Re: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.

2003-09-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:29:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Ajax Munroe wrote: ... Please, if you could just tell me of one of your systems thats a little more user friendly I would love to use it, and tell all my friends about it too so that

Re: Unusual logcheck entry

2003-10-09 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 07:16:45AM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:43:31AM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: The following appeared in /var/log/messages in my daily logcheck report: Oct 8 20:38:47 curly rpc.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat:

Re: Via EPIA 800Mhz

2003-10-28 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:52:28PM -0600, Pranav A. Desai wrote: Hi! Does anyone know if the Via EPIA 800MHz is supported in any version of freebsd. I tried it with 4.6.2 and it reboots as soon as kernel loads. Or do I need to enable any specific options in the kernel config. It has the

Re: Via EPIA 800Mhz

2003-10-28 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:20:57PM -0600, Pranav A. Desai wrote: Hi! How did you load the machine. Mine is one of those mini-boxes (no CDROM) and I loaded the HD on a intel machine and put the HD in the mini-box. I didn't have a floppy drive spare, so I put in a CDR drive for the duration

Re: phantom user

2004-01-18 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:34:31PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: It's me I guess; have fbsd 4.8 rlse on a box on my lan. I normally log on via ssh from my win xp workstation. #w 4:31PM up 28 days, 3:01, 2 users, load averages: 0.18, 0.06, 0.01 USER TTY FROM

Re: Advertisement Rates

2004-01-29 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:08:44PM -0600, TJ wrote: Webmaster, Could you please inform me of your advertisement prices to place a text link on freebsd.org. We don't sell advertising I'm afraid, but thanks for expressing an interest. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: named question...

2004-02-02 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 04:41:02PM -0500, Xpression wrote: Hi list, I have running named/BIND as DNS server, recently I have some problems and I don't know the source of it, I have checked the logs and config files but there is nothing unusual, here is my configs files, any suggestion

Re: conf/62230: log-in-vain issues it's msg every time 'mail' command is used.

2004-02-02 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 12:39:08PM -0500, JJB wrote: I disagree with you on this. Log-in-vain purpose in life is to interrogate attempts from the external interface, not the localhost internal functions, which this clearly is what is happening. That's simply not true. $ grep vain

Re: Vulnerability check disabled

2004-02-04 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:25:44PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 13:17, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 19:31:27 +1100 Gautam Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hope I'm not missing something obvious, but since today morning, I've

Re: A reverse DNS question

2004-02-05 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:22:19AM -0500, stan wrote: Can I use dig, or some tool to query an upstream DNS amchine to findout what rnage it is authoratative for in _reverse_ DNS? If you can do it for a normal zone, yes. (hint: there's not really any such thing as reverse DNS). Ceri --

Re: Still no handbook

2004-02-09 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 03:34:44PM -0500, stan wrote: I'm still trying to get my missing handbook back. I added teh doc cvsup file to teh set I processes with teis weekends cvsup run, on teh machine I want this on. Ran cvsup, make buildowrld, amke buildkernel, make installworld, make

Re: Using dhclient to update zoneedit with my dynamic IP address

2004-02-13 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:32:42PM -0500, JJB wrote: The zonedeit FAQ says this command can be used in dhclient to update my dynamic ip address at zoneedit when ever dhclient gets an new IP lease from my ISP. wget -O - --http-user=username --http-passwd=password

Re: start interface without IP address in rc.conf

2004-02-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:44:11PM -0500, Michael Goodman wrote: How do you start an interface in rc.conf without and IP address? Should be something along the lines of: ifconfig_dc0=up If you actually want the interface to try and acquire an IP address with DHCP, then use:

Re: posting messages to freebsd-newbies new group

2004-02-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 07:35:38PM -, David Clarke wrote: Hello: I have been trying for days to configure Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 and now Outlook Express as my new reader, I am able to read postings, but I cannot post any messages. When I attempt to post a message I get the

Re: Is the handbook no longer installed?

2004-03-03 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:37:32AM -0800, Randy Bush wrote: one basic question is where is the normal place for the handbook? is is /usr/doc or /usr/share/doc? an iso install puts in in /usr/share/doc, and a 'normal' cvsup puts it in /usr/doc because one normally (yes, there is no normal:-)

Re: libxml2.so undefined reference to `pthread_equal' and pthread_once

2004-03-11 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:25:53AM -0800, jimmie james wrote: FreeBSD fortytwo.zapto.org 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Thu Mar 4 04:07:58 EST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FORTYTWO i386 Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction here. rm

Re: FAQ

2004-03-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:06:59PM +0200, Gideon F. Gersbach wrote: Hi, I've started an IT company, and wanted to know if it would be possible to put your logo(with link to your site) on my site. Can you please let me know if I can do this or not and what the criteria might be to do

Re: Why is my /stand/ much older than my FreeBSD?

2004-03-31 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:59:33AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: I have a /stand/ with entries dated 18'dec'02 while I've CVSUP'd and built several versions of 4.x and 5.x since. I'm guessing that 18'dec'02 was my last CD install and that's what installed /stand/. Correct? Why doesn't

Re: exiscan-acl-4.31-16.patch.bz2

2004-04-02 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:38:57PM +0200, Wayne Swart wrote: Helo guys I am trying to install the latest exim, but I can't find exiscan-acl-4.31-16.patch.bz2 on any of the mirrors, anyone know where I can download it from? http://submonkey.net/files/ for a limited time (a week or so). Ceri

Re: [Exim] Re: exiscan-acl-4.31-16.patch.bz2

2004-04-02 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:06:41PM +0200, Nico Erfurth wrote: Ceri Davies wrote: I am trying to install the latest exim, but I can't find exiscan-acl-4.31-16.patch.bz2 on any of the mirrors, anyone know where I can download it from? http://submonkey.net/files/ for a limited time (a week

Re: comments

2004-04-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 07:34:31AM -0500, James T. Harrison wrote: My server had some apps running that should not have been there. You have a hacker using your site to gather info on servers. What are your plans to stop? What is your phone number and contact name? The perpetrator here

Re: www.orkut.com

2004-04-21 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:47:00AM +0200, Yaraghchi, Stephan wrote: Hi fellows, I recently read an interview with Google's vice president Urs Hoelzle and CTO Craig Silverstein in which they mentioned a community called 'orkut' created by one of their developers. It's described as a

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:22:32AM +1100, Andrew Cutler wrote: Hello I just hosed one of my boxes by recursively setting all my file permissions incorrectly: $ su $ cd /data $ chown -R andrew:wheel * $ chown -R andrew:wheel .* That matches ...

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:59:24AM +1100, Andrew Cutler wrote: Thanks for everyone's quick responses. I'm not going to delve any deeper as to why chown, chmod etc match .. for .* when other commands do not. I'm sure this is ground that has been covered many times before. And I'm sure its the

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:12:17PM +0100, Mark wrote: I must say, though, that while I understand this behaviour, one can argue on what exactly recursive is to mean here. Intuitively, the definition of the current sub-directory and all sub-directories below the current directory (and that

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:48:41PM +0100, Mark wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:12:17PM +0100, Mark wrote: I must say, though, that while I understand this behaviour, one can argue on what exactly recursive is to mean here. Intuitively, the definition of the current sub-directory

Re: just aquestion

2002-12-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 01:52:58PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-23 12:00:01 +: On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 11:13:31AM +, osama zekry wrote: hi there i am wonder ( think ) that your operating system is support a dbms ( data base managment system) such as

Re: Port 4976 ?

2002-12-31 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 07:52:28PM -0800, Steve Warwick wrote: Hi All, Just checking my security and noticed port 4976 is open. I cannot find a listing / notation for this and it appears to be under named - do I need this? It's an FAQ, Steve.

Re: Pw - name too long ??

2002-12-31 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 07:50:33PM -0800, Steve Warwick wrote: Hi All, I am trying to add a user name with the pw command and get the name too long error after 15 or 16 characters. However, I also use Webmin which has allowed me to use much longer user names. Is there a switch or setting I

Re: how to use ndc when running in bind in a sandbox

2002-12-31 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 03:21:02PM +0100, Didier Wiroth wrote: dns# ll total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 bind bind 4 Dec 30 11:39 named.pid srw--- 1 root wheel 0 Dec 30 11:39 ndc dns# pwd /etc/namedb/var/run dns# ndc reload ndc: error: ctl_client: evConnect(fd 3): No such file or directory

Re: command host does not check /etc/hosts.

2003-01-03 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:38:33PM -0700, Konstantin Borovik wrote: Command host does not check /etc/hosts file. Is it a bug or normal behavior? That's normal. DESCRIPTION Host looks for information about Internet hosts. It gets this informa- tion from a set of interconnected

Re: [Q] ipfw and 'me'

2003-01-06 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:02:01PM +, Jonathan Belson wrote: I've just been looking into the 'me' option for ipfw: me matches any IP address configured on an interface in the system. The address list is evaluated at the time the packet is analysed. Since the

Re: SMP kernel installation

2003-01-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 06:37:56PM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: You just need to uncomment/enable these options in the GENERIC kernel configuration like so: #cpuI486_CPU cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU Is *this* actually correct? Looks as if you've

Re: is someone running bind in a jail?

2003-01-13 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:17:05PM +0100, Wiroth Didier wrote: Hey, I have considerably problem setting up bind 8.3.3 in a jail! I'm sure a lot of person have setup bind in a jail. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/dns.html#NAMED-SANDBOX If you have problems with

Re: installing win2k after Freebsd?

2003-01-14 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:42:39AM -0500, Dan Aiello wrote: Here's my situation. I already have a machine dual booting Win2k and freebsd. Originally, I installed Freebsd second, so that I could get the bootloader. However, now I'm going to repartition my windows drives, so I'll need to

Re: named messages in /var/log/messages

2003-01-15 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:50:15PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:23:51PM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, I'm running bind in a sandbox as per the handbook. I've had this set up and (presumably) working okay since FreeBSD 4.6 Stable, and have today

Re: query logging

2003-01-15 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 05:11:24PM +0100, Mark wrote: I must be misunderstanding something. In the man for ndc, I read: querylog Causes named to toggle the ``query logging'' fea- ture, which while on will result in a syslog(3) of each incoming query (uses the WINCH

Re: Crontab and jobs

2003-01-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 05:35:47PM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: Im trying to setup a cron job to back up my db. If I manually execute the script it works fine, but the cron job isn't executing the job. ## Backup PostgreSQL database */1* * * * /root/bin/pgsql-back

Re: sandboxing named...

2003-01-28 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:45:27AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: I believe the normal way to chroot named in FreeBSD is something like: named_enable=YES named_flags=-u bind -g bind -t /etc/namedb -c named.conf ...in /etc/rc.conf. When doing so, the following seems to make life much better

Re: /etc/login.conf password formatting

2003-07-15 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:20:18PM -0500, Kris Yates wrote: Please send replies directly to me as I do not have time to check the list as often as I would like.. Currently, it appears that some passwords on my system are DES, most are MD5. I found the following below recently, a

Re: Complete FreeBSD the same as the online handbook?

2003-07-16 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:50:19PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: This message is sent again as I had forgotten to trim te settings in my newly installed sylpheed (I'm sorry about the former one) = I have a question: The complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey seems to be very good

Re: The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-06-22 - 2003-07-12

2003-07-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:31:25AM -0500, Chris wrote: As great as the Diary is, and I love it too - I am wondering. Since The Diary has ads, and if The Diary makes money with these ads, does it make it on how many users go to The Diary? If so - I wonder if it's proper to Spam this list in

Re: recommended book/guide for /bin/sh shell programming

2003-08-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:21:16PM -0400, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: As such, am looking for recommendations for a good guide/book or two for shell programming, but most of the books seem to be specific to bash, tcsh, ksh, etc... Given that there is a seperate bash shell port available, I

Re: mfs

2003-08-14 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:32:53AM -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:58:29PM - or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to setup /var on a mermory file system on Freebsd 5.1, any good documents that will help me, it's my first time.

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d files not running on reboot

2003-08-14 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 07:59:55AM -0800, admin wrote: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE My machine crashed last night and upon reboot not all the services that are executable in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d ran. Any clues how I can find out why this happened? A number of the files listed are not executable,

Re: Using chpass

2003-08-25 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:47:15PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, I'm trying to learn how to use chpass to change a user's name. I'm not getting anywhere, I've read the man page and Googled, but can't find an example. I want to change toor's name to 'Nobody Important'. I do: # chpass -a

Re: Daemonnews?

2003-09-03 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:27:41AM +0200, Grzegorz Czaplinski wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:51:28AM +0200, Konrad Heuer wrote: Virtually, this is no question for freebsd-questions -- but are there any problems with {daily,ezine,www}.daemonnews.org? [as you see, I love tcsh :-) ]

Re: dlint error in named file

2003-09-04 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:02:32PM -0700, Tony Sterrett wrote: Hello, Maybe some of you know the dlint tool. Please note mail.foobar.net nor mail appear in any of the files. Names (and ips) have been changed to protect the guilty. What's the question? Your PTR records are clearly

Re: mouse mats

2003-09-04 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:10:27PM +0100, Jane Evans wrote: Strange question I know but my son collects mouse mats and has seen one with your logo on it. Is it possible one can buy or give one away to him please. Jane, You can buy them at http://www.freebsdmall.com. Cheers, Ceri -- User:

Re: removing swap space...only by reboot? A bug?

2003-09-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: Hi, man swapon says: BUGS There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device. It is therefore not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during system operation. Is that still a

Re: Binding MAC to IP Statically

2003-09-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:50:04PM +0500, Timur wrote: What I'd like to is to be able to assign unused IP addresses to some 'invalid' MAC address, so that my router responds with 'host unreachable' to incoming packets destined to these addresses.. Well, do that then. # arp -s

Re: removing swap space...only by reboot? A bug?

2003-09-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:30:49PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: Ceri Davies wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: man swapon says: BUGS There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device. It is therefore not possible to dismount swap

Re: File mysql.sock lost

2003-04-02 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:45:24AM -0800, Ulrich Schrems wrote: Hi All, I have a problem with MySQL software. I lost the file mysql.sock on my system. Could some one tell me how to recover this file or how I generate this file? Does restarting MySQL recreate it ? Ceri --

Re: paths - a newbie question

2003-04-05 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 11:06:02AM -0500, Walter wrote: Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: After installing a port using pkg_add -r util, the only way I know to be able to type util at the command prompt to have it execute is either to reboot, or to make

Re: reverse makemap hash to get original text file

2003-06-06 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:53:13AM -0400, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: we have a 0 length file, but a 4k db is there a way to reverse the db to get the original data (or close to) makemap -u Ceri -- User: DO YOU ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR? Iniaes: Sure, I can accept

Re: ircII - specify the default server??

2003-06-18 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:37:41PM +0300, ODHIAMBO Washington wrote: I have installed ircII port. However, I wonder where I should specify the default server to connect to. Set the IRCSERVER environment variable. Ceri -- User: DO YOU ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR?

Re: Soft Updates / Exim Queue Size

2003-06-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:16:00AM +0800, Joseph Lewis wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, We just implemented Exim on FreeBSD, and turned the system to live. Before we really got started, our queue size was way beyond the normal Sendmail Solaris by about 10 times. We have enabled soft updates.

Re: FreeBSD NIS Server/Slave DES

2003-06-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:41:02AM -0700, Mike Hogsett wrote: The FreeBSD Handbook section 19.8.11 appears to be out of date. The output of the method shown to see if the FreeBSD box is using DES or MD5 has no resemblance to what I see on my box. Aargh. That is out of date. How do I

Re: FreeBSD NIS Server/Slave DES

2003-06-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:55:09AM -0700, Mike Hogsett wrote: Hmmm. Ok. I edited both files to list des rather than md5, but when I run 'passwd -l root' on my local box as a test I still appear to be getting an md5 password in the local master.passwd file.

Re: Mixing different arch's on a shared (NFS) ports tree

2003-06-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:03:20AM -0600, Tillman wrote: Howdy folks, I currently export /usr/ports to a range of servers, all i386 arch. I'm adding a sparch64 box to the mix, and I'd like to reuse the export (especially for distfiles). I'm looking for words of wisdom on how best to

Re: Changing email for periodic BSD reports

2002-10-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 01:21:43PM +0100, James Green wrote: Hi all, My local dev box is configured to send all mail to our main office mail server. A consequence of this is that daily, weekly, and monthly automated bsd reports, sent to root@, are being received by our mail server and

Re: burncd, cd-write, cdrecord

2002-10-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:50:39PM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: RE: http://www.freebsddiary.org/cdrecord.php I have a CD Burner at home I've never used. Can someone recommend a good X11-based (or GUI that uses burncd for a backend) for burning CD's? I would like to burn mostly data CDs

Re: mail subscription

2002-10-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:38:34PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 01:52:30PM -0700, Don L. Belcher wrote: Delivery of mail subscription to current and stable have stopped. I was wondering what mailing address I need, to resolve issue? Majordomo will unsubscribe users

Re: Public Relations

2002-10-04 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:42:25PM +, Harrison Grundy wrote: I'd like to know who to talk to about Public Relations activities. The list of staff currently lists this position as open. If there currently isn't anyone avalible to do that, I'd also be interested in helping in any way I

Re: Basic CVS question

2002-10-05 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 03:52:27PM -0400, Fuzzy wrote: On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Pookie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : As I understand it 4.7 is out. Inj my cvsupfile the tag would be: : RELEG_4_7 or RELEG_4 Hopefully this explains it all:

Re: block icmp with ipfw

2002-10-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 03:49:11AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2002-10-05 19:39, Jack L. Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:41 PM 10.5.2002 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2002-10-05 08:51, Jack L. Stone wrote: At 03:41 PM 10.5.2002 +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: From:

Re: block icmp with ipfw

2002-10-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:06:23PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: add 00602 allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 8 out add 00603 allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 0 in ... default deny You should really do it the other way around: let all ICMP

Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool

2002-10-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:30:27AM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Oliver Fromme wrote: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Fernando Gleiser wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Mikko Ty?l?j?rvi wrote: tr -cd a-zA-Z0-9 /dev/urandom | dd bs=$len

Re: how to kill nfs-blocked process

2002-10-11 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:39:38AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: cool46 cool46 wrote: thanks for your reply,but it is not work for me.i tried to mount nfs with options -i,-R,but the problem is as before.The details of my test is as follows: my nfs server(IP:10.0.0.1) is a RedHat 7.3 with

Re: Slightly OT: How to remove an odd file...

2002-10-13 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 09:00:19AM -0700, paul wrote: Brian McCann wrote: No go...here's the listing for the file...here's what happens... -rwsr-sr-x1 root root64924 Sep 2 15:24 rm rm: remove write-protected file ` '? y rm: cannot unlink ` ': Operation not

Re: Caching namesever in sandbox not resolving local boxes

2002-10-14 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:02:11PM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hi, I thought I had this one licked, but I may have ommited some step that I'd like to get some info on, please. I've got named configured as a caching nameserver in a sandbox on my gateway as per the Handbook. However when

Re: Caching namesever in sandbox not resolving local boxes

2002-10-14 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:30:51PM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote: From what I've learnt here, it would seem as if I've not thought this one out completely, and haven't got the right kind of nameserver set-up. Not yet, but you're 90% of the way there. You mentioned that it'd be better to

Re: Command like chkconfig

2002-10-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:40:28PM +0530, Samuel Joy wrote: Friend, Is there a command like chkconfig that we use in redhat present in FreeBSD. Tell us what that does and we may be able to help. I want to have a scrpt that is custom written by me to start automatically when the FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD version of Linux's passwd -l

2002-10-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 08:17:53AM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: i'm following a pretty decent IBM tutorial on how to setup a samba PDC. in the tutorial the following command is mentioned: passwd -l pw lock [user] Check the pw manpage. Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you

Re: TX Under run

2002-10-25 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:06:09PM +0200, Ian Barnes wrote: Hi, I keep getting this in my log files, what does it mean ? Oct 25 00:30:35 comrite-mdb /kernel: dc2: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold man 4 dc Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is

Re: ftpd.conf

2002-10-25 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:27:28PM +0200, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: Hello is here anyone who can send me a ftpd.conf that works in real life??? Uhhmmm... whats wrong with yours? A possible issue here, is that ftpd.conf appears to be lukemftpd specific, whilst the ftpd.conf manpage refers to

Re: Reconfigured named, but now getting errors

2002-10-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:09:37PM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hi Nick, I swear.., this thing was working after I had a fiddle this morning after sending my last e-mail off to you. Now I can't run nslookup on my domain: # nslookup www.vickiandstacey.com Server:

Re: Kernel config problem with scbus

2002-10-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 07:26:06PM -0700, Kevin Stevens wrote: I'm trying to do old-style kernel builds with 4.7 (though I've run into this same issue with earlier releases and other motherboards). In the Handbook, it says that if you are compiling for an IDE-only system, you can remove

Can't build databases/portgresql7

2002-10-19 Thread Ceri Davies
I know this is my fault, because I've checked the error logs on bento and it's building fine there, but I keep getting the following error trying to build the postgresql7 port: ## error log starts gmake[5]: Entering directory

Re: dig . ns @b.root-servers.net - Connection refused. WHY? [related to FBSD 4.7 reset itself - lots of DENY UDP mess]ages in /var/log/security

2002-10-27 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 05:18:10PM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: Just checked against http://www.pgp.net/wwwkeys.html to verify: pub 2048R/DC92FBD7 2002-08-03 Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 04 2E 82 F6 3E 78 25 14 42 84 90 E7 B7 B1 F7 26 Verbose: Public Key

Re: Kernel will not compile, please help

2002-10-28 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:50:51AM -0800, J. Foobar wrote: I am attempting to compile a custom kernel in order to add support for ipfw. I ran into several undefined reference errors for 'xpt_done', etc. The last error: scsi_low.o(.text+0xc6f): undefined reference to 'xpt_done' Do you

Re: Mounting large FAT32 partition truncates filesystem?

2002-11-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:22:00PM +1100, William Rose wrote: Hi, I recently tried to mount a FAT32 file system (formatted to 80GB, under Windows 2K) under FreeBSD. The only problem is that the filesystem has been truncated to 20GB! Now, booting into Windows shows it has also been

Re: SMTP auth on demand

2002-11-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 04:27:28PM -0600, Steven Lake wrote: Hi all. Is there a way to get your SMTP server to look at your radius logs, see where you're logged in from, what IP specifically, and allow relaying through that IP until you log off? Basically what I need is when one of our

Re: gateway_enable=YES without a restart

2002-11-03 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:06:04PM -, Andrew Brampton wrote: So what command could I type, or which process could I kill/restart so that my box will function as a gateway? Just run: sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 In general, if you're setting a variable in rc.conf and what to see

Re: am I banned????

2002-11-04 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:16:45AM +0200, ?lk? SAYILAN wrote: I couldn't get list mail. I wonder moderator banned me? One week before my office system room electric constuction trouble had been occurs. So mail server out of function vs vs. Please remove my banned. If mail from the list sent

Re: man 1 eject [DaleCo]

2002-11-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:32:25PM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: Are we closer to getting to the bottom of this? I don't remember choosing to install eject manually from my original /stand/sysinstall install. pkg_info -W eject Ceri -- The warriors of my elders have come! To Unsubscribe:

Re: Easter Eggs

2002-11-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:13:40AM -0500, Lord Raiden wrote: This might sound like a silly question, but does Freebsd or any of it's component programs have known easter eggs? Just curious. :) The binaries don't, although there is some level of amusement to be found in the source

Re: spamassassin port ...

2002-11-16 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:50:07PM -0800, Matthew Hunt wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:42:15PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: If whereis string locate -i string find /usr/ports/ -iname '*string*' portinstall -n ':[sS][tT][rR][iI][nN][gG]' won't find a port,

Re: [OT] Spare mailservers

2002-11-21 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:35:19PM +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote: What is there against the following solution: We are now adding a second mailserver (20 MX) to our configuration, which will forward mail to the main mailserver (10 MX) through mailertable. A third one will be added as soon as

Re: Strange Group Diffs

2002-11-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:43:04AM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: fat_man.ascendency.net group diffs: 16a17 cyrus:*:60:daemon 30d30 cyrus:*:60:daemon Somebody moved that entry from line 16 to line 30 of /etc/group. I'm concerned because I'm using SMTP-AUTH (via cyrus). Is someone

Re: Strange Group Diffs

2002-11-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:57:36AM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: I did add and delete a test user in the time span that the log covers. I just checked on cyrus is back to line 17 in /etc/group. My bad - the line got moved from line 30 to line 17. In: 16a17 cyrus:*:60:daemon Out: 30d30

Which package installs Pod::Usage ?

2002-11-26 Thread Ceri Davies
Could someone please mail me the output of: pkg_info -W /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Pod/Usage.pm Mine seems to have gone walkies for some reason. Thanks, Ceri -- By the Dwarf Father's rune, your fate is here! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Which package installs Pod::Usage ?

2002-11-26 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:54:51PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:23:42PM +, Ceri Davies wrote: Could someone please mail me the output of: pkg_info -W /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Pod/Usage.pm Pod::Usage is bundled with perl-5.6.1 or perl

Re: php.ini

2002-11-28 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:12:12PM +0800, adrian kok wrote: I installed mod_php4 by port But where is a file php.ini? /usr/local/etc/php.ini-dist Ceri -- Your ignorance shall be your last breath! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the

Re: Another hardware question.

2002-12-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:29:15PM +0300, Artem Koutchine wrote: Hello again. Well, people said that dual P III 550 with SDRAM is definetely slower than single P 4 3Ghz with DDR RAM. Now, a bit trickier question. Is DUAL P III 1,4Ghz with SDRAM faster than SINGLE P4 3Ghz with

Re: Ports base? [hear my $500]

2002-12-03 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:28:07PM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:53:29PM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: Why can't someone write a shell script or binary that would prompt the user with: Hello, which port would you like? Boggle. Do you mean something like this ?

Re: More then 4 IDE devices in one FreeBSD server.

2002-12-04 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:56:37PM -0500, mike wrote: Problem is as you can guess from the subject is i got 4 120 gig hard drives in there, and i would like to have a CDROM and maybe even more disks as needed. A: What is the hardware name of the device i am looking for that will allow more

Re: More then 4 IDE devices in one FreeBSD server.

2002-12-04 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 08:12:47PM -0800, Mike Hogsett wrote: Can't you just go down into /dev and do : ./MAKEDEV ad4 ad5 ad6 ad7 and gain access to the 4 drives on a second (supported) IDE controller? Umm, two devices per controller ? Ceri -- Your weakness shall be your defeat! To

Re: your mail

2002-12-13 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:23:28PM -0600, Franklin Pierce wrote: B.5 I hope that by the time I have a use for those \ functions I have enough savvy to FTM . . . err. FTM ?!?! That's probably illegal in a couple of states, at least ;) Ceri -- The Creator's stone! To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Wrong group on touch

2003-02-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:01:28PM +0100, Toni Schmidbauer wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:37:10AM -0500, Tuc wrote: -rw-r--r-- 1 tuc wheel 0 Feb 20 09:35 /tmp/tuc pinhead@aeolus [/tmp] $ ls -ld /tmp/ drwxrwxrwt 14 root wheel 1536 Feb 20 15:57 /tmp// the sticky bit set for /tmp.

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