Re: Sendmail FreeBSD 5.3 Issue

2006-08-09 Thread Derek Ragona
Make sure you have nsswitch configured correctly, and your hosts file, and the reverse DNS maps setup correctly. -Derek At 09:31 AM 8/9/2006, Derrick Schimcek wrote: I have a machine that I have installed bind and sendmail from the ports collection it is a mail gateway. When I do a ns

Re: Filtering mail based on header contents

2006-08-09 Thread Derek Ragona
I would recommend you simply monitor your email, checking the SPAM scoring. There are two levels at which you can bounce SPAM in SpamAssasin. You will likely want to set the higher level to bounce after you have chosen what score you want to set for the bouncing. Redirecting to a mailbox wil

Re: Reinstalling Sendmail?

2006-08-10 Thread Derek Ragona
You should check your log file and see why sendmail is exiting. -Derek At 06:33 AM 8/10/2006, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: I have some problems with Sendmail (ref an older thread I posted): pid 72284 (sendmail), uid 0: exited on signal 11 pid 72505 (sendmail), uid 0: exited on sign

Re: Using putty as a ssh client on FreeBSD

2006-08-10 Thread Derek Ragona
You are trying to automatically login and either the key is bad or missing. You should try creating a new key. -Derek At 10:13 AM 8/9/2006, Josh Paetzel wrote: I'm trying to use putty on my FBSD 6.1-R box to access another FreeBSD box. I can get in fine using the command line ssh cl

Re: Horizontal Streaking on Monitor

2006-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Sounds like you are getting some noise either from a bad cable or from the motherboard itself. I would try a different cable and if you get the same result, try re-seating the card, or moving to a different slot, if possible. -Derek At 10:33 PM 8/14/2006, Chris wrote: My Video card i

Re: Stupid question about mountpoints and fstab

2006-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Well it looks like home is on a second disk, which used 6 GB in overhead making the filesystem. -Derek At 10:41 AM 8/15/2006, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello people, I have never figured out something like this can be done, but today I see it. We have purchased s co-lo server. They

Re: Finding out which options you used when compiling a package?

2006-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
for most ports: make config will bring up the configuration with the last used options selected. -Derek At 01:45 PM 8/15/2006, Chris wrote: Is there anyway to find out which defines you decleared on the make line you used to compile a port or the menu options you used for ports that p

Re: Rebuilding, Got Questions

2006-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
You should cvsup to update your sources. I believe it is recommended you first update to 5.5, then update again to 6.1. Once you cvsup read the UPDATING file in /usr/src. I would be wary of using the -j4 it has caused some issues, check UPDATING before using that flag. -Derek At 01

utilities for intel SRCZCR RAID adapter

2006-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Does anyone know if any of the RAID utilities in the ports works with the Intel SRCZCR RAID adapter? I know intel usually uses either Adaptec or LSI chips usually, but I don't know what chip is used on this adapter or if the utilities will even work on this adapter. Thanks, -Derek

Re: utilities for intel SRCZCR RAID adapter

2006-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Does storcon work in 5.X? One server I have this RAID adapter in is still in 5.X. I don't see it in the ports. -Derek At 04:26 PM 8/15/2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Derek Ragona wrote: Does anyone know if any of the RAID utilities in the ports works wit

Re: Sendmail Access DB Question

2006-08-17 Thread Derek Ragona
Check the headers it may be from another domain. -Derek At 05:22 PM 8/16/2006, Chris Maness wrote: I have used the access db to allow e-mail's from domains that have been black listed by my black list DNS lists. It works for all the other e-mails / domains that I have listed except f

Re: Sendmail Access DB Question

2006-08-17 Thread Derek Ragona
It doesn't check for forged headers but matches against the domain in the from. The matching goes from right to left. -Derek At 01:18 PM 8/17/2006, Chris Maness wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: Check the headers it may be from another domain. -Derek At 05:22 PM 8/16

Re: SCSI disks spinning down

2006-08-18 Thread Derek Ragona
There is a utility from the manufacturer to set the drives not to spin down. They are spinning down to be quieter and make less heat. -Derek At 01:13 PM 8/18/2006, FreeBSD Questions wrote: I have a server, running FBSD 5.4, that has six SCSI disks in it. It's primarily a fileserver f

Re: Web server requirements

2006-08-19 Thread Derek Ragona
It sounds like you have this older hardware to use, so you can try it and see. It will likely be a bit under powered for the streaming, and may chug under the maximum users. With hardware prices at an all time low, you might want to consider something faster with more capacity, but you can al

Re: Two Dell PE1850s keep locking up...

2006-08-19 Thread Derek Ragona
Here are a few things I would try: Update all the firmware in both dells. Then run the dell diagnostics to see if ANYTHING shows up as a problem. Check your disk space and swap, make sure you have enough of both. If it still is causing problems do your best to find a repeatable case to post

Re: Tuning FreeBSD

2006-08-19 Thread Derek Ragona
You can just set the value in /boot/loader.conf such as: kern.maxusers="50" and reboot -Derek At 03:35 PM 8/19/2006, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi Folksm I'm getting these on a FreeBSD 5.3 box: Aug 19 15:46:32 radius sm-mta[12850]: k7JJk1rt012776: SYSERR(UID0): fill_fd: disconnect: cannot op

Re: user level

2006-08-19 Thread Derek Ragona
If DHCP is not working, use an unused static IP on your lan and set the default gateway. You will find more instructions on how to do this in the networking section of the handbook. -Derek At 03:52 PM 8/19/2006, conrad sobol wrote: Dear Sir: I assembled my first computer in March of

Re: Showstopping FreeBSD 6.1 bug

2006-08-21 Thread Derek Ragona
Was this on a new install or an upgrade? I've seen this problem doing a binary upgrade, but not with a new install. -Derek At 05:05 PM 8/20/2006, Jeff Rollin wrote: Hello all I need to report a serious bug in 6.1-RELEASE. On both AMD64 and x86, sysinstall appears to work correctly b

Re: Rebuilding Kernel

2006-08-21 Thread Derek Ragona
BEFORE you do: make delete-old-libs be SURE portmanager has everything updated. I had to run portmanager multiple times to get all my ports completely rebuilt. -Derek At 03:28 PM 8/21/2006, beno wrote: Hi; I just barely finished upgrading from 5.3 to 6.1 and all is well, however,

Re: Installing on IBM Z61t

2006-08-21 Thread Derek Ragona
I would check that you have the IDE interface enabled that the CD plugs into. Have you tried booting other bootable CD's like a WinXP CD just to see if you get it to boot from CD. -Derek At 05:20 PM 8/21/2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi All, I am trying to set up a notebook compute

Re: Installing on IBM Z61t

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
You can go to bootdisk.org or freedos.org and download an iso image to make a bootable CD. I think you need to first get your system actually booting a CD of any OS, then move on to installing FreeBSD. It may be your BIOS isn't booting the CD or you simply have a CD with a bad boot image. So

Re: problems with acer aspire

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Sounds like your motherboard went bad. You can try flashing the BIOS with a floppy to see if that brings it back. -Derek At 10:10 PM 8/21/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After moving this computer from one location to another it will not operate correctly. I get this on screenIRQ

RE: FreeBSD on Dell PE850

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
What was on the debug screen? alt+F4 gets you to that screen. -Derek At 10:36 AM 8/22/2006, unixforums 1 wrote: I am having several problems loading 6.1 on a Dell PE 850 w/an Adaptec 39160 scsi card and a single scsi drive. When I install from the boot only cd, I get the error "Unab

Re: Infinite Loops! Infinite Loops! FREAKING Infinite Loops!!!!

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
do: ls /var/db/pkg Look for duplicate versions ports. You will need to use: pkg_delete -f [port name] to remove all of these ports that have duplicates, then reinstall that port. Once you have only one version of the ported applications run portmanager to be sure you have them and their depen

RE: FreeBSD on Dell PE850

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
. -Derek At 10:57 AM 8/22/2006, unixforums 1 wrote: The debug screen is blank. To verify I had a good download I went to a different mirror site and downloaded the boot-only cd and had the same problems. Thron Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What was on the debug screen? alt+F4 ge

Re: FreeBSD on Dell PE850

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Opps, I am bad! I guess I always just alt+f through the keys until I see the screen -Derek At 11:12 AM 8/22/2006, John Nielsen wrote: When running sysinstall from the FreeBSD CD the debug screen is at Alt-F2. JN On Tuesday 22 August 2006 12:02, Derek Ragona wrote: > The de

RE: FreeBSD on Dell PE850

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
his error: "Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf Unable to load a Kernel! / cant load 'kernel' Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. OK" I think it is only a problem with 6.1 because 6.0 installs fine. Thron Derek Ragona <[EMA

Re: Installing on IBM Z61t

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Yeah I have seen that happen before, like the boot area didn't burn cleanly or the error correction on the drive isn't as good as on other drives. -Derek At 01:06 PM 8/22/2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: Problem solved - partly anyway. It is apparently a marginal CD burn. > You can go

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-23 Thread Derek Ragona
I have seen this happen where the kernel is not copied by sysinstall. I booted the install CD but exited sysinstall to a shell prompt, mounted the root partitiion and manually copied the kernel. You might give that a try. -Derek At 01:48 AM 8/23/2006, Perry Hutchison wrote: > Recom

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-23 Thread Derek Ragona
You pretty much followed what I had wrote before that when I had a similar problem, I booted the install disk, but exited sysinstall to a shell prompt. I then mounted the root partition, then manually copied over the kernel from the install CD to the root partition. That does copy over the GE

Re: MailScanner

2006-08-23 Thread Derek Ragona
Edit the MailScanner.conf file and set at least high scoring SPAM to bounce. -Derek At 07:57 PM 8/23/2006, rithy4u- CEO wrote: Dear all: I have successfull setup mailscanner+spamassassin and now I can deliver mail to my domain by mailscanner filtered. Now I got so many spam? Email m

Re: MailScanner

2006-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
wrote: Dear all: I have successfull setup mailscanner+spamassassin and now I can deliver mail to my domain by mailscanner filtered. Now I got so many spam? Email message which scaned by mailscanner. How can I configure mailscanner to delete all those spam? On 24/08/2006, at 11:31 AM, Derek

Re: MailScanner

2006-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
Depends on what MTA you are using. On my servers I use sendmail as the MTA. In /etc/rc.conf I have these variables set: mta_type="sendmail" mailscanner_enable="YES" I only need MailScanner started at boot from the script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ in addition to starting Sendmail. If you are usi

Re: Code beautifiers, anyone?

2006-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
For C code I use indent http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/indent/beautify.html -Derek At 07:58 AM 8/24/2006, Kyrre Nygård wrote: Hello people, I'm looking for the best ways to create a line of code beautification (reformatting) scripts -- one for C, one for Ruby, one for Bash and o

Re: (no subject)

2006-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
What that statement means is the network daemons will be running. If you don't have a NIC in the box, they won;t do much. Yes you can run dumb terminals if you want, but make sure if you use a mutliport serial card it is supported. You may also need to enable the gettys to run on those ports

Re: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA errors

2006-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
Run diagnostics from Dell and from the hard drive manufacturer. -Derek At 07:32 AM 8/25/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a new Dell desktop that's going to act as a temporary server while I migrate two older servers (4.10-STABLE) over to all new soft

Re: Suggestions for Recovering from messed up upgrade

2006-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
If the NIC being disabled is your only problem, check your /etc/rc.conf settings. -Derek At 07:38 AM 8/25/2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: When I upgraded from 5.x to 6 I messed things up. The first problem that I had was that I couldn't access localhost in my web browser. I made chang

Re: "Hostile" vs. "Friendly" instances of Sendmail

2006-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
Use MailScanner and configure it to use blacklists and to delete not bounce SPAM. -Derek At 02:57 PM 8/25/2006, Brett Glass wrote: A company for whom I do consulting has a FreeBSD mail server. Because they're being deluged with connections from spammers (who have responded to the inc

Re: Too many Xorg modes

2006-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
Run the xorgconfig interactively in text mode and choose what you want. -Derek At 05:43 PM 8/24/2006, Perry Hutchison wrote: In 6.1, how would I set up xorg.conf to restrict Xorg to a few specific modes? The Xorg.8.log created during xorgcfg shows 24 modelines, but when I cycle throug

Re: Problems booting HP Proliant DL-320 G4 & 6.1-RELEASE

2006-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
I would check the BIOS settings, and perhaps turn off any peripherals not used. You may need to try setting the hyperthreading on or off if your CPU supports that. -Derek At 08:14 PM 8/25/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having problems booting my new 320 G4 after successfully install

Re: driver source compilation question

2006-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
The simplest thing is to copy a make file from a port, or other driver source directory and edit it for your driver. -Derek At 08:20 PM 8/25/2006, Jim Stapleton wrote: I've found some driver source, it's just got the .c and .h files for the drivers, and no makefile. "make" and "make i

Re: FreeBSD 5.4: 'cp -p' does not behave as documented

2006-08-28 Thread Derek Ragona
You need to run this as root so the permissions and ownership all can be set. -Derek On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Gabriel O'Brien wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 i386 We have a script in our environment that is used to back up our mail logs. In essence it does: cp -p /var/log/ma

Re: localhost = ::1

2006-08-28 Thread Derek Ragona
You are seeing it match the first match. Comment out the IPV6 line and restart bind. -Derek On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, patrick wrote: I upgraded BIND on one of our DNS servers (running FreeBSD 4.x) to version 9, and now all of our other machines that use this server for DNS resolution is

Re: question about network setup

2006-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Nazar wrote: Alright guys. This is probably the complete newbie question, but I just cant fight a straight answer on google. The questions usually I found, werent answered. Anyways, to the point. I'm behind router. Cable modem -> Router -> pc's. Basic home setup. I set up

Re: Monitor display problem

2006-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
I would check the errat on the S3 you are using. It sounds like there may be some kernel/system changes you may need to make since your lockups are from going back to text mode from graphics mode. It is likely some conflict this is causing is hardware related. -Derek On Wed, 30 Aug

Re: Monitor display problem

2006-08-31 Thread Derek Ragona
Sorry about my bad typing, I meant eratta. I would look at http://www.s3graphics.com/ And look for documentation on issues running X -Derek On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Roger Merritt wrote: At 08:38 AM 8/30/2006 -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: I would check the errat on the S3 you are using

Re: VIA C3 - cant boot CD

2006-09-01 Thread Derek Ragona
Try booting another bootable CD. It sounds like the CD you burned didn't burn properly. You can find bootable images in other OS's at bootdisk.org or FreeDOS.org. -Derek At 08:21 PM 8/31/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have an ML6000 (no floppy) and have downloaded the 4.11 mini-i

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