PF binat rule issue - feature or bug?

2009-12-04 Thread Greg Barniskis
Using 7.2-RELEASE-p4 i386 with GENERIC kernel, I've found (the hard way) that if I have a pf.conf rule like nat on $ext_if proto { tcp udp icmp } from $my_subnet \ to any -> some.public.ip.num then pfctl will perform the expected expansion of the listed protocols into three separate NAT rule

Re: [Trouble Ticket #190456] AutoReply: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 246, Issue 39

2009-01-21 Thread Greg Barniskis via RT
AEBC Support via RT wrote: > > Content preview: Thank you for contacting us. This message has been > automatically generated in response to the creation of a trouble ticket > regarding: "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 246, Issue 39", [...] OMG, PLEASE... unsubscribe your help desk robot from

Re: Firefox, or FreeBSD?

2008-12-18 Thread Greg Barniskis
Kurt Buff wrote: I'm visiting various web sites, and having a stupid little issue which is really annoying. FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Dec 14 22:08:22 PST 2008 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 FireFox 3.04. For instance, if I go to http://www.wsj.com, am

Re: F11 in Firefox

2007-09-12 Thread Greg Barniskis
David Benfell wrote: Hello all, Having long fingers, I occasionally hit F11 while typing into a text box in Firefox. F11 does something truly horrible that I never under any circumstances want. It moves the window partially off screen such that the window controls are inaccessible. As I said,

Re: Cannot post because of spamassassin blocking my mail

2007-08-01 Thread Greg Barniskis
Hakan K wrote: ytriffy, I do not think it is a gmail issue...I post from gmail.com,,, It's not gmail. Here is some of what our local SpamAssassin had to say about the OP's message that started this thread: RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET RBL: Received via a relay in bl.spamcop.net [Bl

Re: scp/sftp without interactive shell?

2007-05-03 Thread Greg Barniskis
Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a way to securely transfer files between machines using either scp or sftp without giving the user a login shell on the target machine. Have you tried ports/shells/scponly? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: started playing with jails

2007-03-21 Thread Greg Barniskis
ses from inside the jail. Backups running in the host environment have no such constraints. Personally, I like to configure all jails on a standalone /jails partition so that I can easily take a snapshot from the host and run a backup against that. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integra

Re: started playing with jails

2007-03-21 Thread Greg Barniskis
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Bill Moran wrote: I've had trouble getting programs that use shared memory (such as Postgres) to run inside a jail, but it's been a while since I've tried. Postgres needs this in the host rc.conf: ja

Re: started playing with jails

2007-03-21 Thread Greg Barniskis
Bill Moran wrote: I've had trouble getting programs that use shared memory (such as Postgres) to run inside a jail, but it's been a while since I've tried. Postgres needs this in the host rc.conf: jail_sysvipc_allow="YES" -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integra

Re: serious performance problems with 6.2 Release

2007-02-15 Thread Greg Barniskis
7;s a reasonable assumption actually. Sorry I don't have any specific suggestions for you except to second the motion that you ignore Ted's assertion that you should give up on -questions. It's entirely possible that there's a tunable knob or app compilation option that will help y

Re: Connection timed out

2007-02-13 Thread Greg Barniskis
that will play holy hell with your response time. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: freebsd jails

2006-12-07 Thread Greg Barniskis
a NIC fxp0, on a host with two jails: ifconfig_fxp0="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.255" ifconfig_fxp0_alias1="inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.255" Note the alias masks are all ones -- that

Re: Running Name Server

2006-10-02 Thread Greg Barniskis
. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html If you don't want BIND, DNS ports would be in ports/net. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266

Re: Firewall

2006-09-21 Thread Greg Barniskis
httpd process is listening on. # sockstat | grep httpd -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-19 Thread Greg Barniskis
ing/configuring file and print shares: http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/FastStart.html#id2559527 -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___

Re: A webhosting script?

2006-08-25 Thread Greg Barniskis
ripts, etc. All shell. Requires 6.1-RELEASE-p3 or later due to a jail-related rc bug. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-23 Thread Greg Barniskis
ng for your immediate boot problem, but ACPI issues do cause all kinds of trouble, so keep an eye on it. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ fr

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-23 Thread Greg Barniskis
" but I've never had to resort to that; the Handbook or others on the list are going to be more helpful than I can on that point. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___

Re: rsync on Freebsd 5.3

2006-08-18 Thread Greg Barniskis
c/ssh/sshd_config as needed, then start sshd by reboot or manually invoking its startup script. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ fr

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-18 Thread Greg Barniskis
the /usr/ports tree in 2-3 GB, you're in for no fun. I usually surpass that within hours after sysinstall finishes, but then I like to keep both packages and sources on hand after installing a port. It is possible to keep /usr bloat in check (somewhat) if you don't do that, and the portscl

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-15 Thread Greg Barniskis
describe to the list the end result you're trying to achieve by your tuning. HTH, -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Please Help

2006-08-03 Thread Greg Barniskis
f your PC can boot from CD, but not from correctly burned FreeBSD CDs, write to this email list a description of exactly what does happen when you try. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Intercha

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-27 Thread Greg Barniskis
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Calling for testing is pretty much a way of excusing the claim. People including Danial, have done the testing in the past, posted the results, then had armchair quarterbacks pick apart the test methodology claiming the tests were done wrong, thus irrelevant. So why eve

Re: What FreeBSD users really want

2006-07-25 Thread Greg Barniskis
decoration") is just priceless. At most, the installer might be improved to make it easier to make good choices. It most definitely should not start choosing for me, at least not beyond the minimal "components required for a plain cake" level. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Sy

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread Greg Barniskis
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: "Danial Thom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greg Barniskis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Nick Withers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursd

Re: FreeBSD Source Upgrade

2006-07-18 Thread Greg Barniskis
TABLE. RELENG_6 is the correct tag, and the OP's confusion is that there isn't a difference between 6.0-STABLE and 6.1-STABLE. There is only STABLE. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Libra

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-13 Thread Greg Barniskis
Nick Withers wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:22:03 -0700 (PDT) Danial Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Head in the sand Jerry mumbled: Just thought I should metion that this comes across as rude to me... but maybe that's just me! No, it's not you. Mr. Thom thoroughly obscures the fact tha

Re: using fping to monitor internet connection status

2006-07-06 Thread Greg Barniskis
e result. No special tools necessarily required. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: Chrooted ftpd users can't access system time.

2006-06-28 Thread Greg Barniskis
nocturnal wrote: Hi I'm using the ftpd server that ships with FreeBSD and when i chroot a user i notice that all created directories and files have GMT time on them as if the process can't access the system time because it's chrooted. That's only my theory. I would love a way to solve this, i

Re: Opinions Wanted: Dell PowerEdge Servers ... ?

2006-06-26 Thread Greg Barniskis
ith a 1st tier "non-help" desk operator (scripted responses, incapable of deviating from script or otherwise actually helping), but we find that it's not too difficult to escalate around those individuals and actually get help. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator Sout

Re: Installing FreeBSD 4.9 on a Windows/XP Professional system.

2006-06-23 Thread Greg Barniskis
nless you are very confident. For complete install instructions, read the very fine manual: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Specifically, the method of selecting disk space is described here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html

Re: [Fwd: formatting tools for Docbook]

2006-06-15 Thread Greg Barniskis
Chuck Robey wrote: Greg Barniskis wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: This is a delayed reposting of something that I might have sent to an initially poorly chosen list; if it still gets no reponse in another day, I might try again, if I can figure out a better FreeBSD list to choose. My

Re: [Fwd: formatting tools for Docbook]

2006-06-13 Thread Greg Barniskis
/docproj/ Detailed tutorial: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html Tools: check out everything that is installed by these metaports: textproc/docproj-jadetex textproc/docproj-nojadetex -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS

Re: Dial Up To ASDL Router

2006-06-06 Thread Greg Barniskis
probably find just about everything you need to know about it in the FreeBSD Handbook and/or the Web site's articles on home networking. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip.html -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
favorite thing, and as such my expertise in that area is close to /dev/null. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: AC97 sound card on 6.1

2006-06-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
r me with 5.x, but I haven't tried any GUI/media stuff on 6.x yet. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris Maness wrote: On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Greg Barniskis wrote: Chris Maness wrote: I just installed 6.1 and upgraded to RELEASE-p1. The command dmesg is not displaying any kernel messages, any suggestions? Suggests

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
Chris Maness wrote: On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Greg Barniskis wrote: Chris Maness wrote: I just installed 6.1 and upgraded to RELEASE-p1. The command dmesg is not displaying any kernel messages, any suggestions? Suggests all is well? dmesg outputs stuff from the current system message buffer

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
can get flushed over time. Boot messages are saved to a file though, for reference. more /var/run/dmesg.boot -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348

Re: New FreeBSD Logo

2006-05-11 Thread Greg Barniskis
these are valid statistics is nonsense. Like many folks who really don't care about the logo all that much one way or the other, I simply won't be reading or posting on this subject any more (making any future post counts that much less valid as statistics). -- Greg Barniskis, Comput

Re: New FreeBSD Logo

2006-05-10 Thread Greg Barniskis
cpghost wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:03:04AM -0500, Greg Barniskis wrote: No one is belittling the subject, only pointing out that it's both OT and done with. The appearance of the logo on the Web site is not a beginning, it's a finality. questions@ is for general user ques

Re: New FreeBSD Logo

2006-05-10 Thread Greg Barniskis
now is the time to ask the list if that want to vote on keeping the new logo? Or on if a new logo is wanted at all? Wrong forum, years too late. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___

Re: details about EOL (of FreeBSD 5.4) ?

2006-05-09 Thread Greg Barniskis
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:40:06AM -0500, Greg Barniskis wrote: If 2006 is accurate, this is registering on me as a significant POLA violation. Very hard to believe this is accurate. If accurate, what list/channel/forum should I have been paying more attention to

Re: details about EOL (of FreeBSD 5.4) ?

2006-05-09 Thread Greg Barniskis
/forum should I have been paying more attention to? PS - many thanks to all RE, security and all other contributors. Testing of 6.1 is indicating all is well for our purposes and hardware. So if 5.4 really is EOL, we'll move forward, just a little quicker than previously planned. --

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2006-05-08 Thread Greg Barniskis
Marty Landman wrote: On 5/8/06, Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marty Landman wrote: > I've just reinstalled FBSD 4.8 from the mini-iso on an old box (PII-133 > w/ 3 > GB on two hd's). The problem I'm running into is that my ports are looking > fo

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2006-05-08 Thread Greg Barniskis
package (OK, I see someone did already!), but that may only be the beginning of a long train of workarounds you'd need. Using 4.11 will provide somewhat more of a panacea. If you have enough RAM, go ahead and install 5.4 or 6.0 (or soon enough, 6.1). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Syste

Re: 6.1 install problems with creating partitions

2006-05-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
at as desired. On the FDISK screen, press A to use the whole disk, then on the Disklabel screen press A again for Auto Defaults. Or, have a closer look at the handbook for more details, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html (esp. figure 2-22) -- Gre

Re: FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-04 Thread Greg Barniskis
Greg Barniskis wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Using what comes with the base system. Having no problem. Same here. If functionality is in the base, my philosophy is that replacing it violates the KISS principle unless the replacement offers some additional functionality that justifies the

Re: FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-04 Thread Greg Barniskis
available that serve particularly well for some environments. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: rsnapshot: /bin/cp failed

2006-04-28 Thread Greg Barniskis
s this is not GNU cp? ^^^ Install GNU cp, available as part of the sysutils/coreutils port. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-q

Re: Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-26 Thread Greg Barniskis
without their extra lights out card? Can't comment on that as we've never needed to try. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-qu

Re: postgres

2006-04-26 Thread Greg Barniskis
installed, and thus what might be broken by your forcing an upgrade of it. Then you can decide if it's worth the risk, what to test after, what contingency plans and backups to make, etc. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interc

Re: question on ftp - drag and drop

2006-04-21 Thread Greg Barniskis
y, be sure all the Unison versions match on every host (so be careful with portupgrade and friends). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Trunking connections

2006-04-21 Thread Greg Barniskis
cally dink your own routing table to try to balance your outbound traffic, but by the very nature of IP the inbound traffic cannot be regulated without full cooperation of the upstream routers. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchan

Re: Wanted: Flash player for ....

2006-04-13 Thread Greg Barniskis
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Apr 12, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Greg Barniskis wrote: The Business Software Alliance will gladly descend on suspected violators of any commercial software EULA with a horde of lawyers and auditors and fines in the 5-6 figure range per violation. The

Re: Wanted: Flash player for ....

2006-04-12 Thread Greg Barniskis
animated ads), and the remainder's value is mainly just entertainment-oriented and not so precious that I'd really fight for it. On the other hand, I'd applaud anyone who does fight it, on principle alone. It's a bad EULA, 'nuff said. Good luck! -- Greg Barniskis, Computer S

Re: src upgrade from 4.11-p16 to 5.4 possible?

2006-04-07 Thread Greg Barniskis
basic procedures. Have you tried doing rm -rf /usr/obj/* before your buildworld? This step doesn't seem to be in the upgrade guide you cited, but it is in the Handbook under general buildworld procedures. Section 21.4.6 of: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mak

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
you can print "borderless" on your particular printer via Windows, then you should have a reasonable expectation of being able to do that in FreeBSD as well. However, if you regressed your setup I think you'd find that the hardware is the limiting factor. -- Greg Barniskis, Com

Re: software recommendation

2006-04-04 Thread Greg Barniskis
would be of tremendous usefulness, but WWW-Mechanize is specifically designed for what you are asking. http://search.cpan.org/~PETDANCE/WWW-Mechanize-1.18/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) ,

Re: Apache config question

2006-03-29 Thread Greg Barniskis
mplexity where not needed. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: business of BSDmall

2006-03-24 Thread Greg Barniskis
fbsd_user wrote: BSD mall is separate company. This questions list has nothing to do with it. That's very true, but it may be of general interest that the site has had some service issues. I tried to order some stuff there a year or two ago and while they did (eventually) answer my repeated

Re: help: fetchyahoo crash in perl on upgrading to 6.1-PRERELEASE #0

2006-03-23 Thread Greg Barniskis
ed to your problem or how to address your problem if it's not, I just know of several folks who were bitten by not submitting themselves to UPDATING wisdom. Your mention of perl brought it to mind. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Inte

Re: SSHD Help?

2006-03-13 Thread Greg Barniskis
form tasks that require root privilege. This practice results in better logging of "who did what when". If you really want to allow remote ssh root logins (seriously, you probably don't ;) this can be achieved. See: man sshd_config -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems In

Re: To track or not to track

2006-03-08 Thread Greg Barniskis
rade is suddenly required), but only doing updates on production servers when: * there is an official FreeBSD security alert * portaudit throws a fit based on one or more of your installed port versions * some business requirement of yours creates a definitive need to have the latest versio

Re: New logo, new look

2006-03-06 Thread Greg Barniskis
x27;s been beaten to death, scalded with acid, ground into dust and thrown to the wind several times around already. The deed is done. Please, please, please take this thread to -advocacy@ or -chat@ where it belongs. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System

Re: rebooting and crashes on dell server

2006-03-03 Thread Greg Barniskis
way their diagnostics partition, you should still be able to go to support.dell.com and download a bootable ISO of them. Barring that, a plain old http://www.memtest86.com/ test may help. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library Syste

Re: Webserver behind nat/ipfw

2006-03-03 Thread Greg Barniskis
n't time to offer any specific advice on your ipfw rules except to suggest that liberal use of logging can help you isolate any bad assumptions really quickly, especially if you are able to test in a controlled lab environment so there isn't a lot of noise. -- Greg Barniskis, Comput

Re: help i need a help

2006-02-22 Thread Greg Barniskis
/ sharing solution may need to include the users and their need for some X Windows apps. The OP didn't state such a need explicitly but to me it seemed implied that the FreeBSD PC needs to open the Windows files and probably vice versa. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Ce

Re: question on NAT for multiple subnets

2006-02-21 Thread Greg Barniskis
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Greg Barniskis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:14 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: question on NAT for multiple subnets Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I've never done it but I thin

Re: question on NAT for multiple subnets

2006-02-17 Thread Greg Barniskis
onality with a PIX. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Barniskis Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 8:43 AM To: freebsd-questions Subject: question on NAT for multiple subnets I'm sure I could figure this out from scrutinizing

question on NAT for multiple subnets

2006-02-17 Thread Greg Barniskis
hink about this issue much appreciated. If the answer is ipfw doesn't handle this, but some other fw does, fine, I just need to know which. Thanks! -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LI

Re: how to tell what ran what

2006-02-15 Thread Greg Barniskis
n your network. Probably not a trivial change to your working environment, but maybe worth it in the long run. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___

Re: A script for poets

2006-02-10 Thread Greg Barniskis
the Shakespearian insult generator (several versions exist). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: Question of Interest

2006-02-09 Thread Greg Barniskis
dized, interchangeable, re-usable parts * philosophical aversion to bloatware * much of the software "included" is not really on the discs, it's just pointed to from within the ports tree and downloaded on demand -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library S

Re: What functionality is provided by minimal install

2006-02-01 Thread Greg Barniskis
exes online to be the most useful for the task of enumerating all functionality. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: Apache not included

2006-01-25 Thread Greg Barniskis
rtsnap and sync your ports tree before adding apache (or, reinstall and install the ports tree and apache during install). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___

Re: cannot ping anything

2006-01-20 Thread Greg Barniskis
preventing appropriate packet flow. Ensuring that such features are disabled is the only thing I can suggest short of reinstalling, which I am fairly confident would solve the problem. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) L

Re: portmanager status?

2006-01-20 Thread Greg Barniskis
n seems to have been updated to state that portmanager will remain in (return to?) the FreeBSD ports collection. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 _

Re: httpd could not be started

2006-01-13 Thread Greg Barniskis
Frank Staals wrote: Greg Barniskis wrote: apache2_enable="YES" in your rc.conf? The need for this as well as the proper syntax should be noted in the file /usr/ports/www/apache2/pkg-msg. For any other port you install there's probably gold nuggets of info in its pkg-msg f

Re: httpd could not be started

2006-01-13 Thread Greg Barniskis
displays during the make install, but then so does several K of other info so it's not hard to miss these things. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___

Re: Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

2006-01-12 Thread Greg Barniskis
ry, it's been a long while since I actually edited any part of my firewall rules (love that FreeBSD stability ;). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348

Re: Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

2006-01-12 Thread Greg Barniskis
numbering, maybe use ipfw sets for rule ordering, etc. Maybe easier to just cp rc.firewall custom.ipfw, edit to your needs and use firewall_type="/etc/custom.ipfw" -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange N

Re: Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

2006-01-12 Thread Greg Barniskis
tcpdump is possibly your friend as well here. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: how to tell aspell -c to ignore "_", ">", "<", and other bytes

2006-01-06 Thread Greg Barniskis
e edit distance may or may not help for those really bad mangles. Other than that, you should probably ask this question in an aspell support forum for best results. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608)

Re: format disk in bsd

2006-01-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
partitioning on the same drive that FreeBSD normally boots from. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: FreeBSD 6.0: Problem with network, doesn't use default gateway

2006-01-03 Thread Greg Barniskis
i bge0 may also be informative (see man tcpdump). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: 6.0-REL && isos of distfiles

2006-01-03 Thread Greg Barniskis
RW wrote: On Friday 30 December 2005 13:54, Greg Barniskis wrote: distribution ISOs as packages. Again, if you simply must have sources not packages, then at your high speed location, do something like: portupgrade -F '*' Then burn your own ISOs any which way you like. Try

Re: Recursive FTP upload tool?

2005-12-30 Thread Greg Barniskis
task. Have you seen this article on automating command line ftp? http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/excerpt/BSDHacks_chap1/index1.html It recommends ncftp client, but I don't know if it does what you want or not. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library Sy

Re: 6.0-REL && isos of distfiles

2005-12-30 Thread Greg Barniskis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El día Thursday, December 29, 2005 a las 11:13:50AM -0600, Greg Barniskis escribió: ... My point was that I don't have a fast Internet link at home to fetch all the (new) sources for the distfiles and I was looking for distfiles on CD which match exactl

Re: NATD Internal Network problems

2005-12-29 Thread Greg Barniskis
son this doesn't work is that as a best practice, it shouldn't. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: NATD Internal Network problems

2005-12-29 Thread Greg Barniskis
server have to take the reverse of that path. Yuck. Use split DNS so that that "www.example.com" appears to external clients as being your external NAT server address, and appears to inside clients as the web server's real inside address. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Syste

Re: 6.0-REL && isos of distfiles

2005-12-29 Thread Greg Barniskis
compilation, and just batch it to do that fetching overnight or something. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: Inconsistencies in df

2005-12-22 Thread Greg Barniskis
Greg Barniskis wrote: Tim Lastine wrote: Hi, We are wondering why df gives such peculiar outputs on large disk drives? If I'm not mistaken, it's because "Available" is a relative term. Some space is reserved by the OS for itself. See part 9.25 of http:/

Re: Inconsistencies in df

2005-12-22 Thread Greg Barniskis
.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html I haven't done the math against your example, but I'd wager it adds up correctly if you revise your assumptions accordingly. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange N

Re: ports security branch

2005-12-19 Thread Greg Barniskis
d. Intricacies and suffering? Sometimes yes, but not that frequently, and it's worth it. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Off-Topic

2005-12-14 Thread Greg Barniskis
Pietro Cerutti wrote: I'm for this one: The best way to accellerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s^2 by Roland It's wonderful! I concur. Physics is fun (I know, I'm sick), so I'd add to that: For best results, continue until the PC's speed exceeds 11.2 km/s. 8D _

Re: Sligtly OT: setting static routes on clients

2005-12-09 Thread Greg Barniskis
rtainly do it with a Windows cmd file, though I think it'd be the machine startup script, not the user netlogon (might work but would likely require runas if they are not Admins). For details, go to a Windows command line and give it a route /? -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems I

Re: Uptimes, autoreboots, and package upgrades

2005-12-02 Thread Greg Barniskis
ervers we turn off automated installation (reboot timing and change management being of moderate importance). On clients, we usually push out updates just as fast as we can. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (S

Re: Update: Setting up VLAN interfaces with Cisco gear... getting traffic on broadcast only...

2005-12-01 Thread Greg Barniskis
specify otherwise. I don't know if that really explains the symptoms you're seeing, but setting VLAN = 1 for a port seems like asking for confusion. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608

Re: Am I Right about Stable VS Point

2005-11-30 Thread Greg Barniskis
until the next major release point. Yes, "RELENG_X_Y" is the recommended CVS setting for production servers and any non-expert use, and RELENG_6_0 is ostensibly the most stable and secure branch to be following today. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrat

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