Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
isn't smart and does not have an external USB or serial port, apcupsd has nothing to work with. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Cron Q

2006-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
different tasks sequentially (especially if the seconds depends on the output of the first). You can also conjoin the commands via : grep -q WARNING /var/log/messages echo Warnings found! -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] No. If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or serial port, apcupsd has nothing to work with. As best I can tell from the OP's description, and the APC website, they all have a UPS

Re: denyhosts

2006-02-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
(pid)), os.F_OK): return pid else: return STATE_LOCK_EXISTS If you know the pid, see whether you can deliver a continue signal to it: try: os.kill(pid, signal.SIGCONT) return pid except OSError: return STATE_LOCK_EXISTS -- -Chuck PS

Re: Converting a Regex into plain text

2006-02-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Warren Liddell wrote: is there any pkg avilable that'll convert a regex into plain txt ? No. Most regular expressions cannot be expressed as finite plain text strings, that is why regex is used in the first place. Presently i dont care if its windows based or FreeBSD based Hmm. -- -Chuck

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
certainly am going to. Whatever you like, dude. Have fun, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trouble with resources under network load

2006-02-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 2/5/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] Feb 24 19:47:21 gw named[482]: client 10.32.7.32#1027: error sending response: not enough free resources

Re: ls -c vs. ls -u / manpage / architecture question

2006-02-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
(2), rmdir(2), symlink(2), truncate(2), unlink(2), utimes(2), write(2) and writev(2) system calls. By default, ls uses st_mtime; -c means st_ctime; -u means st_atime. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: rl0 discard oversize

2006-02-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
, probably. Realtek NICs aren't very good, and I've seen similar reports from other people which were resolved by getting a dc0 or fxp0 NIC instead. this is my main server.. and indispensable 4 my work! sorry 4 my bad english...and thanks! Your english is OK... -- -Chuck

Re: 6.0 problems

2006-02-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
on a webserver somewhere and posting a link to it. If you build a new kernel, you can include mechanisms to break to a debugger, which might prove useful in that you can get a backtrace showing where the kernel is wandering off when it hangs. -- -Chuck

Re: Freebsd with multiple nic's

2006-02-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
bonding or trunking, depending on which vendor's terms you'd like to use. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backup softwares ?

2006-03-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
for recommendations. I believe Legato Networker has a FreeBSD client, perhaps look into that... Note that you're going to be looking at $25K-100K or so in licensing to get a networked version of Legato that drives a tape jukebox -- -Chuck ___ freebsd

Re: Writing CDs on a DVD drive.

2006-03-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
: * - fix for DVD+R recordings in Samsung TS-H542A; * - DVD-R Dual Layer DAO and Incremental support; [ ... ] -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: sudden jump in swap usage, how to tell what's using it

2006-03-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
to be using abnormal amounts of memory, and nothing seems 'off'... is there a way to determine which process(es) have taken out (how much) swap space? top -o size or top -o res... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Writing CDs on a DVD drive.

2006-03-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
... [ In the spirit of full disclosure, however, I should mention that I haven't been able to test dual-layer burning using dvd+rw-tools myself; the only dual-layer DVD-burner I have available is a SuperDrive in a Mac G5. ] -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: fbsd4.9 sendmail

2003-12-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
server under fbsd4.9 just to resolve odmain.com if I send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nope. But sendmail and lots of other network-aware programs (things like SSH) are happier when forward and reverse DNS is available. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Running dual CPUs

2003-12-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
that errata are addressed appropriately for each processor. ...and then provides twenty pages worth of charts, notes, and whatnot. :-) [ If you get a chance, try to upgrade to Tualatin P3's, with the full-speed L2 cache and SSE. ] -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL

Re: need learning direction suggestions on using editors

2003-12-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
readline), so don't worry about it. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What logs etc do I need to checkfrequently?

2003-12-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
that to understand what is being logged and where. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What logs etc do I need to checkfrequently?

2003-12-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
costs -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bandwidth Limiting with ipfw and WEBServices/MailServices

2004-01-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: some questions about Tunning FreeBSD

2004-01-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
. A longer listen queue lets the machine at least try to service those connections rather than having them get dropped -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
in the shower and breaking my neck than I would worry about SCO. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
CDs, and there are examples of dedicated systems using FreeBSD that come to mind, such as the Nokia IP firewall platform. Or were you talking about a commercial distro in terms of a company that provides/charges for technical support...? :-) -- -Chuck

Re: What are _p. files that break installworld?

2004-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
are profiled versions of the libraries, although their absence normally doesn't cause any problems. You may have NOPROFILE=true set in your /etc/make.conf, or you may have had it set when building world but not when you tried the installworld. -- -Chuck

Re: rsync problems

2004-09-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
it does anything. If you get output, and then a big pause, it is probably finding a bunch of stuff which matches and does not need to be copied (but it still has to look at timestamps and maybe do checksums). -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Quick and simple ssh(1) question

2004-09-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
, etc, depending on what your router is). Using split DNS to return a local IP rather than a public IP when a machine on your LAN asks for a public name is easier to set up. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: sysctl meanings.

2004-09-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
in DocBook and submitting it to become part of the FreeBSD documentation, rather than rolling your own site. I suspect that people are more likely to help keep real docs up-to-date, but YMMV -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Trouble installing 4.10 on laptop - cannot find kernel

2004-09-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
your BIOS settings and ATA config (ie, try using PIO mode rather than UMDA); some laptops don't follow the specs very closely, and FreeBSD can be picky if ATA devices aren't set up properly. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Highpoint RAID HPT374

2004-09-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
have lots of small files. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Official wallpapers

2004-09-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
to the far right under the 5.3. After all, there's a lot of space available to play with, although only if what is now a very clean and minimal design doesn't become cluttered up. I'd give it a thumbs-up. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Official wallpapers

2004-09-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: - The new daemons unleashed is missing an apostrophe ('): The new daemon is unleashed becomes daemon's unleashed. Frankly, however, I'd suggest something like: The new daemon: UNLEASHED! It looked plural to me. Otherwise, you might

Re: Device polling performance

2004-09-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
to encourage other people to respond to your problems instead of ignoring you. Do you understand this point, or am I being too subtle? -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
the unexpected happens syndrome. :-) -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sendmail and virtualusers

2004-10-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
$: cswiger ...or be handled for remote delivery to some MX via the E/SMTP mailer-- which is what the $# esmtp $@ mac . com . part above means (obviously :-), etc. -- -Chuck PS: You might obtain better help from a sendmail-specific list than here. ___ [EMAIL

Re: Avoid tar for Dell PowerVault 100T DAT 72 tape drive?

2004-10-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
) option. For what it's worth, I've been using a blocksize of 126 (* 512, or 63K) with DLT drives for years now. Why 63K is (or was) faster than 32K or 64K or other values is not at all clear to me :-), so do your own testing to see. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL

Re: Email redirects

2004-10-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
, and have the local alias point to multiple external addresses. If you get tired of managing those addrs by hand, consider having the alias point to a mailing list like Mailman. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Email redirects

2004-10-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
exactly, either, but mailing lists can be used to solve the problem you were asking about quite well. ] -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Disk geometry, 5.3b7 install

2004-10-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
be solved by using a boot manager like GAG, but I doubt you'll run into this problem either if your BIOS understands LBA. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: how do I suppress system messages?

2004-10-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Lynette Tillner wrote: [ ... ] Also, I can't switch to another tty because my only access is remote --- I don't have console access. You can get to another tty by logging into the machine again from another SSH session. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Which FreeBSD For A Production System

2004-09-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
that will work, stay up, and not have to fiddled with, go with that. If you've got some time available, beta-testing 5.3 would be very helpful. In a matter of a few weeks, 5.3 is going to become -STABLE. It would be easier to stay up-to-date in the future if you go with 5.3. -- -Chuck

Re: disk geometry confussion

2004-10-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
more details (which version of FreeBSD, what you computer hardware is, and what your partition table looks like). -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: nmap'ing myself

2004-10-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
wireless router just kidding)? Put another machine on the subnet of your external interface, and do an nmap scan from there. That represents what your ISP would see, or a bad guy who compromised the ISP possibly up through the DSL modem you have. -- -Chuck

Re: benchmarking a process

2004-10-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
, depending on what you want to do. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Warning: a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect

2004-10-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
being incorrect. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows

2004-10-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
and microsoft all use FreeBSD but until i can show him that and prove it to him that means nothing. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.yahoo.com http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.msn.com ...etc... -- -Chuck

Re: IDE drive - hard error reading fsbn... - recoverable?

2004-10-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
... ] So is there something I should do? Get a new hard drive, this one is not going to live much longer. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IDE drive - hard error reading fsbn... - recoverable?

2004-10-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
diagnostic disk for your system, and run the hard drive test. It ought to see the problems, which you can then report back to Dell in order to get them to do something. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Flash Drives Sanity Check

2004-10-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
filesystems read-only or at least noatime, to avoid scribbing non-significant updates to the superblock and common directories. It's also a good idea to mount /var on a RAM disk. CF is better suited for embedded applications like firewalls and the like than it is for general-purpose use. -- -Chuck

Re: GPL vs BSD Licence

2004-10-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
isn't authoritative on what free software means. No doubt ESR has his own agenda, but he is reasonably open about his positions, his goals, and the methods he uses to achieve them. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: shared memory

2004-10-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
for video to enough to handle whatever screen depth you want to run at, there isn't much point to allocating any more. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: shutdown(8): supposed to dismount all FSes?

2004-10-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
files were), using the built-in ext2fs. ...I recall that there are some issues handling ext2fs filesystems cleanly during the shutdown process, which tend to cause them to not be unmounted properly. It's considered a bug. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: make buildworld.........24 hours????

2004-10-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
-memory machine is almost certainly going to be much slower, since you are going to swap more, not less. Time it for yourself and see... -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: make buildworld.........24 hours????

2004-10-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Brian Bobowski wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: Using -j is recommended only when you have lots of memory and can keep all of the processes resident in memory. Trying to run a parallel build on a low-memory machine is almost certainly going to be much slower, since you are going to swap more

Re: mysql and system/nice cpu usage

2004-10-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
for: Oracle, Sybase, Frontbase, etc. You could also consider another web middleware/scripting evironment than PHP which handles database interactions more efficiently: Zope, JSP, WebObjects. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: DVD burners

2004-10-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
with 512 Mbytes of PC100 ram, is it going to be fast enough? Sure. Oh, it's possible you can run into problems with your ATA cabling or the controller, but if you've got decent hardware you should be fine. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

mouse problem

2004-11-08 Thread Chuck Robey
... it wasn't, at least not to me. That's not a complaint,t he install managted to go off very cleanly anyhow. Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics

Re: Sed Help.....

2004-11-10 Thread Chuck Robey
To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I

Re: Everything randomly generates .core files

2004-11-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
-column crowd. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xorg upgrade advice

2004-11-13 Thread Chuck Tuffli
-libraries when trying to install expat-1.95.8 because expat-1.95.5 is already installed. looking back through the build log, there is also a warning about upgrading from libtool13 to libtool15. for an older system like this, are there some additional steps others have found necessary/useful? ---chuck

Re: host name lookup failure under 4.9

2004-11-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
, doing so is more complicated than need be since PPP already has firewall and NAT'ing capabilities built-in. Using them directly via your ppp.conf might be easier. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

rebuild problems

2004-11-14 Thread Chuck Robey
, I need to get it done right afterrwards for (believe this!) my Opteron and my Sun Ultra60. Quiet day i got planned (see the smoke clouds?) Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL

Re: HID support

2004-11-14 Thread Chuck Robey
the installation, add the following line to /boot/loader.conf: hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x1 I'm having the same problem... Hope this helps ;-) Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL

RE: rebuild problems

2004-11-14 Thread Chuck Robey
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Robey Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 1:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rebuild problems snip I finished the cvsup, Which version of the tree did u

Re: patching a file with blanks in the name

2005-06-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
release version of patch will handle paths containing spaces... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: httpd and memory usage

2005-06-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
or so per process. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: JDK Installation

2005-06-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
/ http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/index.html http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/java2/ -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: tape record bigger than supplied buffer

2005-06-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
of your tape drive manual, in the end? Just wondering why 64512 rather than 65536... It's 63K. I've seen recommendations elsewhere to use a tape blocksize of 63K rather than 64K if hardware compression is enabled, because sometimes the data doesn't have a positive compression ratio... -- -Chuck

Re: Access granted even on root password change

2005-06-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
password? Note that having someone untrusted gain superuser access to a machine should be cause for backing up the system and reinstalling from scratch or restoring from a known-OK backup -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: getting DNS from DHCP IP address

2005-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
yourisp.net might give you some idea. I am in Toronto, Canada so I guess a DNS should be in reasonable proximity. Trawn-nah? :-) Internet reachability matters more than physical location. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: POWERVAULT 705n

2005-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
denied files- I'm sure if I can get into it through a shell? Or root? This would be possible??? Maybe??? It's likely that if someone starting maintaining this system and sets up user permissions correctly, the situation would improve considerably. -- -Chuck

Re: Spam sender using domain name as spoofed source

2005-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
to you. Here in the US, if you can show damages larger than $2000, that's when it becomes useful to talk to the local police or even the FBI; below that dollar figure, computer abuse/fraud doesn't really register. :-( -- -Chuck ___ freebsd

Re: getting DNS from DHCP IP address

2005-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
not from there, actually, I was born in a place called Wooster which is spelled Worchester, so I've needed to pay attention to this issue from early on. ] -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: ./configure question

2005-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
to see what it does, or do a make configure or simple make at the top-level of the port instead. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: ./configure question

2005-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
missing, etc. Run the script command. Do something which shows what you think is a problem. Exit from the shell, and paste the contents of the typescript file created into email so you can show exactly what the error message is. -- -Chuck

Re: -DNOPROFILE with make buildworld...

2005-06-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
you've said is still true: there is seldom need to profile a program. Get it working well enough that it doesn't leak memory, and then worry about profiling it. :-) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Dialogic 4-port modem PCI cards?

2005-06-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
googling and looking through the hardware list and kernel files but haven't found anything. Try looking into the asterix port. However, I haven't had any luck getting it to work with an IDE Dialogic 4-port card under anything but Windows, so we went with VoIP instead -- -Chuck

syslog is missing?, was: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 100, Issue 15

2005-06-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
/bin/logger? FreeBSD comes with syslog as part of the base system. If you update your system via a buildworld/buildkernel cycle, you will end up installing syslogd, logger, and friends if they are actually missing. -- -Chuck PS: You gain +1 karma for not quoting the entire digest

Re: Mainboard E7520 and FreeBSD 5.x

2005-06-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
with both SCSI and IDE being present at the same time. If so, try doing the install with just the IDE drive present. For more help, it would be useful to know what your SCSI controller is and whether it is supported. Check the FreeBSD release notes. -- -Chuck

Re: Need your advise.

2005-06-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Robert Slade wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 20:39, Charles Swiger wrote: [ ... ] Hmm. The answer is probably no, FreeBSD doesn't have anything which handles NFS or Samba failover transparently. Chuck, Sorry to disagree. There is a port of Heartbeat to free BSD, (it is in the ports). It does

Re: stat running as www weirdness - genarting INCOMING traffic

2005-06-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
) to which port(s), and are the IP addresses on the other side the same or a random range (which would imply your machine has been hacked and is scanning outwards). Showing a tcpdump of a few example connections would be really useful. -- -Chuck

Re: Help, I killed my machine.

2005-06-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
newfs, and it will leave your existing config files and other stuff alone. (Note that you do want to have a backup available, first. Of course, you made a backup of your 4.x system, or at least the important bits, before trying to do this 4-5 upgrade, right...?) -- -Chuck

Re: Still trying to get my site up!

2005-06-26 Thread Chuck Robey
Sarath ER wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: Thanks to several individuals, I have almost gotten my Apache2 server working. Almost, but not quite. My ISP blocks port 80; therefore I am using a redirect from DynDNS.org to redirect to an alias using port 9545. The 'beerstud.us' redirects to

Re: About Mirror ...

2005-06-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/index.html Note that a primary official FreeBSD mirror probably wants around 10MB/s or more (like a full T3/E3), although local country mirrors make do with whatever volunteers provide. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd

Re: Freebsd 5.4 cannot fetch xfree86?

2005-06-27 Thread Chuck Robey
perikillo wrote: Hi to all. I install freebsd 5.4 Release, with xorg i have problems with my kbd, and i decide to install the old friend XFree86-4, i read the handbook about, the example say: test# pkg_add -r XFree86 But my system dosent found nothing, the answer is something about

Re: Small HTTPD + PHP4

2005-06-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
the number of HTTP transactions-- and the sizes involved-- of looking through the Mailman archives of this list versus reading your favorite PHP board. Animated GIFs for smileys, user avatar images and .sigs, or worse, .sigs in Flash, etc, etc... ] -- -Chuck

Re: Small HTTPD + PHP4

2005-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Grant wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:54:16 -0400 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] The only reason i'm moving from apache is that apache has started (well proberly did but i didnt notice) eating large amounts of ram, even when idle, as i type this there is 4 apache processes using

Re: Interface aliases

2005-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
. Putting thousands of IP addresses on a single box is a misuse of limited IP space, unless you are using RFC-1918 addresses. What is the actual problem you are trying to solve? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Small HTTPD + PHP4

2005-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Grant wrote: On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:58:33 -0400 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] Or do you know of a non php based forum that is quite fast and has the same type of things on a php based one. the way the forum is stored isnt a worry, be it a simple text file or some fancy database

Re: Install ports as non-root user?

2005-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
are changed from the defaults, so be prepared for problems. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interface aliases

2005-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
of distinct SSL sites on it is really a good idea. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [FYI] QT4 licensing looks very bad for *BSD

2005-06-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
commercially. We want commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [FYI] QT4 licensing looks very bad for *BSD

2005-06-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Danny Pansters wrote: Hey Chuck, thanks for answering. No problem. (I'm not completely convinced this thread belongs on freebsd-questions, but I don't know where else to move it to. :-) Anyway, I contacted someone at TrollTech with pretty much what I said in my last email, and got

Re: [FYI] QT4 licensing looks very bad for *BSD

2005-06-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
QtDesigner. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [FYI] QT4 licensing looks very bad for *BSD

2005-07-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
, because GPL #0 states: The act of running the Program is not restricted -- -Chuck [1]: You can choose to use any license you want for original code that you've written. Software licenses apply to the code which is under that license, and to derivative works (assuming the license permits

Re: starttls sendmail

2005-07-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
. For example, the following entries in the access map: Try_TLS:broken.server NO -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: starttls sendmail

2005-07-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
dick hoogendijk wrote: On 02 Jul Chuck Swiger wrote: A default case can be specified by using just the tag. For example, the following entries in the access map: Try_TLS:broken.server NO So, if I understand correctly putting a line like Try_TLS NO in /etc/mail/access will stop

Re: Year-old messages

2005-07-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
in the mbox, resulting in a flood of old mail -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: List all make targets?

2005-07-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
problem are you trying to solve? You don't need to read all of that to use it, any more than a developer needs to understand each and every header file in order to use #include stdlib.h. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-04 Thread Chuck Robey
TvZ wrote: Hi I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of trying out BSD. After reading as much information as I could about the three variants of BSD vs. Linux. On technical merit, I was very impressed. FreeBSD looks like a good stating place for me, but one think about FreeBSD makes me

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