Re: badblocks

2002-12-18 Thread Stephen Hovey
I'd like to know myself if there is something for IDE drives. Its the thing keeping me from using IDE On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Paulo Roberto wrote: Hello, Is there an application in FreeBSD that tests a media (floppy) for read/writing errors such as 'badblocks' in Linux? thanks, Paulo

Re: badblocks

2002-12-18 Thread Stephen Hovey
In the last episode (Dec 18), Stephen Hovey said: I'd like to know myself if there is something for IDE drives. Its the thing keeping me from using IDE All modern IDE drives do bad-block remapping just like SCSI drives, and if you start getting write errors passed up to you

Re: L0phtcrack

2002-12-23 Thread Stephen Hovey
Ive used such utilities in the past.. Basically, the only way a legit admin can secure things, is if they have access to the same tech the bad guys use.. otherwise they can never be really certain they have things shored up. On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, paul beard wrote: Stacey Roberts wrote:

Re: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-04 Thread Stephen Hovey
windows ftp defaults to ascii more, not binary, so its adds a \r to each \n - you might save your tar files if you upload ascii to get them stripped out again. On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Phillip Smith wrote: Hi, Wondering what (if anything) can be done about this? freedom# tar -xf www.tar

RE: Bios not recognizing correct HD size

2003-01-08 Thread Stephen Hovey
I think you're right. So should I just define the drive correctlt in fdisk? If so, what would be the proper settings. usually a drive has em on the drive on something - a sticker/label sorta thing with head, cyl, sect, etc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Epals (Undeliverable mail, return to sender)

2003-01-08 Thread Stephen Hovey
(8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h08NiKQ24471; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:44:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Stephen Hovey' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Bios not recognizing

RE: Bios not recognizing correct HD size

2003-01-08 Thread Stephen Hovey
got me hangin unless fbsd does use bios for ide On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Mike Loiterman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:54 PM Stephen Hovey mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you're right. So should I just define the drive

RE: web write-up

2003-01-08 Thread Stephen Hovey
Personally - I dont care what some lamer writer said - what I CARE about is that I SLEEP at nite since switching to fbsd.. the fbsd programmers saved me from tossin myself off a roof! Did you switch from Linux or Windoze to FBSD? linux and sco To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: sendmail forwarding

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Hovey
user1 doesnt have to be a real user - usr1: user2@domain2 On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Olga Zenkova wrote: Hi! How can I forward user1@domain1 to user2@domain2 with sendmail 8.11.1? I think aliases.db is not this case because user1 is not the real user of system. Thanks, Olga

Re: Unfortunate...

2003-01-22 Thread Stephen Hovey
what are you talkin about? On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Bill Nolastname wrote: It is unfortunate that one of the developers with freebsd.org also supports companies that hijack web browsers. I had respect for freebsd before learning this, now, I do not. Too bad. Bill Fahey Canada

Re: Multiple solutions for a problem (Re: How to map bad sectors onIDE?)

2003-02-01 Thread Stephen Hovey
This has been an open question - I dont believe IDE's do much of their own bad block marking - there used to be a utility called bad144 - though I dont know that it did much - I know SCO has a utility. On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Marc Schneiders wrote: On 31 Jan 2003, at 19:43 [=GMT-0500], Lowell

At the risk of swellin heads

2003-07-22 Thread Stephen Hovey
The developers of freebsd are practically GODS - Every night that I get to sleep ALL NITE because my beeper DIDNT go off - its because I switched to freebsd this maybe sounds stupid - but BEFORE I made the switch, well I didnt get to sleep regularly.. So anyway - if you are one of the people

Semi OT: Linux lawsuit and FBSD

2003-08-01 Thread Stephen Hovey
The time is S ripe for a big noise to make a big impact to get people to see the light on FBSD's superiority etc... Ive seen some article - but nothing like what I should.. I wonder how, those of us you really know its worth, can properly toot it !

Sendmail/wrappers question

2003-08-04 Thread Stephen Hovey
whats the surest way to prevent mail hosts with no reverse dns from being able to connect/send email? The hosts.allow example seem more accurately ident'ing and refusing than check there is a reverse dns. Any insight is appreciated! :) ___ [EMAIL

Re: Spammers forged my address - help unbury me from bounces?

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Hovey
Ive had this happen to me and couldnt figure out any good solution. Its one of those reasons why they should have the death penalty for spammers. On Wed, 28 May 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote: Some jackass(es) sent a bunch of spam with forged From: headers referring to non-existent accounts on

sendmail question

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Hovey
how does one stop the colon relay hack? I had something similar before with pipes but I ripped anything that recog'd a pipe out of sendmail.cf - the colon business isnt that easy.. I cant find anything on the net for this particular hack - anyone hit this and know the answer?

Re: Silly question - Name Served?

2003-05-30 Thread Stephen Hovey
Sounds like damagement to me :) People use the wrong words all the time - like I switched servers meaning they changed ISPs etc.. On Thu, 29 May 2003, Dragoncrest wrote: Ok, either I'm getting senial, or it's too late at night. Had a gentleman ask me today to setup some stuff on his

Re: Mail relay

2003-05-30 Thread Stephen Hovey
someone is probably using formmail.pl - pull it! or hard code the address the form info is sent to within the formmail script. On Fri, 30 May 2003, DanB wrote: How do I stop mail relaying with Apache? My mail server has been black listed. Dan

Re: REPLY: Please Confirm Lockergnome's Tech Specialist Subscription

2003-06-02 Thread Stephen Hovey
way past due if you ask me! On 2 Jun 2003, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote: We just received notice that you wish to subscribe to the Lockergnome newsletter Time to set the list to subscribers only? Regards, Frank ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Mount My Creation

2003-06-19 Thread Stephen Hovey
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Peter Leftwich wrote: Ponder this... Why is it /etc/fstab and not /etc/mount.conf ?? File System Table - not all things in it are mounted Ponder this... Why does M$FT Windows have Created, Accessed, and Modified, while UNIX (beware of unresearched, wide-sweeping

Re: Soft Updates / Exim Queue Size

2003-06-19 Thread Stephen Hovey
Im still tryin to figure out how to get it to clear its queue of dead junk! Lemme know if you find a good solution! On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Joseph Lewis wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, We just implemented Exim on FreeBSD, and turned the system to live. Before we really got started, our queue

Re: your mail

2003-06-22 Thread Stephen Hovey
You would have to boot stand alone When you start up the machine, and it does that part where it says it will continue in so many seconds, or if you hit enter, or hit any other key to stop it - stop it and put boot -s On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Paige King wrote: forgot my login and password. what

Re: Disaster recovery planning

2003-06-24 Thread Stephen Hovey
I keep a local copy ftpable of the version(s) I use.. Install just the bin dist using floppy and the local ftpable - then full restore from tape - and recompile the kernal just to be on the safe side. On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Sue Blake wrote: Here's how I plan to recover a system from a level 0

Re: banners on tcpd (tcpwrappers)

2003-06-24 Thread Stephen Hovey
What do you mean by banners? and in what environment? (You talking about ad banners on web pages? or something else) On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Vincent Poy wrote: Greetings everyone: Does anyone know what needs to be done to the tcpd - tcp wrappers to get banners to work? Thanks.

Re: SquirrelMail on FreeBSD

2003-07-08 Thread Stephen Hovey
You got cookies enabled? On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Chris wrote: Hello, Has anyone had any trouble with the ports version of SquirrelMail. I updated my mail ports yesterday and built cclient and IMAP-uw without ssl off. I verified this by logging in through telnet: * OK [CAPABILITY

Re: SquirrelMail on FreeBSD

2003-07-08 Thread Stephen Hovey
no no - I mean on the browser you are using to try and log in On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Chris wrote: Yes, I have tried all the php suggestions on the squirrel docs page. Including sessions.auto_start, register_globals etc. -cs Stephen Hovey wrote: You got cookies enabled

Re: Serious problems here

2003-07-13 Thread Stephen Hovey
I think someone replaced the contents of your source On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, quadrant wrote: Last night I had a very serious encounter with cc. I worked my way up to a cc of the following statement, but the compiler gave me ALL kinds od errors... what in the world did I do wrong?? # cc -u

Re: access

2002-07-23 Thread Stephen Hovey
A compact disk writer IS a burn. On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i try to download freebsd to my f drive (compact disk) it says i need administrator access or permision, how can i get by this. Burning freebsd to my hard drive would take too long. To Unsubscribe: send

Runing ultra160

2002-09-25 Thread Stephen Hovey
I tried using a tekram 390U3 and it locks up under high loads - when I looked in the archives I found a known bug/issue.. Im running fbsd 3.2 - does anyone know if this is fixed in any of the newer fbsd releases? I couldnt find any reference. Failing that, is anyone succesfully running a pci

Re: killing an application through code

2002-10-01 Thread Stephen Hovey
If there is only 1 or you wanna kill whatever there is killall realplay On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Vinod wrote: Can anyone tell me how i can kill an application process through a piece of C code? i have the realplayer application,which has to be closed manually with a mouse or using ctrl-C or

Re: motherboard for freebsd 5.0 server

2002-10-02 Thread Stephen Hovey
IDE is not a good choice for a server. Should choose scsi On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, gsfgs sgsgsg wrote: Hi, I need an answer on this. http://tw.giga-byte.com/products/8iexp.htm I intend to use IDE RAID 0 or 1 with a SCSI sony DAT 12/24gb. Thise services will run on:(DSL)router,NAT,

Re: motherboard for freebsd 5.0 server

2002-10-02 Thread Stephen Hovey
can probably get by with it. Of more concern is that FreeBSD 5.0 is going to be used. Don't use that! It is not stable yet. Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: Stephen Hovey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gsfgs sgsgsg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October

At wits end with tekram

2002-10-09 Thread Stephen Hovey
I have a 390u2w that randomly crashes a heavy load server - it has a mix of scsi-2 on 1 bus, and 1 large lvd on the other. I put in the driver from the tekram site, and it helped (the default ncr0 crashed quick and often).. but it still crashes. I disabled tagged queueing - no difference. So

Re: At wits end with tekram

2002-10-11 Thread Stephen Hovey
Have you tried the sym(4) driver? It might not be in 3.2, though, so an upgrade might be in the cards. Its not in 3.2 :( To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: confidential.

2002-10-16 Thread Stephen Hovey
You would think with so many of these originating from US Ip addresses that law enforcement woulda slapped all their butts in jail by now.. SHEESH On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, FatiGwarzo wrote: DEAR SIR, MAY THE BLESSINGS OF GOD BE UPON YOU AND GRANT YOUR FAMILY AND YOU THE WISDOM AND

Re: Upgrading Computer

2002-10-23 Thread Stephen Hovey
Yeah you should be able to just swap guts. On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Grant Cooper wrote: I just aquired a pent 300 and was currently using a pent 200. But I used a GENERIC kernel that came with the FreeBSD because I never new how to modify it at the time. Because I never changed the Kernel can't

RE: Upgrading Computer

2002-10-23 Thread Stephen Hovey
in the same situation except that I want to move to different hardware. I have a FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE (GENERIC) mail server that might need some more power. -Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions;FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Stephen Hovey Sent

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Stephen Hovey
Hello, I'd like to make my own modification to FreeBSD, but I really don't know where to start. This is what I want to do: After doing a shutdown (no APM nor ACPI) FreeBSD tells me that the system is ready to be powered down. I'd like to add a (configurable) timeout to this final

Re: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!

2002-11-09 Thread Stephen Hovey
/etc/passwd is made from master.passwd for those jobbies that still need to look at the old style text file instead of making kernel calls. You can regenerate it - I always forget the damn program name - mk_pwdb or something like that - when I forget, I use vipw, change a latter in my real name

Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.

2002-11-20 Thread Stephen Hovey
Oh bite me already On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, sandra savimbi wrote: DEAR FRIEND, THIS LETTER MAY COME TO YOU AS A SURPRISE DUE TO THE FACT THAT WE HAVE NOT YET MET. THE MESSAGE COULD BE STRANGE BUT REAL IF YOU PAY SOME ATTENTION TO IT. I COULD HAVE NOTIFIED YOU ABOUT IT AT LEAST FOR THE SAKE

Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.

2002-11-20 Thread Stephen Hovey
Ok that its.. may chango (cabio sile) burn everything you own may oshun curdle your innards may your ancesters scream in their graves, and your children, in their cradles. may everything you touch turn to shit may he who dwells at the cross roads rejoyce in my cigars and my alcohol as he works

Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.

2002-11-21 Thread Stephen Hovey
I apologize to the list - I thought I can cleared the cc: - didnt realise it went out on the list. Its what I get for gettin pissed off too late at nite. On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Gary D Kline wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:07:57PM -0500, Stephen Hovey wrote: Oh bite me already man

Re: apache frontpage question

2003-02-10 Thread Stephen Hovey
its to force DES instead of MD-5 On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: If I want to support the MS frontpage extentions I need to install www/apache13-fp and www/frontpage from ports (as I understand). I do not understand the warning in the (ports) message, stating that libcrypt.*

Re: apache frontpage question

2003-02-10 Thread Stephen Hovey
PS - with FP we make client sign a waiver stating we are not responsible if their stuff gets cracked into etc due to known secutiry issues with FP. On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: If I want to support the MS frontpage extentions I need to install www/apache13-fp and www/frontpage

RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks filling up)

2003-02-28 Thread Stephen Hovey
Message- [From: Stephen Hovey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:53 PM [To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Subject: RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks filling up) [ [ [Your /backupvar is 73MB - over half of your root partition. I owuld move [that to some other place

Re: Hooking 2 Networks

2003-03-03 Thread Stephen Hovey
Thats why the call it 'escorting' :) On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, northern snowfall wrote: Hooking is illegal in the USA. Even over networks. Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Hooking 2 Networks

2003-03-03 Thread Stephen Hovey
As long as it wasnt out ur nose - cool :) On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, northern snowfall wrote: Thats why the call it 'escorting' :) Hahaha, I spat out some pepsi when I read that Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the

Re: Three Terabyte

2003-03-20 Thread Stephen Hovey
I have a similar need but I need lots of access and concurrent! On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: Let's say I need 3Tb of cheap storage (preferably IDE disks) and I want it controlled by a FreeBSD system; how (if at all possible) would I do set that up in terms of hard-

Re: FW: FW: Retrieving web based mail?

2003-03-25 Thread Stephen Hovey
I feel for ya - we used to call this the result of 'damagement' :) On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, stan wrote: The company I worked for is in the process of being merged. Lot's of fun :-( In any case one of the results of this is a huge problem for me in mail retrieval. I use a freeBSD laptop as