Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:36, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:21:42 Kurt Buff wrote: All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/5/27 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds the previous uptime of the system (since last shutdown) to the actual uptime. I know this

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Not really a biggie, I've got another test box right behind it ;) ww9# uptime 9:09AM up 501 days, 22:20, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Due to network restructuring, the test hardware

Re: something broke last night. www.freebsd.org offline?

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Michael Scheidell wrote: none of my freebsd systems can surf to www.freebsd.org anymore. host www.freebsd.org www.freebsd.org has address 69.147.83.33 www.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:fff6::21 www.freebsd.org mail is handled by 0 . mx1.slpowers.com.ionspam.net# host -t a

Re: something broke last night. www.freebsd.org offline?

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Michael Scheidell wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Michael Scheidell wrote: none of my freebsd systems can surf to www.freebsd.org anymore. ah. I see problem.. you didn't look up the host I documented. freebsd.org is different then www.freebsd.org D'oh! In that case

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:23, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: with name patch-something look at existing as an example That didn't seem to work. what exactly doesn't? could you please post error messages? There were no error messages. Then,

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent off-list. Ok, got it. I'm pretty much taking an easy day today to recover my broken

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent off-list. Kurt, can you please provide: # uname -a - the default tag you use in your

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:02, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent off

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Howard Jones wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: you are right. you can't be happy of warm house without getting really cold some time :) that's why it's excellent that ZFS (and few other things) is included in FreeBSD but it's COMPLETELY optional. Well, I switched from the heater that doesn't

Another uptime story

2009-05-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
...unfortunately, due to re-racking and upgrade requirements, I have to pull the plug. There is nothing hidden or obfuscated in my output, and I am not ashamed of that. Just a little bit of sadness of having to 'down' it, given this uptime in my relatively hostile environment. *sigh* I know this

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 26 May 2009 23:14:10 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: ...unfortunately, due to re-racking and upgrade requirements, I have to pull the plug. There is nothing hidden or obfuscated in my output, and I am not ashamed of that. Maybe there's a way

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: [..snip..] Just a little bit of sadness of having to 'down' it, [..snip..] radius# uptime 1:19AM up 553 days, 15:56, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 :( radius# halt smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Do not copy kernel to kernel.old

2009-05-22 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, Many of my routers boot/run from a USB thumb stick. To upgrade these routers, I dd the device onto another one, pop the backup into a build machine, and do the normal build*/install* with a DESTDIR parameter. If the upgraded device does not boot (due to kernel problems), I just wipe it

Re: Do not copy kernel to kernel.old

2009-05-22 Thread Steve Bertrand
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca writes: Many of my routers boot/run from a USB thumb stick. To upgrade these routers, I dd the device onto another one, pop the backup into a build machine, and do the normal build*/install* with a DESTDIR parameter. If the upgraded

Re: How to recover disk space after filesystem full

2009-05-22 Thread Steve Bertrand
Luke Dean wrote: Yes, it sounds like a stupid question, but let me tell the story. The log for my dhcp server filled up /var last night, which meant that dhcpd was also unable to hand out new leases, which meant that I had effectively been DOSed. I'll have to look into changing my logging

Re: jail's adjkerntz

2009-05-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
alexus wrote: what's weird is that i didn't get 'em before and now I do... Given all that you've ignored already, does that mean that: a) you knew about facts in your current implementation that failed recently in an upgrade b) you neglected to upgrade your documentation throughout the

Re: net-snmp and IPv6 MIB

2009-05-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Aurélien Ansel wrote: Hi all, sorry in advance for my bad english. I think i have a problem with the MIB of IPv6. I have installed the last port of net-snmp. Can someone give the result of this request, it must be send to a computer with a smp daemon and at least one interface with

Re: BGP

2009-05-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: is there a way to have FreeBSD work as BGP router and/or at least failover between 2 different ISPs? I, as some random guy on the Internet, would recommend Quagga and, yes, it will work with 2+ ISP's on single device (server). It's well established and in

Re: Licensing

2009-05-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
Chad Perrin wrote: [..huge snip..] I hope you get some value from my rambling. I have gained very much value from what everyone has had to say, and I want to thank everyone. Although I have very much reading to do, I've come to a few conclusions thus far. One thing that did not cross my mind

Re: /etc/ttys

2009-05-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Ian Fitzgerald wrote: Dumb question because of dumb action: can anyone point me to a place where I can find a copy of /etc/ttys? - suitable for FreeBSD v7.2 In it's entirety: http://ibctech.ca/ttys Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Licensing

2009-05-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
I've got a question that is likely not suited for this list, but I know that there are people here who can guide me off-list. Being a network engineer, I'm far from a developer. With that said, I've written numerous network automation programs (mostly in Perl), and have developed several small

Re: Configuring an IPv6 router to assign addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
af300...@gmail.com wrote: On May 6, 2009 8:56am, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: On Wednesday 06 May 2009 10:39:24 am Odhiambo $B%o%7%s%H%s(B wrote: Is there a reason you need to control the addresses used by your clients (other than the prefix)? I set up IPv6 on my LAN and

Re: Quagga problem

2009-05-04 Thread Steve Bertrand
Bc. Radek Krejca wrote: Hello, starting this day I have problem with quagga, I get this messages in my log: May 3 19:15:36 gw bgpd[7225]: Assertion `len str_size' failed in file bgp_aspath.c, line 619, function aspath_make_str_count May 3 19:15:36 gw kernel: pid 7225 (bgpd), uid

Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp

2009-04-30 Thread Steve Bertrand
Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Brandon Weisz li...@avioc.org wrote: I cant speak to the documentation, but this seems to limit it to listening on a single address: Example.. # open standard SNMP ports begemotSnmpdPortStatus.192.168.2.254.161 = 1 Thanks, but I

Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp

2009-04-30 Thread Steve Bertrand
Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Brandon Weisz li...@avioc.org wrote: I cant speak to the documentation, but this seems to limit it to listening on a single address: Example

Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp

2009-04-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hello all, I'm setting up a firewall and would like to monitor certain system parameters like network, cpu, and memory usage. SNMP is an obvious choice to do the monitoring and I'm planning to set up rrdtool to generate graphs of captured data. The question is what SNMP

Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp

2009-04-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Polyack wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hello all, I'm setting up a firewall and would like to monitor certain system parameters like network, cpu, and memory usage. SNMP is an obvious choice to do the monitoring and I'm planning to set up rrdtool to generate

Re: Banwidth limited to 800kb per connection

2009-04-25 Thread Steve Bertrand
Wojciech Puchar wrote: When downloading files over FTP (proftpd) or HTTP (apache 2.2) I only get about 800kb/s, uploading seems to have the same limit (couldn't test it really, as my line stops at abount 860kb/s). When I start multiple downloads, I get 800kb/s for each transfer, up to about

Re: mail server/webmail

2009-04-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: Liontaur wrote: Hi folks, I was searching around but i'm not quite sure what i'm looking for. I want to have a program that gets the mail from my ISP mail server (pop), stores the mail permanently, allows me webmail access, and also lets me grab the mail with a

Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply

2009-04-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
the following command to initialize the vacation db: # vacation -i ...now, put your content into a file called .vacation.msg in the user's home directory. The data could resemble something like this: From: m...@email.address (Steve Bertrand) Subject: Out of office Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: The Vacation

Re: Copying files without scp

2009-04-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
A. Wright wrote: On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Steve Bertrand wrote: Can someone recommend a *known good* production quality copy mechanism that will act like scp, but without the overhead? rsh? nc? If you are happy with rsh authentication, then have you looked at plain old rcp? I reviewed

Re: from very early this morning...

2009-04-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Gary Kline wrote: [...big snip...] if i've made any sense so far, great! if not,i'm open for questions. i'm also open for suggestions on how to alter this network configuration. thanks for reading this far. gary It might be simplest to replace my

Re: questions about Fatal Trap 12

2009-04-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Glen Barber wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Ray r...@stilltech.net wrote: I Just had the power supply die on this machine. Could a failing power supply cause this type of issues? Absolutely. Seconded. Power supply issues have caused me this kind of grief more times than memory

Copying files without scp

2009-04-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, To copy data from one server, I normally (always) use scp. I'm looking for a method to perform this copy task without the overhead of encryption for infrequent, high-volume transfers (hundreds to thousands of GB). The data will be transferred server-to-server within a private

Re: Copying files without scp

2009-04-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Doug Hardie wrote: On Apr 7, 2009, at 16:13, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi all, To copy data from one server, I normally (always) use scp. I'm looking for a method to perform this copy task without the overhead of encryption for infrequent, high-volume transfers (hundreds to thousands of GB

Re: Copying files without scp

2009-04-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 7, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: I'm looking for a method to perform this copy task without the overhead of encryption for infrequent, high-volume transfers (hundreds to thousands of GB). The data will be transferred server-to-server within a private

Re: utility that scans lan for client?

2009-03-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
John Almberg wrote: I've tried googling for this, but I guess I don't know the name of a utility such as this... What I'm looking for is a utility that can scan a LAN for attached clients... i.e., computers that are attached to the LAN. I have one box (an appliance that I have no access

Re: Stop all manner of periodic scripts from running

2009-03-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Although SMTP is denied, I just realized that there are numerous messages from periodic scripts that are queued up that can't be sent. Can someone advise how to find out each and every periodic

Re: Booting freebsd 7.1 from Firewire or USB2 drive

2009-03-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Andrew Moran wrote: Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone had any success in installing FreeBSD 7.1 on a USB2 or Firewire 800 drive connected to an intel Mac Mini and successfully booting off of it? I don't know about the Mac Mini part, but I certainly boot FreeBSD 7.1 from USB2 drive:

Stop all manner of periodic scripts from running

2009-03-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi everyone, Taking the questions regarding my routing boxes one step further, I have strict rules that allow only certain control and management protocols to communicate on the network. Although SMTP is denied, I just realized that there are numerous messages from periodic scripts that are

Re: Physical location of cvsup servers

2009-03-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Don Read wrote: On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:50:46 -0500 Charles Howse said: Hi, Can anyone point me to a link that shows the physical location of the U.S. cvsup servers? Not physical, but by wire time: localhost# fastest_cvsup -c us ...and for those in Canada: # fastest_cvsup -c ca,us

Re: Physical location of cvsup servers

2009-03-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Charles Howse wrote: On Mar 17, 2009, at 7:31 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Don Read wrote: On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:50:46 -0500 Charles Howse said: Hi, Can anyone point me to a link that shows the physical location of the U.S. cvsup servers? Not physical, but by wire time: localhost

Re: Physical location of cvsup servers

2009-03-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Charles Howse wrote: On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: What do you want to achieve? fastest_cvsup will tell you addressing of the servers. You will have to contact those responsible for the IPs to see where they are located to ensure any form of accuracy regarding geo

Execute and lock a user into a program upon login

2009-03-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi everyone, Although the application of my question focuses on network operation, I believe that the objective fits this list. Mostly irrelevant, I have been working on securing my network perimeter. I have a FreeBSD box that acts as a host-based BGP peer to all edge connected routers. I use

Re: Execute and lock a user into a program upon login

2009-03-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi everyone, Although the application of my question focuses on network operation, I believe that the objective fits this list. Mostly irrelevant, I have been working on securing my network perimeter. I have a FreeBSD box that acts as a host-based BGP peer to all

Re: Execute and lock a user into a program upon login

2009-03-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:12:07 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi everyone, Although the application of my question focuses on network operation, I believe that the objective fits this list. Mostly irrelevant, I have been working

Re: Execute and lock a user into a program upon login

2009-03-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 02:18:27AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: [..] If the user's shell is csh (FreeBSD's standard dialog shell), you could achieve the goal: ~/.login vtysh logout Only problem: I don't know how the shell will act when the user

Re: kernel #4

2009-02-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin wrote: Hello guyz, Here's a short question (was unable to find a google) uname states my kernes as being: Freebsd-7.1-STABLE #4 What exactly is that #4 mean ? Recompiled it 20 min. ago, so I figure it has something to do with maybe, I don't know, some

Re: kernel #4

2009-02-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
Tim Judd wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin wrote: Hello guyz, Here's a short question (was unable to find a google) uname states my kernes as being: Freebsd-7.1-STABLE #4 What exactly is that #4 mean ? Recompiled

Re: ping stucks/hangs on PCI 3com NIC sk0 interface but works on builtin NIC

2009-02-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: After the ping is done (whether it works or not), stop the tcpdump and email the output to the list if you can. If you can't email it, at least type out the IP addresses captured, and the direction the data is attempting to flow eg: 208.70.104.210.22

Re: ping stucks/hangs on PCI 3com NIC sk0 interface but works on builtin NIC

2009-02-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Provide the output to ifconfig bridge0, and kldstat. ifconfig bridge0 bridge0: flags=8843UP, BROADCAST, RUNNING, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ther 0e:04:7b:09:e7:b0 inet 192.168.0.1 network 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 id 00:00:00:00:00:00

Re: ping stucks/hangs on PCI 3com NIC sk0 interface but works on builtin NIC

2009-02-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Now i assume that in order to configure the NICs with the same NETWORK and make them working i need to configure the System as router. No. A router's responsibility is to route packets between DISSIMILAR network prefixes. In essence, trying to do what you want

Re: ping stucks/hangs on PCI 3com NIC sk0 interface but works on builtin NIC

2009-02-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Which way do you go? In this case I can take any of them Perhaps you will freeze in your tracks indefinitely due to confusion. Or perhaps you will go around the entire block a few times before making a decision ;) Anyways,- Today i got some time to play around

Re: ping stucks/hangs on PCI 3com NIC sk0 interface but works on builtin NIC

2009-02-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: It depends. Are you doing any sort of firewalling? What is the IP addressing info on the two end hosts? well, in this configuration i havent enabled any firewalling. the Ips are: 192.168.0.4 and 192.168.0.5 for the other two hosts and to the bridge i assigned IP

Re: When is there going to be a USB install and run iso iamge for FreeBSD?

2009-02-22 Thread Steve Bertrand
Formula 1 wrote: Is there going to be a possibility for FreeBSD, in the future or now, that there will be a release of it that allows for install and running of the operating system off of a USB memory stick? What is your objective? ie. What will this box be designed to do once it is booted

Re: off topic: reporting attempts to access computers

2009-02-22 Thread Steve Bertrand
Andrew Gould wrote: Yes, it's probably time to move to certificates. Thanks for the suggestion. If you realize this, then you also want to look at devising an allow-allow-deny_by_default approach for other critical protocols that you can't employ certificates for... Instead of blocking huge

Re: ipv6 aliases in rc.conf

2009-02-15 Thread Steve Bertrand
Reinhard Haller wrote: Hi, I'm trying to add ipv6 aliases for my jails (7.1) in rc.conf. ifconfig_lo0_alias0=inet 192.168.64.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_lo0_alias1=inet 192.168.64.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 ipv6_ifconfig_lo0_alias0=inet6 fd08:2548:a3e8:40::1 prefixlen 48

Re: ipv6 aliases in rc.conf

2009-02-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Reinhard Haller wrote: Hi, I'm trying to add ipv6 aliases for my jails (7.1) in rc.conf. ifconfig_lo0_alias0=inet 192.168.64.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_lo0_alias1=inet 192.168.64.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 ipv6_ifconfig_lo0_alias0=inet6 fd08:2548:a3e8:40::1 prefixlen 48

Re: ipv6 and freebsd

2009-02-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
gahn wrote: Thanks Steve: the router that sending RA is juniper and the protocol router-advertisement has been activated: g...@lab_1 show interfaces fe-0/0/3 ... Logical interface fe-0/0/3.170 (Index 70) (SNMP ifIndex 59) ... Addresses, Flags: Is-Preferred

Re: ipv6 and freebsd

2009-02-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
gahn wrote: Thanks Steve: We use fec0::... as global unique IPv6 address in the lab environment. the IPv6 routers in our lab uses fec0:0:5::/64 with eui-64 addressing scheme (for testing). From the host lab (freebsd) machine, it clearly sees two link-local addresses for two IPv6 routers

Re: ipv6 and freebsd

2009-02-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
gahn wrote: What shall I do to accomplish this on FreeBSD? For clarification and completeness, here is exactly what I did: First, config the router (Cisco): interface FastEthernet0/0 ip address 192.168.3.2 255.255.255.0 duplex auto speed auto ipv6 address 2607:F118:A::1/64 ipv6 address

Re: Assigning static ip address

2009-02-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
Nikolaj Thygesen wrote: Hi list, I've been experimenting and googling for hours w/ no luck. All I want to do is run dhcp and then replace the ip address of the interface with a new static ip afterwards. I've been following this thread all day, but I still don't understand exactly what

Re: ipv6 and freebsd

2009-02-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
gahn wrote: Ok, i meant the configuration of ipv6_network_interface=fxp0 alone doesn't seem to be working: [...] how could I enable IPv6 only on the interface fxp0 instead of every interface? It is possible to completely disable IPv6 on an interface, but man (8) ndp recommends against doing

Re: ipv6 and freebsd

2009-02-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
gahn wrote: Thanks for the tips. But i still only see the fe80::..., link-local address, not the fec0:... something as I expected. Provide the output to: # sysctl -a net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv # ndp -i fxp0 # ifconfig fxp0 ...and, run a tcpdump on fxp0 capturing only IPv6 packets.

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
Chris Knight wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: To make fun of someone's ignorance is not humorous. It is offensive and small. We are going to have to agree to disagree. I read in a posting recently by a very, very prominent and respected

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
michael copeland wrote: on a side note, i can't believe this has kept going Either can I. It's a flame-war, and I became part of it (tsk). I just so want this list to be a good place for newcomers as I once was, that I'd rather try to keep the list clean, and very much dislike it when someone

Re: Bridge setup at boot

2009-02-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
Da Rock wrote: I feel like a real newbie asking this one, but the answer is still eluding me :( I have a system where I'm separating my servers for distinction so I'm running qemu. I have a bridge setup which works occasionally, but I need it to work 100% of the time. I also need this to

Re: Sendmail to Relay different domains to different hosts

2009-02-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
greg.st...@sungard.com wrote: I am using Sendmail on a FreeBSD7.0 server as a mail relay for some of our servers. These servers relay messages to both internal recipients and external customers. I need to be able to relay mail destined to our internal domain recipients to our corporate mail

Re: insert new line in files

2009-02-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
Adam Vande More wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: You want: sed -e '5i\ test' test.txt i.e. a linebreak after the backslash. I had actually tried that too: sed -e '5i\ ? test' text.txt sed: 1: 5i test : command i expects \ followed by text Try: # sed -e 5i\\ ? test text.txt Note the

Re: insert new line in files

2009-02-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
Adam Vande More wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: I had actually tried that too: sed -e '5i\ ? test' text.txt sed: 1: 5i test : command i expects \ followed by text I don't see a backslash in the error message, which means something ate it. Are you running this command from something

Re: insert new line in files

2009-02-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
Adam Vande More wrote: I also tried escaping ( ) . / to no avail. nevermind I see I have to \\ that as well. Okay now I'm going to try to find a way to do this with find and xargs IMHO, this has become a job for Perl :) Steve ___

Re: Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab)

2009-01-30 Thread Steve Bertrand
drc...@yahoo.com wrote: I am using rsync and crontab to perform scheduled backups on FreeBSD AMD64 Rel. 7.0 I am following process described here for rsync : http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html I have a backup script's created for daily, weekly, monthly. This is one example -

Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Martin McCormick wrote: Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands working, but then it all died when I moved it to a new FreeBSD6.3 system. I feel for you.

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
Akenner wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up. I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I do anyway heh. Anyway, one of the things I forgot about, was

Re: / mounted read-only after error in /etc/rc.conf

2009-01-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Pieter Donche wrote: I made a typing error when chanign /etc/rc.conf (linux_enable=YES) when rebooting the system, the boot stops /etc/rc.conf: 22: Syntax error: Unterminated quote string Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: # this leaves me with /dev/ds0s1a on / (ufs,

Re: Launching Vim

2009-01-15 Thread Steve Bertrand
Rem P Roberti wrote: Can someone give me a heads up on this. I just installed vim, but when I try to launch the program I get this error message: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libperl.so not found, required by vim Is this a path problem? The actual file libperl.so recides in

Re: Blocking very many (tens of thousands) ip addresses in ipfw

2009-01-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Artem Kuchin wrote: I need to block around 15 ip addreses from acccess the server at all at any port. The addesses are random, they are not nets. These are the spammer i want to block for 24 hours. The list is dynamically generated and regenerated every hour or so. What is the most

Re: Blocking very many (tens of thousands) ip addresses in ipfw

2009-01-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2009 17:23:25 Artem Kuchin wrote: I need to block around 15 ip addreses from acccess the server at all at any port. The addesses are random, they are not nets. These are the spammer i want to block for 24 hours. The list is dynamically

Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk?

2009-01-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Johann Hasselbach wrote: I read the encrypting disk partitions section of the Handbook. What is the preferred method nowdays, geli or gbde? Is there another method that would be better? I don't know what is best, but for quite some time I've used GELI to encrypt my entire hard disk,

Re: Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, I am now full into planning the 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE upgrade. I know that at the end of the day it will also mean upgrading all ports (portupgrade -af). I have one port - mailman - which I have customized a lot and do not really want to upgrade it as

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
stan wrote: If you want to see what I have, It's reachable at http://beachcave/net/ampache/ I can't reach it :) Reply with the proper URL and I'll have a look. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: On that drive, there was about 100 GB of free space, so I decided to try putting FreeBSD 6.4 on it. During the install, I opted to use the Free BSD boot manage. The install went flawlessly. Any idea

Re: issue with extra top level domain appened to mail

2009-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Davidson [DATACOM] wrote: Do you have unusual options like FEATURE(always_add_domain ...) set up? I haven't made any changes to the sendmail configuration. It's straight out of the CD vanila 6.3 Standard install. I'm completetly stumped. If I build with 6.1, I don't have any

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Grant Peel wrote: So then, IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, should we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, then, use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager? Yes, that is exactly what I was getting at. Steve

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Grant Peel wrote: Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? I don't know. It's been $years since I've had to use a Windows install CD for such a thing. If it's win32, my experience would have me recommend just booting from a floppy of a win boot disk to restore the MBR.

Re: Sun sucks

2009-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
RW wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:10:10 -0500 Ansar Mohammed ans...@gmail.com wrote: After registering Sun complains that they don't like my ID and I need to provide more information. I create another account. Same problem. After 3 months I finally get an email saying they want

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
stan wrote: I'll describe the test setup that I used within a VM to configure things inline. The software does not necessarily match the version number exactly to yours. OK, here goes: black# uname -a FreeBSD black.fas.com 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Dec 27 19:11:47 EST

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
stan wrote: Complete step 1 of the install process Go to step 2, when you press write config file you will be prompted to download this fle instead (not cerrtain wh the directory it goes in is writbale by the www user). Donwload this file and install it as:

Re: FreeBSD USB Install

2009-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, January 07, 2009 a las 03:17:02PM +0100, Polytropon escribió: On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:25:45 -0500, Brian McCann bjmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 off the CD to a USB thumb drive, but every time I try it fails.

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
stan wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:33:46AM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: stan wrote: I'll describe the test setup that I used within a VM to configure things inline. The software does not necessarily match the version number exactly to yours. Thanks for puting in all this effort

Upgrade a USB-stick contained system

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi everyone, I run numerous systems (mostly networking gear) from 2GB USB thumb sticks. These systems do not have hard disks. To update one of these systems, I'd generally copy the thumb drive filesystem to a hard disk in another PC, upgrade it, and then transfer the necessary data back to the

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
stan wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 09:45:23PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:51:08PM -0500, stan wrote: Clearly I am still confused. :-( I just duid as you sugested, and all went well untill I pushed the Write Config button at Step 2. At this point I was offered

Re: Urgent help needed please: Gvinum problem

2009-01-02 Thread Steve Bertrand
Ian Lord wrote: Hi, We had a power lost even though we have ups and generators (still investigating it) and when the machine rebooted one of the disk seems to be failed : The system complains about fsck repaired failed and that I must run it manually. It then boots in single user mode.

Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?

2009-01-02 Thread Steve Bertrand
dick hoogendijk wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:17:30 -0500 stan st...@panix.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 05:48:27PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: think twice before doing. Could you elaborate please ? ZFS still doesn't work as described ... Is that comment FreeBSD specifc, or aimed at

Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?

2009-01-02 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: dick hoogendijk wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:17:30 -0500 stan st...@panix.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 05:48:27PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: think twice before doing. Could you elaborate please ? ZFS still doesn't work as described ... Is that comment

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
prad wrote: i'm surprised that people actually still live in southern ontario. despite all the imaginative suggestions, this is obviously an issue that should be submitted through the form here: http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html you will note that beastie is using something like a shovel

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Roger Olofsson wrote: Gary Hartl skrev: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Locate roof in ports and build roof! Better yet, do what they do just

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Tom Worster wrote: is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --enable-dom --with-pear --with-gd etc. etc. on and

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Brett Davidson wrote: Tom Worster wrote: is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --enable-dom --with-pear

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