Re: Is my Apache server running as the root user or not?

2004-12-04 Thread Jan Grant
behaviour. The root process creates sockets and log files, then forks child worker processes which retain the open file handles. However, it is only the child processes that ever call accept: ps axlw | grep httpd -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-26 Thread Jan Grant
. This is what the man for hold specifies, but I need the prompt. If you have the option to modify it, ensure that your script exits via exec sh. Alternatively a wrapper that does this is straightforward to build. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117

Putty - SSH access

2004-11-13 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have a precious few clients that would like Secure Shell access reportedly to admin a number of text files and run a few command line apps. Is it possible to grant shell access and jail users to thier home dir without going to all the hastle of building a real FreeBSD jail? -Grant

RE: updating packages

2004-10-18 Thread Grant Cooper
You can use portupgrade with a flag to download all the binaries and then do the install once all the binaries have been downloaded. Once that is done you can just copy the binaries over to the other machine or install from across the network. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sendmail 8.13.1

2004-10-17 Thread Grant Peel
/ports/mail/sendmail. I am using FBSD 4.4 (I know its old, but it's life is limited). Any ideas on what this is and if I can fix it? -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

locking down a users privileges

2004-10-15 Thread Grant Cooper
I am trying to prevent a user from leaving his directory. I set something up last year where I just added a name to a file. But I forgot the name of the file. For another box I wanted to use putty to connect to my freebsd server and was wondering if there was a shell I could use where the user

IP - Interface Setup

2004-10-01 Thread Grant Peel
- 1.0.0.60 with a netmask of 192, Do I need to specify that netmask on for the first IP on each server that uses one or more of those IPs or just the first one on any of the servers? The servers are all connected to the same network segment, and are all behind the same switch. TIA, -Grant

Re: Backup/Restore

2004-10-01 Thread Jan Grant
your mailstore into separate chunks may well help. Yes, the total time for a dump/restore may be close to your current state of play, but if you can split the partitions between machines then you have the option to perform these in parallel. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http

Re: White Paper on routing freebsd

2004-09-22 Thread Jan Grant
, but there are still couple of things that I haven't catch. Are you after the basic theory behind routing? If you have specific questions then this list is as good a place as any to ask them. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112

Re: what are the pros and cons of running in single user?

2004-09-16 Thread Jan Grant
then you're effectively duplicating the multiuser startup anyway. jan * modulo securelevel changes which can only be reverted via reboot. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ The Java disclaimer

Server Cuts Out

2004-08-18 Thread Grant Cooper
I am having a problem connecting to my server. If I reboot it will work externally for about 50 minutes. After that I can't connect. So I thought my server turned off. Or my connection was closed. I was able to ping out so I connected remotely and I couldn't ping the server. I shut down and it

Re: gcc34 Question - Request for help

2004-08-11 Thread Jan Grant
I go about in making my machine to use the new gcc34? What will be the next step after make install ? Anyone can help??...I'm confuse and this is not the first time I come accross as I have the same problem with my gcc33. The appropriate binaries are installed as gcc34, c. -- jan grant

Re: implementing spf

2004-07-26 Thread Jan Grant
. SPF itself is in use right now, however. jan * if you're originating email from offsite (dialup lines etc.) then you may need to coordinate with your mail admin to ensure you're targeting the correct MSA. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088

Re: setuid diffs...

2004-07-23 Thread Jan Grant
that difference that the nightly check is picking up on. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Strive to live every day as though it was last Wednesday

Re: sanitizing disks: wiping swap, non-allocated space, and file-tails

2004-07-17 Thread Jan Grant
use needs human intervention. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ If it's broken really badly - don't fix it either. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: closer, no cigar.

2004-07-14 Thread Jan Grant
) is to support this. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Whose kung-fu is the best? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: cvsup behind windows xp (The next level)

2004-07-10 Thread Grant Speelman
On Friday 09 July 2004 18:00, you wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 03:09:23PM +0200, Grant Speelman wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 11:52, you wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:33:18AM +0200, Grant Speelman wrote: I got the small problem, I would like to keep my ports collection update

Re: cvsup behind windows xp (The next level)

2004-07-09 Thread Grant Speelman
On Thursday 08 July 2004 11:52, you wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:33:18AM +0200, Grant Speelman wrote: I got the small problem, I would like to keep my ports collection update using cvsup but I don't have a direct connection to the internet. My Computer is on a network with my Fathers

Re: allowing users to mount cdrom again (thanks)

2004-07-09 Thread Grant Speelman
On Thursday 08 July 2004 14:34, you wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 00:41:59 +0200 Grant Speelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I read in the previous post about allowing users to mount cdrom and wanted to try it for myself I did the follow : added vfs.usermount=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf

cvsup behind windows xp

2004-07-07 Thread Grant Speelman
it. Any help, please Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

allowing users to mount cdrom again

2004-07-07 Thread Grant Speelman
) but this happens: Grant mount /mnt/cdrom1 cd9660: /dev/acd1: Operation not permitted I am working in Kde usings Kde's Konsole and have two cdroms on FreeBSD 5.2.1 Please help Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-04 Thread Grant Peel
Hmm, Perhaps a complete layout and network explanations is in order here - I have a total of 5 servers, all running freebsd. - All servers have two NICS, 1 LAN and 1 WAN, all are hardwired to my switch. (No wireless involved. - The switch IS configured to allow WAN access to WAN ports only,

NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread Grant Peel
, we specify what clients are allowed to connect, by simply useing the host name. So if in my nfsd configuration, I specify a host called 'ahab' for example, how does the nfsd authenticate this host, and how secure is it? -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread Grant Peel
So, If I set the exports so that it used 192.168.x.x, and, my managed switch is only set to alow members of my vlan to use those IPs, I should be OK in that case? -Grant - Original Message - From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: HP Visualize workstation

2004-06-29 Thread Jan Grant
grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ On modesty: whoever said it's hard being perfect obviously wasn't me. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-23 Thread Jan Grant
look like I'll have time to experiment in the near future. A previous responder to this thread has already pointed at the cam.ac.uk work which offers transactional replication for fast fail-over. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44

Re: Utility to guess a remote hosts operating system?

2004-06-23 Thread Jan Grant
is required. If you can narrow down the parameters of your question (eg: I have a network of windows machines and I'd like to figure out exact versions on each one) then you might have more luck. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0

Re: md5 of a filesystem / verifying filesystem integrity after dump/restore operation

2004-06-23 Thread Jan Grant
, mtree, also has this capability, although you'll have to fiddle with its options to get it to work. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ You see what happens when you have fun with a stranger

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Jan Grant
. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ HP-unix: Open Sauce product, available in 57 distributions. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

mod_frontpage

2004-06-12 Thread Grant Peel
. -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: java not running .jar files without absolute path. (take II)

2004-06-10 Thread Jan Grant
entry be sufficient? Well, the path entry only suffices on my installation; I merely hypothesised that an erroneous setting of that variable might be the cause. If I were you I'd take this to the freebsd-java list, there's more of a concentration of expertise there :-) -- jan grant, ILRT

Re: java not running .jar files without absolute path. (take II)

2004-06-09 Thread Jan Grant
grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ ( echo ouroboros; cat ) /dev/fd/0 # it's like talking to yourself sometimes ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Apache-MySQL-PHP from ports

2004-06-09 Thread Grant Peel
? -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New Servers - Mail, Perl - MySQL - PHP and things.

2004-06-01 Thread Grant Peel
nice for everyone. I have installing software only to find that one relase of one thing does not work with another release of another! TIA ! -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Serial Device Views

2004-05-30 Thread Grant Peel
to the Serial (RS-232 port on any of my FreeBSD servers. Any hints, comments on how to set up freebsd to allow access to the switch console would be appreciated. -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

FreeBSD 4.7 (Related to Dump and Restore).

2004-05-24 Thread Grant Peel
with 4.7 I should be concerned with? -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New machines - Dump and Restore -deploy

2004-05-23 Thread Grant Peel
is, can I, should I, use rsyn insted of dum and restore? Thanks, -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: looks like i've dug my hole too deep, plz help quick.

2004-05-13 Thread Jan Grant
On Wed, 12 May 2004, carvin5string wrote: You have only those two files in root? What about the kernal files I see on my system? You're running a -STABLE branch, the responder is running -CURRENT. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088

Re: wine

2004-05-13 Thread Jan Grant
freebsd people use wine or play games. This is odd as from what i heard freebsd's power is in it's speed, something that i noticed for my self by using it for desktop aplications. I've also experienced a loss of network connectivity for Wine apps since the version around 2004-04. -- jan grant

Remote Single User Mode.

2004-04-10 Thread Grant Peel
? -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Disk Partition Sizing

2004-04-09 Thread Grant Peel
to the /mail part; add the remaining 4.8 GB to the /ome part. Any ideas on strategy / directions for accomplishing this? -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: private subsubdomains

2004-04-07 Thread Jan Grant
grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Bolstered by my success with vi, I proceeded to learn C with 'learn c'. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: How to get memory usage for process?

2004-04-06 Thread Jan Grant
memory is shared and how much memory is used for each new running script (including buffers, e.t.c.). What command shoud do the trick and with what options? You're probably after the sysutils/pmap utility, in the ports. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44

Re: secure cvs server, urgent

2004-04-05 Thread Jan Grant
source control system. Or maybe, if licensing permits, offload that risk to sourceforge, who've got a lot of practice at this sort of thing. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Personal responsibility

Re: Java Requires X Windows?

2004-03-29 Thread Jan Grant
its somewhat improved (ie, it works) headless support. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ ...and then three milkmaids turned up (to the delight and delactation of the crowd

Re: sleeping for 30 seconds

2004-03-26 Thread Jan Grant
something like this: start_time=`date +%s` # ... do something end_time=`date +%s` time_taken=$(($end_time - $start_time)) -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ New

Re: The chown command

2004-03-23 Thread Jan Grant
cases that motivate your suggestion. There may be other ways to achieve the goals you have. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ ...perl has been dead for more than 4 years. - Abigail

Re: Why does `df` lie about free space (it doesn't)

2004-03-18 Thread Jan Grant
to. That is. It's not really like FAT operation at all; but another responder has given some detail along these lines. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Theory and practice _are_ the same thing. In theory

Re: Why does `df` lie about free space

2004-03-17 Thread Jan Grant
thing: they are two distinct resources and your filesystem can run out of either pretty much independently. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Don't annihilate, assimilate: MacDonalds

Restore command line options

2004-03-10 Thread Grant Peel
in /usr/local/mysql/var/DBNAME Here is the command I used: restore -x -f /home/backup/usr.level-1_dump local/mysql/var/DBDIRNAMEHERE Have I missed some command line options here to avoide having to answer the perms and volume questions? -Grant ___ [EMAIL

Resote COmmand line

2004-03-09 Thread Grant Peel
: restore -x -f /home/backup/usr.level-1_dump local/mysql/var/DBDIRNAMEHERE Have I missed some command line options here to avoide having to answer the perms and volume questions? -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-05 Thread Jan Grant
), an in-memory exclusive or against the new data, and two writes. Reads and writes can be in parallel. The work for parity updates only scales linearly with number of disks if you use a naive parity algorithm. Or, obviously, if a drive fails. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http

Re: RAID1 vs RAID5 [ was Re: 1 processor vs. 2]

2004-03-05 Thread Jan Grant
to read 4 sectors and write five sectors if you change one byte. Wrong; see previous response. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Q: What's yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice? A: Zorn's

Re: Problem with sed and awk

2004-03-01 Thread Jan Grant
, after it has already been split into fields. It evaluates true so the block it guards is always run. After the first line has been dealt with, future lines will be split using the new FS setting. As another poster supplied, slap the FS setting in a BEGIN-guarded block. -- jan grant, ILRT

Re: Shell scripting woes.

2004-02-26 Thread Jan Grant
the first thing they do is to recreate the environment you're after: setting $PATH, the working directory, umask, and so on. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Boycott Arabic numerals! What have

No Email or FTP

2004-02-20 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, In FreeBSD 4.4 and 4.7, is there a way to shut off email and or ftp privledges? (Other than using quota that is). Using sendmail. -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Move to insert here mail server? WAS Re: Sending mail gets 'Relaying Denied' from off network.

2004-02-18 Thread Jan Grant
. There are a number of products that claim to be email appliances and you might look at those, depending on how much preexisting infrastructure you've got for managing virtual domains and users. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112

Re: desktop freebsd??

2004-02-06 Thread Darryl Grant
-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Darryl N. Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xinerama setup on kde 3.1.4

2004-02-04 Thread Darryl N. Grant
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 13:17, Louis Munro wrote: Hello everyone, I'm posting this here after trying the freebsd-x11mailing list as it didn't produce the expected results. Hopefully someone among you will know more about this than I... I'm trying to setup KDE to display in full xinerama on

[no subject]

2004-02-03 Thread Darryl Grant
. Does anyone know what is causing this and how to fix it? Thanks, -- Darryl N. Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

konstruct, kde 3.2

2004-02-03 Thread Darryl Grant
. Does anyone know what is causing this and how to fix it? Thanks, -- Darryl N. Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: konstruct, kde 3.2

2004-02-03 Thread Darryl N. Grant
Seems to be downloading w/ gmake. What is the difference between make and gmake? Thanks, Darryl On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 16:09, Martin Hudec wrote: Hello, Did you try to use gmake instead of make? On Tuesday 03 February 2004 22:05, Darryl Grant wrote: While using the construct tool, make

Re: Lock order reversal

2004-01-29 Thread Jan Grant
watchdog in your kernel has detected that locks of two classes were acquired in different orders. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ If you have received this email in error, do whatever the hell

devfs

2004-01-27 Thread Michael Grant
in the context of 5.x's devfs? Since this is a dd partition, there really shouldn't be a s1 in the name in my oppinion. Michael Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: portupgrade

2004-01-23 Thread Jan Grant
packages such as KDE, Mozilla and OpenOffice which were installed from binary? Look for HOLD_PKGS in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Axioms speak louder than

mount and umount

2004-01-19 Thread Grant Peel
/DA1/var mount: /dev/da1s1e: Device busy excelsior# excelsior# umount /DA1/var umount: unmount of /DA1/var failed: Invalid argument excelsior# Nothing should be making the drive busy, and, how do I know what the invalid arg is??? Any help would be appreciated! -Grant

IPFW and IP Statistics.

2004-01-17 Thread Grant Peel
interested to hear other solutions (short of buying a router!). TIA, -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address?

2004-01-16 Thread Darryl Grant
You can also try using host host 123.45.67.89 On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:18:35PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: Sure. just nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and if it comes back with a good/authoritive hostname it should be OK. Try man nslookup for more possibilities. Do

Re: High incoming bandwith

2004-01-16 Thread Darryl Grant
You can also use tcpdump to try and figure it out. If you log tcpdump to the console it will fly by giving your traffic, so perform a little capture and dump it into a file. HTH, Darryl On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:26:06PM -0500, Jason Stewart wrote: On 16/01/04 04:09 +0800, meimi wrote:

Turn off user email

2004-01-16 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Other than setting a /var/mail quota to 0 for a user, how does one turn off mail for a UNIX user without affecting ftp or shell access? -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: NOQUEUE: SYSERR (root): host localhost unknown ?

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Grant
. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Theory and practice _are_ the same thing. In theory. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Problems using portupgrade to recompile all ports

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Grant
happened? The most frequent cause of this when I've encountered the problem is that a distfile could not be fetched. I tend to try to avoid that these days by prefetching the distfiles prior to a build (ie, while I'm around to sort out problems manually rather than overnight). -- jan grant, ILRT

Re: How to count the lines of code in a project?

2003-12-23 Thread Jan Grant
-- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ (ECHOY GRUNTING) (EERIE WHISPERS) aren't subtitles great? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: use vi style in all line-edit environment

2003-12-23 Thread Jan Grant
that it offers a vi-style editing mode. You'll have to suck it and see: try echo set editing-mode vi ~/.inputrc and check the man page for more information. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http

Re: /usr/home directory

2003-12-23 Thread Jan Grant
rove. If you want to change this, pw useradd -D -b /home will probably do the trick (you will need to move existing directories). -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Impact of vulnerability

Re: spamassassin

2003-12-21 Thread Jan Grant
on a multiuser system, since procmail is effectively a final delivery. There's also a port for MailScanner, which operates prior to final delivery on mail spools. It can integrate SpamAssassin and the virus scanner(s) of your choice; as a plus, the load generated is far more predictable. -- jan grant

Re: FreeBSD CVS for DOS/Windows sources?

2003-12-21 Thread Jan Grant
-oriented. The server itself will not insert any '\r' characters, so any that are in your repo files definitely came from a borked upload. You should be able to strip them out and re-checkout the files: diffs will be unaffected. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk

Re: When FreeBSD have higer performans than Linux and When Linux have higher performans than FreeBSD

2003-12-12 Thread Jan Grant
for a particular application, then the man page tuning(7) has some information; or bring specifics to the list. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Work #90: As many pseudo-intellectual sycophants as necessary

Re: last question about up-to-date ( I hope )

2003-12-12 Thread Jan Grant
. Every (recent) release also has a maintenance branch, which merely receives security updates. Cvsup can track these just as easily for you. The handbook has more information on this. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112

Re: how to build Spamassassin

2003-12-09 Thread Jan Grant
if the tree lives elsewhere. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ printf 'cat\nhello world' | `sh -c 'read c; echo $c'` ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Disklabel again

2003-12-09 Thread Grant Peel
Hi, I am reposting this in hopes poeple who have disklabel and RAID perc 3DCL / SCSI experience see it tonight. Hi, I had a crash tonight. Server rebooted and everything seemed to restart OK. Interesting disklabel output though. Should I be worried about all the *s? : If this helps, the disk

Re: x11/kde3 and libglut error

2003-12-08 Thread Jan Grant
-libraries, you can pkg_deinstall nvidia-driver, do the build, then reinstall nvidia-driver. Much quicker. Incidentally pkgtools.conf can be taught to do this for you. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http

Disklabel

2003-12-08 Thread Grant Peel
Hi, I had a crash tonight. Server rebooted and everything seemed to restart OK. Interesting disklabel output though. Should I be worried about all the *s? : If this helps, the disk below is a 10,000 spin RAID 5 Dell Perc DC/L (3 Fujitu disks). enterprise# disklabel /dev/amrd0 # /dev/amrd0:

Re: Ports intelligent?

2003-11-28 Thread Jan Grant
you'll be able to recover (and report the matter to the port maintainer). -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Block IP

2003-11-25 Thread Grant Peel
Can I block a certain IP address at the machine or interface level using freebsd? (No at the Apache or Sendmail level). CyberLaert monioting one of my hosts at the rate of 1.2 GB oer day! (no firewall installed currently). -Grant ___ [EMAIL

PHP Auth

2003-11-22 Thread Grant Peel
of a simple PHP script that can auth against the master passwd file? -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recursion with grep?

2003-11-14 Thread Jan Grant
of command composition these days. Chucking as much disparate functionality as possible into each tool is a poor tactic because you wind up with every tool being indistinguishable from its peers, modulo the totally incompatible and irregular interface :-) G'luck, jan * allegedly :-) -- jan grant, ILRT

Re: exim not running after portupgrade?

2003-11-13 Thread Jan Grant
; if you look at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.sh you'll probably see it's checking for that flag. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ printf 'cat\nhello world' | `sh -c 'read c; echo $c

Re: portupgrade -arR

2003-11-12 Thread Jan Grant
normally select batch operation and choose the appropriate options by putting them into /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf; the exact mechanism used to indicate non-interactive mode isn't uniform across all ports, however. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0

Re: Mesa port

2003-11-11 Thread Jan Grant
the issue (automatically) for me. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Goth isn't dead, it's just lying very still and sucking its cheeks in. ___ [EMAIL

Re: Backing up kernel before upgrade - 4.9 - how?

2003-11-06 Thread Jan Grant
? TIA for your help, make installkernel will rename your current kernel and modules to kernel.old and modules.old for you. I tend to explicitly grab a copy of configs (/etc) prior to using mergemaster; this is purely paranoia on my part. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http

Re: Is Java/Tomcat on FBSD practical?

2003-11-05 Thread Jan Grant
on this machine is realistic or not. Thanks, Heath Check on how up-to-date your system is. There were fixes that went into the base system post 4.8-R which are probably relevant. FWIW I've got tomcat running happily under the 1.3 and the 1.4 native ports on a -stable freebsd. -- jan grant, ILRT

Re: PostgreSQL on FreeBSD

2003-10-28 Thread Jan Grant
looked at the -current tree). -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ I like oranges more than apples!? - that's like comparing apples and oranges! ___ [EMAIL

installing freebsd on another disk

2003-10-28 Thread Michael Grant
I'd like to install freebsd on another disk from source. Can I do something like?: cd /usr/src make buildworld make PREFIX=/mnt installworld make PREFIX=/mnt kernel If not $PREFIX, what's the right answer? I'd try it and see...but I only have my one live box. Thanks Michael Grant

Re: ssh keys - howto?

2003-10-26 Thread Jan Grant
IIRC). -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ New Freedom of Information Act: theirs, to yours. Happy now? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: how do you actually download an up date for KDE

2003-10-26 Thread Jan Grant
it contained in the archives of this mailing list (also on freebsd-stable). Note that a from-source rebuild of KDE and its dependencies, while generally painless, will take quite a bit of time on your machine - but somewhat less than three years :-) -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http

Re: firebird, java, artsd, sound

2003-10-23 Thread Jan Grant
using different virtual sound devices? -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ You see what happens when you have fun with a stranger in the Alps? ___ [EMAIL

Ftp changing times of files.

2003-10-23 Thread Grant Peel
this. Does anyone one of any tidbits that might lead me in the right direction? -Grant Grant W. Peel Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thenetnow.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

all

2003-09-29 Thread Grant Peel
a server that shows the same time and date. Any ideas why the date would be shown so much earlier? -Grant Grant W. Peel Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thenetnow.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Bad Super Block Count

2003-09-28 Thread Grant Peel
? -Grant Grant W. Peel Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thenetnow.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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