Mail back-up system

2006-02-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, As a sys-admin, I am often bugged by users who had mistakenly deleted some very important email, and could I recover it from the tape back-up. I try to explain to them that back-up is only run once per 24 hours and maybe their message arrived since the last run, and that tapes are there to re

Re: need some advice on our cisco routers..

2006-02-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
> 3. How do you secure your cisco routers in your office?? Our > director said that we should look for best practices in securing > our routers. The very first step would be to limit where from you can telnet to the router. There is no good reason why whole internet could telnet to the router.

Re: Protecting Windows

2006-02-08 Thread Romana Branden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 codeweavers has mixed success:) http://www.codeweavers.com/site/compatibility/browse/name/?cw=2f920008479e84a8f09e53169236c080;app_id=1229 - -- Romana Branden Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with you

need some advice on our cisco routers..

2006-02-08 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, We have a couple of cisco routers. There was one time when suddenly we cannot login remotely via telnet. I investigate further and was shocked when I found out that there where 16 telnet connections coming from outsiders ip addresses. I immediately called our Director(the only cisco certi

intel high definition audio

2006-02-08 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Hello i am having trouble getting my sound to work in gnome I have an intel D925XECV2 mainboard has intel high definition audio built in. There is link to info about board and sound below. I cannot seem to find anything in my dmesg (attached to this email) to do with sound card. Have added snd_

RE: need help setting up a new partition

2006-02-08 Thread Peter
--- Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 09-Feb-2006 Peter wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > > > I have a dual-boot arrangement with Win2k (on the first and second > > > partition) and FreeBSD 5.4 (on the third partition). I am wil

Re: Protecting Windows

2006-02-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 14:32 +1030, Brian Astill wrote: > Greetings, all. > Can anyone help with this issue? > Please don't cc: moderated lists when posting to public lists. "You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has been automatically rejected. If you think that you

Re: Protecting Windows

2006-02-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 14:32 +1030, Brian Astill wrote: > Greetings, all. > Can anyone help with this issue? > > Person with deteriorating vision has discovered Dragon > Naturally Speaking which not only allows the construction of text > from speech but can also speak from received text. ie lett

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-02-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On February 8, 2006 5:14:42 PM -0800 Chris Maness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Newbie question: How should I set up cvsup to just track security updates for ports. Install security/portaudit. You'll be notified daily regarding any ports that need security updates. And would the best thi

RE: need help setting up a new partition

2006-02-08 Thread Peter
--- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 09-Feb-2006 Peter wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I have a dual-boot arrangement with Win2k (on the first and second > > partition) and FreeBSD 5.4 (on the third partition). I am willing to > > sacrifice the second partition and give it ov

Re: IP Banning (Using IPFW)

2006-02-08 Thread Chris
On 07/02/06, David Scheidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:40:22AM +0200, Atis wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 18:55:13 -0500 > > David Scheidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Nonsense. There may be some people that only scan well-known ports, > > > but it's much

Protecting Windows

2006-02-08 Thread Brian Astill
Greetings, all. Can anyone help with this issue? Person with deteriorating vision has discovered Dragon Naturally Speaking which not only allows the construction of text from speech but can also speak from received text. ie letter writing and email conversing etc become possible for the visual

RE: need help setting up a new partition

2006-02-08 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 09-Feb-2006 Peter wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have a dual-boot arrangement with Win2k (on the first and second > partition) and FreeBSD 5.4 (on the third partition). I am willing to > sacrifice the second partition and give it over to FreeBSD as I am > lacking space there. I'm just not sure

MySQL port

2006-02-08 Thread Robert Uzzi
Am I missing something or is the MySQL ports missing the switches to compile with the CSV engine enabled? Mysql itself has them but not the port? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-02-08 Thread Robert Huff
Chris Maness writes: > I rebuilt all of the ports I had installed and it took > almost two days. I have 560+ installed; I feel your pain. Actually, no I don't. Use portaudit/portversion to identify those that need updating, and do some each morning. Unless you hit one of the

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-08 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
I've been using FreeBSD + courier IMAP + MySQL (for user authentication). It's hardly a load issue for more than 200,000 users, and that was years ago. - Original Message - From: "Bill Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 4:22 AM Subject: Re: Large imap ser

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Maness
Chris Hill wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Chris Maness wrote: Much simpler: just track RELENG_your_release to get security updates and bug fixes and nothing else. For example, mine is RELENG_5_4 and therefore tracks 5.4-RELEASE. Is there a way to rebuild just the packages updated? Or does the

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Chris Maness wrote: Much simpler: just track RELENG_your_release to get security updates and bug fixes and nothing else. For example, mine is RELENG_5_4 and therefore tracks 5.4-RELEASE. Is there a way to rebuild just the packages updated? Or does the whole tree have to

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Maness
Much simpler: just track RELENG_your_release to get security updates and bug fixes and nothing else. For example, mine is RELENG_5_4 and therefore tracks 5.4-RELEASE. Is there a way to rebuild just the packages updated? Or does the whole tree have to be rebuilt?

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Maness
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:14:42PM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: Newbie question: How should I set up cvsup to just track security updates for ports. You can't, but you can track the entire thing and use portaudit to identify ports in need of security upgrade. Kris

need help setting up a new partition

2006-02-08 Thread Peter
Hi everybody, I have a dual-boot arrangement with Win2k (on the first and second partition) and FreeBSD 5.4 (on the third partition). I am willing to sacrifice the second partition and give it over to FreeBSD as I am lacking space there. I'm just not sure how to proceed. $ fdisk ad0 *** Wor

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Chris Maness wrote: How should I set up cvsup to just track security updates for ports. And would the best thing to do after I synced CVS, do portupgrade -a so that everything selected gets rebuilt. I'm not sure there is a way to do this for ports, other than manually che

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-02-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:14:42PM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: > Newbie question: > > How should I set up cvsup to just track security updates for ports. You can't, but you can track the entire thing and use portaudit to identify ports in need of security upgrade. Kris pgpi5jSueovO1.pgp Descript

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-02-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Chris Maness wrote: > How should I set up cvsup to just track security updates for ports. And > would the best thing to do after I synced CVS, do portupgrade -a so that > everything selected gets rebuilt. > > What is the equivalent for the base system? The ports tree isn't branched; just get HEA

Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Maness
Newbie question: How should I set up cvsup to just track security updates for ports. And would the best thing to do after I synced CVS, do portupgrade -a so that everything selected gets rebuilt. What is the equivalent for the base system? ___ free

Re: update problems

2006-02-08 Thread James Long
> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 13:25:38 -0500 > From: Chuck Teal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: update problems > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Wednesday February 8 2006 10:40, Iantcho Vassilev wrote: > > I

Re: How is this List Connected with the usenet?

2006-02-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:04:09PM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: > Does this list crossover into Usenet? There are Various unofficial usenet feeds of it, yes. Kris pgpW5ZGhQFqgy.pgp Description: PGP signature

How is this List Connected with the usenet?

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Maness
Does this list crossover into Usenet? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: sshd / ssh setup

2006-02-08 Thread Ken Stevenson
fbsd_user wrote: Ken Thanks that helps a lot. Only thing missing is what is ssh login syntax to login from the remote FreeBSD pc? Can I also remotely login as root on sshd server system? I guess the setup instructions are with the putty pgm for ssh access from windows/xp On the freebsd machine

RE: sshd / ssh setup

2006-02-08 Thread fbsd_user
fbsd_user wrote: > Have user who is logging in to USA site from Asian public internet > cafes using his personal windows/xp notebook. Trying to setup the > USA server and his windows/xp notebook to use SSH. > Added sshd_enable="YES" to USA site server rc.conf and rebooted > system. > During boot

Re: Porblem with Openoffice 2.0.1

2006-02-08 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had Openoffice 2.0.1 installed and working perfectly for several weeks now. Suddenly, openoffice now fails to start. I thought maybe JDK14 was corrupted so I deinstalled and reinstalled it, however I still get the same problem. Below is the output from the end o

Re: Best Way To Block Range of Addresses with ipfw2?

2006-02-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 08), Drew Tomlinson said: > On 2/8/2006 3:11 PM Chuck Swiger wrote: > >Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >>I want to deny access to addresses in this range: > >> > >>84.57.113.0 - 84.61.96.255 > >> > >>What is the best way to specify this range for ipfw2? There must > >>be a better

mpd just won't time out of idlesessions

2006-02-08 Thread gahn
Hi: Ok, I have a minor problem for the mpd; it just doesn't time out the idle session, ie, the command "set iface idle xxx" doesn't seem to be working. I connected to the PPTP server and idled for hours and it still connects. But the command of "set iface session xxx" works, it just cut me off o

Re: Best Way To Block Range of Addresses with ipfw2?

2006-02-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/8/2006 3:11 PM Chuck Swiger wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I want to deny access to addresses in this range: 84.57.113.0 - 84.61.96.255 What is the best way to specify this range for ipfw2? There must be a better way than listing a whole bunch of individual networks. deny ip from

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-08 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: > Le 07/02/2006 à 16:26:42-0800, Bill Campbell a écrit >> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: >> >Hi all >> > >> >I search some advice for large imap server. >> > >> >For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users. And every >> >users check

Re: Best Way To Block Range of Addresses with ipfw2?

2006-02-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I want to deny access to addresses in this range: > > 84.57.113.0 - 84.61.96.255 > > What is the best way to specify this range for ipfw2? There must be a > better way than listing a whole bunch of individual networks. deny ip from 84.56.0.0/13 to any ...comes pretty cl

Re: sshd / ssh setup

2006-02-08 Thread Ken Stevenson
fbsd_user wrote: Have user who is logging in to USA site from Asian public internet cafes using his personal windows/xp notebook. Trying to setup the USA server and his windows/xp notebook to use SSH. Added sshd_enable="YES" to USA site server rc.conf and rebooted system. During boot process, fol

Best Way To Block Range of Addresses with ipfw2?

2006-02-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I want to deny access to addresses in this range: 84.57.113.0 - 84.61.96.255 What is the best way to specify this range for ipfw2? There must be a better way than listing a whole bunch of individual networks. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books

Re: A script for poets

2006-02-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/8/06, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:29:21PM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: > > Again with my script requests, this time I'm wondering if anybody > > has ever felt like writing a shell script that makes it easy to write > > rhymes, > > poems or just make up fun

sshd / ssh setup

2006-02-08 Thread fbsd_user
Have user who is logging in to USA site from Asian public internet cafes using his personal windows/xp notebook. Trying to setup the USA server and his windows/xp notebook to use SSH. Added sshd_enable="YES" to USA site server rc.conf and rebooted system. During boot process, followed sshd instruct

Re: is upgrading from 4.x to 6.x possible?

2006-02-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 04:10:02PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Is there a procedure for upgrading 4.x to 6.x? Simply doing `buildworld' does > not work -- even make can not be rebuilt without the stdint.h, for example. If you are trying to upgrade via source you will have to first upgrade fro

Re: Default browser

2006-02-08 Thread Guido Van Hoecke
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:21:41 +0100, Tom Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Guido Van Hoecke wrote: Beto, I took your advice and solved the mess as you suggested. Did you get java working with opera? Yep, I am using linux-opera 8.51 and both linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 and linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.2 ar

RE: is upgrading from 4.x to 6.x possible?

2006-02-08 Thread fbsd_user
To take advantage of the new file system ufs2 which became part of FreeBSD in 5.0 you need to install from scratch. You are so far behind that its far better to start over again after saving your user data. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mikh

Re: Multiple routes to same destination

2006-02-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Qing Li wrote: I use mpd to greate one VPN between the sites, using Multilink PPP, so that data is sent across both links (eitehr round-robon or split packet). I use MPD's udp transport mode to open two UDP sockets and send packets from R1 to R4 and from R2 to R3 (in the diagram below). MPD will

is upgrading from 4.x to 6.x possible?

2006-02-08 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Is there a procedure for upgrading 4.x to 6.x? Simply doing `buildworld' does not work -- even make can not be rebuilt without the stdint.h, for example. Thanks for advice. Yours, -mi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: showdown transfering files with scp

2006-02-08 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using scp to copy several large (300-800mb) each files between two Freebsd machines. Both are on the same hub, 100MB Ethernet connection. The source box is FreeBSD 5.4 stable at a late October build date. The target is running 6.0 stable at a current build date.

Re: A script for poets

2006-02-08 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:29:21PM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: > > Hello! > > Again with my script requests, this time I'm wondering if anybody > has ever felt like writing a shell script that makes it easy to write > rhymes, > poems or just make up funny lines. > > http://www.rhymer.com is a g

Re: Multiple routes to same destination

2006-02-08 Thread Qing Li
I have a private patch that's based on radix_mpath for FreeBSD 5.4. I believe [EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on a solution. -- Qing -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Webster, Andrew Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 10:51 AM To:

Re: Default browser

2006-02-08 Thread Tom Grove
Guido Van Hoecke wrote: Beto, I took your advice and solved the mess as you suggested. I just deinstalled both mozilla and firefox and symlinked /usr/X11R6/bin/linux-opera to /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla and to /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox. Thanks, Guido _

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-08 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: > Le 07/02/2006 à 16:26:42-0800, Bill Campbell a écrit >> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: >> >Hi all >> > >> >I search some advice for large imap server. >> > >> >For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users. And every >> >users check

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-08 Thread Albert Shih
Le 07/02/2006 à 16:26:42-0800, Bill Campbell a écrit > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: > >Hi all > > > >I search some advice for large imap server. > > > >For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users. And every > >users check by imap/pop those mail every 2 or 3 minutes. > >

Re: Remote backup solutions

2006-02-08 Thread Göran Nilsson
Thanks Ian. This sure looks like a good solutions. Are there anyone that have tried out bacula on FreeBSD 6.0 in a production enviroment? /Goran 2006/2/7, Ian Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You might want to look into > http://www.bacula.org/ > > Didnt try it myself, planning to test it soon... >

showdown transfering files with scp

2006-02-08 Thread mark.jacobs
I was using scp to copy several large (300-800mb) each files between two Freebsd machines. Both are on the same hub, 100MB Ethernet connection. The source box is FreeBSD 5.4 stable at a late October build date. The target is running 6.0 stable at a current build date. The first three files show

A script for poets

2006-02-08 Thread Kristian Vaaf
Hello! Again with my script requests, this time I'm wondering if anybody has ever felt like writing a shell script that makes it easy to write rhymes, poems or just make up funny lines. http://www.rhymer.com is a great place, but unfortunately it requires a browser. Or maybe this is a featur

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-08 10:29, Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD system (userland, including all third party programs) on top of the Linux kernel. >>> >>> I'd p

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-08 Thread Dieter
> That's exactly what I'm doing right now. For example when I need > to use my Pinnacle DC10+ (Zoran) card, I simply reboot into Gentoo, > do the capture, and then reboot into FreeBSD to run the rest of > mjpegtools. Same for MIDI recording etc... or other stuff that's > currently unavailable withi

RE: Multiple routes to same destination?

2006-02-08 Thread Webster, Andrew
Well, in that case, an ISP wouldn't want to use FreeBSD in their core routers :( :( In this particular case, I have redundant links (L1 and L2) between two locations (Loc 1 and Loc 2) with two FreeBSD routers at each location (R1/R2, and R3/R4) which are running OSPF to redistribute routing inf

Default browser

2006-02-08 Thread Guido Van Hoecke
Beto, I took your advice and solved the mess as you suggested. I just deinstalled both mozilla and firefox and symlinked /usr/X11R6/bin/linux-opera to /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla and to /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox. Thanks, Guido ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

RE: Multiple routes to same destination?

2006-02-08 Thread Danial Thom
According to Ted this won't work anyway, since he claims that all ISPs source filter and won't let any source addresses other than theirs through. So maybe that's why they've never done it? --- "Webster, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using Zebra, but it will only keep one > route to t

Re: error log meaning

2006-02-08 Thread Ian Lord
Is this a log from your ftp deamon ? If so, it might be due to the fact that you are not connecting using passive mode and going through a server that doesnt handle ftp transfer correctly. Might be something complety different also... I cannot help you more then that (if it did at all lol)

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-08 Thread Dieter
> > > since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, > > > it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD > > > system (userland, including all third party programs) on top > > > of the Linux kernel. > > > > I'd prefer to have a way to use a Linux device driver w

error log meaning

2006-02-08 Thread Imran Imtiaz
I have seen the following error in my messages file can anyone tell me what does it mean? is my computer being hacked? Refused PORT 207,46,133,140,1,21 (address m ismatch) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: update problems

2006-02-08 Thread Chuck Teal
On Wednesday February 8 2006 10:40, Iantcho Vassilev wrote: > If you haven`t delete the megremaster store directory(usually /var/) > just rerun it. - mergemaster > and ask all the quesions by hand > > But first i would suggest to find the problem > > On 2/8/06, zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Contents of freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 123, Issue 4 (Default browser)

2006-02-08 Thread Trix Farrar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > What has to be done to change the default browser from mozilla into e.g. > opera or firefox (assuming that these are duly installed and operational)? > > The handbook talks about different browsers, but I have not been able to find > a section abo

Re: Contents of freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 123, Issue 3 (Re: What's the bright idea? fam -> gamin)

2006-02-08 Thread Trix Farrar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter wrote: > > --- Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>On 2/6/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>--- Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all back >>

Re: More Than 1GB of RAM

2006-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello! > > If I install FreeBSD 6.0, will it be able to use all my 1.5GB of RAM? Yes. > I.e., is its kernel HIGHMEM-enabled? > > Thank you and sorry for my English. > > -- > Dinosaur > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http:/

Re: Samba and fstab

2006-02-08 Thread A. Clausen
Ken Stevenson wrote: A. Clausen wrote: Slowly educating myself in FreeBSD. Have managed to get Samba set up and can access my FreeBSD server, but trying to get SMBFS shares mounted in fstab is causing me grief. Either I get errors about invalid file system or I get nothing at all when I

Re: BIND zone transfers

2006-02-08 Thread jhall
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:45:02PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Under FreeBSD 4.8 BIND was making zone transfers normally. In my >> network, >> Windows 2000 is the master and bind is the salve. Recently, the server >> was upgraded to FreeBSD 6.0, and suddenly BIND stopped making zone >> t

More Than 1GB of RAM

2006-02-08 Thread Dinosaur
Hello! If I install FreeBSD 6.0, will it be able to use all my 1.5GB of RAM? I.e., is its kernel HIGHMEM-enabled? Thank you and sorry for my English. -- Dinosaur ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-08 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: >Albert Shih wrote: >>I search some advice for large imap server. >> >>For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users. And every >>users check by imap/pop those mail every 2 or 3 minutes. >> >>What's the «best» imap server ? Cyrus Imap or Cour

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-08 Thread Brian Sobolak
cpghost wrote: > Hello, > > since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, > it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD > system (userland, including all third party programs) on top > of the Linux kernel. > > This would be somewhat the reverse of /boot/kerne

Re: BIND zone transfers

2006-02-08 Thread Tim Utschig
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:45:02PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Under FreeBSD 4.8 BIND was making zone transfers normally. In my network, > Windows 2000 is the master and bind is the salve. Recently, the server > was upgraded to FreeBSD 6.0, and suddenly BIND stopped making zone > transfers,

Re: How to get 2 if's act like a switch?

2006-02-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 2/8/06, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: [ ... ] >> See: "man bridge". > > Thanks. First I thought that bridge is not what I want. > Apparently, if_bridge does not switch packets, and > with 100 hosts on each if that would create unn

Re: update problems

2006-02-08 Thread Iantcho Vassilev
If you haven`t delete the megremaster store directory(usually /var/) just rerun it. - mergemaster and ask all the quesions by hand But first i would suggest to find the problem On 2/8/06, zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just update to 6.1-PRERELEASE from 6.0. Before I mergemaster -c

Re: How to get 2 if's act like a switch?

2006-02-08 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 2/8/06, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > Can I get 2 interfaces on a router switch ethernet frames > > (between themselves and the box itself) and the other > > interfaces act like normal ones? I need services like dhcpd > > to not see any difference between

Re: pxeboot fails to load acpi.ko

2006-02-08 Thread Andrew Bogecho
Hi, Have you had a look in /boot/device.hints? hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" I at the moment maintain 2 diskless images, the one for older hardware has the above setting to disable acpi(machine would hang with it enabled). I believe setting it to "0" or commenting it out could help you. A. > Hey- >

Re: Help on Tape Backups / Disc Space

2006-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Graham Bentley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Do you even know for sure that your backup was running at the > > time that the filesystem full messages were generated? > > Unfortunatly not - the times are different so this could two > unrelated issues. That's exactly the point. > > Maybe.

update problems

2006-02-08 Thread zhang
I've just update to 6.1-PRERELEASE from 6.0. Before I mergemaster -cv , the system could work well . But when I mergemaster , I don't check the differents carefully and choose the " i " option directly most of the time . Now , all the network programmes can't work , I can't ping localhost/127.0.

RE: Multiple routes to same destination?

2006-02-08 Thread Webster, Andrew
I am using Zebra, but it will only keep one route to the same destination in the routing table at any given time, even if there is more than one valid path :( :( I know that Linux has this built-in, and more searching of the 'Net after posting my initial question revealed that multipath routing

Re: BIND zone transfers

2006-02-08 Thread Reko Turja
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:45 PM Subject: BIND zone transfers Any suggestions as to how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your assistance. Do you have the Win2k IP address defined as a NS to w

BIND zone transfers

2006-02-08 Thread jhall
I have been running BIND for several years in the Regional Offices I maintain and the problem in one office has me confused and I'm not sure where to look. Under FreeBSD 4.8 BIND was making zone transfers normally. In my network, Windows 2000 is the master and bind is the salve. Recently, the se

Re: How to get 2 if's act like a switch?

2006-02-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > Can I get 2 interfaces on a router switch ethernet frames > (between themselves and the box itself) and the other > interfaces act like normal ones? I need services like dhcpd > to not see any difference between the 2 switched if's, just > like it's a single ethernet segm

Firefox upload mimetypes

2006-02-08 Thread Jochen Haemmerle
Hi everyone, I discovered a problem with my firefox 1.5.0.1 yesterday. I try to upload a zip-file to a webapplication and firefox sets the mimetype of the submitted content to "application/octetstream" instead of using "application/zip" or "application/x-zip". The webapp doesn't accept the "octet

Re: Is this important (compile message - bacula port)?

2006-02-08 Thread Iantcho Vassilev
I think AC_PACKAGE_NAME in this case is the packge of resolve.h The problem that you have is maybe missing some devel libraries ... On 2/8/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > checking resolv.h usability... no > checking resolv.h presence... yes > configure: WARNING: resolv.h: present but can

How to get 2 if's act like a switch?

2006-02-08 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
I'm sorry for not looking it up myself. Can I get 2 interfaces on a router switch ethernet frames (between themselves and the box itself) and the other interfaces act like normal ones? I need services like dhcpd to not see any difference between the 2 switched if's, just like it's a single etherne

shutdown && /var: unmount pending ...

2006-02-08 Thread guru
Hello, Sometimes I get during the shutdown, when the buffers are already have been synced, the message: /var: unmount pending blocks -32 files 0 This is with FreeBSD 6.0-REL and its GENERIC kernel and ICH6 SATA: $ fgrep -i sata /var/log/messages Feb 8 08:26:55 rebelion kernel: atapci1: port

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Albert Shih wrote: I search some advice for large imap server. For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users. And every users check by imap/pop those mail every 2 or 3 minutes. What's the «best» imap server ? Cyrus Imap or Courier-Imap ? (please this is not a troll). Any document

math/lapack (lapack-3.0) (unknown build error)

2006-02-08 Thread Anthony Philipp
Hello, I was doing an upgrade today and one of the ports failed. I have since checked /usr/ports/UPDATING, the mailing list and then updated my ports tree again, all to no avail. Here is the error: --- f77 -O -c ssyr2k.f f77 -O -c strmm.f f77 -O -c strsm.f i386 cr ../../BLAS/SRC/libblas.a isamax.

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-08 Thread martinko
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:59:49 +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote > martinko wrote: > > > > > i already raised the following issue with pkgtools.sonf here on MLs some > > time ago but i didn't get a response i'd be happy with: > > i want to make sure that a certain port will be compiled with a certain >

idle time out

2006-02-08 Thread gahn
Hi: What is the difference between two following commands set iface idle xxx # idle timer? set iface session xxx # session timer? What i am trying to do is to tear down the sessions if those sessions are idle 10 minutes or more. it doesn't seem to be working with the first command. any advice

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-08 Thread martinko
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:10:26 -0500, Parv wrote > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote martinko thusly... > > > > Norberto Meijome wrote: > > > Hans Nieser wrote: > > > > > >>FreeBSD Prospect wrote: > ... > > >>What I am especially fond of in portage is the USE-flags and the > > >>way you can speci