Re: inbound http authentication proxy

On Feb 11, 2004, at 11:20 AM, jr315 wrote: building a FreeBSD email-gateway/proxy server. need to filter inbound mail and http/webmail requests for an exchange server. need to find good http authentication proxy for server running IIS. need proxy package that will authenticate inbound http sessions

Re: cdrom

On Feb 11, 2004, at 4:02 PM, Wouter Grol wrote: I have an old pc on witch I want to install freebsd, only when the bios does not see the cdrom drive. But windows does. Hi-- If the BIOS doesn't recognize the CD-ROM drive, that's generally a NO-GO for FreeBSD working with the drive. You probably

Re: Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP

On Feb 13, 2004, at 1:45 PM, Matthew Marino wrote: Samba works but the configuration can be a cuss. It's the NetBEUI name server that takes a deeper understanding of Microsoft Networking than the average Joe has. If your really up for a challenge try sharing the same ufs volume with Windows and

Re: howto calculate free memory from top

On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 08:35 AM, Jesse Guardiani wrote: How do I calculate the amount of free memory my system has at any given point in time? What do you mean by "free memory"? My top usually looks like this: Mem: 72M Active, 668M Inact, 165M Wired, 29M Cache, 112M Buf, 70M Free Swap:

Re: max physical memory per process?

On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 04:19 PM, Steven G. Kargl wrote: Assuming that a user has the proper resource limits set and assuming that the system has sufficient physical memory, what is the maximum amount of physical memory that a process can allocate? In particular, if I have a Tyan K8W (du

Re: antiviruos for FreeBSD mail server ?

On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 03:39 AM, Armand Passelac wrote: [ ... ] In the community, the Vexira Antivirus seems to have a very very good reputation : http://www.centralcommand.com/vexira_mailarmor_linux.html You can see this article for a good anti-virus list : http://www.tummy.com/art

Re: Configuring imap-uw difficulties

On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 01:10 PM, Ryan Sandridge wrote: My trouble is with changing some of the defaults. Unless I'm missing something, all configuration is done through re-compiling rather than a configuration file. Not my preference, but I can deal with that. In particular I modif

Re: tar vs cp

On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 04:03 PM, Felix Deichmann wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: tar handles symbolic links properly, whereas cp will "copy through" the contents of the link. Also true for cp -R? :-) No, but not all systems have "cp -R", although FreeBSD does. Likewise for the "-p" or "--p

Re: Porting to FreeBSD

On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 06:11 PM, Daniela wrote: I found many interesting Linux programs on sourceforge.net and other sites, but they're not in the ports collection. So I thought I'll port some of these to FreeBSD. However, I'm still pretty new to FreeBSD and I never ported anything.

Re: Third Party Patches that link to OpenSSL

On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 07:09 PM, Matthew Luckie wrote: I've written an OpenSSL plugin for gaim that allows gaim to use the OpenSSL libraries that come installed with FreeBSD. Gaim is a GPL application, OpenSSL is BSD licensed, and apparently there are license issues to deal with as a

Re: Error Message

On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 02:11 PM, Bob Moore Computer Recruiters TekJobs.com wrote: I'm doing pine -inbox-path=users/tekjobs/mail/Trash Gives me this message Your terminal, of type "ansi", is lacking functions needed to run pine. What do I need to do? Where are you running pine? If you're

Re: unable to use multiple exports for mountd

On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 11:21 AM, Jason Cribbins wrote: I have been dealing with this problem for many years and never really found a reasonable solution or explanation and now it has come to a point where I can no longer find work arounds to make it work the way I need it. How do I export

Re: Choosing A Stripe-Size (RAID5 Array)

On Sunday, October 26, 2003, at 07:42 PM, Rishi Chopra wrote: I'm setting up a 600GB Raid-5 array (4-200GB 8MB Buffer IDE disks connected to an Adaptec 2400A controller) and would like some help picking a stripe-size (this is the smallest unit of data written to each disk by the raid controller.)

Re: RAID 0 After the install?

On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 02:57 AM, Joe Pokupec wrote: - If I use a hardware ATA RAID card, are there certain system settings required for FreeBSD to recognize this, or is the RAID format done at a platform-independent level (BIOS or other boot utilities)? It depends. Some have a OS-level d

Re: Load Average more than 400

On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 12:05 PM, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: can you please hint as what parameters I have monitor to find the cause of sudden splashes of load of a FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE server? This box is acting as a database/mysql server and periodically goes up to 400 of load aver

Re: internet setup

On Oct 29, 2003, at 4:16 PM, B F wrote: FreeBSD machine | | \|/ Switch-->Cable modem->internet /|\ | | WindowsXP machine I have Roadrunner cable service ( i know, it sucks, but i get it for free). Can someone just tell me step by step how to get my internet runn

Re: Just curious, how large is FreeBSD?

On Oct 30, 2003, at 4:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just purchased FreeBSD 5.1 and got it installed sucessfully-YEAH!-yesterday. I am a "new newbie" with no previous experience with UNIX, so I feel this is a wonderful accomplishment. I ran accross one problem, though. Every time I install

Re: what happens when connection is lost ?

On Oct 31, 2003, at 11:54 AM, M.D. DeWar wrote: Hello, If I am logged in on a FreeBSD machine with ssh. And doing say a ./configure or make and I lose connection does that stop what I was doing ? In general, yes-- what happens is that a broken connection results in a hangup (HUP) signal being se

Re: M/B Bios Settings

On Nov 1, 2003, at 11:43 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: knomadness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: When setting up the video card configuration in X-windows, how do you indicate or direct it to use the AGP slot not a PCI slot? Usually, by inserting a video card into an AGP slot instead of a PCI slot. If yo

Re: Inact v. Free Memory

On Apr 8, 2004, at 8:33 AM, Micah Bushouse wrote: My question is... after I shut down all programs, ctrl alt backspace X, and get back to a terminal, why does top still show all the memory just freed by my desktop programs as inactive? The system still has the contents of your old programs kept

Re: quick queston

On Apr 14, 2004, at 4:48 PM, Brian Henning wrote: Where on the freebsd website can i find info on the difference between FBSD 4.10 and FBSD 4.9? Until 4.10 is "officially released", the information you ask for may not be completely available, but http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/relnotes.ht

Re: boot log

On Apr 16, 2004, at 11:31 AM, RazorOnFreeBSD wrote: I just would like to know how can I read the exact text that is displaying very fast at the FreeBSD boot. Try: dmesg | less -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: Interpreting ping response? (the POD lives??)

On Apr 18, 2004, at 6:10 PM, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: A further question, if I may ... from a FBSD box at 192.168.0.2, I can ping 192.168.0.2 up to { -s 65507 }. Windows XP at *.*.*.10 responds as long as { -s < 25153 } ... if Ethernet Maximum is 1500, and that's the reason for the er

Re: speed issues

On Apr 19, 2004, at 2:31 AM, Radu MOLNAR wrote: But in this network we also use DC for file sharing. And using the DC protocol i only get rates below 1MB/s for upload or download. I'm not sure what the "DC filesharing procotol" is; I've never heard of it, and I suspect not many other people have

Re: Dependency hell

On Apr 19, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Ziller, James wrote: So in other words I do have to recompile everything that depends on a given library just because that library is updated to a slightly newer version?:( Well, you could simply use the old version of the library. It's not especially hard to write

Re: Dependency hell

On Apr 19, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Ziller, James wrote: So then is there a way that the ports/package system can automatically handle replacing libfoo.so.3 with libfoo.so.4, so that packages compiled to use libfoo.so.3 can use libfoo.so.4 instead (assuming the new version is backward compatable)? If th

Re: Help - where to report posting problem

On Apr 20, 2004, at 9:33 AM, Dick Davies wrote: Looks like the 4th bullet point applies here. Whoever admins that mail server needs to fix the config so it uses a real host/domain name in the HELO command, not "popimap02.icare.priv" You shouldn't be dumping mails based on the contents of HELO thou

Re: sysinstall/ports?

On Apr 20, 2004, at 4:30 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: 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? The packages installed that way a

Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf

On Apr 23, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Danny wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:51:28 -0400, Bill Moran wrote /etc/defaults/periodic.conf has all the default values for periodic. Defaults as a reference, or the defaults that are currently enforced even without /etc/periodic.conf? Yes, to both. The two aren't ex

Re: Slow loading websites

On Apr 23, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Jammet wrote: When i go to a website, say Slashdot or freshmeat, or any where that involves ads on the page some where, about 99% of the time it can take upwards of 2-3 minutes to load the entire page. [ ... ] I guess my main question is, anyone ever seen this, if so ev

Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs.

On Apr 23, 2004, at 3:37 PM, Joe Rhett wrote: Sorry, it's been quite a while since I've played with FreeBSD and some things are taking a while to get used to. The configuration system has come a long way... but the documentation seems to be lacking a bit. I'll make a try at answering the issues yo

Re: NFS-bug or not ?

On May 12, 2004, at 3:31 AM, Mikhail E. Zakharov wrote: When playing with NFS under FreeBSD, I've noticed something strange. You know it's impossible to export 2 directories of the same file system on the server to the 1 nfs-client: server# cat /etc/exports /usr/c client /usr/d client server# kill

Re: Setting Up IMAP

On May 12, 2004, at 9:29 AM, Jason Dusek wrote: Problem 1 My mail server's certificate 'fails' the authenticity test because it is self-assigned. Why is this bad (aren't I *supposed* to get a certificate with # make cert in the stunnel port?) and what do I do to get a better certificate? You ca

Re: Start BIND on boot

On May 11, 2004, at 1:13 PM, Nuno César Pires wrote: [ ... ] The result is that the boot process takes a very long time in the "Starting Standard Daemons" [ph]ase. After boot the result of "ndc status" is: (server is initialising itself) and then nothing happen. Starting de named manually works

Re: Where to send binary packages bugs?

On May 3, 2004, at 12:09 PM, Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote: Where to send the bugs (e.g. porters faults, not authors) in binary packages? [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to be source-ports only maillist. Binary packages are built from sources, right? The way binary packages get fixed involves changing the so

Re: Suexec with Apache 1.3.29

On May 3, 2004, at 12:42 PM, Marty Landman wrote: Maybe this is a foolish question, but how can reasonable security on a server running Windows/Apache be achieved? I'm not convinced that Windows can be configured to offer Internet-reachable services with "reasonable security", but excluding that

Re: Abnormal network errors?

On May 5, 2004, at 2:27 PM, adp wrote: On this server I'm thinking I need two things: 1. More sockets available. 2. Larger sockbufs for send and recv. Is this an accurate assessment? Given the application of this system, you might want to up the value of kern.ipc.nmbclusters by a factor of four o

Re: segmentation fault-- is my array too long?

This doesn't have much to do with FreeBSD, but... On May 6, 2004, at 2:58 PM, Caroline Korves wrote: Any idea on what I should change to make the program run with large numbers of elements in my arrays? Automatic variables get allocated from the stack, which can only grow to handle 8 MB or so by d

Re: Tape

On May 14, 2004, at 4:05 AM, Axel S. Gruner wrote: I am looking for a good Tape drive (ok, Ultrium 2 LTO is just a little bit to expensive ;-)). The Tape Drive should be a DLT Drive with 40/80 GB per tape. Also i want to use FreeBSD 5.x and the Server will be a IBM x345 machine. Backup Software

Re: sendmail on lan

On May 14, 2004, at 11:34 AM, Vulpes Velox wrote: How do I get sendmail to work on the lan? The easiest way to get sendmail to work properly on your LAN is to configure DNS for the local machines. It's also possible to configure sendmail with the nocanonify FEATURE and configure mail routing dir

Re: sendmail on lan

On May 14, 2004, at 4:59 PM, Vulpes Velox wrote: The topic and from and to are... From: kit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: v42. 05/14/04:14.00 system check Not really sure if this is a sendmail problem or not here... :/ BTW know of any good tutorials or any good reads I can find

Re: SMTP AUTH

On May 27, 2004, at 12:39 PM, Noah wrote: how do I configure sendmail to support smtps (SSL before SMTP) I want to configure this. any links out there show how to do this please? Doing STARTTLS is better than SMTPS, because it is backwards compatible with traditional SMTP. In any event, to ans

Re: Measuring the stack usage of a program

On May 26, 2004, at 7:09 PM, Michael Sig Birkmose wrote: Does anyone know, if it is possible to meassure the maximum stack usage of a C program throughout it's entire execution? Sure. See "man getrusage", specificly: long ru_isrss; /* integral unshared stack size */ ...which tends to gi

Re: Whatever happened to the sticky bit (for files)

On Jun 1, 2004, at 10:08 AM, Bill Moran wrote: Unless I'm mistaken, at one time turning on the sticky bit on a binary would tell the kernel not to swap out that program when it was running (or somtehing similar ... I think it used to mean "kernel must never swap out this data") That's right, alth

Re: Networking w/ FreeBSD

On Jun 1, 2004, at 2:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is this: How would I set something up to perform the same functionality, as when I had windows? I'm just not sure what needs to be installed on either system? Any ideas or comments would be great! FreeBSD supports mounting Samba/CIFS

Re: Running FreeBSD/PostgreSQL on high-end dual Xeon box

On Jun 3, 2004, at 5:42 PM, Kenji M wrote: I am currently specing a 2U dual Xeon server and hope to use RAID 0+1 capability. The question is for PostgreSQL admins... 1) Which RAID controller should we use? You haven't mentioned whether you plan to use SCSI or IDE drives. The PERC RAID controller

Re: Leaving a server on all day

On Jun 8, 2004, at 1:27 PM, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Hopefully I'll get my flat screen back soon from repair. I guess those use less power, right? Also, a 1.8GHz Athlon won't use any more power than necessary during idle time, right? Yes, a flat screen typically uses about 50W; a big CRT might

Re: Leaving a server on all day

On Jun 8, 2004, at 1:59 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Hopefully I'll get my flat screen back soon from repair. I guess those use less power, right? I remember having this conversation with someone not too long ago, and our consensus was that flat screens used just as much power as tube monitors. Don't

Re: Leaving a server on all day

On Jun 8, 2004, at 2:54 PM, Cordula's Web wrote: AMD processors now have fairly good thermal behavior when they are idle, although it obviously helps if one can enable APCI and power management capabilities to either throttle down the CPU speed or even go into sleep mode. What about other architect

Re: Leaving a server on all day

On Jun 8, 2004, at 4:06 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No need to guess, use an amp-meter. :-) What a crazy idea. I seem to remember plugging monitors into a UPS in an attempt to use the cheesy "load meter" lights to tell which was drawing more

[OT] Re: Leaving a server on all day

On Jun 8, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Bernt. H wrote: No need to guess, use an amp-meter. :-) Well If it measure trueRMS then you could use it, otherwise no. You are correct that one needs to measure the voltage and use the RMS value, or DC series equivalent if you like that phrase, in order to figure out

Re: Some Simple Questions

On Jun 14, 2004, at 12:28 AM, Spuds wrote: 1) Is FreeBSD truly free, as in I don't have to pay for it and can download it at no charge or is FreeBSD just a name? Yes, FreeBSD is free as in "you don't have to pay for it". You can download .iso images of the CDs to burn yourself for no charge fr

Re: syscons features

On Jun 22, 2005, at 2:52 PM, Steven Friedrich wrote: Can anyone explain to me the mechanism behind the following: If I echo B^HB | more I get a bold B. more is somehow activating? a feature of syscons (or the vga driver). Are there any other utilities like more that do this? Is this beh

Re: Need your advise.

On Jun 22, 2005, at 3:32 PM, Nuttapon Tharachaikul wrote: 1. After I created installation-CDROM. It was burned completly. But I have a question about the following files ,Does it used for what ? - CHECKSUM.MD5 If you run md5 (called "md5sum" sometimes) on the .iso file, it shou

Re: Need your advise.

On Jun 22, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Nuttapon Tharachaikul wrote: Please advise me , I would like to know that : Does BSD5.4 support "High Availability Clustering" same like RedHatAS3.0 ? In term of the capability to handle share disk-storage to support redundancy of fail over single point o

Re: FreeBSD & mini-ITX

On Jun 22, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Benjamin Keating wrote: I've been eyeing up these mini-ITX boards - would like to make a quite little file server. Does anyone here run a mini-ITX board (what model)? Does it work out of the box? Anything not supported? I'd go for one of VIA's as AMD's and others are

Re: Jail error ln operation not permitted

On Jun 29, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: It appears that the syslogger does a link (ln -s) from /var/run/log to /dev/log and that inside a jail you cannot do this. However, you can set it in the base system's version of the jail file system. I don't know if it stays

Re: directory permissions, sticky bits, chmod, etc.

On Jun 29, 2005, at 2:00 PM, motionsiren wrote: Im embarassed to ask but the man's aren't making any sense to me. I have a group of users that are all in the same group. They like to share a common directory but find that they're files are rwxr-xr-x. I'd like to make sure that every file within

Re: reg: Gmake

On Jul 6, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Sunil Seth wrote: I am trying to install Postgresql on FreeBSD and as a part of installation I wanted to use Gmake command. When I use this command it gives me command not found. I am new to FreeBSD and Postgresql. Any help would be appreciated Use ports:

Re: NIC suggestion

On Jul 6, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Casey Scott wrote: I am experiencing the same rebooting under network stress that others on this list have reported. The box is using 3com 905b's, and I would like to try another NIC in the box to make sure that this isn't just a driver issue, though I strongly su

Re: multi-port NIC suggestions?

On Jul 6, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Greg Barniskis wrote: Can anyone suggest (or warn against) any particular NIC make/model that features 2 or 4 NIC ports on a single card, for use with 5.4- STABLE (or even 6.0 since this is a long term project)? We are interested in prototyping a small footprint ro

Re: Simple question

On Jul 6, 2005, at 3:45 PM, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi again, I'm reading a Pdf book downloaded from freeBSD.org called FreeBSD Handbook and there I always find this references: sendmail (8) sshd(8) /etc/inetd.conf(5) <-Which is the meaning of those numbers Thanks It refers to the section of th

Re: Usage help

On Jul 6, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Here's the situation , minute after I launch Spamassassin the machine starts crawling, although top shows anywhere from 50 - 90 idle it just slows down extremely , for example I'll type top and wait anywhere between 4 and 12 seconds be

Re: Usage help

On Jul 6, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Ok, if I can figure out what this means procs memory page disk faults cpu r b w avmfre flt re pi po fr sr ad0 in sy cs us sy id 1 10 0 435856 5288 260 22 63 43 334 9137 0 447

Re: Usage help

On Jul 6, 2005, at 5:26 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: is this how I should change it? spamd_flags=${spamd_flags:-"-c -d -r - m 20 ${spamd_pidfile}"} Try more like: spamd_flags=${spamd_flags:-"-c -d -r -m 2 ${spamd_pidfile}"} You don't have enough memory in your machine to run twenty ~30MB

Re: Libz

On Jul 7, 2005, at 5:31 PM, Frank de Bot wrote: Recently a bug was discoverd which affected various unix platforms including FreeBSD. ( ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/ advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:16.zlib.asc ) But it say it only affects the 5.x releases and not the 4. Is it true only t

Re: How to pass configure options

On Jul 11, 2005, at 5:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I pass some extra "configure" options when making ports? Edit the port's top-level Makefile, and add whatever options you'd like to $CONFIGURE_ARGS, as in: CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--disable-nls -- -Chuck ___

Re: problem with setup of dns on freebsd-5.4

On Jul 18, 2005, at 5:20 PM, Antoine Solomon wrote: I setup a simple dns server so i can keep all hosts in one place. The only problem that I have is that from other hosts i am unable to connect to dns server. When I do a nmap of the dns server, I don't get the port 53. But when I login to th

Re: samba / hard drive issues

On Jul 26, 2005, at 3:50 PM, fci wrote: now I get this error about every 10mins: inetd[473]: netbios-ns/udp: bind: Address already in use inetd[473]: netbios-ssn/tcp: bind: Address already in use If you are starting smbd/nmbd via the rc.d mechanism, you should not turn them on in inetd as wel

Re: Slow DNS

On Aug 3, 2005, at 12:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem: I just got my named up and "working" however resolving a domain takes an unusual amount of time and the only way to go to a domain on a user computer is to ping it on the server first. I'm sure it is just an option I forgot to se

Re: sysctl options loader.conf or sysctl.conf

On Aug 3, 2005, at 11:21 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: I'm a bit confused about whcih options needs to be set where. This changes over time. A lot of options once needed to be set in the loader.conf before the kernel started up, but the system is getting more flexible and some of those can be

Re: binding lpd to a single IP

On Aug 3, 2005, at 1:49 PM, dave wrote: I've looked over the lpd man page but can't find what i want. I've got a box that does printing services, but now it also has jails. I want to lock lpd down to a specific IP, but don't see a flag to do so. Help appreciated. You can use /etc/hosts

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

On Oct 19, 2005, at 4:44 PM, Doug Poland wrote: I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd like to purchase another CPU. Question is, can I simply match another Xeon o

Re: Problem with groups

On Oct 21, 2005, at 4:12 PM, RW wrote: From a KDE Root console, I changed a directory's permissions to 770 and added my account to it's group with pw. In another console, under my own account, I tried to cd into the directory and failed, no gui application could access the directory either.

Re: sendmail/mailertable question

On Oct 24, 2005, at 6:38 PM, stan wrote: I have a machine that hosts several virtual domains. The domains have wildcarded DNS records. I want mail recived for say "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to get passed on downstream like that without striping out the "listmaint" part. I think I can do this with ma

Re: a simple question...

On Nov 4, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Javier Matos wrote: Hello, I´m a student of computer science and this year I must to do an application using system calls. We are using linux system calls like "pid_t fork(void)" and other services of the standard POSIX. I want to know if it´s possible to use that

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

On Nov 4, 2005, at 12:29 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote: Multigigabyte? Find another approach to solving the problem, a text-base diff is going to require excessive resources and time. A 64-bit platform with 2 GB of RAM & 3GB of swap requires ~1000 seconds to diff ~400MB. There really aren't man

Re: smbfs small read tuning?

On Nov 7, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote: I have an application that makes hundreds of thousands of small read ()s (a few hundred bytes each time). If I run it directly on files on an smbfs mount, the runtime is on the order of an hour. If I copy the files to my local hard drive fir

Re: debug.log questions

On Nov 7, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 with sendmail that was included with FreeBSD. There is a debug.log that I have questions about. Is the debug.log just for mail troubleshooting? Can I turn it off or reduce the amount of logging? No such file exists by defau

Re: ifconfig mystery card

On Nov 9, 2005, at 5:21 PM, Live-Wire wrote: running ifconfig I see (besides my localhost lo0 entry): x10: flags=8802 mtu 1500 options=9 ether 00:01:03:20:d5:fd media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier and yet, running ifconfig x10 i get "ifconfig: interface x10 does no

Re: route how to?

On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:15 PM, Perttu Laine wrote: I'd like to add route to my computer so one ip would be forwarded to "/dev/null". So all other connections would work normally, but connection to for example 192.168.10.1 would not work. How can this be done? And I propab

Re: Upgrading application(s)

On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Sasa Stupar wrote: I am quite new to freebsd. I have several applications build from the ports collection. When some port change for a new version (I cvsup my ports collection) how do I do upgrade of that application? Is it the same as for the first time: just g

Re: How to check if a processor in the machine is dead

On Nov 21, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Jayesh Jayan wrote: I am having problem with my dell 2850 server. It has freebsd 5.4 installed. Today the machine is flashing amber light on the face plate. On checking I found that to be PROC Machine Chk which means cpu has failed. Dell has floppy and CD-ROM b

Re: bad udp cksum 26ff!

On Nov 28, 2005, at 1:46 PM, John Palmer wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.4 p8. I did a tcpdump -vv -i em0. The output produced a "bad udp cksum" with my DNS server. Does anyone know what it means? Or, how I can correct the problem? If you are sniffing traffic from the machine itself, tcp

Re: system time "slowing down" ?

On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: For some time now, I have noticed that the time on my system keeps lagging behind. I reset it with `date 2005MMDDHHMM` but after a few days I see that it's lost quite some hours again? What should I suspect? CMOS battery has been changed, b

Re: Multiple CPUs

On Dec 13, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I guess this means my new server is only using one of my CPUs? esmtp# grep CPU /var/log/dmesg.today CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2399.33-MHz 686-class CPU) Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs cpu0: on acpi0 Can someone point me to the

Re: /etc/mail/local-host-names

On Dec 13, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: how line should look at this file to enable anybody in IPv4 10.0.0.0/8 to relay through this server 10. seems not to work. As someone else has said, local-host-names controls class W, the list of hosts for which mail will be delivered loc

Re: fquestions

On Dec 14, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote: I'm looking at buying a Celeron 3GHz m'board with the Via chipset. I'm not familiar with the via, but according to the Bsdforums, it works with FBSD. Does anybody know what kind of builtin audio of video is onboard

Re: fquestions

On Dec 14, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Gary Kline wrote: You forgot to tell us which VIA chipset or MB-- there are lots and lots of VIA-based motherboards around, with a wide variety of hardware. Here's the URL on the board. It looks okay, but then it was written by salesmen:). I'm f

Re: Determining disk latency

On Dec 14, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Dec 14 14:17:49 esmtp postfix/qmgr[29605]: 7BEE97E997: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=11246, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 14 14:27:29 esmtp postfix/qmgr[29605]: 7BEE97E997: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=592, status=deferred (deliver

Re: Do I need to setup an IP Alias

On Aug 13, 2004, at 5:12 PM, Abid Saigol wrote: We have a ADSL internet connection served through a Linksys router setup as the primary gateway on IP 192.168.1.1. Our ISP has allocated a non-filtered fixed IP address to us. I have set-up the FreeBSD box with a fixed IP of 192.168.1.50 subnet 2

Re: Server Cuts Out

On Aug 18, 2004, at 4:37 PM, Grant Cooper wrote: I am sure it is my ISP removing me from the routing table somehow or my DHCP client is not refreshing but I'm not sure. Does anyone have any ideas what I should do? You should be sure of what you're sure of. :-) You haven't said anything about wh

Re: Scheduled system backups program

On Aug 19, 2004, at 12:53 PM, Joshua Lewis wrote: They do not have any tape drives only hard drives and to top it all off they only have Macs. They are using a dedicated Mac running OS 9.2 acting as a server. Tape drives make really good backup devices; backing up to another hard drive is not nea

Re: Change root user name? possible?

On Aug 25, 2004, at 6:50 PM, Ara Avvali wrote: Sorry if this might sound crazy, but is there anyway to rename root account to something else for extra security? Why, yes, you can rename root. Use vipw. If you setup sudo properly, you can even run a system without any valid uid=0 users existing

Re: cannot get rc.conf to configure an second interface

On Aug 27, 2004, at 9:30 AM, Bob Ababurko wrote: I am curious as to how these netmask settings will effect the way my routes will be handled. If I use a /32, what does that meanor more specifically, what is going on here? FreeBSD does not let you configure two network interfaces on the sa

Re: Mac filtering with ipfw2

On Aug 31, 2004, at 12:07 PM, Steve Quezadas wrote: I basically want to allow traffic to come from one mac address. I am trying to get the following rule to work: ipfw add accept tcp from any to any MAC any 10:20:30:40:50:60 OK, that looks about right. Yes, ipfw2 is on my freebsd system. This rule

Re: 5.1, 5.2, or 5.3???

On Sep 1, 2004, at 1:58 PM, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So, I have been told that I shouldn't put 5.x on a production box, but on the other hand I need pam_ldap, nss_ldap support on my box, which I have also been told is only available in 5.x. If you have reason to need PAM & NSS support for LDAP, yes,

Re: 5.1, 5.2, or 5.3???

On Sep 1, 2004, at 3:43 PM, Curtis Vaughan wrote: Just out of curiosity, what is going to happen in 2 weeks? Actually, I have 5.3-Beta installed on it right now. So, maybe I'll just keep it, but wait to put it into production. 5.3-BETA will become 5-STABLE, meaning "production ready". And if you

Re: MTU Blackhole problem?

On Sep 7, 2004, at 7:46 AM, R. W. wrote: I'm guessing that this is a path MTU discovery blackhole, since if I set sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=400 the problem goes away. (I presume that net.inet.tcp.path_mtu_discovery: 1 means that path MTU discovery is already turned-on by default.) What the

Re: Broadcom 440x NIC not recognized on boot

On Sep 10, 2004, at 3:52 PM, Richard Lynch wrote: Sometimes, when one talks about a "config" file, one is talking about editing /etc/*.conf, and start/stop a service, or, in extreme cases, re-booting. Are there run-time options to the kernel in such a file? Some of the settings one can make in /etc

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