Re: Changed a filesystem's name -- now system hangs on reboot (help)

2003-07-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
off of the install CD, or the FIXIT CD (#2) if you have that around. Then mount your hard drive's root partition on /mnt (or make something in /tmp), and fix the problem. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Samba between Mac and BSD

2003-07-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
that for providing a fair slant on what each protocol is well-suited for? :-)] -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba between Mac and BSD

2003-07-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jim Xochellis wrote: Hi Chuck, hi list, Hi, Jim-- Chuck Swiger wrote: NFS is an entirely reasonable choice for filesharing against OS X; netatalk would be a comparitively better choice for MacOS 9 and previous versions. People who have laptops or other network roaming environments will probably

Re: Changed a filesystem's name -- now system hangs on reboot (help)

2003-07-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Joshua Oreman wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:09:35AM -0400 or thereabouts, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] This is when you boot single-user mode off of the install CD, or the FIXIT CD (#2) if you have that around. Then mount your hard drive's root partition on /mnt (or make something in /tmp

Re: update to 4-stable using a web proxy

2003-07-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
images and burn a CD that you can upgrade to something reasonably close to the latest 4-stable version -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Samba between Mac and BSD

2003-07-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
. Can you give me more info, suggestions, links etc? I think the product was called Hummingbird NFS, and it was targetted towards the classic MacOS. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: mailman problems

2003-07-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
; they don't tell you that MailMan refuses to run if you don't. ] -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mailman problems

2003-07-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
User QUADRANT wrote: Already ran newlist... What does /home/mailman/bin/list_lists | grep -i mailman ...return? [Adjust the path to list_lists if need be.] -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Multiple interfaces with same ip address

2003-07-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
want to look into bridging: see man bridge. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WCCP performance questions

2002-09-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
you can easily divide the network traffic up. -Chuck Chuck Swiger | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | All your packets are belong to us. -+---+--- The human race's favorite method for being in control of the facts

Cyclades TS console server

2002-12-07 Thread Chuck O'Donnell
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Re: manufacturing

2003-02-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
many stations and how far apart are they? -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: manufacturing

2003-02-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
the idea. OK. Set up a demo network of 3 machines; one as a server, and two clients (to show that more than one end-user workstation works). -Chuck PS: What happens if one of your VP's asks the same question I did? It's good to have an answer ready... :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: connecting to my isp

2003-02-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
to authenticate before they'll give you a DHCP lease by requesting a specific hostname, or some other DHCP option. Or try to wheedle a static IP out of your ISP if they can't help you connect to their DHCP server under FreeBSD. :-) -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

FreeBSD Loader

2003-02-10 Thread Chuck Payne
Hi, I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.0, but everytime I install it and reboot the FreeBSD bootloader won't boot FreeBSD, is there a trick that I need to know to get this working? What do I need to read or do? Chuck Payne To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

RE: FreeBSD Loader

2003-02-10 Thread Chuck Payne
I did that. The bootloader comes up but it gives this error... FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:da(0,a)F1 boot: It does show the two slices that I created F1 FreeBSD F2 FreeBSD The root is on F2, F1 is the FreeBSD Swap. I hope that, Thanks, Chuck Payne -Original Message- From: Daxbert

Re: Bulk email sender (not (NOT!!!) spam) recommendations?

2003-02-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
your mailing list of old email addresses. If not, next look into deferred delivery mode, persistant host status, and then tuning your queue runners further. ] -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

RE: Forcing a Line Break in .profile

2003-02-13 Thread Chuck Payne
Use and echo as a line break. pwd echo echo date echo echo cal so on Chuck Payne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Colin J. Raven Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 10:21 AM To: BSD Questions Subject: Forcing a Line Break in .profile

Re: Suggestions for new machine please

2003-02-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
can pick up MP 2000+'s for about the same price as XP 2400+'s. If I wanted to work on SMP code, I'd probably get the real MP's, so I spend my time working on code problems, not going nuts trying to find errors in code when the crash was due to an intermittant hardware glich. YMMV. -Chuck

Re: Mozilla focus problems (was Re: The ongoing saga of getting DSLup and running... ping: sendto: Permission denied)

2003-02-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bill Moran wrote: [ ... ] Is anyone else experiencing this? Do we know if it's an X, FreeBSD, or Mozilla problem? Mozilla 1.3a has focus problems (ie, text not going to the URL field after restoring a browser window) under Win32 as well, so I'd suspect it's a Mozilla problem. -Chuck

Re: file system trouble

2003-02-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
problem-- even if you may not have really needed to-- is a fail-safe approach. -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Hard error??

2003-02-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
is going to repeat to fade, losing your data along the way, until it becomes not working. What do I do? Verify your backups, and get a new drive. -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Hard error??

2003-02-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
(or the laptop) for their hard-drive test utilities. You should be able to do a non-destructive read test and see what you see -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: A modern BSD UNIX workgroup - how would you do it?

2003-02-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
. As always, your mileage may vary... :-) -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Replacement hard drives, was: Re: Hard error??

2003-02-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
would remind me favorably of Adaptec's 2940 (U/UW/OF/etc) series. -Chuck Disclaimer: Any Clutch fans out there? Last night's show-- in the hinterlands of Brooklyn, New York; Lamours-- is responsible; any opinions represented above I may or may not agree with once I finish recovering. Very good

Re: using Dummynet to rate limit ftp

2003-02-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:54:20PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] The question of QoS rather than bandwidth capping is valid, but how do you prioritise data traffic if you can't identify at least one of the port numbers used for the TCP or UDP streams? While you need

Re: Setting proper From host in Sendmail

2003-02-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
/freebsd.mc). Other options, like masquerade_envelope, might also be required, but that's the place to start -Chuck -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

FreeBSD, PKI-X, and an OID...?

2003-02-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
OID with it? I looked in the ports collection, but I didn't see anything obviously related. [At least, oidentd or xoids don't *seem* to be related. :-)] Thanks, -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Setting proper From host in Sendmail

2003-02-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.43 X-Spam-Level: *** test 1 2 3 -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: MINUID in NIS Makefile

2003-02-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin nobody:*:65534:65534:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin chuck:*:1000:1000:Charles Swiger:/home/chuck:/bin/zsh squid:*:3128:3128:Squid Cache:/home/squid:/sbin/nologin ...or `ypcat`, or however you get a flatfile version of /etc/passwd. You don't

Re: Verizon DSL FreeBSD?

2003-02-21 Thread chuck odonnell
or postfix instance running on a high port on your internal server. works great! ...or like you said, just don't use that ISP :) chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Cvsup Handbook Example

2003-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
or substantive problems to deal with, if this actually matters to anyone ] -Chuck Chuck Swiger | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | All your packets are belong to us. -+---+--- The human race's favorite method for being in control

Re: I dont seem able to post here :-(

2003-02-21 Thread chuck odonnell
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:14:20PM -, Chris Phillips wrote: Now I just have to figure out the values I need to put into /etc/fstab, so I can do without the mount command... mount -p To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the

Re: Slow networking with sis0

2003-02-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
/if_sis.c /usr/src/sys/pci/if_sis.c: $FreeBSD: src/sys/pci/if_sis.c,v 1.13.4.23 2003/02/05 21:49:01 mbr Exp $ ...? Also, what does 'netstat -i' look like? -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: hpijs

2003-02-27 Thread chuck odonnell
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:59:49PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 18:55, chuck odonnell wrote: we use it here. it works like a charm, and the quality is excellent. we print to it from FreeBSD desktops and Mac OS (shared via netatalk). do you have any specific

Syslog problem

2003-03-08 Thread Chuck Rock
anyone have any ideas? Any suggestions? I really need to get my Cisco logging working. Thanks, Chuck Rock Internet Services Manager EPC, Inc. http://www.epcusa.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

RE: Syslog problem

2003-03-08 Thread Chuck Rock
at Severity 3 and one at Severity 5 The log files are still zero bytes. Chuck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Rock Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 1:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Syslog problem For the last few versions of FreeBSD

Re: Syslog problem

2003-03-08 Thread Chuck Rock
Accordifn to the man page, that just specifies what port to listen on. By default it's 514 syslog port. I'll try it anyway. I'm up for anything at this point ;-) Chuck On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Michael K. Smith wrote: Hello Chuck: On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Chuck Rock wrote: For the last few versions

Re: Syslog problem

2003-03-08 Thread Chuck Rock
Well, that seemed to work. I don't know why, but it did. Thank you! Chuck On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Michael K. Smith wrote: Hello Chuck: On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Chuck Rock wrote: For the last few versions of FreeBSD, I have not been able to get my syslog to log my dial-up pool from my Cisco

VIA 82C686 + HPT-370 BIOS...

2003-03-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
corruption? I've got a recent BIOS (kt77n?) w/ HPT 370 RAID BIOS version 1.11.0402, if that matters. Thanks, -Chuck 'dmesg' output: Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California

Re: Difference between Vinum and atacontrol RAID?

2003-03-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
-device, unless you are only doing RAID-1 mirroring. I'm familar with something called encapsulating the root partition under Solaris and Veritas; it's not for the faint-of-heart. :-) -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: Syslog problem

2003-03-10 Thread Chuck Rock
from everyone. Thanks, Chuck On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Dean Strik wrote: Chuck Rock wrote: On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Michael K. Smith wrote: This might be your issue, because you haven't specified the service after you subnet. Try the following: /usr/sbin/syslogd -a 207.206.185.1/27

Re: Difference between Vinum and atacontrol RAID?

2003-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
the hardware RAID of these devices. I'm willing to bet that the FreeBSD RAID at least comes close, if not betters the Linux performance. Software-based RAID can do fine for things like -0 -1; but without numbers, subjective discussion of performance can be misleading -Chuck To Unsubscribe

Re: Installing ports witout internet

2003-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
that was connected to the Internet as they please, back that up, and then restore to the offline system. -- -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: What is a practical max nujmber of files in a directory

2003-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
( 8 K) items together (keeping track of this with your metadata DB), and only using seperate files for larger items-- you might be able to finesse the situation. -- -Chuck ...with 900 emails to go; take one down, pass it around; 899 emails to go... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: OT: ML Archive Front end alternatives

2003-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
can feed it into MailMan's list archive system, which will sort by thread, author, etc, etc. -- -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Force core, then reload

2003-03-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
(such as a connection dictionary for a database) is sufficient. -- -Chuck ...with 900 emails to go; take one down, pass it around; 899 emails to go... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: kernel panics, lots of them

2003-03-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
site, intranet, etc.) so I am trying to keep outage frequency and duration to a minimum. There is memtest and cpuburn in the ports; try running those and see whether you can get the system to crash. -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Trouble Downloading FreeBSD

2003-03-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
supports the FTP reget command fine, as shown below. -- -Chuck ftp get ls-lR.gz local: ls-lR.gz remote: ls-lR.gz 227 Entering Passive Mode (62,243,72,50,198,156) 150 Data connection accepted from 129.44.43.88:4859; transfer starting for ls-lR.gz (8135208 bytes). 3

Re: kernel panics, lots of them

2003-03-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
the system to panic within a few hours, which helps confirm where the problem lies... -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hardware compatiblity

2005-01-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
that the integrated LAN chip (Intel 82562EZ) will work with FreeBSD, yes; you may have problems with using SATA RAID or using USB v2, although USB v1.1 speeds should be OK. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: I quit

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
process semantics, etc. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ip address behind router ?

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
pppoe which can be a pain, and your typical Linksys broadband router already does a good job of handling that. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: How to save gif0?

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
/start_if.gif0. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sendmail problem - Helo command rejected: Host not found

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 [ ... ] -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need Guidance in my Internet Connection Sharing configuration

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
that I have is also connected to the hub...Is this O.K.? Your aDSL provider may not be giving you direct IP connectivity, but instead require you to configure PPPoE access via a username/password. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Upgrade to Courier 4.0.1?

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
, /usr/ports/UPDATING and sometimes in a port's pkg-message file, if one exists. If the port has a maintainer, communicating any surprises to that person will hopefully result in better documentation. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Need Guidance in my Internet Connection Sharing configuration

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
to work around such by using a broadband router which lets you configure the MAC address used for the WAN port to be the MAC of the system which works. ] By the way, is my system clock wrong or yours? Your clock seems to be off. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd

Re: sendmail problem - Helo command rejected: Host not found

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
to authenticate, you will need to twiddle the things called an access map for SMTP AUTH. :-) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: sendmail problem - Helo command rejected: Host not found

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-01-10 19:38, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] Go to /etc/mail. Edit freebsd.cf (look for SMART_HOST), point it at your ISP's mail server. Do make stop; make install; make start. FWIW, the file edited should be `freebsd.mc', not `freebsd.cf' otherwise

Re: building a package without installing it

2005-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
just do a make on the build machine, then scp -r or rsync the work subdirectory of the port to the machine you want to install on, and then finish by doing the make install on that target machine. So long as all of the dependencies are up-to-date, anyway... -- -Chuck

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
-HT P4 (a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Northwood) around, but I doubt I'd turn HT on with it even if it could. I'd rather use an AMD-64, or a G5, or even a recent P3 (Tualatin/Pentium-M) than another hyperthermal P4 spaceheater. ] Bah, I'm rambling, time to stop... :-) -- -Chuck

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
in the boot. [ It doesn't surprise me that one would want or have to reinstall XP after disabling HyperThreading. There exist even less comprehensible reasons which oblige people to reinstall Windows ] -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: smtp pull

2005-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
queue of messages. On the other hand, unless you configure both sides to use a non-standard port, smtp1 is still going to open new connections via port 25 to smtp2. That's what the SMTP protocol does, and your firewall can either permit the mail or it can block the mail. -- -Chuck

Re: USB CD-ROM installations.

2005-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
with FW/1394, and FW was designed for that kind of usage (specificly, reserving dedicated I/O channels to guarantee bandwidth for realtime multimedia tasks). -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: sendmail problem - Helo command rejected: Host not found

2005-01-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
in the right direction, so you ought to discuss this error with [EMAIL PROTECTED] so they can either change things to permit relaying, or figure out what you need to adjust. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: server replication?

2005-01-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
allows several machines to access the same filestorage safely in parallel. I'm not sure there's much of the available for FreeBSD, but Apple just released their Xsan product based off the Xserve RAID boxes and various third-party fibre-channel switches. -- -Chuck

Re: Definitions of process states in top

2005-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
...and replace piperd with whatever state it is that you are curious about. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhcpd for ipv6

2005-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
. ISC's dhcpd does just fine with classic IPv4 addresses. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Download from Windows

2005-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
with FreeBSD, or almost anything else for that matter. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: passwd logging

2005-01-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
suspect that what you want to see is already being logged there. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: passwd logging

2005-01-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Sean Murphy wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: Look at syslogd (/etc/syslog.conf) and /var/log/security or /var/log/auth.log, I suspect that what you want to see is already being logged there. I checked out syslog.conf and did not see what to uncomment to add the passwd logging it currently logs bad

Re: this IMAP stuff is kicking my @$$...

2005-01-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
of the UW-IMAP software and the associated MUA pine is somewhat grim-- perhaps best compared to the security woes of sendmail. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: this IMAP stuff is kicking my @$$...

2005-01-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Speed up dialin connection via proxy?

2005-01-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

2005-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
are looking for. -- -Chuck [1]: Which can be benefit sometimes, or it can be a problem, especially for novice users, but that's another topic. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-01-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
it.) Nonsense. While Java isn't OSI Open Source compliant, it's more open than anything which *doesn't* come with the sources included. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-01-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
Matthias Buelow wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: Even Apple doesn't show up in their radar... what do you expect. This is untrue. The Mac Runtime for Java is a high-priority environment for both Apple When I go to java.sun.com, I can download the jdk for: Linux, Windows, Solaris. That's what I meant

Re: make package question

2005-01-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
the port, just make the package file? The simple answer is no. A more complex answer is yes, create a jail, chroot there, and build your ports inside of that. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
that those changes are not significant enough to make a difference, *that's* when you need to rebuild world as well. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: enable multicast router

2005-01-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
of security. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hard drive errors

2005-01-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
drives will notice and replace failing sectors using spare ones. The error message you are seeing very probably indicates that the drive has enough bad sectors that it has run out of spares and is going to completely fail very soon. Back up your data ASAP -- -Chuck

Re: Username and password limits

2005-01-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
username and password limit in characters? If you are using traditional DES encryption, 8 and 8. If you use the fancy new MD5 hash, _PASSWORD_LEN (currently 128 characters). -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: fragmentation

2005-01-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
, excessive fragmentation is a bad thing, but the BSD FFS defragments itself unless the drive is 90+% full, normally you don't need to worry. ] -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Bittorrent secure?

2005-01-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
with. If you trust the Torrent tracker file, then BitTorrent has this part built-in. Otherwise, you would use something like the distinfo files in /usr/ports to help confirm the validity of files. On the other hand, Torrent doesn't do any worse than FTP or HTTP. -- -Chuck

Re: Restricting NFS daemons

2005-01-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
a fileserver. If you want to do NFS securely, you need to protect the network by using a firewall which prevents source-routing and address spoofing of internal hosts. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Bittorrent secure?

2005-01-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hanspeter Roth wrote: On Jan 25 at 14:48, Chuck Swiger spoke: You need to have an external source of information which specifies a checksum or MD5 hash to confirm that the file has not been tampered with. That to say I should download CHECKSUM.MD5 from one of the public FTP-servers by hand

Re: perl and ports

2005-01-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
to do so, because the dependency on Perl exists because it is needed for the port to function. While you are right that developers should not include unnecessary dependencies on Perl, lots of software is written in that language -- -Chuck

Re: Scan TCP/IP traffic for viruses

2005-01-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
believe the latter is an optional part of: /usr/ports/security/clamav ...and ClamAV makes a fine virus scanner for downloaded files and can be used from other services for email scanning (cf amavisd). -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Burning CDRs on DVD recorders

2005-01-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
RW wrote: How should I burn CDs in the DVD drive? Should I use growisofs with /dev/cd0 or should I used burncd with /dev/acd0, or will either work? If you're able to burn DVD's okay now, it would probably make sense to stick with growisofs, but either one should work fine. -- -Chuck

Re: kern secure level help

2005-01-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
compromises like buffer overflows in system daemons, which is why they are not particularly useful for machines supporting interactive logins and offering network services. For those, running portaudit and keeping the base-system and ports up to date is more helpful... -- -Chuck

Re: RAID1, a failed disk and performance

2005-01-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
. Write access will become faster. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pf and different MTUs

2005-01-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
. However, if you have a lot of traffic using jumbo frames going over that 1500 MTU segment, you might be better off using an MTU of 1500 everywhere. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Seeking performance tuning pointers/tracking down GIANT

2005-01-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
collisions, and such. If you want this thing to go significantly faster, consider gigabit ethernet. [ If you're only getting 8 megabits per second, then that's another case... ] -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Java 1.5 and FreeBSD 5.3

2005-02-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Brian John wrote: Is it possible at all to get Java 1.5 running on FreeBSD 5.3? If so, how can I do it? cd /usr/ports/java/jdk15 make install Be prepared to register with Sun and download the Java files manually, unfortunately. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
can also find strings in telnet.exe and other utilities which include RCS information and/or copyrights from BSD. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: OT: Funny disclaimers (Was: Re: ssh root@localhost)

2005-02-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
dedicated to wasting time and money following through. -- -Chuck (IANAL, TINLA :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: upgrading FreeBSD

2005-02-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
and /usr/local/etc are very important data dirs, but what others are too? You should backup all of your data, and stop worrying about missing something, rather than backup only some data and hope not to find out later that you didn't backup something you needed. -- -Chuck

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
of suggesting things in a way that does not break backwards compatibility, but one should attempt to make the distinction between changing something which was broken in order to get to something reasonable and changing something reasonable into something broken. -- -Chuck

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