RE: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 10:20 PM To: User Questions Subject: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64) Hi I have a 6.2R system (amd64) with the latest patch level.

RE: Samba type question

2007-09-05 Thread Johan Hendriks
Greetings, I have an ageing NT4 file server that is the PDC (windows speak for primary domain controller) for my windows network. I have roughly 40 networked pc's connected to this network and most of the clients are running XP Pro. I have one client running windows 2000 pro, and one client

RE: Version of top included in FreeBSD

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bruce Cran Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Version of top included in FreeBSD I've noticed that the version of top included in FreeBSD is 3.5beta12 and a

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Russell E. Meek Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 5:20 PM To: Jim Stapleton Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions Quoting Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:21:47 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Kind of like the country of Iraq buying a nuclear device - they don't know what they have, don't know how to build it, and are not qualified at all to use it. [...] Please save us from these words of wisdom.

Re: loopback won't enable automatically

2007-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 04:48:53 Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:47:47 + Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one machine (it is a laptop): ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 Then everything

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:03:20 -0400 Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a mail server to take incoming mail, and provide a pop3 (or better yet, SSLed POP3) connection. Jim, - incoming email + delivery : postfix . Really well documented. Haven't found a feature not implemented. As

Re: loopback won't enable automatically

2007-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 04:48:53 Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:47:47 + Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one machine (it is a laptop): ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 Then everything

Re: loopback won't enable automatically [SOLVED]

2007-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 07:25:42 Pollywog wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2007 04:48:53 Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:47:47 + Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one machine (it is a laptop):

sysinstall, packages, ports q.s

2007-09-05 Thread Sur Demir
{ this is my second attempt to post, first one over Gmane did not appear in list. Sorry if you get this twice. } Hi, I'm a bit new to FreeBSD, and have few questions challenging my Gentoo Linux mindset: 1. I performed a Minimal 6.2 installation (it boots OK). Then I selected Post installation

Re: questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 06:25, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [Jim Stapleton] I figured I'd try cyrus, I remember hearing that one is a good mail server. But I'm new to the mail server thing, and I'm not even sure where to look for some of this stuff if anyone can help. Also, I plan on

Re: Bonded multilink ADSL connection

2007-09-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 19:08, Steve Bertrand wrote: With a tiny bit of tweaking, it works like a charm!!! Defined bundles: Bundle Links -- - saml0[Opened/UP] l1[Initial/DOWN] Since I don't have the second link connected to

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikola Lecic Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:41 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Russell E. Meek; Jim Stapleton; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions On Tue, 4 Sep

Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Hi I have a 6.2R system (amd64) with the latest patch level. The motherboard is a Tyan S5197 i3110 based board with a Core 2 Quad 2.4 ghz processor. There is 4GB of memory and an Areca ARC-1231ML raid card. The problem is that I have to boot without ACPI

RE: questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jonathan McKeown Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:13 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jim Stapleton Subject: Re: questions on setting up a mail server On Wednesday 05 September 2007

RE: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:57 AM To: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64) Note that this may well be hardware related:

RE: ports/115885: misc/help2man: help2man ignores installed gettext

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of snowcrash+freebsd Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 10:33 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/115885: misc/help2man: help2man ignores installed gettext note(s) to self:

Re: gmirror and booting one and/or the other of the twins, then rebuilding raid 1

2007-09-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 06:09, John Crawford wrote: I'd like to be able to boot either of the two drives. That's up to your BIOS. FreeBSD will mount / from the gmirror, which will be backed by one or more disks. Earlier stages will use BIOS to load the kernel, etc. May I suggest {{{

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Eray Aslan
On 05.09.2007 11:22, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [...] Your reaction is facinating considering the location implied by your e-mail reply address. I can perhaps understand your adversion to the use of metaphors in language - God know the Serbian propagandists warped the metaphor beyond the

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Predrag Punosevac
On 05.09.2007 11:22, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [...] Your reaction is facinating considering the location implied by your e-mail reply address. I can perhaps understand your adversion to the use of metaphors in language - God know the Serbian propagandists warped the metaphor beyond the

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
Please, I didn't intend this to be a flame war - though thinking back, I guess I should have expected strong views on this. This is not the place for such agressiveness. The rest of this is for everyone Thank all of you for your suggestions, I'll look at them. This is a mail server for me and

Re: questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
All the authentication options you mention after plain text (which is the standard method built in to the protocol) require Cyrus SASL. This isn't as scary to set up as the docs make it sound. PLAIN and LOGIN can both use your existing user passwords (which is what I do). GSSAPI requires

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
Jim posted here asking for help, using words and language that gives serious doubt that he is competent to run a mailserver of any kind. Knowledgeable and competant are two different things. If I were not competant, I would not bother attempting to get that knowledge that I lack. I don't

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Predrag Punosevac wrote: On 05.09.2007 11:22, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [...] Your reaction is facinating considering the location implied by your e-mail reply address. I can perhaps understand your adversion to the use of metaphors in language - God know the Serbian propagandists warped

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 12:34:45 Jim Stapleton wrote: Thank all of you for your suggestions, I'll look at them. This is a mail server for me and maybe a few friends. I plan on running incoming SMTP, maybe at some point outgoing (requiring authentication/SSL, definetly no relay), no

umount in shell script

2007-09-05 Thread George Vanev
Hi all, I have the following script: #!/bin/sh mnt_path='//[EMAIL PROTECTED]/archive' mnt_ip='xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' mkdir /usr/tmp_mnt mount_smbfs -N -I $mnt_ip $mnt_path /usr/tmp_mnt #rotate files #dump mysql database #gzip #encrypt #copy to /usr/tmp_mnt umount /usr/tmp_mnt EOF Sometimes

Re: Version of top included in FreeBSD

2007-09-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-04 22:08, Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that the version of top included in FreeBSD is 3.5beta12 and a new version 3.6 was released last year (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/unixtop). I realise fixes and improvements have been made locally in the 3 years

Re: umount in shell script

2007-09-05 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 13:15:34 George Vanev wrote: Hi all, I have the following script: #!/bin/sh mnt_path='//[EMAIL PROTECTED]/archive' mnt_ip='xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' mkdir /usr/tmp_mnt mount_smbfs -N -I $mnt_ip $mnt_path /usr/tmp_mnt #rotate files #dump mysql database #gzip

Re: questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 12:46, Jim Stapleton wrote: All the authentication options you mention after plain text (which is the standard method built in to the protocol) require Cyrus SASL. This isn't as scary to set up as the docs make it sound. PLAIN and LOGIN can both use your

Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Hauber
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 00:35:35 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Hauber Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 11:22 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sadly, my tinker-time has run

gmail fs

2007-09-05 Thread Danielisz Laszlo
Does anyone know how to usw gmail fs in FreeBSD? Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ ___

Re: Booting to root on gmirror with disk failure, is it even possible?

2007-09-05 Thread Tobias Ernst
Modulok schrieb: Before I invest significantly more time into my current gmirror issues, I have but two simple questions for anyone out there: 1. Has anyone used gmirror for the root partition and been able to successfully boot with one failed (or un-plugged) disk? It's the latter part of

Re: loopback won't enable automatically [SOLVED]

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 07:35:26AM +, Pollywog wrote: I did find it in /etc/default/rc.conf: ifconfig_lo0=inet 127.0.0.1 # default loopback device configuration. I found the problem. lo0 was not listed in network_interfaces in rc.conf Adding it fixed the problem. Do you have

Re: questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I've edited ruthlessly to reduce the length of this message. On Wednesday 05 September 2007 11:07, you wrote: My main question is on authentication. I was looking at authentication types in kmail to get an idea of what I can use, and I found: [list of SASL methods plus question what

Re: gmail fs

2007-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Danielisz Laszlo wrote: Does anyone know how to usw gmail fs in FreeBSD? If there is a FUSE module that does it, you might get it to work. It's always going to be a big hack though. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: sysinstall, packages, ports q.s

2007-09-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Sur Demir wrote: { this is my second attempt to post, first one over Gmane did not appear in list. Sorry if you get this twice. } Hi, I'm a bit new to FreeBSD, and have few questions challenging my Gentoo Linux mindset: Welcome to the FreeBSD club! May I first suggest you read the

Re: Booting to root on gmirror with disk failure, is it even possible?

2007-09-05 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 4, 2007, at 9:31 PMSep 4, 2007, Modulok wrote: Before I invest significantly more time into my current gmirror issues, I have but two simple questions for anyone out there: 1. Has anyone used gmirror for the root partition and been able to successfully boot with one failed (or

Re: questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-05 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 5, 2007, at 5:46 AMSep 5, 2007, Jim Stapleton wrote: All the authentication options you mention after plain text (which is the standard method built in to the protocol) require Cyrus SASL. This isn't as scary to set up as the docs make it sound. PLAIN and LOGIN can both use your

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-05 Thread Mikel King
On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:10 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase that there was such a

RE: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Hauber Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 4:44 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out Now...  As to why I asked this

Re: gmail fs

2007-09-05 Thread Danielisz Laszlo
thank you Kris! - Original Message From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Danielisz Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2007 3:10:22 PM Subject: Re: gmail fs Danielisz Laszlo wrote: Does anyone know how to usw

Re: loopback won't enable automatically [SOLVED]

2007-09-05 Thread Craig Boston
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:48:12PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: Given your problems, I am highly suspicious that something has spammed your /etc/defaults/rc.conf... Or a mergemaster gone wrong (or forgotten to be run). Craig ___

Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Hauber
I apologize for that last comment... That was uncalled for. My time is limited because of my having to juggle so many things at once, and working on the road isn't helping me any (as much as I like the work). My wife is now travelling with me, so that was also part of the equation. Things

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 03:14:37AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: I thought were discussing the configuration of the mail server not your hatred toward us Serbs, Iraqis and God knows whom else. But then on the second thought maybe you are trying to teach us how to configure the spam

errors after running make

2007-09-05 Thread Terrence Wilson
I'm trying to install ndiswrapper from a .tar.gz file. I'm running make for the first time, so I am unfamiliar with it. But I have read instructions for installing ndiswrapper. I keep getting errors, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Here's what I did. I copied the ndiswrapper-1.47.tar.gz

Re: loopback won't enable automatically [SOLVED]

2007-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 11:48:12 Daniel Bye wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 07:35:26AM +, Pollywog wrote: I did find it in /etc/default/rc.conf: ifconfig_lo0=inet 127.0.0.1 # default loopback device configuration. I found the problem. lo0 was not listed in

samba / remote windows machine / nagios

2007-09-05 Thread alexus
does anyone knows how i can monitor for a date file on a remote windows machine from my freebsd through samba client i guess, so result can be reported to nagios? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: loopback won't enable automatically [SOLVED]

2007-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:36:04 Craig Boston wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:48:12PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: Given your problems, I am highly suspicious that something has spammed your /etc/defaults/rc.conf... Or a mergemaster gone wrong (or forgotten to be run). This is a

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:22:12 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your reaction is facinating considering the location implied by your e-mail reply address. I can perhaps understand your adversion to the use of metaphors in language - God know the Serbian propagandists warped the

Re: errors after running make

2007-09-05 Thread Bahman M.
Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install ndiswrapper from a .tar.gz file. I'm running make for the first time, so I am unfamiliar with it. But I have read instructions for installing ndiswrapper. I keep getting errors, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Here's what I did. I copied

6.2 Hangs Probing Floppy During Boot

2007-09-05 Thread Tim Daneliuk
I recently noted this problem and thought it was related to a new MOBO I'd just installed. I've now seen the exact same problem with an old MOBO when I loaded FBSD 6.2. IOW, the following appears to be a 6.2 artifact: During the boot probe, FreeBSD 6.2 (Release or -STABLE) hangs for several

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:10:50PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase that

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, 2007/9/5, Nikola Lecic [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:22:12 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your reaction is facinating considering the location implied by your e-mail reply address. I can perhaps understand your adversion to the use of metaphors in

RE: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Hauber Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 7:38 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out I apologize for that last

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Predrag Punosevac Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 3:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mail server setup questions On 05.09.2007 11:22, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [...] Your

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eray Aslan Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:05 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions Good advice. I am sure you could have written your response without

Re: errors after running make

2007-09-05 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 17:16:39 Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install ndiswrapper from a .tar.gz file. I'm running make for the first time, so I am unfamiliar with it. But I have read instructions for installing ndiswrapper. I keep getting errors, but I'm not sure what I'm doing

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:44:15 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 2007/9/5, Nikola Lecic [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:22:12 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your reaction is facinating considering the location implied by your e-mail reply

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Jim Stapleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 3:55 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Nikola Lecic; Russell E. Meek; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions Jim posted here asking for help, using

Re: errors after running make

2007-09-05 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install ndiswrapper from a .tar.gz file. I'm running make for the first time, so I am unfamiliar with it. But I have read instructions for installing ndiswrapper. I keep getting errors, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Here's what

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Zbigniew, please don't teach me lessons in politeness. Ted posted two very offensive mails and everyone has a right to publicly reply to publicly posted offence. If that's problem for you, then ignore this thread. Be careful when using word rubbish. My apologies. I shoudn't have used

Re: bootable CDs on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64

2007-09-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 08:50:21PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sirs Burning CDs is becoming a coastier task to me on FBSD-6.1-R amd64. I've lost five of them...and the question is how to make bootable CDs by using cdrecord? I've already read man cdrecord but the

installing on gjournal

2007-09-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hello, I just said to ask for thoughts the community about the above subject, after having waisted two hours trying to install 7-CURRENT... Do you know a relatively easy way to install a new system with gjournal? What I am seeing is: GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal $JournalID: ad0s2a contains data.

Re: loopback won't enable automatically

2007-09-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:47:47AM +, Pollywog wrote: I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one machine (it is a laptop): ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 Then everything is fine. I added ifconfig_lo0=127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 to

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread N.J. Thomas
* Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-04 18:03:20 -0400]: I need a mail server to take incoming mail, and provide a pop3 (or better yet, SSLed POP3) connection. I would second the recommendation for Postfix -- and Dovecot for POP. Could you all suggest to me what you use and a good web

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:51:18AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eray Aslan Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:05 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup

temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Robin Becker
My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the world. At present I don't even allow login via ssh on that box ie it's purely key based. --

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Mikel King
On Sep 5, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Robin Becker wrote: My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the world. At present I don't even allow

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Bahman M.
Robin Becker wrote: My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the world. At present I don't even allow login via ssh on that box ie it's

ports collection background-fetch

2007-09-05 Thread deeptech71
Is it possible to do automatic fetching of source files in the background while other parts are being compiled? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Danielisz Laszlo
After installing sudo read sudoers.sample (/usr/local/etc/sudoers.sample) - Original Message From: Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2007 6:37:51 PM Subject: temporary su login My collocation supplier is about to move our

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root operator 15728 30 pa# 2006 /sbin/shutdown chmod 4710 /sbin/shutdown and add user to operator group On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Robin Becker wrote: My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 18:50:21 Bahman M. wrote: Robin Becker wrote: At present I don't even allow login via ssh on that box ie it's purely key based. I'm wondering how would you want to change a system to which you don't have access? Or did I misunderstood something? He's using

Re: ports collection background-fetch

2007-09-05 Thread Bahman M.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do automatic fetching of source files in the background while other parts are being compiled? Just login on multiple consoles or use multiple x terminals (if running X) and on each one run 'make' for the port you want to compile. The port(s) will

Re: ports collection background-fetch

2007-09-05 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 18:46:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do automatic fetching of source files in the background while other parts are being compiled? Not automatically, but if you know which ports need to be done next, nothing stops you from doing: cd

/usr/ports portupgrade when only using packages

2007-09-05 Thread Michael C. Cambria
I need to set up a system that can only use packages. I've always used ports, so I'm not exactly sure if I'm doing things properly. Should I (do I need to) use portsnap to populate /usr/ports? Unless I really need something that doesn't have a pkg available, I will not be using ports.

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Bahman M.
Mel wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2007 18:50:21 Bahman M. wrote: Robin Becker wrote: At present I don't even allow login via ssh on that box ie it's purely key based. I'm wondering how would you want to change a system to which you don't have access? Or did I misunderstood something?

Re: ports collection background-fetch

2007-09-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and on each one run 'make' for the port you want to compile. The port(s) will be fetched and compiled simultaneously. Then all you need to do is to run 'make install' for each port. Note: I'm not sure but I think it's not a good practice to issue more than i do many but only one at normal

RE: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

2007-09-05 Thread David U
That is my job. The ONLY way to get someone to re-examine their assumptions is to piss them off. What a breathtakingly arrogant ponce! Perhaps THIS will piss YOU off enough to get you to reexamine YOUR assumption. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: ports collection background-fetch

2007-09-05 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Bahman M. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do automatic fetching of source files in the background while other parts are being compiled? Just login on multiple consoles or use multiple x terminals (if running X) and on each one run 'make' for the port you want to compile.

Re: loopback won't enable automatically

2007-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 16:12:07 Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:47:47AM +, Pollywog wrote: I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one machine (it is a laptop): ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 Then everything is fine.

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 5, 2007, at 10:37 AMSep 5, 2007, Robin Becker wrote: My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the world. At present I don't

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 12:28:51 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come on folks. You'll never get anywhere in a flame war with Ted. He changes the ground under you any time it is convenient. Jerry, I appreciate your good will, but he doesn't change ground. And this is not a flame

Re: ports collection background-fetch

2007-09-05 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:39:06 +0330 Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Note: I'm not sure but I think it's not a good practice to issue more than one 'make install' at a time. [...] This is not good practice at all, since both (all) chains of make jobs deal with the same

Re: a quick jails question

2007-09-05 Thread Adam J Richardson
Jonathan Horne wrote: will a NFS server run in a jail? im guessing no, that it falls into the funny services category (like snmp) that wont run right in a jail. thanks, Hi Jonathan. Forgive my curiosity, but why would you run NFS in a jail? Regards, Adam J Richardson

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Re: ports collection background-fetch

2007-09-05 Thread deeptech71
Bahman M. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do automatic fetching of source files in the background while other parts are being compiled? Just login on multiple consoles or use multiple x terminals (if running X) and on each one run 'make' for the port you want to compile.

Re: a quick jails question

2007-09-05 Thread Jonathan Horne
Quoting Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jonathan Horne wrote: will a NFS server run in a jail? im guessing no, that it falls into the funny services category (like snmp) that wont run right in a jail. thanks, Hi Jonathan. Forgive my curiosity, but why would you run NFS in a jail?

Re: ports collection background-fetch

2007-09-05 Thread Michael C. Cambria
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Bahman M. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do automatic fetching of source files in the background while other parts are being compiled? Wouldn't portupgrade --fetch-only work? Run this first to grab everything, then build. Not

Re: /usr/ports portupgrade when only using packages

2007-09-05 Thread Adam J Richardson
Michael C. Cambria wrote: I need to set up a system that can only use packages. I've always used ports, so I'm not exactly sure if I'm doing things properly. Should I (do I need to) use portsnap to populate /usr/ports? Unless I really need something that doesn't have a pkg available, I

Re: /usr/ports portupgrade when only using packages

2007-09-05 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 17:42:55 Michael C. Cambria wrote: I need to set up a system that can only use packages. I've always used ports, so I'm not exactly sure if I'm doing things properly. Should I (do I need to) use portsnap to populate /usr/ports? Unless I really need something

Re: /usr/ports portupgrade when only using packages

2007-09-05 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 20:34:56 Adam J Richardson wrote: Well, that's easy... # rm -R /usr/ports Saves you a load of disk space, too. The only downside is you get slightly older versions of software with packages. Oh, and don't use portsnap, it'll undo that rm -R for you. Using

Re: /usr/ports portupgrade when only using packages

2007-09-05 Thread Michael C. Cambria
Mel wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2007 17:42:55 Michael C. Cambria wrote: I need to set up a system that can only use packages. I've always used ports, so I'm not exactly sure if I'm doing things properly. Should I (do I need to) use portsnap to populate /usr/ports? Unless I really

Re: errors after running make

2007-09-05 Thread Matt Donovan
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install ndiswrapper from a .tar.gz file. I'm running make for the first time, so I am unfamiliar with it. But I have read instructions for installing ndiswrapper. I keep getting errors, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Here's

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Andrey Shuvikov
Hi, I'm trying to set up a home mailserver with imap/web access. But I was going to use exim. Several people mentioned postfix here, but nobody named exim. Is it a matter of personal preference or is exim not suitable for this task? Thanks, Andrey ___

RE: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

2007-09-05 Thread Bob Middaugh
I apologize for that last comment... That was uncalled for. Ted brings out the best in people. snip an unnecessary explanation But I'll be damned if you don't parse me off sometimes. :) Ted brings out the best in people. That is my job. The ONLY way to get someone to re-examine

Re: ports collection background-fetch

2007-09-05 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 20:09:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bahman M. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do automatic fetching of source files in the background while other parts are being compiled? Just login on multiple consoles or use multiple x terminals (if

Re: ports collection background-fetch

2007-09-05 Thread Andy Greenwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bahman M. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do automatic fetching of source files in the background while other parts are being compiled? Just login on multiple consoles or use multiple x terminals (if running X) and on each one run 'make' for the

[Fwd: Re: mail server setup questions]

2007-09-05 Thread Predrag Punosevac
---BeginMessage--- Andrey Shuvikov wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a home mailserver with imap/web access. But I was going to use exim. Several people mentioned postfix here, but nobody named exim. Is it a matter of personal preference or is exim not suitable for this task? Thanks, Andrey

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Andrey Shuvikov wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a home mailserver with imap/web access. But I was going to use exim. Several people mentioned postfix here, but nobody named exim. Is it a matter of personal preference or is exim not suitable for this task? Thanks, Andrey

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