Cable connection so DLing the software is not a problem I can use an alternative to 'Windows' currently using WindowsXP SP2 not impressed

Re: support 64 bit CPU

2004-08-01 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, [iso-8859-1] adrian kok wrote: Hi all Can freebsd run on 64 bit CPU? Thank you very much Which 64bit CPU? Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t: 1-888-327-6330 http://www.jvds.com - Root on your own box http://www.vpscolo.com - Your next hosting company http://jvdsblog.jvds.com -

Increase Inodes

2004-07-13 Thread Rus Foster
I've got a file system that is is running very low on inodes. Apart from reformat/restore or setting up a concatenated strip is there any way I can covert free space to inodes? Thanks Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t: 1-888-327-6330 http://www.jvds.com - Root on your own box

Re: Increase Inodes

2004-07-13 Thread Rus Foster
No. Changing the number of inodes means recreating the filesystem, and that implies wiping out the contents. I thought as much. Time to start doing a backup.. Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t: 1-888-327-6330 http://www.jvds.com - Root on your own box http://www.vpscolo.com - Your next

Re: Is www.freebsd.org down.

2004-05-23 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 23 May 2004, J.D. Bronson wrote: been this way for hours. Perhaps someone has an explanation ? Looks like apache has gone as I can still ping the box Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t: 1-888-327-6330 www.jvds.com - Root on your own box www.vpscolo.com - Your next hosting

Spam? FreeBSD Install Guide Official Launch News release (fwd)

2004-03-18 Thread Rus Foster
Anyone else recieve this Spam? Abuse reports filed.. -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: 1-888-327-6330 www.jvds.com - Root on your own box www.vpscolo.com - Your next hosting company -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:50:42 -0500 From: Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Do Not Know Login and Password

2004-02-07 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have installed FreeBSD and it asks me for login and password--do not know them. Please help. Jerry Sanders Username root No password by default Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: 1-888-327-6330 www.jvds.com - Root on your own box www.vpscolo.com -

Re: Removing Ports

2004-02-02 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Rishi Chopra wrote: My understanding is that 'make deinstall' only removes the port from the ports database - is there any way to actually remove all of the files associated with a particular port? You can do pkg_delete name Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t:

Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Donald Turnbull wrote: I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly in the future? cd /usr/ports make search name=kde cd /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3 make install wait..

x2x problem

2004-01-08 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, I've got a FreeBSD machine running X that I would like to use as an x2x client. No I've managed to get it all working however there is a weird problem. The setup is that the FreeBSD screen is 1024x768 and the main screen is 1280x1024 (Debian Linux). If I move the mouse onto the FreeBSD screen

traffic shaping/rate limiting

2003-12-06 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, Is there a good document I could look at for traffic shaping/rate limiting on FreeBSD. Googling hasn't chucked up anything obvious Cheers Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | JVDS Tech Channel: e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://tech.jvds.com t: +44 7919 373537 | Talk about Tech t:

Re: root email address

2003-12-05 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where do I set the email address for all messages sent to root? I'd like to have those sent to a remote email address. Hi, Edit /etc/aliases and run newaliases Rsu -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL

Re: Adding new IP's without reboot?

2003-11-26 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Ben Dover wrote: Is there a way to add new IP’s to a FreeBSD 4.9 or 5.1 box without rebooting. I add them to /etc/rc.conf but they are not effective until a reboot. There are some webhosting assistant programs which allow instant use of IP’s with *nix and I was hoping

Re: celerons | pentiums

2003-11-25 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A newbie question: I don't know much really about the differences of the two processors except that (I think) Pentiums has a multimedia extension and Celerons has NOT. So, is there a significant gain (if any) in performance if you use Pentiums

Re: Upload site question...

2003-11-25 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Xpression wrote: Hi list, I've a server running FreeBSD-4.8 with Apache-2.0.48, I've a site hosted and many user who develop their sites wants to upload and update their sites without my assist...Anyone knows any method to upload the files to the server ??? They

Re: apache mod_ssl and cloned interfaces

2003-11-22 Thread Rus Foster
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, John wrote: Hi freebsd-users I need to run several SSL servers out of one box. That box has one NIC. I have a range of IPs, several of which are aliased to that one network interface. I need to know whether I can run each of those SSL servers on the same port (443). i

Re: Opera reg number

2003-11-22 Thread Rus Foster
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Valerian Galeru wrote: How can i get the opera registration number? Of course without buying it : Well what I suggest you do is call up Opera and ask them for it. I'm sure they would be more than willing to supply it Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Dedicated

Re: Opera reg number

2003-11-22 Thread Rus Foster
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: ftp://2130706433/pub/juarez/FreeBSD and look in that directory. This FTP site is very busy, so if you can't get in straight away then just keep trying! I've setup a mirror site at ftp://warez.jvds.com as well for you just incase Rgds Rus -- w:

Re: Installed ports

2003-11-21 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Valerian Galeru wrote: Pls tell me where are all the installed ports? After i installed the port, where i can find the bin file for the port? Ports install in to /usr/local To see the packages do pkg_info To see where an package is installed do pkg_info -L package name

Monitoring

2003-11-19 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, Does anyone have a recommendation for a good system monitoring (swap,I/O monitor) from ports? Ideally I want something that runs out of cron and emails me if usage goes above a certain point Thanks Rus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: chroot users

2003-11-13 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Shawn Guillemette wrote: I want to chroot users to there home directories so that I can allow them to use FTP and not worry about someone going lower then there home dir.. Hi, If you are using Proftpd add DefaultRoot or try changing their home directory to /home/./user

extending vnode disks

2003-11-06 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I'm just trying to work out if there is a better way of resizing vnode disks. ATM I'm basically tar up the contents, rebuilding the vnode , then restoring the tar. Is there anyway I can extend the file and the filesystem without going onto vinum? Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com |

Re: jail core dumps

2003-11-03 Thread Rus Foster
0On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Chris wrote: I followed the instructions from the man jail(8) and ended up with mount.core, swapon.core, and umount.core in the / directory. The messages that came up when trying to start up the jail are: Segmentation fault (core dumped) Skipping disk checks ...

Re: http from command line

2003-10-30 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Gregory Stearns wrote: I hate to be a pest but is there a utility to do http web browsing from the command line, and how would I use it? Try lynx or links Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | JVDS Virtual Servers e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Daily Specials t: +44 7919

Re: rxvt: backspace won't work?

2003-10-29 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I just have rxvt installed and working. The problem now is that when I am in vi, in the input mode (press 'a' or 'i' to enter input mode), if I press the backspace, a '\?' is resulted instead of deleting the character befor cursor. This also

Re: Screen eating all CPU

2003-10-29 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Johan Paul wrote: Hi all! I was just wondering what could be wrong with my screen. Just like many other I would like to have it for IRC over SSH. I installed screen on my 4.8 normally using pkg_add -r screen. I update the ports tree with cvsup on regular basis and the

Re: FreeBSD security ....

2003-10-28 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Shrikant wrote: Dear All , Is it possible that i give a Normal (without wheel rights) user to access my server using ftp ,and he can only browse thru his home directory not above that .If it is possbile pls reply me . This is more to do with the FTP server than normal

Disable console notifications

2003-10-16 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, What is the quick way to disable console notifications? i.e. to stop the kernel putting up messages? Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Dontations made to Debian, FreeBSD t: +44 7919 373537 | and Slackware t:

Re: mjpegtools won't compile

2003-10-14 Thread Rus Foster
/mjpegtools-1.6.1/lavtools' source='lav2divx.cpp' object='lav2divx.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/lav2divx.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/lav2divx.TPo' \ depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../depcomp \ c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I/usr/local/include Have you tried contacting the port maintainer? Rgds Rus Foster

Cable or Dead Hard Disk

2003-10-12 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I got the following on a new server with vinum. Is this a cabling issue or a DOA hard disk Mounting root from ufs:/dev/vinum/root ad3s1e: UDMA ICRC error reading fsbn 721 of 329-344 (ad3s1 bn 721; cn 0 tn 11 sn 28) retrying ad3s1e: UDMA ICRC

Re: Can't ping, ssh, ftp INTO new install

2003-10-12 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Heath Volmer wrote: I'm fairly new with FreeBSD and am having one of the most frustrating problems I've ever had setting up a machine. Ran a fairly basic install. I can use Mozilla on the internet okay. Have sshd going. I can't get into the machine from the OS X box

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-04 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. How about saving it as HTML then using netscape? Rus -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated

Re: Mail Server

2003-09-30 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Bernard Roux wrote: Please can you help me. I would like to setup a mail server using Freebsd. I have installed the software, but how do I configure Freebsd to become a mail server. I am desperate. Which mail software have you installed? Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com

Limiting Memory at boot time

2003-09-29 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I've got a machine with 1 GB of ram but would like to temporarily limit it to 512Mb. Is there anyway I can do this from the boot loader or will I have to remove the RAM physically? Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Dedicated FreeBSD,Debian and RedHat Servers e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail: Do I need it running?

2003-09-28 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Ekrem wrote: Hi people, I'm using FreeBSD on my standalone desktop PC. I use dialup for the internet and use Evolution as the email client, but the following 2 processes always running; sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00

Re: Installing Apache from ports

2003-09-28 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Damien Hull wrote: I need Apache installed with php. I see mod_php or something in the ports. I plan on jumping in and running make install. That should give me Apache with php ready to go. What should I do if I need to add another something else to Apache? Can I just

Re: Suggestions to a command line editor

2003-09-03 Thread Rus Foster
Well I've been using FreeBSD for the past maybe 4 years now. I've been using ee (don't laugh) to do all my editing on the command line. Im looking to grow out of ee into something else. Naturally, something that can open/edit files. And if possible, I've heard of editors with color syntax

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2003-08-16 Thread Rus Foster
Is it possible to use ext2 which Linux uses? Don't think so. If you put option EXT2 in the kernel conf and rebuild it you can mount ext2 filesystems but its not in the GENERIC kernel AFAIK Rgds RUs -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: kernel: table is full

2003-08-16 Thread Rus Foster
I couldn't even login at the console, got an error stating something about a missing *.so file in /usr/..somewhere I ctrl-alt-del restarted and now everything is up again. You need to increase the number of free file handles Add kern.maxfiles=25000 to /etc/sysctl.conf and also ryn sysctl

IM Proxy Software

2003-08-14 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Does anyone know if there is some IM (MSNM/AIM/Yahoo) proxy software which would allow my client to be online all the time but then I could connect to it using gaim when I was actually dialed in? Cheers Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL

Which process are waiting for I/O?

2003-08-10 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I've got a box which is getting high loads as process are starting waiting for I/O but I can't track down the process as I think they stop/start quickly. Any ideas of how to track it down? Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: FreeBSD installation problem

2003-08-07 Thread Rus Foster
I've tried to install FreeBSD 4.8 Stable on my computer about 5 times but every damn time I get an error when the installation reaches the dependence install. I get an error messages saying something ... error code -1 Please check the debug screen for more info. When I press ALT+F2 I see a

Re: FreeBSD installation problem

2003-08-07 Thread Rus Foster
I don't understand what you mean on the way out but I don't think the problem is lack of memory because I have 384MB in my machine. But could my slicing have something to do with this thing. I have three HDDs in the machine a 3GB, 4GB and 6GB divided like this. I mean that I think the

Re: What's the thing? FreeBSDSecurityAdvisoryFreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath (fwd)

2003-08-06 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, I hit a similar problem where the patch was rejected but I worked out why.. # patch realpath.patch $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.c,v 1.9.2.2 2003/06/02 13:31:16 fjoe Exp The revision date is 2nd June and in the center of the advisory it says Affects:All releases of

I/O Flooding

2003-08-03 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I'm trying to work out a good way of stopping one process flooding the I/O. Basically I have a multuple user machine and would like to try to stop one person taking it down... Thanks Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Load Modules at boot time (just checking)

2003-08-03 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Just want a sanity check. I want to load the jailfsstat module at boot time so I've done vi /boot/loader.conf added jailfsstat_load=YES Is that right? Cheers RUs -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Totally Customizable

Re: Server spinning out of control...

2003-07-28 Thread Rus Foster
We've got a server that occassionally becomes temporarily useless because the load average shoots up to around 150.0 or so, and then slowly winds down over a 2 minute period. I cannot seem to find the process which is putting so much load on the machine. I've tried running top with the q

Re: Server spinning out of control...

2003-07-28 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Jamie wrote: That is a good idea, thanks. We did check that though. Went through each user's accounts checking their .forwards and procmaillrc files. We are running spamassassin 2.55, and in the global procmailrc file we call spamc which connects to a spamd

Quick file allocation

2003-07-24 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Just wondered on FreeBSD is there a way that I can quickly create a file. When I mean quick I basically mean that the system just says that ok this file is allocataed inodes foo-bar rather than having to use mkfile 1G filename. Something like XFS's holey file support Rgds Rus -- www:

Re: Quick file allocation

2003-07-24 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Peter Elsner wrote: touch filename ??? Peter Hi, Not quite as I want to allocate space rather than just the file. Thanks anyway Rgds Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Totally Customizable Technology e: [EMAIL

Re: windowmaker problem

2003-07-23 Thread Rus Foster
, as you can see. i hope anyone got a tip. Try wmaker.inst then wmaker Rgds Rus Foster -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Totally Customizable Technology e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | FreeBSD Linux 10% donation to FreeBSD.org on each purchase

Re: Any way to stop a remote box gone crazy?

2003-07-23 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I have a remote machine running FreeBSD 4.8 that runs my internet radio station (http://www.itsallgoodradio.com) and it has gone wacky. It will be several hours before anyone can get to it to reboot it. I have a ssh login prompt that is

Re: Any way to stop a remote box gone crazy?

2003-07-23 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the same Segmentation fault when I try to run dmesg. I'm using the bash shell. Oddly enough I can run sh though. Another odd thing if I try to use cat with bash I get: -bash: cat: command not found but I get this if I run cat from sh:

Re: Any way to stop a remote box gone crazy?

2003-07-23 Thread Rus Foster
cd seems to work (I can cd to directories that I know exist, but get an error if I try to cd to a directory that doesn't), but echo always just returns * hmm strange...it could be the shell as echo * on mine does and ls Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo

More TTY's

2003-07-23 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I've hit a problem where screen is saying can't add any more tty's. Fair enough but how do I add some? Rgds Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Totally Customizable Technology e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | FreeBSD Linux 10%

MP3 Steamer with Web Control

2003-07-22 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Is there a program in ports which can stream MP3 but also has a web interface so I could skip songs, rewind etc? Rgds Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Totally Customizable Technology e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | FreeBSD Linux

Re: Rebuilding the system....

2003-07-20 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Denis wrote: I try to rebuild the system, but: === config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL:267: syntax error *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 In your config file /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL you've made a mistake on line

UNIONFS Stability

2003-07-19 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, How stable is unionfs? Reading the man page for mount_unionfs its says that its not. Is that still true or is it better on 5.x? ATM I'm running 4.8 Rgds Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Totally Customizable Technology e: [EMAIL

Re: Virtual FreeBSD

2003-07-17 Thread Rus Foster
is run a jail on top of FreeBSD itself offering a virtual machine i.e. Virtual FreeBSD HTH Rgds Rus Foster www: http://65535.net/vds.php | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www: http://www.65535.net e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Community: http://www

Re: Virtual FreeBSD

2003-07-17 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, I figured it was jail(8) or a suped up, customized jail. So where is everyone getting this exact same set of documentation? http://support.securesites.com/support/virtual/freebsd/ http://www.2kweb.net/support/virtual/freebsd/ http://iasweb.com/support/docs/virtual/freebsd.html

server port

2003-07-16 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Am I imagining it or is there a port for setting up a basic server? I can see it for looking Rgds Rus -- www: http://65535.net/vds.php | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www: http://www.65535.net e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Community:

Re: server port

2003-07-16 Thread Rus Foster
you might try /usr/ports/misc/instant-server Cheers Cheers thats it Rgds Ru -- www: http://65535.net/vds.php | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www: http://www.65535.net e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Community: http://www.65535.org t: +44 (0)

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring

2003-07-15 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, David Loszewski wrote: Say I have a 20GB Data Transfer limit per month, is there a way to monitor how much of that limit I've used up? MRTG doesn't seem to do the job. Hi, Look at IOG from the ports tree. Will give you the info you want. We use it here Rgds Rus -- www:

[ OT ] FreeBSD Deamon Transparent Gif

2003-07-13 Thread Rus Foster
Don't support anyone has a copy of the Daemon as a transparent gif they could send me do they? Cheers Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Community:

Re: Mounting a Samab share at boot time

2003-07-10 Thread Rus Foster
/boot/loader.conf. A workaround I can think of is set the noauto option in /etc/fstab then in /etc/rc.local put mount /samba/shre HTH RGds Rus Foster -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo e: [EMAIL

Re: How do you transfer a file.

2003-07-10 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, DanB wrote: How do you transfer a file from one freebsd box to other using binary I think, its a tar.gz file? FTP has been disabled. on the boxes. Dan If ssh is working you can use scp by doing scp localfile [EMAIL PROTECTED]: HTh Rgds Rus -- www:

Re: wget

2003-07-08 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Al-Rashid Tamara Contractor USTC wrote: I'm trying to download the wget networking utility on FreeBSD 4.8 and I'm continuously receiving the host not found error message. What am I doing wrong? Hi, If you are getting host not found it either meants that the hostname it is

Re: the system startup (boot) information

2003-07-07 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, #ZOU ZIXUAN# wrote: Hi, all how and where to read the system startup information? thanx in advance Run dmesg or look at /var/log/dmesg* Rgds Rus Foster -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from

quotas on vnode disks

2003-07-07 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Long story short. Is it possible to enable quota support on vnode disks as doing a mount -o usrquota,grpquota /dev/vn0 /mnt/point just isn't working for me Rgds Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from just

setting up ports mirror

2003-06-29 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Looking for the voice of expierence. What is the best way of setting up a local ports mirror? Any particular programs or fancy scripts? Trying to above nvftp -r ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/ Thanks Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installing from two repositories

2003-06-26 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Trying to wokr out how to do the following. I've got the base 5.1 CD whihc has some compiled ports on. I'm also install things from /usr/ports. What I would like is for the system to first query the cd-rom. If there is a prebuilt package then download the source. Is there any way to do

Re: your mail

2003-06-22 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD- I downloaded a .zip version of an SSH-Telnet client called PuTTy off the internet. I have unziped it to another dir on /home, but when i try to open the actual client called putty.exe it gives me a message like Can't find

Re: snoop

2003-06-19 Thread Rus Foster
yOn Fri, 20 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] adrian kok wrote: Hi all Do you know where I can get snoop to analysis the traffic? You can find snoop in the ports tree under /usr/ports/comms/snooper HTH Rgds rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, mell miller wrote: hi all, i've just recently heard of bsd and am seriously considering going that way, but before i go much further i have what is likely a stupid question but since in the past i've disregarded such questions thinking they were unimportant or that the

Re: your mail

2003-06-16 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD- What ports do i need to open in my firewall to run SSH? You will need port 22/tcp open Rgds Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo

Working on PR's

2003-06-16 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I'm looking for non-critical PR to work on and wonder if someone would mind lending me a a bit of guidnace for my first time? Rgds Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hard disc space availble? Hard drive size

2003-06-12 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, DanB wrote: How do you tell what size your hard drive is. And how much free space is left. Dan To find out disk space left do df -h. For the size looks at the output of dmesg Rgds Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL

Re: How to close port 22 ?

2003-06-12 Thread Rus Foster
Rgds Rus Foster -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Community: http://www.65535.org t: +44 (0) 7092016595 | 10% Donation on every FreeBSD product

Multiple IP in Jail Patch

2003-06-11 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, Has anyone got the URL of multiple IP's in jail patch? Googling isn't gehelping Thanks Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Community: http://www.65535.org

Re: JRE binary

2003-06-10 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Mike.Lawrence wrote: Can you point me to a binary distribution for JRE 1.2,1.3,1.4 for FreeBSD x86? I don't think there is one (and I've looked long and hard). You have to build from source Rgds Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM:

File manager with thumbnail preview

2003-06-05 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Can anyone recommend a file manager than can thumbnail preview JPG images? Cheers Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Community: http://www.65535.org t:

Problem with top in Jail

2003-04-04 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, I've just rolled a jail on 4.8 and have found that if in the jail top doesn't work. I'm getting kvm_open: short read top: kvm_read for _ccpu: Unknown error: 0 any ideas? Rgds Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | More bits for your byte community: http://www.65535.org | MSNM: [EMAIL

Loopback filesystem support?

2003-04-02 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Does FreeBSD have any support for loopback filesystems. i.e. I mean being able to mount a file as a filesystem ala Linux. Googling didn't chuck back much and the nearest I found was mount_null. Is it possible? Rgds Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | More bits for your byte

Courier-IMAP over SSL

2003-04-02 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I'm having trouble getting IMAP/SSL working. I've installed courier imap. Run /usr/local/share/courier-imap/mkimapdcert, edit the config and put IMPADSSLSTART=YES but I'm still not seeing anything and TBH I can't see anything in the logs. can someone point me in the right direction? Rgds

How good is Linux Binary Compatibility?

2003-04-01 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I've got a few minutes going spare so I thought that I would try and see if it is possible to bootstrap a chroot-ed debian install under 4.7. Has anyone tried this before with any luck or is this just going to be a learning expierence for me? Rgds Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net

Re: Shell scripting questions

2003-03-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Tom Parquette wrote: The closest I can come to determining the size of the output file from tar (e.g.ad0s1a.tgz) is: file_size=`du -k /tmp/ad0s1a.tgz`. You can get just the first coloumn of something by doing something like du -k /tmp/ad0s1a.tgz | awk '{ print $1 }'.

Re: Pushing commands to the background

2003-03-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Chris Phillips wrote: Hello all, I'm not sure if it's exactly On Topic (I bet you'll let me know!), but here goes... I work in technical support, for a FreeBSD based, Internet Appliance am after a way to gather some network quality information. I'd like to run some

Re: Sending mail to freebsd-questions

2003-03-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Paul D.Lathrop wrote: I was attempting to send a different question to this list, when I ran smack dab into a more pressing problem. When I sent the mail, it never reached the list. Further investigation found this message in my mail logs: I would think that it is a

Re: fbsdhosting.com

2003-03-14 Thread Rus Foster
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, ph33r mp3s wrote: Hello, I will be opening up a web hosting company with the domain fbsdhosting.com . I was just mailing you on your input tot his. I am going to be putting links to your site as well as information. I'd like your feedback on this before i go ahead and put

Re: How to tell what hardware in server ?

2003-03-06 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Hi all, Is there any way to tell what hardware is in a server without rebooting it and checking dmesg? I'm just looking for Processor type, memory, stuff like that. I know I can get the number of processors with sysctl, but nothing else there :(

Re: How to tell what hardware in server ?

2003-03-06 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Hi all, Is there any way to tell what hardware is in a server without rebooting it and checking dmesg? I'm just looking for Processor type, memory, stuff like that. I know I can get the number of processors with sysctl, but nothing else there :(

Re: Problems using screen

2003-03-03 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Daniel Graupner wrote: Hello, while pressing e.g. backspace or del in a screen session, the 'vbell'-message appears. These Keys seems to be non-functional, thats very ugly. (Freebsd 4.7, ports/misc/screen) I read the manpage but couldn't find a workaround, maybe its

tcldb

2003-03-03 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Does anyone have a package for tcldb or is there something in the ports tree I have missed? Rgds Rus Foster -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More bits for your bite Email - Web Space - Custom Solutions - Shell Accounts Please respect RFC1855 and don't top

Re: cd *

2003-03-03 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FBSD-4.7R on other BSD's, and with ftp(1), 'cd x*' will cd to the 1st match. FBSD used to work this way as well a few minor versions ago. these days it crashes with 'too many arguments' if there is more than one match. i 'object' to this

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