Re: Missing link in ports tree

2009-12-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
Sverre Vegard Pettersen wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > I have just installed FreeBSD 7.2-Release from a dvd image I downloaded, > with KDE windows manager. I immidiately cvsup'ed my ports-supfile, > completeing with "make fetchindex" from /usr/ports. When trying to install > hplip from /usr/ports/print,

Re: Monolithic vs Modular Kernel?

2009-12-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
David Naylor wrote: > Hi, > > What are the pros and cons of building a stripped down kernel and loading all > the missing parts via modules (such that you end up with the same > functionality as generic kernel) vs having a kernel with all the modules > built > in? Flexibility mainly. The de

Re: googleearth complains about file instance-running-lock

2009-12-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
Yuri wrote: Glen Barber wrote: Remove the file? Or rename it? I wouldn't ask this question if it was that easy. There is even no such directory: /home/yuri/.googleearth Check /compat/linux/home/yuri/ Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, "Sam Fourman Jr." > wrote: >> I have tried looking around and OpenBSD appears to be the undisputed >> #1 track record in terms of security and FreeBSD is #2 (I didn't count >> dragonflyBSD) > > VMS would be #0, then? :-) I dunno. Haven't

Re: New installation of FreeBSD with Debian dual boot

2009-12-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
AG wrote: Hello all I'm looking to install FreeBSD 8.0 on my system today, where it would dual boot with Debian. I have the *.iso all ready to go, so just wanted to check a couple of points before I log out of Debian and boot into the DVD to install. Perhaps some veterans can advise me on t

Re: Re-compiling PHP changes server responsiveness

2009-12-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
Ian Fitzgerald wrote: Recently upgraded (fresh install) FBSD 8, including MySql, Apache22, phpMyAdmin, KDE4 Gnome2.26 from DVD iso. Running ok as test server, but unusual error from added, complex CMS prompted me to re-install PHP5 and PHP5-extensions as pkg_add -r (using ports files from iso),

Re: snapshot rsync dump/restore

2009-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
n dhert wrote: I want to clone a FreeBSD system on another system. Say, Mondaymorning I use the dump(8) to make dumpfiles of all filesystems (dumpofroot.dmp, dumpofvar.dmp, ...tmp.dmp, ...usr.dmp, ...home.dmp ) on an external USB disk. The original system keeps running. Then Wednesday I setup Fr

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 02:09:58AM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm creating binary files in fortran. Fortran adds 4 byte record delimiters at the beginning and the end of each record, which, in the case of a binary file, is just at the beginnin

Re: RFC: Fam/Python based script for bruteforce blocking

2009-12-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Robert Huff wrote: Brandon Low writes: Not sure why this didn't attach the first time. The FreeBSD mailing list software is set to scrub all attachments as a security measure. To makew material available, post it in-line, or post a URL. The attachment eater doesn't actually eat *a

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Nick Barnes wrote: All very interesting, but the OP is wanting to lose all the Fortran record markers, not just the first (and last) four bytes of the file. The record markers precede and follow each record, and give the record's length. The size and enddian-ness of the record marker itself dep

Re: Yahoo! moving to Linux???

2009-12-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
Konrad Heuer wrote: Sorry, maybe I missed something .. When entering http://www.yahoo.de I find my request redirected to http://m.de.yahoo.com for some days now. Netcraft says: http://m.de.yahoo.com was running YTS on Linux when last queried at 19-Dec-2009 19:12:25 GMT - refresh now Site

Re: file and directory permission

2009-12-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
Roby Sadeli wrote: Hi there. I have been using FreeBSD for some time but my skill is getting really rusty. I install nginx via the ports collection and it works just fine. The data files (html) is located in /usr/local/www/ and the directory permission is as follows: drwxrwxr-x 5 root wheel

Re: portupgrade and checksum mismatch

2009-12-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jamie Griffin wrote: been trying to portupgrade firefox3 for about a day but keep getting a checksum mismatch error and the build stops. What do I need to do to get it to upgrade? Try deleting the firefox sources you downloaded previously and start again. It seems your download somehow got cor

Re: Source of closed port RST responses

2009-12-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
DAve wrote: I will be installing pf this week, I just need to write up my rule sets for these servers. I had been working on the webservers first. Is there a rule I can use to log connection attempts to closed ports? pf doesn't really know anything about whether there is a listener at a parti

Re: Which interface to firewall when using lacp.

2009-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
Paul Halliday wrote: If I have em0 and em1 comprising lagg0 which interface would I apply PF inbound rules on? lagg0 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www

Re: Are source updating mechanisms vulnerable to MITM attacks?

2009-12-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
QIU Quan wrote: It seems CVSup uses clear text, with neither server authentication as SSH nor message authentication as PGP. Is it possible to poison the DNS records and fire a man-in-the-middle attack against the source updating procedure? In principle, yes. There have been no reports of thi

Re: location of discussion of lives

2009-12-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good morning, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. Can you help me to negotiate the FreeBSD website? I am trying to find a general discussion about "livefs." I have not been successful at entering the correct sequence of search terms to find a general discussion ab

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gary Kline wrote: The short answer [Guess] is no, I dont think so. If getting the keys to have an auditory feedback with beeps or shorter clicks were that easy, it would have been done after 15 years. Even Linux lacks this--and I'd bet Minux too. Uh, it was done ye

Re: Looking for a convenient way in C to retrieve CPU and memory usage of a process

2009-12-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Manish Jain wrote: I am looking for a convenient way using C to retrieve the current CPU and memory utilization of a process of which I have the pid. Can somebody please give me a hint of which system-calls/library-functions to use for this ? I don't want to use the system() function or grep f

Re: Labeling a USB drive

2009-12-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Carmel wrote: I have FreeBSD-7.2 installed. I also have several USB Flash drives that I use. I was using the following to partition and format the drives. # fdisk -I /dev/da4 # bsdlabel -w /dev/da4 Now, that appears to work correctly. I would also like to "name" the drive. I cannot find any com

Re: How to force tar to be quiet?

2009-12-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Коньков Евгений wrote: Здравствуйте, Freebsd-questions. when tar -cf file.tar /home/* It always says: tar: Removing leading '/' from member names man tar -P Preserve pathnames... But I do not need to preserve. I want to tar without that warning. How to force tar to be quiet? Don't give the

Re: How to force tar to be quiet?

2009-12-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Коньков Евгений wrote: Здравствуйте, Matthew. Вы писали 27 декабря 2009 г., 20:46:05: MS> Коньков Евгений wrote: Здравствуйте, Freebsd-questions. when tar -cf file.tar /home/* It always says: tar: Removing leading '/' from member names man tar -P Preserve pathnames... But I do not need to pr

Re: how does the C pre-processor interface with make?

2009-12-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
Oliver Mahmoudi wrote: Hey folks, I was wondering how the C pre-processor interfaces with make. Let's suppose that I have a little C program, something along the lines of: #include int main() { #ifdef FOO fprintf(stdout, "Hi, my name is foo.\n"); #endif #ifdef BAR fprintf(stdout, "

Re: does toor have passwd or not? According to logins -p: yes

2009-12-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I was checking for passwordless accounts with 'logins -p'. None was found. However, I understand toor doesn't have passwd by default, and I never touched it, so I expected logins -p to show toor, but it didn't. Just to check I also tried to su toor with root passwd - no

Re: does toor have passwd or not? According to logins -p: yes

2009-12-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
Lars Eighner wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Matthew Seaman wrote: If there's nothing in the second field, then you have a problem, as that means the account has a NULL password (ie. just hit return when prompted for a password -- I've been wrong before, but I think you do not get

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 and MySQL 5.1.x

2010-01-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: Hey there, I was curious if it's the right time to move to MySQL 5.1.x instead MySQL 5.0.x. with FreeBSD 8.x Any bench marks with FreeBSD 8.x? Or shall we stick to MySQL 5.0.x for now? We can't really answer that for you. If performance is your overriding

Re: Need help configuring upsd, sound and logo saver on freebsd 8.0

2010-01-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
Manish Jain wrote: 3) For my console saver ('logo'), I get the following error message at boot-time : module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (logo_saver, 0x81044010, 0) error 19 Seems to be a long standing bug on amd64 systems: graphics based console screen savers don't work. Any of the tex

Re: Remote assistance for X

2010-01-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
Warren Block wrote: A remote computer used by relatives is running FreeBSD and X. I'd like to find a method to work with the remote desktop to help them solve problems and maintain the system. The remote user's existing desktop should be shared, rather than creating a new session. Traffic

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: How do I know if I am running sa-update? When installing SpamAssassin from ports I was prompted as to whether I wanted to do this (I said "yes"), but I don't see anything about it in any crontab I can find nor in /etc/periodic or /usr/local/etc/periodic. You need some s

Re: Problems building en-openoffice.org-GB-3.1.1 from ports

2010-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
Mike Clarke wrote: After successfully moving from 6.4 to 8.0 by doing a clean install I've embarked on the task of rebuilding OpenOffice from ports :-( I'm getting a confusing error in the config stage: ===> Configuring for en-openo

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Alternatively, if someone were sufficiently motived they could put together an SA utilities port that installs a number of maintenance scripts which a user can enable. This sounds like a very good idea to me. As far as I can see, there's only one script required, which

Re: Problems building en-openoffice.org-GB-3.1.1 from ports

2010-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Mike Clarke wrote: After pondering a bit more over this problem I think I know where the 6.4 stuff may have come from. After I built the base system I copied various useful files from /root on the 6.4 system, including /root/.cshrc which contained a line setting PACKAGESITE to ftp://ftp2.uk.f

Re: Possible mysql.sock problem | ERROR 2002 (HY000)

2010-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
jaymax wrote: Direct start from script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start fails also And running /usr/local/bin/mysql ==> ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/usr/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) There's a $mysql_socket rc.conf variable you need to set as well. S

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Matthew Seaman wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Alternatively, if someone were sufficiently motived they could put together an SA utilities port that installs a number of maintenance scripts which a user can enable. This sounds like a very good idea to me. As far as I can see, there's

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Jan 3, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: There's a .shar of the new port at: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/sa-utils.shar Comments, critique are welcome. Unless there are any killer bugs, I'll send-pr(1) in a week or so. Thanks for doing that

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Matt Emmerton wrote: On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:10:19 + Matthew Seaman wrote: Comments, critique are welcome. Unless there are any killer bugs, I'll send-pr(1) in a week or so. You have: : ${daily_sa_compile="YES"} sa-compile is installed by the SA port, but it requires de

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Matthew Seaman wrote: I'll add your patches and post an updated shar later on. Done. Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ram

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Hi, I am running my own small mail-server, i.e. I use my desktop pc for sending and receiving my private mails. That worked quite nicely the last years. From time to time I tested my mail-server via abuse.net's mail-relay tester. - Never got any positives. Now suddenly

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 13:02 + schrieb Matthew Seaman: Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: I am running my own small mail-server, i.e. I use my desktop pc for sending and receiving my private mails. That worked quite nicely the last years. From time to time I tested

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Matthew Seaman wrote: find the records in /var/mail/maillog to show abuse.net's server connecting Ooops./var/log/maillog Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Cour

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 13:45 + schrieb Matthew Seaman: Matthew Seaman wrote: find the records in /var/mail/maillog to show abuse.net's server connecting Ooops./var/log/maillog That would be

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: BTW. I have read somewhere, there might be problems with hostnames like pukruppa.net, since they would allow to relay all mails from .net ?!? I'm trying to remember where this appears. I remember vaguely what you're referring to, and yes, it's a theoretical possibil

Re: FreeBSD versions

2010-01-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Mernoz Rostangi wrote: Hi, I would like to know if the FreeBSD 8.0 IA64 can be used on 32bit cpu also ? If yes, what is the difference between IA64 and x86 versions ? :-) ./m Nope. You're mixing up IA64 (the Itanium) with AMD64 (All modern AMD chips, and Intel chips like the Core 2, Xeon, I

Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?

2010-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Paul Shi wrote: Hi Everyone, I am trying to find a way to setup a wireless network with a FreeBSD server machine running FTP service. The release of FreeBSD I intend to use is 2.0.5 but I could not find anything on how to setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5 in handbook. There are only howto on PP

Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?

2010-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Robert Huff wrote: Hello: The thing concerns me is exact the question you asked in the first place: Does FreeBSD 2.0.5 even have any support for wireless networking devices? Because I cannot find any reference it. I am wondering if anyone in this mailing list has a answer to this question

Re: mysql not starting on boot

2010-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Rob wrote: Since I upgraded to FreBSD 8.0, I'm noticing that mysql isn't starting on boot anymore. It starts fine once the system has booted, and looking at the mysql log I see: 100105 17:46:56 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/db/m ysql 100105 17:46:56 [ERROR] Can

Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

2010-01-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
Steve Bertrand wrote: Bogdan Webb wrote: I'm having problems with the /etc/rc.conf setup of a ipv6 tunnel on my FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p6 It`s a particular issue on the ipv6_defaultrouter config, it jost does not work... Upon network and routing restart ipv6 is enabled the gif interface are given i

Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

2010-01-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
Steve Bertrand wrote: Hmmm. This config does not work: ifconfig_re0="inet 208.70.104.210 netmask 255.255.255.192" ifconfig_re0_alias0="inet 208.70.104.211 netmask 255.255.255.255" ifconfig_re0_alias1="inet6 2607:f118::b6 prefixlen 64" ifconfig_re0_alias2="inet6 2607:f118::b7 prefixlen 64" Yep

Re: Any delivery block to freebsd-questions list?

2010-01-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Friday, January 08, 2010 a las 06:57:04AM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: Sounds like that's just graylisting. The delay will depend on how long it takes your MTA (or the smarthost you use) to retry the message. In my case it seems not to be graylisting, but black

Re: sendmail && SMTP AUTH: question about /etc/mail/auth/client-info file

2010-01-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
Matthias Apitz wrote: I have read the above page during my configuration but it does not explain to me which user must be configured in U: value; Is it me? Or is it the userID the sendmail daemon is running as? It works with "U:root", but what does this mean exactly? That's a SASL thing -- it

Re: Accessing Computer

2010-01-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
Carmel wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:12:28 -0500 Bill Moran articulated: In response to Carmel : Assume three computers. Computer 1 runs Windows with Putty installed Computer 2 & 3 run FreeBSD Computer 1 runs Putty and creates a key that is installed on computer 2. Computer 2 has a key tha

Re: Accessing Computer

2010-01-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
Carmel wrote: On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:13:52 -0500 Lowell Gilbert articulated: Carmel writes: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:58:23 +0100 Pieter de Goeje articulated: You might want to take a look at ssh-agent. I think PuTTY has an equivalent. It lets you do remote logins without putting your key(

Re: port-MESS with apache22

2010-01-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
PJ wrote: Upgraded to 8.0 without problem. Reinstalling ports was tedious... but NP for most part. Sommehow the installation of apache22 stumbled over some configuration issues, I think I found that apache was running ok, except... php5 module was not correctly installed... mod_php5 isn't b

Re: mySQL 5.4 server & Post installation SNAFUs

2010-01-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
jaymax wrote: Post installation SNAFUS [i] support-files/mysql.server are apparently in "/usr/local/share/mysql" am I correct, all of them? Yes, except that mysql-server is the rc.subr(8) script to start up mysql on boot, and that is to be found in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/

Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

2010-01-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gary Kline wrote: This caught my interest this morning so I set up a commented-out trial in /etc/rc.d for my ipv6 entry; the one I had in my database /etc/namedb/* files blew my connection sky-high recently. Does this seem plausible: # ## ipv6 config # # ipv6_enable="YES" # ipv6_defaultrout

Re: Reference to your Work

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
S Pavan wrote: Currently we are finalizing the release version of our courseware that prepares aspirants for the certification *‘CEHv7’* as awarded by EC-Council. In this context, we would like to seek your permission to include references to your work *“Wireless Networking"* published at ‘* htt

Re: syncache_timer: errors; What do they mean?

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
David Southwell wrote: Here are some example entries in /var/log/messages (server ip address removed and replaced by [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] : Can anyone please tell me what thses messages mean and what action (if any) I should be taking. Thanks in advance for any replies Jan 11 10:41:57 dns1 kerne

Re: Converting i386 to amd64

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Michael Powell wrote: Greetings everyone: This is probably a pretty dumb question, but it's never really come up for me before. I am at a crossroads with regard to some hardware upgrades, and for a couple of them I have been putting off making the change to 64 bit. These are server boxen with

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Tim Judd wrote: I've been meaning to check this out. My firewall ssh rules are very strict, in fact, if the remote IP is "unknown" meaning, I don't know where the heck it's coming from, it's blocked. It's easier to say it this way: I allow ssh connections from IPs I know, preferably static IP

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny Why is it not a goo

Re: bin/115406: [patch] gpt(8) GPT MBR hangs award BIOS on boot

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Dan Naumov wrote: What exactly is "gart" and where do I find it's manpage, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi comes up with nothing? Also, does this mean that GPT is _NOT_ in fact fixed regarding this bug? That's gpart(8). With a 'p'. gpart has had significant amounts of work put into it for

Re: cannot install apache22 on FBSD 8.0

2010-01-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
PJ wrote: Gentlemen, I am absolutely stupefied by apache22, php5, php5-extensions and phpmysql refusing to be updated or installed I did manage to do one installation on a freshly upgraded box from 7.2 to 8.0 but with very frustrating and time consuming efforts. I still don't know how I managed,

Re: Import bayes_* for SpamAssassin from Debian to FreeBSD

2008-03-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Nicolas Letellier wrote: > However, when I use these files in my ~/.spamassassin, on my FreeBSD, I > have errors: > > spamd[51854]: bayes: cannot open bayes databases > /var/spool/spamd/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: Inappropriate > file

Re: Import bayes_* for SpamAssassin from Debian to FreeBSD

2008-03-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Nicolas Letellier wrote: > Matthew Seaman a écrit : >> You'll need to install the same version of Berkeley DB on FreeBSD as >> you were >> using on Debian -- and you'll have to compile the perl modules >>

Re: kernel error when upgrading to 7.0

2008-03-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Dave wrote: Hello, I've got a 6.2 or 3 box that i'm wanting to update to 7.0. I've cvsupped my source, made world, and built a kernel, all went successfully. This is the GENERIC kernel. When i do a make installkernel i am getting the error kldxref: file isn't dynamically linked Is thi

Re: List of active users, logged in with gdm

2008-03-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
Laszlo Nagy wrote: I would like to get the list of the users who are actively logged in remotely with gdm, along with their IP address. The commands 'w' and 'users' does not work. What is the right command to get this list? Let me turn that question around slightly: How can I get gdm(8) to

Re: Best practice: sendmail and SMTP auth

2008-03-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
Derek Ragona wrote: At 02:19 PM 3/12/2008, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, Not sure if this is the most appropriate place for this question, but since all my servers are FreeBSD 6.x/7.x, I'll give it a go... I am considering setting up SMTP auth on a number of sendmail instances that I control. Aft

Re: Help

2008-03-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Dedan Kiruri wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 5.0 mail server and I need help on updating on the > following > > > > Updating the antivirus > > Updating the spam levels /spam assassin > > Managing the interfaces > > Basic commands lines >

Re: sendmail: from virtual address changed to maindomain

2008-03-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Roberto Nunnari wrote: yes. here it is. Thank you. Robi. Wojciech Puchar wrote: entries in hostname.mc FEATURE(virtusertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable') FEATURE(genericstable, `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable') GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/generics-domains') MX hostnames are all

Re: Urgent: filesystem "full", though space is available

2008-03-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 06:11:47PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: I use lsof to get the list of removed files still open (lsof +L1, useful after a port upgrade to check wether all upgraded daemons indeed restarted). It seems it's not possible with fstat. ... which is exactly what

Re: A few jail questions

2008-03-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
David Allen wrote: I've recently been examining the use of jails in FreeBSD, and I have some questions I hope someone can shed some light on with respect to running virtual servers in jails. 1. Upgrading. This probably a "It Depends" question, but if a host system is upgraded (within version nu

Re: A general purpose LDAP solution?

2008-03-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
Patrick C wrote: Is there any support for built-in redundancy on the server level? I just need changes replicated, CARP can handle failover. with LDAP? Sure. In fact, there are two mechanisms available with OpenLDAP: replicated and 'syncrepl'. See http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/config.

Re: Odd Keyboard, mouse, networking issues

2008-03-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Outback Dingo wrote: I installed FreeBSD 7 on a IBM thinkpad Z60M, Xorg from ports, 3 different window managers, kde, xfce4 and fvwm-crystal in console, there is no issue in X anytime i type something on the keyboard, anything, regardelss of being in a console or in firefox the text doesnt dis

Re: howto autologin (yes, I know, risky...)

2008-03-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
Steve Franks wrote: I know it's a shockingly bad idea from a security perspective, but I'm giving a system to a family member that's not going to be spending much time on the net, so I think it's an acceptable risk. It's an isolated desktop/user system, and I'd like it to boot straight to xfce,

Re: Solved partly

2008-04-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Frank Wißmann wrote: Frank Wißmann wrote: Hi all! Hope there's somebody out there who can help me with the following problem: When I type "startx" as root all is coming up as expected, the X-Server and twm as WM. When I stop it, log in as a normal user and do the same there is only a grey scr

Re: cfg-update equivalent?

2008-04-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Andy Christianson wrote: In Gentoo, there is a program called cfg-update that will help to merge new configuration options that come with a new version of software when you do a system update from portage. Does FreeBSD have any equivalent to this that ensures that configuration files work afte

Re: building a distribution server

2008-04-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: the biggest slow down is the downloading of files. just sitting watching things i would say 70% of the time is downloading files. is there a way where i can build a distribution server that has everything i could possibly make fetch-recursive in every port you wan'tto

Re: Source upgrade from 6.3-PRERELEASE to 7-STABLE

2008-04-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Joshua Isom wrote: I've looked back at a lot of the emails about upgrading a system from 6 to 7, but all seem to contain some caveat or other, generally ports. I want a "clean" system, but don't want to deal with backing up, reformatting, and installing, not to mention reconfiguring everything

Re: pkg_version error

2008-04-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Ghirai wrote: Hey, Running pkg_version -vL =, when it reaches postfix is says: -- 1 open conditional: at line 1115 (evaluated to true) make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue pkg_version: Failed to get PKGNAME from /usr/ports/mail/postfix/Makefile! 1 open conditional:

Re: Documentation for port config options?

2008-04-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Steven Friedrich wrote: cups-base has several options: [X] GNUTLSBuild with GNUTLS library [ ] PHP Build PHP support [ ] PYTHONBuild PYTHON support [ ] LIBPAPER Build with libpaper support [ ] DNSSD Build with DNS_SD (avahi) support [ ] PAM Build with PAM support

Re: freebsd 7 stable, which tag??

2008-04-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: sorry, I just read some articles in the mailing list, it's RELENG_7 for stable, 7_0 is for current. Nope. RELENG_7_0 is for 7.0-RELEASE RELENG_7 is for 7.0-STABLE (at the moment) . is for 8-CURRENT Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Setting global enviroment variables

2008-04-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
Andrew Cid wrote: Hi all, What's the best way of setting environment variables on FreeBSD so that all users and daemons running from rc can see them? I'd like to set PKGROOT to a custom package server, so that all users and a couple of daemons that start from rc will use the new packages. /et

Re: "make-localhost" not there (DNS/named setup on 7.0)

2008-04-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, After installing FreeBSD 7.0 (AMD64-version) on a new machine wanted to set up a caching DNS. As per the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html) I wanted to run "make-localhost" in order to set up the configuration files. Bu

Re: 7.0 and HP Proliant DL140 G3?

2008-04-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
Ross wrote: > I am going to buy DL140 G3 (NHP-SATA) and I want FreeBSD on it. I found some > reports of boot loader crashes, disk and ethernet performance issues among > with this PR: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/78339 > Most of that happened with 5.x and 6.x. Has anyone had a

Re: Question About Ports Update Cycle

2008-04-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Tim Daneliuk wrote: Is there some regular interval at which new ports are processed by the FreeBSD team? I submitted a port (for a very minor utility) 3/20/2008 but it is still not in the tree. I'm not complaining in the slightest - the folks who do this work are volunteering their time, and I

Re: Milters or SpamAssassin plugings

2008-04-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Robert Davison wrote: I'm running the base Sendmail with Mailscanner and SpamAssassin from the ports. A simple question I'm installing SPF to help the fight against spam. Which is the most efficient way of doing it.Sendmail milter or the p5-Mail SpamAssassin plug-in. They both do the s

Re: DNS server Problem

2008-04-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Ruel Luchavez wrote: > Hi, > > I have BIND DNS Server in my freebsd, i keep on searching in google on how > to restart it? > is there a command to restart it like the squid and dhcp? or there is no > command for it? That is somewhat different to

Re: Install port without man page

2008-04-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Ashant Chalasani wrote: Hello All, Is there a way to install a port without the man-pages. I'm trying to install a dhcp server onto a Tinybsd image and end up buying myself a bunch of files in /man, as seen at http://code.google.com/p/tinybsdap/wiki/InstallingPorts (hope the linking is not mind

Re: [SSHd] Limiting access from authorized IP's

2008-04-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Paul Schmehl wrote: I have maintained publicly available servers for a small hobby domain for almost ten years now. Initially, I bought in to this logic and ran a firewall. (At that time we only had one server.) What it cost me was CPU and memory. What it gained me was nothing. I turned it

Re: question about "gnash" or "kde-gnash"

2008-04-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
Fraser Tweedale wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'd feel real warm+funny nuking the ads that churn my uprocessor. You can use the Firefox FlashBlock extension which blocks all flash objects, and allows you to run only the ones you want. xpi-noscript is even better IMHO. Blocks flash, javascri

Re: Setting up mirror

2008-04-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do i get my mirror of FreeBSD on the mirrors-ftp list? Contact the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP

Re: pw create home dir issue

2008-04-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Unga wrote: > Hi > > I cannot get the pw to create a new user's home > directory. Here is what I used: > > pw -V /etc useradd -n test \ > -c "Test User" -b /home/ \ > -G "wheel,operator" -m -M 0700 \ > -k /etc/skel/ -s /usr/loc

Re: rmuser failed / cannot readd user

2008-04-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
Hartleigh Burton wrote: I added a user called "mrawebuser", which failed because there was not enough free space on / at the time. Now when I try to add the user again it says the user already exists when it doesn't. I have used rmuser to remove the account and also manually check /etc/passwd,

Re: Recovering mysql data - mysqlbinlog

2008-05-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
Mel wrote: On Thursday 01 May 2008 22:24:33 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Thursday, May 01, 2008 21:52:05 +0200 Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 01 May 2008 21:13:41 John wrote: Thank you Mel and Paul for the suggestions. From what I understand the general query log is more for debuggin

Re: handling mysql binlog data

2008-05-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > Following a recent thread I would like to ask if it is safe to remove > old binlog data. From the below I understand that the current binlog is > mysql-bin.07 and the previous ones (from 01-06) are

Re: handling mysql binlog data

2008-05-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Will any future upgrade (by means of portupgrade) not change the custom mysql location back to /var/db/mysql? Not if you set: mysql_dbdir="/usr/mysql" in /etc/rc.conf Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory

Re: "Operation not permitted" at end of portupgrade

2008-05-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Mike Clarke wrote: Operation not permitted - /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libc.so.5 Operation not permitted - /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libc_r.so.5 Operation not permitted - /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libcrypt.so.2 Operation not permitted - /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libpthread.so.1 Operation not p

Re: Underscores in host names

2008-05-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Christopher Key <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hello, >> >> I've a host on the network called "GC100_000C1E00AC3F_GlobalCache", and >> I'm getting interesting behaviour when I try to do DNS lookups on it. >> >> Unde

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
DAve wrote: Good morning. I recently upgraded our two email gateways from 4.8 to 6.2. The required software was upgraded as well which consists of MailScanner and Sendmail. Both had been keep up to date so it was not a jump in required resources. The issue I am seeing is that my server load

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: FreeBSD 6.2 is I believe slower than 4.11 for single processor systems and processes which pretty much run single threaded -- ie. exactly what you're trying to run. This would cause exactly the sort of symptoms you're seeing. Actually I was mistaken: I saw 4.11 and 2.4

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