Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-17 Thread Sandy Rutherford
it. # Installation: Put this script somewhere in your path and make a hard link # to it called umount_iso. # Author: Sandy Rutherford [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Created: Thu Dec 5 16:38:43 2002 by sandy on szamoca.uphill.bc.ca # Modified

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-18 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:10:15 -0600, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:00:25 -0800 Sandy Rutherford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:20:58 -0600, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm

Re: Restricting NFS daemons

2005-01-25 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:51:06 +0100, cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello, how can one configure NFS daemons (esp. mountd and rpcbind) so that they listen only on one IP address (e.g. on 192.168.1.1)? This isn't quite what you are asking about, but it may do the job none-the-less.

Re: Restricting NFS daemons

2005-01-25 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:02:00 +0100, cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But the question is how to get rpcbind to use tcp-wrappers in the first place! Because even with this in hosts.allow, sockstat -46l still shows: root rpcbind10188 7 udp4 127.0.0.1:111 *:* root

Re: Banning ips for some time?

2005-01-26 Thread Sandy Rutherford
Christian, On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 you wrote: my servers sshd reports 30 to 50 failed root/operator/etc. logins a day. I would like to block the incoming ip for a few days automaticly after e.g failed login requests. Currently I am using ipf, but it would be no problem to use any

Re: FreeBSD Server Panics Reboots

2005-01-26 Thread Sandy Rutherford
Joseph, On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 you wrote: I think i'll start checking on the hardware and the memomry last since memtest shows no errors with the memory. Don't discount memory problems. Search the archives of this list for previous discussions about memory test programs. You will find that

Re: apache+SSL, which port?

2005-02-01 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:25:04 -0600, Tim Erlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Andrew L. Gould wrote: Not necessarily. I've heard lots of complaints about PHP and Apache2 not playing nice. (Does anyone have any updates on this situation?) I've been running apache2 with squirrelmail for a

RE: ssh default security risc

2005-02-05 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:54:14 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: restrictions somehow doesen't exist. Not to mention that even without a static IP assigned to your home or other locations that you normally ssh in from, it's pretty simple to block off huge chunks of the

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:43:32 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: MH But that's different in that it was never released to a public forum MH in the first place (explicitly or otherwise). I'm not sure what you mean by public forum. A server accessible from the Internet

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 02:56:03 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Sandy Rutherford writes: SR This is not so clear. In a March 2004 decision regarding P-to-P music SR sharing, Justice von Finckenstein of the Federal Court of Canada ruled SR that: SR SR The mere fact

RE: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 01:59:40 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Marella Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:35 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: favor

Re: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:53:40 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Sandy Rutherford writes: SR Hold on a second. Shared P-to-P directories certainly are indexed and SR Finckenstein knew this. Where are they indexed? I though P-to-P was a proprietary protocol--which implies

Re: favor

2005-02-06 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:00:56 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: SR Now #2, authorization: SR SR Finckenstein states: SR SR [26] No evidence was presented that the alleged infringers either SR distributed or authorized the reproduction of sound recordings. They SR merely

Re: ipfilter outgoing

2005-02-16 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:43:20 +0100, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: dick hoogendijk wrote: I have configures pure-ftpd to use a restrict set op known ports to the outside. I also openen up 5999 already. Most problems I encounter are for streaming media. This is blocked most

Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-17 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:02:02 -0600, Jamie Novak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I may have missed something from the thread before I joined the list, but is there any reason you can't just mount the filesystems and use vi as you're used to? If you're getting far enough in the boot process to

Re: raid1

2005-02-18 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:51:53 -0700, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Feb 18, 2005, at 11:39 PM, Spades wrote: hi, my server hardware supports hardware raid, i installed it as per normal freebsd 5.3, however i see no difference in df. its using 2 x 160GB, what do

Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-23 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 06:48:33 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:44:55AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:02:02 -0600, Jamie Novak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I may have missed something from the thread before I joined

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-24 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:26:28 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I got the impression that KDE was the one that everyone used. Which window manager most closely approximates the GUI of traditional UNIX workstations? That would be twm. It is (I believe) the original

Re: Quad ethernet: Adaptec or Znyx?

2004-07-15 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 you wrote: Fellow BSDers, I'm looking at 2 quad ethernet cards on eBay: Adaptec ANA-6944TX and Znyx ZX346. The Adaptec appears to use a DEC chipset. The Znyx card is supported by de(4) and also supplies its own FreeBSD drivers up to version 4.4. Has anyone had

ypserv, svctcp_create, and spamd

2004-08-15 Thread Sandy Rutherford
I have been having some problems with ypserv occasionally deciding to listen on tcp port 783, which breaks spamd. As far as I can tell from the source files of ypserv and svc_tcp.c, the subr svctcp_create simply returns an arbitrary unused port. Since services started from /usr/local/etc/rc.d,

Re: SMP on 4.10

2004-08-20 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:40:22 -0500, Joseph Koenig (jWeb) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So, what's the word with SMP on FreeBSD 4.10 these days? Is it stable (for production)? I have a DB server that will be running only MySQL and PostgreSQL. The box is a dual PIII 1.2 GHz and I'd love to make

USB Audio

2004-08-20 Thread Sandy Rutherford
Does anybody have any recommendations for external USB sound cards working with uaudio(4) either in FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: UPS advice, please ...

2005-11-23 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:21:59 -0500, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: I have never used the UPS daemons so don't know how they work but I doubt they are made to work with multiples on the UPS. I've never done it, but I believe this is quite

Re: ftp nologin problem

2006-01-07 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:59:47 +, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Imran Imtiaz wrote: I am running ProFTPD 1.2.10 on my bsd server but the problem is that if a user don't have a shell and I've defined his shell as nologin then the ftp server does not logon and give the

Re: shared irqs and performance

2004-09-14 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:21:52 +0530, Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The card won't be facing any stability problems. And there is no reason why you should force the card to another IRQ because modern motherboards DOES allow IRQ sharing and there is no performance hits for it. That's

dictd, UTF-8, FreeBSD 4.10

2004-09-28 Thread Sandy Rutherford
Has anybody been able to get dictd working with UTF-8 dictionaries in FreeBSD 4.10? When I start dictd --locale de_DE.UTF-8 it seg. faults. I do have the UTF-8 locales installed and the dictionary should be fine as it works for dictd running on a Linux machine. I'm using dictd-1.9.11 installed

Re: dictd, UTF-8, FreeBSD 4.10

2004-10-02 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 you wrote: Has anybody been able to get dictd working with UTF-8 dictionaries in FreeBSD 4.10? When I start dictd --locale de_DE.UTF-8 it seg. faults. I do have the UTF-8 locales installed and the dictionary should be fine as it works for dictd running on a Linux

Re: FreeBSD and UPS's

2004-10-27 Thread Sandy Rutherford
Michael, On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 you wrote: I was just curious if FreeBSD supports any of the UPS's that have the automated powerdown feature in the event of powerloss (APM)? I'm using apcupsd with an APC Back-UPS Pro 650 under FreeBSD 4.10. It works great, including automatic powerdown.

Re: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-19 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:28:14 +0100, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: A word of caution, though. A Linux system (which I help administer) had two SCSI disks mounted as RAID-1 through some kind of Adaptec controller. Recently the machine crashed and it transpires that one of the

Re: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-21 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:36:32 +0100, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Sandy Rutherford Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:52 PM In order to boost read performance, a RAID card should interleave reading from a RAID-1 volume by reading alternately from

RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-22 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 01:00:09 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: With a RAID-1 card, mirroring, there are 2 ways to setup reads. The first way makes the assumption that you are mirroring purely for fault tolerance. In that case you would NOT see a ANY read from the second

RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-23 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:37:20 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Seagate wrote a paper on this titled: Seagate Technology Paper 338.1 Estimating Drive Reliability in Desktop Computers and Consumer Electronic Systems that explains how they define MTBF. Basically, they

RE: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-12-03 Thread Sandy Rutherford
If the goal is simply to stress-test the memory, just take a huge file and write a shell script loop to gzip it and ungzip it ad infinitum. I used this technique a while ago to ferret out some memory problems. In this case, the bad memory manifested itself as gzip eventually reporting an error

Changing hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize in 4.10.

2004-12-13 Thread Sandy Rutherford
Is it possible to change the sysctl variable hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize (DMA buffer size for the soundcard) in FreeBSD 4.10? I know that in 5.x this is changed in devices.hints. I'm guessing that something in the kernel config file will do the job, but haven't been able to figure out what. I am

Re: Changing hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize in 4.10.

2004-12-14 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:03:15 -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I wonder if it wouldn't be: set hw.snd.pcm0.bufffersize=N This doesn't work either. No error --- it just ignores the setting. in accordance with other variables in /boot/loader.help.

Re: Changing hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize in 4.10.

2004-12-13 Thread Sandy Rutherford
4096d (1p/1r/4v channels duplex) Also, [szamoca:9] uname -a FreeBSD szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #35: Sat Sep 18 02:19:02 PDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/SZAMOCA i386 Sandy Rutherford wrote: Is it possible to change the sysctl variable

Re: Changing hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize in 4.10.

2004-12-13 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:08:02 -0600, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm not sure if it makes a difference but 8192 is not in quotes like I have in my working example and man device.hints says it should look like this: hint.driver.unit.keyword=value, I added the quotes, but

Re: Changing hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize in 4.10.

2004-12-18 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:18:27 -0600, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Worked for me as well. Thanks. BTW, to change the buffer size for a CT5880 PCI sound card, the variable uses a slightly different naming convention. cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices:

Dell perc 2/qc cannot find 7.2 MBR

2009-07-28 Thread Sandy Rutherford
I have been trying to install FreeBSD 7.2 on a i386 system with a Dell Perc 2/QC SCSI raid card. The root files system is on a raid 1 volume. However, after installation the system will not boot. The BIOS complains that it cannot find the master boot record. During installation, I installed a

Re: How can I log every login via telnet?

2005-04-07 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 20:42:25 +0200, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is there a way to log every login via telnet? Check /var/log/auth.log. They should be logged there by default. You could also use tcpwrappers for better control over access and logging. See /etc/hosts.allow and

Re: How can I log every login via telnet?

2005-04-09 Thread Sandy Rutherford
Anthony, On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 you wrote: Sandy Rutherford writes: Check /var/log/auth.log. They should be logged there by default. Thanks, that's just what I was looking for. You could also use tcpwrappers for better control over access and logging. See /etc/hosts.allow and man 5

Re: Loading .bash_profile under X-Windows

2005-04-12 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 01:12:25 -0700, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 10:40:01AM +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote: How can I get terminal under X-Windows to load my .bash_profile (and any other stuff) that is usually loaded when at the initial prompt? A more

Re: IPFILTER and NFS

2005-04-12 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 13:04:51 +0200, Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This limits the number of ports relevant to 59, 111 and 2049. You can't force lockd and statd to bind to specific ports (they are alos RPC services) and AFAIK you can't have disk quotas work correctly because of

Re: which interface: mountd,rpcbind

2005-04-19 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:35:56 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 09:09:36AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Florian Hengstberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I really worry about that it seems (man mountd, man rpcbind) impossible to specifiy the interface these

Re: blocking MAC address with ipfw ?

2005-05-03 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Mon, 02 May 2005 20:26:03 -0700, John Pettitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: faisal gillani wrote: faisal gillani wrote: how can i block a MAC address with ipfw ? can you share the syntax please ? thanks man ipfw reveals ... { MAC | mac } dst-mac src-mac

Re: tetex, latex, dvips

2005-05-17 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Mon, 16 May 2005 23:55:44 +0200, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: LaTeX3 (if it is ever finished) will be integrated into the different distributions. OTOH, even Leslie Lamport seems to think that LaTeX will fall into disuse in about five years. The consensus seems to be that

Maple 10

2007-05-23 Thread Sandy Rutherford
I have been trying to get Maple 10 working on FreeBSD 6.2. With the patch to the kernel to add `linux_rt_sigpending', it works fine with the exception of the help command. This gives me: Help error, during help initialization - No help database found The help database file are *.hdb files and

Re: Maple 10

2007-05-23 Thread Sandy Rutherford
Colin, On Wed, 23 May 2007 you wrote: Wow, this is news to me. Did the Maple 10 installer work, or did you have to use linux to install and then copy the installed files across? No problem with the installer. It's java-based and I used the FreeBSD native version of jdk1.4.2. The

Re: Maple 10

2007-05-24 Thread Sandy Rutherford
Benjamin, On Wed, 23 May 2007 you wrote: On Wednesday 23 May 2007 15:41, Sandy Rutherford wrote: I have been trying to get Maple 10 working on FreeBSD 6.2. With the patch to the kernel to add `linux_rt_sigpending', it works fine with the exception of the help command. This gives me

Re: hints for troubleshooting poor sound quality.

2005-09-25 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On 19 Sep 2005 10:23:07 -0400, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've set up an ASUS small form factor machine based around an P4S8L ... The machine has two mini-jacks, one in the front and one in the back. If I plug a set of

Re: Disk inconsistency

2005-09-28 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 06:25:44 -0400, Michael Conlen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have reason to believe that a set of mirrored disks became inconsistent recently. Since reviving the disk array the system it's attached to has become highly unstable. It appears to deadlock every few

Re: long ftp dir listings

2005-09-29 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:27:31 -0700, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am often annoyed trying to get a long directory listing from my unix box while ftp'ing somewhere. pause is hardly useful, since the listing goes by to quickly. Occasionally, I have found a site that uses |more , but this

Re: Stored hard drive failure?

2005-10-05 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 00:44:36 -0700, K Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Not sure how long I'm storing them (See above question where I asked -- How long can the HD sit on the shelf... and the other questions seemed to be editted out). But you're right the info could become out-of-date

Re: chm file conversion?

2005-10-09 Thread Sandy Rutherford
Colin, On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 you wrote: Vizion wrote: As per subject - does anyone know of any utils for converting microsofts compiled help files for use on freebsd? I've found converters/chmview to be useful in the past. Anything available for converting chm to pdf or ps? I believe

Re: chm file conversion?

2005-10-14 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 12:51:43 +0400, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 10/9/05, Sandy Rutherford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin, On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 you wrote: Vizion wrote: As per subject - does anyone know of any utils for converting microsofts compiled help files

Re: How well do USB - parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-19 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:19:59 -0400, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The guy who provides our hardware recommended a USB - parallel adapter, but I've got no experience with these. I've been warned about USB - serial adapaters and how the translation isn't always 100%, so I'm trying