Re: List all make targets?

2005-07-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
complicated as i.e. _legacy is a legitimate target along with buildworld. More to investigate! make -n -d g1 | less...? Take a look at the main target and at the parents target at the top. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: squid bind to port 80 fails when started via squid.sh script

2005-07-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
. The squid startup script probably changes to a non-root user before running the squid binary, which means that squid cannot bind to a port below 1024. Normally, people run squid on port 3128, although 8080 is also relatively common. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd

Re: Where is the memory

2005-07-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
applications used to run on a Freebsd 4.7 BOX with 1GB RAM, and only in some few cases had to swap out. Now, I´m moving to another machine with 2GB RAM, and I´m seeing where is the extra memory. I expected to have more free memory now. Free memory is wasted memory. -- -Chuck

Re: Remote access to a user's mail spool

2005-07-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
? What problem are you trying to solve? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where is the memory

2005-07-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] It seems that this is the case. I wrote a small program to allocate a large block of memory (more them that shown as free) and the system doesn´t swap. Nor should it. Simply allocating memory doesn't actually

Re: suitability of freebsd 5.3 for 486 dx2 66?

2005-07-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
the disk built out, FreeBSD will run. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 'BSD' make vs gmake on FBSD

2005-07-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
which does whatever it takes to build the html from to pm files -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Port update failure -- How do I fix?

2005-07-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
of perl than what you seem to have. Look at /usr/ports/CHANGES for more help and suggestions on how to upgrade perl and dependant perl ports in a reasonable fashion. -- -Chuck PS: You should probably discuss port-related questions on [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lspci on freebsd

2005-07-14 Thread Chuck Robey
Galdes, Andrew (ERHS) wrote: Hello all, I'm new to BSD. In linux i could run #lspci to see a list of the attached hardware. How can i do the same in FreeBSD 5? scanpci is part of Xorg and XFree86 both, I think. It'll give you the info you're after. Thanks, -Andrew

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
That was my solution for shutdown wait timeout. This may help, too, but it may not always be enough. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine

2005-07-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
the backup. Opinions? This is good if you set up an entire system as a backup, although you could dual-purpose that box and have it act as a fileserver, proxy server, who knows, as well. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

IPFW+natd Cisco VPN tunnelling....

2005-07-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
ciscovpn:pptp pptp ...where ciscovpn is obviously the hostname for the Cisco 870 box. Is there any way to convince natd to re-read the natd.conf file short of killing and restarting the daemon entirely? The manpage didn't say so, and kill -HUP terminates the process. -- -Chuck PS: It seems unfortunate

Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine

2005-07-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jul 15, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] Hard drives provide near-online backup, but only a single full iteration. You can do incrementals to DVD or CD-RW or tape, and keep many iterations handy, which is far more reliable. If you use

Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine

2005-07-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jul 15, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] Sure. But a single spare HD is a single point of failure. Having one tape per week or per month going back 10 or 100 tapes gives much more redundancy Better yet -- using dump, backup to HD

Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine

2005-07-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Stephen Hilton wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] Sure. But a single spare HD is a single point of failure. Having one tape per week or per month going back 10 or 100 tapes gives much more redundancy But were the tapes all generated by the same tape-drive? if so it is once again

Re: RAID Level 55

2005-07-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
with multiple PCI busses or PCIe will do better. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Real IP under NAT

2005-07-18 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: Real IP under NAT

2005-07-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
DerAlSem wrote: Hello Chuck, [ ... ] No, that won't work, because i need an external IP on LAN machine. Ext IP adresses - 1.2.3.1-1.2.3.5 Gate ext_if - 1.2.3.1 Gate int_if - 192.168.0.1 LAN (via NAT) machines - 192.168.0.2-20 Another LAN (via NAT) machine - 1.2.3.2 How? natd doesn't care

Re: `Content-Transfer-Encoding' SendMail

2005-07-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
not contain non-printable characters, or if the receiving MTA converts the mail back to an 8-bit format. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: /etc/exports - a strange restriction

2005-07-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
to control access, assuming you trust root on the client machine. (If you don't trust root on the client machine, then you probably shouldn't be using NFS at all.) See Managing NFS and NIS published by O'Reilley, or maybe even this by me: http://www.pkix.net/~chuck/doc/NFS/article.html :-) -- -Chuck

Re: Where is bsdnews.com?

2005-07-21 Thread Chuck Robey
Andras Kende wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Odhiambo Washington Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 6:23 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Where is bsdnews.com? Hi, I am trying to access bsdnews.com for this document:

Re: ipfw and tun0

2005-07-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
the situation looks like to a client machine behind the firewall, either tcpdump on a client machine, or tcpdump on the internal interface of the firewall box... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: join my freebsd box to windows domain?

2005-07-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
can read and backup files on network shares if you like. However, most people would rather use a Unix/FreeBSD system as a fileserver rather than some Windows box. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Can't Mount Root

2005-07-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
device name. Otherwise, boot off of an install CD, and run the command from a shell. You can also begin a custom install and exit after wrws; g just a new boot block via sysinstall, too. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: ipfw and tun0

2005-07-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
, and have the firewall itself log the traffic which is permitted through, or you could use another divert rule and force that traffic into a daemon which looks at the packets (this is how natd works, after all). -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: change mediaopt of NIC to full-duplex

2005-07-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
it returns to half =/ Have your ISP update their Cisco switches' firmware, and recheck whether ethernet autonegotiate works then. If it doesn't, both sides will have to manually set full duplex... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD is Very slow to load some sites

2005-07-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
over 60 seconds for the site to answer a remote query via telnet, so I assume that the server is either overloaded or has been hacked. Apparently it's running IIS-4.0 on WinNT, so the safe money is on the latter... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Squid. No not Squidward. and FreeBSD

2005-07-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Derrick MacPherson wrote: Is there a document about setting up squid, optimization suggestions etc available somewhere? I've started looking and not come back with much that's new. Squid has reams of documentation available at www.squid-cache.org...? -- -Chuck

Re: Can someone clarify ipfw's in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts?

2005-07-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
links). -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: certance DAT

2005-07-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
:102400 kbytes in 9.230325 sec =11094 kbytes/sec inside:102400 kbytes in 10.779231 sec = 9500 kbytes/sec [ This is running RELENG_5_4... ] -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: I got my vsftpd core dumped.

2005-07-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
or the memtest port overnight, and check whether your fans are working and adequate. -- -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 a good Unix script that..

2005-07-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
-spider download capability, and then grep for keywords, do histograms, whatever on the content you DL. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Growisofs seg faults with DVD-RAM. Anybody else seen this?

2005-07-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to the cdwrite mailing list at cdwrite@other.debian.org. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dmz server setup - opinions

2005-07-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
, more highly then they value security or reliability. Don't take this for a suggestion to change what you are doing, however. :-) -- -Chuck PS: What is your security policy? If this doesn't have a clear answer to you, start with identifying what it is you are trying to protect, and what

Re: DVD burning..

2005-08-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
burning at 1x speed and see whether that is more reliable. (Often that works better with low-quality DVD-R media, anyway...) You might want to double check your ATA connections, is the burner on its own channel as the primary master, by preference...? -- -Chuck

Re: Custom Sendmail through /etc/make.conf

2005-08-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
=-lssl -lcrypto -lsasl -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting

2005-08-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
in the filesystem, such as file, named pipe or device entry. Nothing is growing here and com- mand name is not intuitive in this context. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Wireless access points for FreeBSD 4.3?

2005-08-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
basestation to wireless...? It may be the case that you want to bridge or NAT a wireless subnet onto your LAN, but you should consult your basestation's docs for how to do that; FreeBSD would use nothing but normal TCP/IP routing to the basestation. -- -Chuck

Re: growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting

2005-08-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
responsive to integrating FreeBSD changes for the port, so I'm not going to complain... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting

2005-08-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:50:01AM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] To some extent, Andy doesn't want to fully document everything to encourage people to either use the source, luke, or to create more user-friendly (but seperate) frontends like k3b. I don't fully

Re: Networking with FreeBSD

2005-08-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
as http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2196.txt... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Networking with FreeBSD

2005-08-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
all on the same ethernet hub? Something else? Consider IPsec. :-) -- -Chuck (*): Client is in Denmark. They wanted stuff urgently by this morning their time, after getting me something to respond to yesterday at 4PM my time. Bleh, this global outsourcing thing really is overrated

Re: polling decreases throughput ~50%

2005-08-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
some data which hasn't been serviced in a while. (Interrupt coalescing) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to mirror the freebsd site

2005-08-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
documentation here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs ...although there are versions in other languages, too. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Vending

2005-08-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
jon freddy wrote: To make FreeBSD even bigger, can I myself upload the ISO images onto my website and become a mirror? Sure. Everything you might want to know about doing so is here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/article.html -- -Chuck

Re: Post JDK14 installation requirements

2005-08-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
to download yourself from Sun. Once you have a native FreeBSD java package, you don't need to mount linprocfs or use Linux emulation to run java -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: After Partitioning a Drive: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRCerror (retrying request)

2005-08-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
to poor cabling, perhaps a marginal or failing mainboard. If you use BIOS or atacontrol to slow down to UDMA 33 speeds, does everything work OK? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
a dd if=/dev/ad10 of=/dev/null bs=8192 to do a full read test under FreeBSD, and see how many CRC errors show up. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Sendmail relaying from network

2005-08-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
have a secure system? cd /etc/mail/ echo 192.168.0 RELAY access make all restart -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wizard mode docs

2005-08-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Randy Schultz wrote: Hey all, Is there any documentation on wizard mode? I'm just wondering what the scan function does. #scan You look around the Mazes of Menace, hoping to gain some clue about the mysterious wizard mode. #engrave Elbereth You feel safe! -- -Chuck

Re: PowerChute FreeBSD 5.4 / 6.0

2005-08-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
the sysutils/apcupsd port: apcupsd can be used for controlling all APC UPS models It can monitor and log the current power and battery status, perform automatic shutdown, and can run in network mode in order to power down other hosts on a LAN WWW: http://www.apcupsd.com -- -Chuck

Re[2]: HID support

2004-11-14 Thread Chuck Robey
mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible

Re: Installation Question 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
fetch-recursive commands to grab all of the dependencies as well. -- -Chuck [1]: If the size of distfiles from the ~150 port distfiles I have around is representative of the entire collection of ~11900 ports. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: pf/altq prioritisation (for ssh).

2004-11-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
use in low-bandwidth situations, such as trying to SSH and download a 200MB ISO image at the same time over a 56Kbs dialup link. :-) Also, you will probably benefit if you priorize DNS and NTP traffic as well, by adding 53 123 (both UDP and TCP) to the high-priority queue. -- -Chuck

Re: Unable to create the partition. Too big?

2004-11-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
before / doesn't always work. :-) Put / first and you'll probably have better luck. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Virtual IP/DNS test results

2004-11-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
hostname as local IP rather than as public IP, which would remove the ICMP redirect from the situation entirely. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: cpu choice

2004-11-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
to replace your MB and get new RAM as well as getting a new CPU, then going to AMD-64 is reasonable. If you want to continue to use your existing MB and memory, then simply get a faster socket A CPU. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

install: which cdrom?

2004-11-20 Thread Chuck Robey
? Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words

Re: Tracing Disk Activity

2004-11-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
media like Compact Flash. Either that, or simply shutdown the system or run zzz to suspend the system via APM/APCI. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: book recommendation...?

2004-11-21 Thread Chuck Robey
. -volker ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chuck Robey

Re: login name has a @ in it

2004-11-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
characters in length. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound mysteriously not working

2004-11-24 Thread Chuck Teal
I had a similar issue. For me it was that the sound volumes were set to 0. Type the command mixer and if it gives you zeros for the settings then that is what is going on. I used the mixer command to set these. It modified my config files for me and works fine now. Hope this helps. Chuck

RE: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Chuck Robey
in the case of memory test, one would *really* **REALLY** wish that Chuck here was lying, cause you honestly need a memory test program, but the truth is otherwise: memory test programs don't work. At the very best, if they spend 30 minutes carefully exercising memory, you get a factor that is maybe 10

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Chuck Robey
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Rob wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Haulmark, Chris wrote: Someone broke the silence: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:05:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I get from make buildworld

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Chuck Robey
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Matt Emmerton wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Haulmark, Chris wrote: Someone broke the silence: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:05:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I get

Re: [OT] Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
and DDR memory with ECC will reliably detect and correct single-bit errors, will reliably detect two-bit errors, and even has a very good shot (~90+%?) of detecting larger multibit errors. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: hdd error

2004-11-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
settings on your drive and other ATA devices, so double-check those too. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mailing-lists behaviour on bounce

2004-11-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
not receiving during the problematic interval. See the URLs in the header and footer of any message from the list. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Quick and Simple question

2004-12-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Alvaro Rosales wrote: Hello Guys a quick and simple question. Which command line should I use to see the type of processor I am using? uname -mp sysctl -a hw -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: py24-qt 3.13 compile issue

2004-12-04 Thread Chuck Robey
mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible

Re: py24-qt 3.13 compile issue

2004-12-04 Thread Chuck Robey
is fine, and in my own opinion, the python binary is fine also. Kris Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's

Re: FreeBSD PowerPC Porting

2004-12-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
hardware than I would be to run FreeBSD on a PowerPC box, frankly, but to some extent that would depend on what I planned to do with the machine. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: mailing list archives

2004-12-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
-questions.mbox/freebsd-questions.mbox That mbox file is 244MB in size, so I think that is what you are looking for. Otherwise, consider mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] directly with your request -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Memory problems:-(

2004-12-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
, then I'd try doing a 24-hour run of www.memtest.org's tester and see whether your system can handle that properly. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: NIS and non-NIS question

2004-12-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
of important processes if an NFS share becomes not available. MacOS X seems to tolerate CIFS shares going away better than it handles NFS going away, and FreeBSD might well be similar. (I haven't exhaustively tested either problem case *deliberately*, mind you...! :-) -- -Chuck

Re: This may be a stupid question but where can I compile quanta?

2004-12-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
/usr/ports/www/quanta: No such file or directory. You probably didn't install the ports tree when you originally installed FreeBSD. You can either download a precompiled package, or build the software yourself: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html -- -Chuck

Re: sleepy fxp0

2004-12-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
autoselection; if you manually configure the interface and the switch port to manual 100/FD, doing so might also remove a brief pause. [Fixing the speed is impractical for a roaming laptop, but it might be worth trying as a test... ] -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL

Re: Un-GNOME-ing a FreeBSD box

2004-12-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
that portupgrade wants to pull in X11 again for some port that was left over; you will then need to either delete such ports, or recompile them without X11, or find an alternate, etc depending on the specifics. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: handbook version

2004-12-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
will be the last 4.x) will contain the latest version. You can use cvsup to update the /usr/doc tree, and then you can use the tools included from the text/docproj port to rebuild HTML or other versions of the documentation for /usr/share/doc. -- -Chuck

Re: why must boot in single mode.

2004-12-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
like ps, ifconfig, firewall software, and the like unhappy and not work right. So if you do have a problem, don't expect to be able to fix it remotely. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: ipfw2 and preproc

2004-12-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
any HIPORTS to INET 22,80,143,443,3128 setup keep-state add allow ip from INET to any keep-state add 65000 deny log ip from any to any -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2004-12-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
in the bounce say to forward the message headers to [EMAIL PROTECTED], who can then look into why list traffic is being looped. [The odds are that the issue has already been fixed since list traffic is going now, but keep it in mind for next time.] -- -Chuck

Re: upgrading FreeBSD

2004-12-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
in southern New Jersey (just outside of Philadelphia). Is there anyone in the area who can help us out with this. I'd imagine you could find someone in your region to provide FreeBSD sysadmin support on a consulting basis... -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL

Re: Un-GNOME-ing a FreeBSD box

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

Re: FreeBSD 4.8

2004-12-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
environment involving X11, make that a Pentium-2 grade system and 64+ MB of RAM, and 4+ GB of disk space. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: running scripts on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
connected (ie, ethernet, USB, serial port?)... -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ppp(8) and dhclient(8)

2004-12-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
without breaking anything. Add something like this to /etc/rc.conf: static_routes=local route_local=-net 192.168.2.0/24 192.168.1.1 ...assuming your local network has both a 192.168.1.x and a 192.168.2.y subnets, and 192.168.1.1 is a gateway which can get to both networks. -- -Chuck

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2004-12-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
; refresh 1H ; retry 1W ; expiry 1D ); minimum -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

ethernet MAC to vendor database...?

2004-12-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
/pci_vendors... :-) ] -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Access to the Internet

2004-12-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
server available. Otherwise, you may need to list DNS nameservers in a file called /etc/resolv.conf yourself, see man resolv.conf. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: motd in color

2004-12-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
in the first place, although some shells (zsh, maybe bash) also have decent support for color in their scripts. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: UFS2 with Soft Updates Robust?

2004-12-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
cost to performance. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Environment Varialbes per User

2004-12-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
normally provides default versions of these already which set up the PATH. I believe you can also use the login.conf mechanism to set up env variables for groups or classes of users. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Oooooops: make deinstall

2004-12-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
directory, portupgrade and such will leave the precompiled binary packages you've created on your system there. Otherwise, consult your backups. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: VERY slow browsing KDE

2004-12-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
, or else try running named locally on your FreeBSD system. If you already were running named locally, try using the -4 flag to have it do IPv4 queries only rather than IPv6. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: less -f

2004-12-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
(filename) + sizeof(is_dir), + sizeof(char)); +strcpy(m, filename); +strcat(m, is_dir); +} } else { -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: proftpd permissions and restrictions help

2004-12-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
. However, I would also recommend you avoid using authenticated FTP users for anything you really care about in terms of security: use FTP for anonymous access only, and use scp for authenticated/secure access. If that doesn't fit your circumstances, consider using HTTPS and WebDAV... -- -Chuck

Re: News Server (usenet) Setup

2004-12-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
you have any specific questions, or were you looking for a general start here? Consider: http://www.kozubik.com/published/inn_tutorial.txt http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html ...as well as (obviously) the main INN page at www.isc.org. -- -Chuck

Re: Programming with Bourne or C shell

2004-12-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
users seem to pick one of bash, ksh, or zsh for their interactive shell, and just take a bit of care when writing scripts to use syntax which is backward-compatible with /bin/sh. If you're happy with bash, there's no reason not to use with FreeBSD as well. -- -Chuck

Re: can't remove directory

2005-01-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
: Directory not empty rm: /var/old-tmp/temproot: Directory not empty rm: /var/old-tmp: Directory not empty Ah, what's happened is that the system immutable flag has been set on that directory. You'll need to do: chflags -R noschg /var/old-tmp rm -rf /var/old-tmp -- -Chuck

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