Re: Transfering Files

2004-05-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 13, 2004, at 10:11 PM, Bruce Hunter wrote: I have two computer systems. 1 windows 2k system where I do web development work, specifically php development. The other system is a FBSD headless system that I control via ssh, from my windows system. The FBSD system is my local webserver

Re: ntfs mount

2004-05-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 7, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Mark Ovens wrote: J. W. Ballantine wrote: It a Dell, but given the configuration, i do not believe it came pre-installed from the factory. I would have thought that a Dell would have had *an* OS pre-installed. Not always. I am running FBSD 4.9 on a couple Dell 2650's

Re: ntfs mount

2004-05-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 7, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Mark Ovens wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: On May 7, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Mark Ovens wrote: J. W. Ballantine wrote: It a Dell, but given the configuration, i do not believe it came pre-installed from the factory. I would have thought that a Dell would have had *an* OS

Re: Is there any hardware RAID (SCSI) that is fully supported?

2004-05-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 7, 2004, at 7:13 PM, Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, is there any hardware SCSI RAID controller that is fully supported in FreeBSD? By fully supported I mean being able to monitor and talk to the controller on a live system in order to initiate a rebuild on a replace drive and such.

Re: FTPD SSHD server

2004-05-23 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 23, 2004, at 10:04 AM, Andri Kok wrote: Hello fellas, I have FTPD and SSHD running. The way enabled it was by uncommenting lines in inetd.conf. Now, If I access it from the outside (school's lab to my home computer, we have static IP) it works. But If my friends try to access it from the

Re: FTPD SSHD server

2004-05-23 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 23, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Andri Kok wrote: Hi Bart, Thx for the reply. The problem that I had from windows was connection timeout. When I try to ssh to my BSD box, it prompts the login name, than it hangs till it finally get connection time out. The same goes with ftp and telnet. There is a

Re: Solved: FreeBSD as print server w/CUPS + samba + apsfilter

2004-05-25 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 24, 2004, at 9:56 PM, Mike wrote: Greetings: This post is a result of 2 days of thrashing trying to get FreeBSD (4.9) to act as a print server to Win2K/XP clients. I have included links to a how-to that I wrote that includes a full install and configuration of CUPS and Samba so that

LDAP

2004-05-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Are there any references that will step through creating an LDAP database? I have been banging my head into a wall trying to get one set up...I have it at a point where the slapd will start and monitor for connections, but using ldapbrower logging in as the rootdn will yield errors whenever I

Re: LDAP

2004-05-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 27, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Thompson, Jimi wrote: The question then becomes - What do you plan to use the LDAP to store? Depending on your answer, you may need to modify your schema in order to store that information. For example, there is a library which uses LDAP to store information about

Re: LDAP

2004-05-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 27, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Vince Hoffman wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2004, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Are there any references that will step through creating an LDAP database? I have been banging my head into a wall trying to get one set up...I have it at a point where the slapd will start and monitor

Re: LDAP

2004-05-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 27, 2004, at 3:49 PM, Vince Hoffman wrote: I'm using it to store posix and samba users, handles XP and 2k authentication fine (dont have any 9x on the network,) All i'm doing is runing a samba PDC for a small network, and am using ldap as it means its easy to have a BDC if needed and

5.2.1 boot-install

2004-06-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I downloaded the 2 meg boot floppy for installing FreeBSD 5.2.1. I wanted to burn it to a CD (I usually install via ftp, and use a smaller CD that I have here to transport the media since I didn't want to burn a full ISO). I downloaded the boot image and checked the MD5. On my iBook, I ran

Re: 5.2.1 boot-install

2004-06-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 2, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: I have used this technique with 4.9, and it worked. On a machine i wanted to install 5.2.1 on, it won't (this is a machine the 4.9 install worked on fine). The boot process starts, and it locks up ending with this in the bootup sequence

Re: Issues with large files on nfs-mounted filesystems?

2004-06-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 3, 2004, at 7:16 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:42:40AM +0100, Jim Hatfield wrote: I've made a large .mpg file on a Linux machine (because some tools, such as mplex, are newer than available in FreeBSD ports). Here's a directory listing: -rw-r--r-- 1 jim users

Re: x-forwarding problem - no window contents

2004-06-04 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 4, 2004, at 10:10 AM, Simon Timms wrote: I have tried using several different window managers and different users in the hopes it was some sort of setting I had accidentally triggered but to no avail. Has anybody seen this before and how do I fix it? I assume that it is a problem on the

Scripting backup of file naming?

2004-06-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Hello scripting gurus.. I'm sure this is an easy one for someone out there. Here's what I'd like to do, and hoping someone out there knows a simple way to do this without ripping my hair out. Scenario: *Two servers, Server1 and Server2. *I want Server1 to copy a set of files from Server2 on a

SSH

2004-06-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
-e in ssh-keygen is my friend...it seems to be working now. Thank you! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SSH question

2004-06-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Hello... Sorry if this is too OT, but I recently posted about copying some files from one server to another using scp...I thought I could get that set up easily since I've done it before. Silly me! The primary server is running # ssh -V OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030924, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0,

Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 8, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: I have my desktop configured to run as a server and app server for a thin client laptop. Will running it all day without suspend mode use a lot of power? Not necessarily. If you want to measure it, make sure you have a decent UPS (which

pkgdb -F question

2004-06-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I am working on an installation of Metadot. Running a portversion on the server yielded an error, and I suspect it's because part of the instructions had several CPAN modules installed via the CPAN shell rather than just ports. Here's what I was getting: # pkgdb -F --- Checking the

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 13, 2004, at 8:02 PM, Edward Hendrie wrote: Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD because they have

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 15, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Chris Lynch wrote: This thread cracks me up. No matter how many times the same subject has been brought up, I still can't stop laughing at the silliness of it all. Maybe FreeBSD should make a fuzzy bunny that does a happy dance...but, then we'd be stepping on the

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 19, 2004, at 3:26 AM, Michael W. Oliver wrote: On 2004-06-18T23:17:14-0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: So the question is, has any person, anywhere, at any time, successfully installed 5.2.1-RELEASE on any hardware whatsoever ? Or is it just a practical joke release ? That's a tad caustic, don't

Re: E-Mail Gateway

2004-03-08 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 8, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Wright, Greg wrote: I would like to use FreeBSD (4.9) as the platform on which to run an secure e-mail gateway. At least that is what I think I would like to do. The reason for FreeBSD is that I much more familiar with it than other free Unix like operating systems.

Re: Update utility

2004-03-08 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 8, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: Is there any utility in FreeBSD 4.9 to check for possible updates/bug fixes via internet? I *think* have have kind of a handle on this on the server I just installed... I usually do a cvsup to update the list of the ports tree, then use a

Re: E-Mail Gateway

2004-03-08 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 8, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Wright, Greg wrote: Bart, thanks for the reply !! I had been looking at qmail with clam and spamassassin, but somebody told me that qmail might not be appropriate as a secure mail gateway. It was not designed to route mail, but instead to act as just a mail server

Amavis-Stats

2004-03-08 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Has anyone installed Amavis-Stats on a FreeBSD 4.9 Release server? When I try running the Perl script, I get an error about not being able to find warnings.pm... -Bart ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Amavis-Stats.

2004-03-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 8, 2004, at 6:53 PM, Julien Gabel wrote: Has anyone installed Amavis-Stats on a FreeBSD 4.9 Release server? When I try running the Perl script, I get an error about not being able to find warnings.pm... There exists a little FreeBSD guide for amavisd-new at:

Re: Update utility

2004-03-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 9, 2004, at 12:57 AM, Steve Ireland wrote: Below is from a post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It sounds like what you're looking for. I haven't tested it yet, but it my list of things to look into. I glanced over the site (http://www.roq.com/projects/quickpatch/) and it's saying that if I run that

Re: Moving SSH port off of port 22

2004-03-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 9, 2004, at 2:01 PM, Jason Halbert wrote: Hello All: I need some help moving SSH off of port 22, preferably onto port 23 and disabling telnet. Can I do this just by changing something in /etc/services or by means of a firewall? I have a firewall installed on the box and using NAT with

Rebuilding the World Question

2004-03-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Here's a definite question from a first timer, but there are so many variations out there that I thought I'd bounce this off the list and see what people thought (if I was doing this correctly) I have a 4.9-RELEASE installation. It was recently pointed out to me that to get all the bug fixes

Re: Amavis-Stats.

2004-03-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 9, 2004, at 11:05 AM, Julien Gabel wrote: snip For my part, it doesn't work... but later than you : I get an *access denied on the stats files* when launching the index.php file from my browser... certainly not too hard to fix, but I had no time fot that this week. But the difference is...

Re: Amavis-Stats.

2004-03-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 10, 2004, at 2:29 AM, Julien Gabel wrote: :-/ I really am a little bit too far into the configuration of the 4.9 server to update to a 5.x server...isn't 4.9 the recommended production release from Freebsd.org? Yes, it is. To me, it looks like Perl isn't finding an end-of-line (;)

clamav ports

2004-03-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I've emailed the maintainer about this a few hours ago, but wondered if anyone else had experienced this... I'm running postfix with amavisd-new and clamav (clamd) to scan incoming email from the Internet then forward it to an internal Exchange server (a spam/virus filter server, essentially). I

Re: clamav ports

2004-03-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 10, 2004, at 9:26 PM, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: Bart - just a thought, but it is possible that the port updated the virus database to the possibly older version in the distfile. You may want to run freshclam and see if this clears up the issue. Hopefully thats all the problem is. hope

Re: clamav ports

2004-03-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 11, 2004, at 12:00 AM, Paul Murphy wrote: Just a thought, do you have '#NotifyClamd [/optional/config/file/path]' uncommented in freshclam.conf I didn't, but I did uncomment it now. I don't have a freshclam running from the rc.conf; I have a crontab file for root that is 0 */4 * * *

log rotation

2004-03-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Quick questions: I've run across some mumblings in the ClamAV lists about Clamd not logging anymore (or not scanning anymore?) when the maximum logfile size is reached. Is anyone in FreeBSD running this, and if so, are you using Newsyslog to rotate the logs? What are your settings (how would I

Re: log rotation

2004-03-15 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 15, 2004, at 7:37 AM, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:30:05PM +1030, Wayne Sierke typed: On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 10:37, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Quick questions: I've run across some mumblings in the ClamAV lists about Clamd not logging anymore (or not scanning anymore?) when

Re: Antivirus suggestion...

2004-03-15 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 15, 2003, at 9:01 AM, Xpression wrote: Anybody can suggest me a free antivirus to use with MailScanner + Spammassassin on a FreeBSD-4.8 box running Exim as MTA ??? Thanks in advance... I haven't tried it on Exim, but I've had mostly good luck with ClamAV (need to work on the log

Re: ClamAV Log Rotation (WAS: Antivirus suggestion...)

2004-03-17 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 16, 2004, at 6:28 PM, Wayne Sierke wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 08:45, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: Hope this is of some use: snip Clamd log rotation: first and foremost, make sure that clamav is gonna drop a pidfile. in /usr/local/etc/clamav.conf, uncomment: # This option allows you to save

Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 17, 2004, at 5:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: 1) Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so your emails may be easily read. I'm using Mail.app on OS X 10.3.3, and someone offering some advice from this list also asked me to fix line wrapping. I checked and checked, but found nothing in

Re: Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 18, 2004, at 3:42 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: Yup. I do it manually - just hit that nice big Enter/Return key between a couple of word when I get out around that far. Which is why, on my mailer, quoting you gives a full line then one word then a line...it kind of reminds me of a person

Re: Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 18, 2004, at 5:22 PM, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Bart Silverstrim thusly... Incidentally, can others on the list verify where my mail is wrapping? Love to! Your first reply did not wrap around ~72 characters; it went until the width of my terminal (mutt 1.5.5.1_1

Re: Mail readers

2004-03-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 19, 2004, at 2:49 AM, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. Nothing. Format=flowed applies solely to plain-text messages. HTML messages already have something functionally equivalent to f=f: the BLOCKQUOTE attribute, which... um... quotes blocks of text

Re: Top posting

2004-03-22 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 21, 2004, at 7:35 PM, Lucas Holt wrote: Aside from mailing lists, I tend to be a top poster. I don't like when people leave the last 12 emails and then bottom post.. i have to scroll all day. They should, in my opinion, delete extraneous stuff that doesn't have anything to do with the

Re: How To Upgrade to Perl 5.8 on 4.9 System?

2004-03-24 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 23, 2004, at 8:41 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm using 4.9-RELEASE. Is is possible to upgrade Perl from the default 5.005 version to 5.8.2? Yes. Are there any steps required beyond installing the port? Try: cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 make install use.perl port I also

Re: ! why?

2004-03-25 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 25, 2004, at 8:37 AM, __Clint__ wrote: The [EMAIL PROTECTED] email was a one-time disposable email address that I only ever gave to FreeBSD.org. Well, you started out with the right strategy, but you abandoned it too soon. You've now blown what looks like your real email address. Never

Re: ! why?

2004-03-25 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 25, 2004, at 8:57 AM, __Clint__ wrote: I once submitted my address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] to SOME webform on www.freebsd.org. Never used or heard of the address again until that spam was directed to it. Never been on the list. Everything after + but before @ in my email is ignored.

Re: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

2004-03-28 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 28, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Joe Falcone wrote: With your help your os will become a alternetive to all operating systems on the market. Correct me if I'm wrong, but... a) the goal of FreeBSD isn't to become a marketed product, per se... and b) FreeBSD already IS an alternative to marketed OS's.

SpamAssassin

2004-03-29 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Question...Is anyone else running amavisd-new with spamassassin from ports? If so, where/how should I be updating or altering the spamassassin rules? I'd like to try updating some of the rules from the spamassassin site, but didn't know where the ports version was putting the rulesets... a)

portupgrade question

2004-03-29 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I recently ran a portupgrade on one of our servers. The following error and exchange came up: server# pkgdb -F --- Checking the package registry database Stale dependency: portupgrade-20040325_1 - openssl-0.9.7d (security/openssl): New dependency? (? to help): ? [Enter] to skip, [Ctrl]+[D]

Re: Anti-virus

2004-03-30 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 29, 2004, at 9:52 PM, Earl Larsen wrote: I was wondering what is a good, free ;) anti virus program for FreeBSD. Clamav has worked very well for me... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

portupgrade problem w/ dependency?

2004-03-30 Thread Bart Silverstrim
After doing a make install on openssl and then a portupgrade -f portupgrade, here's what I ran... server# pkgdb -F --- Checking the package registry database server# portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.. Done. done [Updating the portsdb format:bdb1_btree

Re: sf.net: host not found

2004-03-31 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 31, 2004, at 10:52 AM, Shantanoo wrote: I told you how to setup your _own_ _DNS_ server. You won't need to use other DNS server. Shantanoo Forgive me, but does the country block access to the root Internet servers? If so, wouldn't it only cache information that is available...i.e., if

PERL question

2004-04-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Okay, this is probably off topic, and I'll gladly take it offlist if someone can contact me directly with an answer...I was hoping that with the BSD Unix gurus here, someone may have experience in the area of this question :-) I'm looking for a PERL script that can act kind of like a proxy

Re: Is Anyone Receiving List Mail?

2004-04-02 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 1, 2004, at 8:40 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I haven't received any mail from any of the several FBSD lists to which I subscribe since this morning, April 1 at around 06:00 PST. I am receiving mail from other sources so I don't suspect my system. If others are receiving mail, please

OS X and FreeBSD: What could be a good setup

2004-04-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 2, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Doug Poland wrote: Panna wrote: You see I'm in a state of confusion.. You're simply using a FreeBSD as a file server. You serve up files to the client via NFS (OS X) or CIFS (Windows). FreeBSD doesn't care. Now if you want FreeBSD to understand and manipulate

Re: OS X and FreeBSD: What could be a good setup

2004-04-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 12, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: [ ... ] I'm looking at using FreeBSD on a server (web, mail, file server) with OS X, Windows, and probably Linux clients. I'd like the FreeBSD server to handle authentication, but that may be a pipe dream to accomplish

portupgrade-razor-agents, amavis, sa errors

2004-04-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Unfortunately, it rebuilt many things and the output of the compile had scrolled off (is there a log somewhere of what happened?), but after a portupgrade I was greeted with the following error: * [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 118 packages found (-0 +1) . done]

Re: MS Excel/Word compatible ports?

2004-04-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 13, 2004, at 11:52 AM, Joshua Lokken wrote: * Conrad Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-13 06:41]: I know, I know, I could probably find the answer to this question myself, but I thought I'd save myself the time and trouble. :-) Looks like someone already pointed out the flaw in that

Re: have i been hacked?

2004-04-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 14, 2004, at 1:47 AM, Luke Kearney wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:51:06 -0400 dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom: Hello, Wondering if a system on my network has been hacked? At approx 12:30 this evening the hard disk went crazy, i have been out of town lately and

Re: What happened after gnome upgrade??

2004-04-15 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 14, 2004, at 10:08 PM, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:48:32 -0400 R. M. Los [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Something strange has happened. In gnome-2.4 I had the CPU/Memory/Network monitors setup on my bottom bar, as well as my battery meter, etc. Now with Gnome-2.6

Re: Problems mailing FreeBSD Lists

2004-04-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Apr 20, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Ben Pratt wrote: Hello - I've been having problems recently sending e-mail to FreeBSD lists. For some reason I'm able to receive messages without a problem but when I try to send them I'm getting rejected by the list server. I've tried using Mozilla Thunderbird

sysinstall/ports?

2004-04-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Silly question but it's the first time I've played with X under FreeBSD... I am in the process of installing X with Gnome from /stand/sysinstall. Will the packages added through this be the same as those from ports, or is there a way to use ports (portupgrade) to update the packages? Do I

Re: Hardware RAID

2005-01-21 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 21, 2005, at 4:02 AM, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:22:36AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:57:21 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This did teach me a lesson that I kind of knew already but didn't think too much about. That is, a

portmanager loop?

2005-01-25 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I had (have?) several packages in the ports collection that needed updating, and recently someone in the list was talking about using portmanager -u to save on problems with updating; it doesn't touch the ports database, it won't mess up the collection, it walks dependencies automagically,

Re: portmanager loop?

2005-01-26 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 26, 2005, at 4:38 AM, cali wrote: I had (have?) several packages in the ports collection that needed updating, and recently someone in the list was talking about using portmanager -u to save on problems with updating; it doesn't touch the ports database, it won't mess up the collection,

Re: portmanager loop?

2005-01-26 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:40 AM, Michael C. Shultz wrote: Thanks Bart for your patience, this one required me to set up XFree86-4 on a FreeBSD 4.11 machine and back date all of the ports. Perfectly understandable and I thank you for the efforts you're going through to get portmanager updated so

Re: How do I do a COLD Reboot on FreeBSD?

2005-01-31 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 31, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Billy Newsom wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Well, I guess I completely do not understand what you are asking. From anything I can get from what you write here, its behavior is normal and expected. What is the problem and what are you trying to fix or to get it to

Re: OT: Funny disclaimers (Was: Re: ssh root@localhost)

2005-02-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 2, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: Sorry to join in on the noise: =quote= This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 5, 2005, at 3:01 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erik Norgaard Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 11:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: favor Mike Hauber wrote: Fact is,

Re: Electricity bill [was: Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?]

2005-02-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 7, 2005, at 3:34 AM, markzero wrote: * Erik Trulsson [2005-02-05 23:55 +0100] Also keep in mind that if you leave the computer running all the time it will show up on your electricity bill, so if you wish to save power you should shut down your computer over night. Given that your

Re: favor

2005-02-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 7, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: EK Let us make an analogue betwixt our Valerie and one who submits to the EK local newspaper. There is a roughly equal level of consent given in EK both cases ... Not so, on two points: (1) the newspaper is obviously available to anyone

Re: favor

2005-02-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 7, 2005, at 11:37 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Eric Kjeldergaard writes: EK To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the EK freebsd-questions Archives. EK EK Since we are discussing implicit contracts, I would think that the EK announcement that the collection of prior

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 2:18 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: That is so not true that it makes me almost as angry as the original debate. Maybe getting angry about a mere logo is a bad sign. Just to sum up things as I understand it... People want to change the logo from Beastie

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Greg Barniskis wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: Out of curiosity, is Beastie so terrible, a logo, that a business would be stupid enough to base their server decisions based on it? Would you care if a business were that dumb...would you actually *want* them using

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Napper writes: Its been my experience that the corporate suits get the perception of teenage hacker from the cartoonish mascots. Agreed. And their perception is not always incorrect. Am I the only one that finds some amusement in the

Re: Virus question

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Karen Donathan wrote: To Whom it may concern: My name is Karen Donathan and I am a computer science teacher at George Washington High School in Charleston, WV. We run our website (http://gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us) on a FreeBSD server. This project was given to me, and I

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Peter Risdon wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:56 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 8:00 AM -0500 2/11/05, Bart Silverstrim wrote: [...] Since when did FreeBSD, a project always driven by volunteers and not by commercial matters, FreeBSD is a commercially viable

Re: My thoughts on the list as of late...

2005-02-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 12, 2005, at 7:19 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 4:11 AM To: FreeBSD - Questions Subject: OT: My thoughts on the list as of late... As I read *some* (mainly because

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 12, 2005, at 5:30 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Michael C. Shultz writes: I Agree! My FreeBSD desktop is very stable and user friendly. What ever time I spend fixing/managing desktops is on my friends windows machines, never my own because it always just works. Maybe you can explain to me

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 12, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Vonleigh Simmons writes: Rat Bastards at FreeBSD that don't break into the companies, steal the code, and port their apps. I don't understand this comment. I can go months without rebooting. My NT machine has gone for nearly a year without a

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 12, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Bart Silverstrim writes: I never quite liked these arguments. The question to ask is, What can I use for graphics editing on platform X? What can I use for desktop publishing on platform Y?. Not in this case, because many

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 12, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Bart Silverstrim writes: Thank you for supporting vendor lock-in. Recognizing, not supporting. Every $ spent on a product is another $ supporting it. Do don't even bother asking people who will suggest alternatives, because it's not what you

Re: X on a server Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 13, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Ean Kingston wrote: On February 13, 2005 03:53 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: You can install the X libraries and client apps on your server -- this works fine at secure level 3 and does not require kernel configurations changes or

Re: Logo contest?!

2005-02-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 14, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Martin Ibert wrote: Hi, I'm at a loss about whom to contact, since the PR slot on the contacts page only says seat open. So I tried questions. I've read on slashdot that you entertain the notion of running a FreeBSD logo contest. As a long-time user of FreeBSD, both

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-15 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 14, 2005, at 7:43 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Eric Kjeldergaard writes: Well, no that's not entirely true...First off, there's the claim by Windows itself that it's not drivers. The OS itself never identifies problems as being within the drivers. Driver code is assimilated with the kernel

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-15 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 15, 2005, at 12:40 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Microsoft doesn't understand servers very well. Most people at Microsoft grew up using microcomputers, and that's all they know (sound familiar?). They truly have no idea of some of the constraints that apply to the server world. As a

Re: Anthony

2005-02-15 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 15, 2005, at 7:56 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On 15 Feb Timothy Smith wrote: Stijn Hoop wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:34:24AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: MSIE has traditionally followed HTML standards more closely than almost any other browser. Firefox does pretty well, tough; Opera

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 15, 2005, at 12:40 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Bart Silverstrim writes: It's not part of the OS! Fine. Will MS let me buy just the kernel? No, but you don't have to buy or install most of the drivers. If you run with only required default drivers, the system will be stable. Let's pretend

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 15, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Bart Silverstrim writes: They were an outside team that worked on VMS. They started NT before Windows became a marketing drone's dream. The Windows subsystem became the default subsystem after Windows 3.x took off. Originally it wasn't

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 16, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Bart Silverstrim writes: Um, no. OS/2 had the Presentation Manager layer on it for the GUI. Presentation Manager was an afterthought, once they realized how far they had gone astray. anthony: But IBM wanted a CLI, like DOS or OS/2, whereas

Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 7, 2005, at 10:05 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Jerry McAllister writes: The only real thing you can do is to read back the tape and look for a couple of files with fairly high inode numbers for each file system dumped.If you can read them, you can assume the tape is readable. I'm

postfix on FreeBSD

2005-03-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I'm trying to set up postfix to reject messages to two specific usernames on our domains. The FreeBSD server is taking the messages, checking them for spam and viruses, then forwarding them on to our internal mail server. In the /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf file, I added the line:

Re: postfix on FreeBSD

2005-03-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 9, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:43:05 AM -0500 Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I then ran the commands postmap /usr/local/etc/postfix/access Should be: postmap hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/access man (1) postmap I was running the command

Re: postfix on FreeBSD

2005-03-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 9, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Jim Trigg wrote: On Wed, March 9, 2005 10:43 am, Bart Silverstrim said: In the /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf file, I added the line: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = check_recipient_access hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/access Then using tail -f /var/log/maillog, I got

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 9, 2005, at 11:54 PM, Mike Hauber wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 10:53 pm, Luciano Musacchio wrote: Hi, I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? :), I need to set some filter on my mail server, can some one here give me a hint on this? thanks heh... I'm working on

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 11, 2005, at 1:34 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 3:25 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to deal with spam for good? There's no

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 11, 2005, at 1:37 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kirk Strauser Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:42 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to deal with spam for good? You know, I'm no longer

Re: Clock slew vulnerability in FreeBSD?

2005-03-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 10, 2005, at 10:44 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Kris Kennaway writes: Isn't this a non-problem if you use ntpd? Unfortunately, no, because the TCP stacks on most systems don't use the disciplined clock provided by NTP for the timestamps. Instead they use a clock based directly on the RTC,

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