Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?

2012-05-28 Thread Howard Leadmon
resolution. Any ideas, as I would like to check out this software... --- Howard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

RE: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?

2012-05-28 Thread Howard Leadmon
no BSDmakefile. Is there some command that is called, or something performed that creates this BSDmakefile?? If so, maybe on amd64 this isn't working. --- Howard -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf

Re: [freebsd-questions] Revision control advice

2011-12-22 Thread Howard Jones
On 22/12/2011 22:53, William Brown wrote: Again, git wins here. It has good support on windows, as well as with graphical tools on windows. Is there a git equivalent of TortoiseSVN then? That's the best VC integration I've seen on any platform... One small but cosmetic thing with git vs svn:

[PATCH] Re: Forward error correction routines?

2011-12-14 Thread Howard Goldstein
On 12/13/2011 22:45, Dennis Glatting wrote: I am looking for /any/ forward error correction code under FreeBSD, whether Hamming Codes, Golay Codes, Reed-Solomon, BCH codes, etc. or convolution encoders/decoders. All I've found is: * libfec, which only runs under i386 (I am 64 bit), and Here

Re: too many open files

2011-11-28 Thread Howard Goldstein
On 11/27/2011 22:07, Murray Taylor wrote: I have have the same issue on a 8.0-RELEASE box and found with fstat the tgam_server was holding 12511 open files ... A what purpose does this serve (google seems to indicate that it is to speed up file access) File alteration monitoring B

Re: too many open files

2011-11-28 Thread Howard Goldstein
On 11/28/2011 19:07, Murray Taylor wrote: My /etc/gamin/gaminrc contains this fsset ufs none fsset msdosfs none (zfs and nfs too, if appropriate) and I still have 16564 files associated with gam_server in fstat out of 17424 open files reported by sysctl kern.openfiles It appears that

BIND 9.8.1-P1 with OpenSSL 1.0.0 issues..

2011-11-23 Thread Howard Leadmon
to break, but it was sure driving me up a wall for a bit today.. --- Howard Leadmon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: [freebsd-questions] Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Howard Jones
On 22/10/2011 15:37, Bruce Cran wrote: If you run some sort of shell server, or where many people need to login using ssh, you'll have a bit of a support problem telling people to select the non-default port. Also, some might consider it security through obscurity, which is often said to be a

Re: [freebsd-questions] FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-11 Thread Howard Jones
On 11/08/2011 12:37, Daniel Staal wrote: (Well, ok, given the current release structure having an update today means you are in a supported branch, and that supported branch will continue to get updates for the foreseeable future. But that still does not tell me when the branch is likely to

Re: [freebsd-questions] Maintenance script/port

2011-07-21 Thread Howard Jones
On 21/07/2011 09:25, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Can someone recommend me a text driven maintenance (re)port that informs me about the health of my FreeBSD system? I currently use the standard BSD report information, but like to get more information out of my partitions, OS etc. This program should

Re: [freebsd-questions] Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Howard Jones
On 18/07/2011 11:14, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: I'm the one...using Linux since '99 (SuSE, Gentoo,Arch) and moved to PCBSD-9.0 some months ago. I'm *very* happy and cannot believe how little time I spend doing admin work 'cause the OS 'just works'. Otoh, Linux was saga with *constant*

Re: [freebsd-questions] Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Howard Jones
On 18/07/2011 19:18, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Howard Jones ho...@thingy.com mailto:ho...@thingy.com wrote: On 18/07/2011 11:14, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: Interesting - I'm in the process of switching our FreeBSD servers to Linux (Debian and CentOS

ZFS on 8.1 - various problems after a disk failure.

2011-06-13 Thread Howard Jones
I have a FreeBSD 8.2 server at home with 4 2TB drives in it running ZFS with a raidz pool. Some time ago, I had a disk fail. Initially it wasn't totally obvious the disk had failed so I ran a 'zpool scrub' on the pool, which threw up a lot of errors, and also produced a lot of sense errors, making

NTPd GPS with BU-353 USB on FreeBSD 8.x??

2011-01-15 Thread Howard Leadmon
this working on my FreeBSD server. If anyone has this working, or knows of how I can get this configured and running with ntpd, a little help would be most appreciated... --- Howard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: how to read .ods (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) without KOffice?

2010-02-17 Thread Howard Goldstein
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I was sent some ods (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) files. I'm not really keen to install KOffice. Is there another program in the ports which could be used to view ods files or to convert them into pdf or PostScript? There's editors/openoffice.org-3 signature.asc

Kernel Build issue after doing a cvsup yesterday under 6.4 on x86 - Help (knote_fork)

2009-10-13 Thread Howard Leadmon
no problems, till now. If anyone has any ideas on how to resolve this it would be most appreciated.. --- Howard Leadmon - how...@leadmon.net http://www.leadmon.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1

2009-08-20 Thread Howard Goldstein
ajtiM wrote: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com Thu Aug 13 02:16:24 UTC 2009 Previous message: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1 Next message: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1 Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] --On August 12, 2009 8:18:55 PM -0500 ajtiM

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Howard Jones
Wojciech Puchar wrote: you are right. you can't be happy of warm house without getting really cold some time :) that's why it's excellent that ZFS (and few other things) is included in FreeBSD but it's COMPLETELY optional. Well, I switched from the heater that doesn't work and is poorly

FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread Howard Jones
Hi, Can anyone with experience of software RAID point me in the right direction please? I've used gmirror before with no trouble, but nothing fancier. I have a set of brand new 1TB drives, a Sil3124 SATA card and a FreeBSD 7.1-p4 system. I created a RAID 5 set with gvinum: drive d0 device

IPFW/Dummynet/Bridging with VLAN trunks?

2009-04-21 Thread Howard Jones
I'm trying to use Dummynet+IPFW and bridging to make a packet shaper that runs across multiple VLANs. So my intended set up is: [users]-[Aggregate Switch]=[FreeBSD]=[Upstream Switch (with IP interfaces for each vlan)]-The World where - is a single VLAN, and = is a tagged dot1q trunk. The aim is

Re: Command line video player

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel Howard
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Mehul Ved mehul.n@gmail.com wrote: 2) I am not able to find mplayer for 5.5 so I tried to get it's package from 5-RELEASE, which lists lots of dependancies. How do I get mplayer package for 5.5 Hello, Try the ports collection and see if it can build that

Xorg causes kernel panic (intel g45 chipset)

2009-02-11 Thread Howard Yeh
Hi, 7.1-RELEASE installs fine on the machine, but when I try to start xorg I get kernel page fault. it's Intel G45 GMA-4500HD. I saw a thread back in September 2008 that added support for the G45 chipset, did it make its way into the 7.1 release? Thanks, Howard

Re: Autolearn=fail SpamAssassin

2009-01-31 Thread Howard Goldstein
Tom Stuart wrote: Hello, I just installed SpamAssassin on FreeBSD 7.1 and am encountering an error with autolearn. It always says failed when attempting to learn. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutolearningNotWorking ___

Re: vipw and bash login shell

2009-01-16 Thread Daniel Howard
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Kurt Bigler k...@breathsense.com wrote: Hi, When I used vipw to change the login shell to /usr/local/bin/bash (which is listed in /etc/shells, and was built from ports), subsequent ssh login attempts fail (password rejected). If I change the shell back to

Re: Sysinstall

2009-01-08 Thread Daniel Howard
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/8 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu Beyond that, it is just the pretty pictures that are missing. sysinstall also works over serial console. No use for pretty pictures there... Oh My God! If ever you weren't

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-17 Thread Daniel Howard
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:22:11AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] A statically-linked version of bash would waste significant amounts of memory, while a dynamically-linked/shared version would ease that pain.

Re: scripting text replacement

2008-11-10 Thread Daniel Howard
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:43 AM, bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a file containing a list of items like that: line1item1 line1item2 line1item3 line2item1 line2item2 line2item3 …400 times I need to insert this into another text file using printf() items should be converted into

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-10 Thread Daniel Howard
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 7.0 comes with the user root with start up shell /bin/csh As normal user I use bash (/usr/local/bin/bash installed) I would prefer to have bash also when working as root (su). Of course I can do # bash [root ~]#

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-07 Thread Daniel Howard
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:51:06AM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:34 AM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry Ditch

Re: scoll lock - can't unlock in text login after xorg session

2007-11-25 Thread Howard Goldstein
Tino Engel wrote: Howard Goldstein schrieb: Just noticed this, after scroll locking for page up/page down in a text login: I cannot unlock anymore. Does anyone else see this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

scoll lock - can't unlock in text login after xorg session

2007-11-24 Thread Howard Goldstein
Just noticed this, after scroll locking for page up/page down in a text login: I cannot unlock anymore. Does anyone else see this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Making mergemaster skip certain files

2007-11-18 Thread Howard Goldstein
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-17 20:06, Howard Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-16 22:34, J. Porter Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mergemaster for more details, but here's a short description of what I use on my laptop for some time now: 1

Re: Making mergemaster skip certain files

2007-11-17 Thread Howard Goldstein
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-16 22:34, J. Porter Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mergemaster for more details, but here's a short description of what I use on my laptop for some time now: Please consider submitting this as a PR in hopes it gets included in the actual package. 1. A

Re: [freebsd-questions] Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-10-30 Thread Howard Jones
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: You could possibly also put bash -l exit in your .shrc, which would exit if bash exited successfully. I haven't tested it, but it should work. or 'exec bash -l' which will replace the existing shell with bash in memory, rather than run it from it as a subprocess. I

Re: [freebsd-questions] easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread Howard Jones
Gerard wrote: On October 24, 2007 at 02:11PM Sean Murphy wrote: 2) Use CPANPLUS to install the module. Unless the user has the time, knowledge and motivation to do the first, the second approach is usually superior. What does CPANPLUS do that CPAN doesn't that makes this a better

Re: sed question...

2007-09-25 Thread Howard Goldstein
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-09-24 20:52, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:07:20PM -0400, Howard Goldstein wrote: # delete the last 10 lines of a file sed -e :a -e '$d;N;2,10ba' -e 'P;D' # method 1 sed -n -e :a -e '1,10!{P;N;D;};N;ba

Re: sed question...

2007-09-24 Thread Howard Goldstein
Gary Kline wrote: My earlier post about deleting the first N lines was answered by this one-liner site {below}. I wasn't including any redirection; doing so finally resolved the problem. Now I need to delete every line from the 19th or so to the last line.

Asus P5x fan control?

2007-09-19 Thread Howard Goldstein
Has anyone encountered a utility or sysctl knob to access the fan speed controller (657DHG) on the Asus P5x motherboard series? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Howard Goldstein
P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. It is strongly

Re: [freebsd-questions] Good FreeBSD Supported Gigabit Ethernet Card?

2007-09-14 Thread Howard Jones
Oliver Hansen wrote: I'm looking to eventually upgrade my home network to all gigabit so I'm going to start by purchasing a few NICs for some old servers I just received. I know there are quite a few supported by FreeBSD6 which I found (

Re: Gstripe during install

2007-09-07 Thread Howard Goldstein
n j wrote: On a side note, it would be nice if creating RAID arrays was included in the FreeBSD install similar to Debian install (according to my colleague, haven't seen it myself). I agree, but this would take a non-trivial effort to make happen. I hope you'll consider working on it or

How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org?

2007-08-31 Thread Howard Goldstein
As the subject says, is there a straightforward way to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org? Clicking individual files in the web interface is really tedious. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org?

2007-08-31 Thread Howard Goldstein
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Howard Goldstein wrote: As the subject says, is there a straightforward way to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org? Clicking individual files in the web interface is really tedious. ___ freebsd

Re: How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org?

2007-08-31 Thread Howard Goldstein
Kris Kennaway wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Howard Goldstein wrote: As the subject says, is there a straightforward way to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org? Clicking individual files in the web interface is really tedious

Re: How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org?

2007-08-31 Thread Howard Goldstein
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-08-31 13:50, Howard Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dang. Like an idiot savant, perforce appears to be (channeling Yoda I am?) Time for a script to workaround perforce's needlessly overcomplex stupidity. Thanks for letting me know I'm beating my head

Re: [freebsd-questions] FreeBSD + PHP + Barcode scanners for Web Application?

2007-08-19 Thread Howard Jones
perikillo wrote: Hi people. Look we have some applications at work, that use scanners Manufacture by Symbol. Those applications were created in Access, but i want to create those app for a Web browser, my doubt is: Does someone here has a app running from the browser that use bar

Re: gimp-2.2.15,2 crashes after gtk-2.10.13 upgrade

2007-06-14 Thread Howard Goldstein
cpghost wrote: Can anyone else confirm this bug, perhaps with other Gtk2 apps? Confirmed. Here's what I got cally:/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2$ gimp The program 'gimp' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow (invalid

Re: nvidia-driver segmentation fault

2007-05-24 Thread Howard Goldstein
Ernest Sales wrote: (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found) Are you loading the glx module in xorg.conf? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Backup advice

2007-05-23 Thread Howard Goldstein
Jason Lixfeld wrote: - Other folks dumping to a hard drive at night? Care to share any of your experiences/rationale? Not with dump/restore. After using amanda and a tape drive for eons I'm now happy with a bacula solution to backup 2 freebsds and a windows machine. It does incrementals

Re: Static Routes Questions

2007-05-18 Thread Howard Goldstein
georgedonnelly wrote: Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire default0.0.0.1UGS 0 154237em0 0.0.0/24 link#1 UC 00em0 0.0.0.100:d0:03:15:7c:0a UHLW20

Re: procmail filter for them all?

2007-05-10 Thread Howard Goldstein
Jack Barnett wrote: I have sendmail using procmail as the local deliver and each user has this in their .procmailrc file: LOGFILE=/u1/logs/$USER.procmail.log :0 $HOME/Maildir/ Is there a way to do that globally for all users so that they don't each need their own .procmailrc file?

Re: startup scripts not working

2007-05-10 Thread Howard Goldstein
Ghirai wrote: Hello list, Suddenly, the startup scripts for various applications won't work. I have these in /usr/local/etc/rc.d: apache22, ircservices, postgresql, pure-ftpd, unrealircd When i run any of them without parameters, they give out the parameters. But when i use any of the params,

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite? [semi-solved]

2007-05-08 Thread Howard MITCHell Feldman
non-commented entry in the hosts.allow file and looks like: ALL: /etc/hosts.deny: deny ...howard Olaf Greve wrote: Hiya all, Well, I promised you guys a follow-up on this, and here's what I have found out (first the situation and solution, and then two small questions) The situation

Re: CyberPower UPS and PowerPanel Linux daemon on FreeBSD

2007-05-07 Thread Howard Goldstein
L Goodwin wrote: The CyberPower CP800AVR 800VA/450W UPS has USB and RS-232 ports and supports auto-shutdown for Linux (and Mac OS X). Although I don't have the answer to your question I did want to put in a good word for that precise model. I've had mine for some time and remain quite

Re: after deleting maillog, sendmail won't log

2007-05-05 Thread Howard Goldstein
David Banning wrote: I deleted my maillog files and for some reason sendmail will not log again. I have tried touch maillog to start a new file name and i have tried all different permissions on the the empty maillog file. In each case I have restarted sendmail. Any idea what I need to get

Re: A good quiet power supply?

2007-04-30 Thread Howard Goldstein
Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: Just got a new PC at home, it's noisy and was wondering if anyone can share some experience here. I just read about a fanless power-supply and then realized I needed some input. If you have a circuit city nearby you might want to see if they have the mad dog supply

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op (workaround)

2007-04-28 Thread Howard Goldstein
Garrett Cooper wrote: Howard Goldstein wrote: Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Michel Le Cocq wrote: I think it's a global thunderbird 2 bug, because i have exactly the same trouble ona mac os 10.4 with a binary update. I do not think it is exactly the same -- see below. Howard Goldstein

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-27 Thread Howard Goldstein
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Howard Goldstein wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Howard Goldstein wrote: Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: I guess I would have to update all gnome packages from 2.16 to 2.18 to see if it helps

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op (workaround)

2007-04-27 Thread Howard Goldstein
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Michel Le Cocq wrote: I think it's a global thunderbird 2 bug, because i have exactly the same trouble ona mac os 10.4 with a binary update. I do not think it is exactly the same -- see below. Howard Goldstein a écrit : Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Drew Sanford

Re: [freebsd-questions] cacti lost it's images

2007-04-26 Thread Howard Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After my last cacti upgrade, I seen it totaly lost it's images and sounds like it also lost it's css... The strange... I mean _STRANGE_ thing is when analysing the HTML source... the images are not even called!!! No img anywhere Is it possible that the port

Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-26 Thread Howard Goldstein
Drew Sanford wrote: No, but I am seeing it core dump rather strangely. Each time it starts up, I can open a file dialog box to save an attachment or attach a file one time just fine. The second time I try to attach or save a file on any start up, it crashes. I have this exact same problem

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-26 Thread Howard Goldstein
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Drew Sanford wrote: No, but I am seeing it core dump rather strangely. Each time it starts up, I can open a file dialog box to save an attachment or attach a file one time just fine. The second time I try to attach or save a file on any start up, it crashes.

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-26 Thread Howard Goldstein
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: I guess I would have to update all gnome packages from 2.16 to 2.18 to see if it helps... but since Howard Goldstein rebuild all his ports, he can probably confirm that this happens with the current ports. Unfortunately it does still happen for me. For those ports

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-26 Thread Howard Goldstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Howard Goldstein wrote: Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: I guess I would have to update all gnome packages from 2.16 to 2.18 to see if it helps... but since Howard Goldstein rebuild all his ports, he can probably confirm that this happens

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-26 Thread Howard Goldstein
Garrett Cooper wrote: Did you build thunderbird with custom cflags, and have to tried getting a backtrace for all of the calls made from thunderbird using the coredump and gdb? When this started happening I rebuilt it with WITH_DEBUG=true WITHOUT_LOGGING=true WITHOUT_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=true I

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-26 Thread Howard Goldstein
Garrett Cooper wrote: Did you build thunderbird with custom cflags, and have to tried getting a backtrace for all of the calls made from thunderbird using the coredump and gdb? I'm sorry, reading Robert Huff's reply I should have also disclosed my make.conf CFLAGS, they are custom at -O2 and

Re: [freebsd-questions] Mount an iso image?

2007-04-25 Thread Howard Jones
Dan Nelson wrote: If that's all you need, there's an even easier way: tar tvf mycd.iso, since libarchive understands the iso9660 filesystem format :) That's a useful trick! Is there an equivalent for ufs filesystems? I'd like to be able to extract files from a floppy image without needing

Re: [freebsd-questions] Code beautification and/or printing utilities that are not part of an editor

2007-04-19 Thread Howard Jones
Andrew Falanga wrote: Another question for everyone. Are there any programs, hopefully available in the ports, that one can use to print source code files to a printer (or create as a postscript file)? I'd like something that I can feed a C++ program, have it parse through the code, print line

Re: [freebsd-questions] slightly OT - my freebsd email topology

2007-04-05 Thread Howard Jones
Jonathan Horne wrote: currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the internet, which then

Re: [freebsd-questions] root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Howard Jones
Wojciech Puchar wrote: can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and without telneting to some user and then su - ? with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. once again - can someone answer my question instead of giving very intelligent

Re: [freebsd-questions] [freebsd-questions] root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Howard Jones
Wojciech Puchar wrote: so generalizing that telnet and rsh is bad is as stupid as telling that oxygen is bad as it makes fires. Well, that's true, but if you have the choice, there are better choices. You *can* hammer in nails with the butt of a gun, but there's a chance you'll somehow shoot

Re: [freebsd-questions] Future of FreeBSD 7.0 and up

2007-02-28 Thread Howard Jones
Dwight Smith wrote: Good morning, My name is Dwight Smith, and I only had a question or two in terms of the future useability of FreeBSD. I have used it on and off and found it to be a great UNIX operating system for servers, but my only major concern was the amount of time it takes to

Zoom 3075 PCMCIA modem in FreeBSD

2007-02-16 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Did you resolve the Zoom 3075 modem question? I'm looking for a laptop modem for linux and considering this modem. Haven't finalized my distributiion choice for the laptop yet but currently working with SUSE 10.1, may go to Mandriva or Ubuntu 64bit. Howard[EMAIL

Re: [freebsd-questions] syslog from Cisco - FreeBSD not working

2007-02-06 Thread Howard Jones
Ewald Jenisch wrote: To further track this down I changed the above line in syslog.conf to read +myrouter local7.*/var/log/cisco-syslog +* What I did to get this working was (in syslog.conf): +printserver !* *.* /usr/log/printserver.log AND in

Re: [freebsd-questions] FreeBSD Torrent Server

2007-01-31 Thread Howard Jones
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The FreeBSD server operators don't pay a dime for bandwidth and if the bandwidth supplier for freebsd.org made the slightest complaint about the bandwidth they are donating, there's a passel of ISP's and networks that would fight each other for the chance of the feather

Re: [freebsd-questions] freebsd 6.2 jumpstart install

2007-01-28 Thread Howard Jones
Paul Kostick III wrote: I am trying to jumpstart install an IBM x336 server with a intel Pro100 nic with freebsd 6.2. I have successfully done this install with freebsd 5.3 and 6.0 on the same machine. The sysinstall boot menu comes up from PXE. But when I put in the NFS path to the files, it

Re: [freebsd-questions] Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD

2007-01-26 Thread Howard Jones
Gable Barber wrote: Hello all, I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the future). Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now)

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Howard Jones
Nikolas Britton wrote Well that's just it... No way we could afford full rates, If we could we would hire someone off the street to program x, y, and z to are liking. I was talking about supporting someone who is already working on x, y, and z because they have an itch to scratch... To help them

Re: Simple DoS

2007-01-10 Thread Howard Jones
Nejc Škoberne wrote: Any ideas how to prevent such situations in the future? (I would like to do it on the server side, not on the user side.) Get a switch that runs Spanning Tree Protocol. I don't think there's much you can do on the server about a problem in the switch.

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-10 Thread Howard Jones
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Apart from that, I used to be able to sysinsall a machine booting via PXE. This doesn't work anymore in recent versions :-( Or maybe it is just my incompetence, but then, if someone managed this, I'd like to hear about it. This definitely works with 6.1-RELEASE, as I've

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-10 Thread Howard Jones
Jay Chandler wrote: I've been trying to script an install for FreeBSD since I just had a bunch of servers dropped on me-- may I ask how you did yours? Roughly speaking, I started with this document: http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/freebsd/pxe-netboot.shtml and this document:

Management techiniques for multiple FreeBSD servers?

2007-01-09 Thread Howard Jones
Hi, I'm looking around for any articles/docs regarding techniques for managing groups of FreeBSD servers - things like running a local package mirror or build server, standardised installs, update management - all the usual boring stuff. I know that people like Yahoo use thousands of *BSD

Re: Software inventory management

2006-12-12 Thread Howard Jones
From: stan Subject: Software inventory management : : Sudenly there is an improved desire to keep up to date on the latest : security fixes at work. I've got about 50 machines that I manage. OpenBSD, : FreeBSD, Linux, Solairs, and HP-UX. : : I am looking for recomendations for a

Re: question on batch email sending

2006-11-30 Thread Howard Jones
David Banning wrote: I have a standard mailbox with around 40 messages. I want to be able to just send them all to someone, the same person, not as an attachment but as individual emails. I want to do something like; cat /var/mail/frank | someprogram [EMAIL PROTECTED] So that Frank can just

Re: Cacti -vs- mrtg

2006-11-07 Thread Howard Jones
Jeff Mohler wrote: I can use MRTG, and have MRTG do what I want it to do. Id like to try cacti, but..am I alone in finding that it's a PITA? Im not trying to be negative, just looking for a reality check. I like the simplicity of mrtg, but I like the go back in time of cacti to view

Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-04 Thread Howard Jones
On 4 Sep 2006, at 05:35, Gary Kline wrote: How can I automate the backup via rsync to other servers? If what you want is a backup to the disk on a remote system (rather than a tape drive or whatever), then have a look at rdiff-backup: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_rdiff_backup

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-30 Thread Howard Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your DVD player can't play mp3s, then it can't play DVDs. ;) Remember, mp3s are the audio layer of mpegs. And DVD videos consist of mpegs. For a DVD-Video disc, the audio formats are PCM (plain old wav, effectively), AC-3 (dolby digital) and MPEG-1 Audio Layer II

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-28 Thread Howard Jones
Gary Kline wrote: Well, if/when you *do* try, please clue me in. --I'm too new to DVD's and tooo che--er, thrifty to buy a ten pack of blanks. I'm not sure that I have three hours of favorites; probably, but no more. Most of my favorite tunes are on

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread Howard Jones
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote: --Might be nice to gather (parts of) my favorite CD's onto one Very long-playing disk. That would require you to burn an audio DVD, which you couldn't read in a normal CD drive... and I really don't know

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-09 Thread Howard Jones
Marc G. Fournier wrote: The uniqueness is a combination of IP+hostname ... again, as one pointed out with PCBSD, this isn't always necessarily the case, but, IMHO, that is a flaw of PCBSD having all hosts on the same network using the same hostname ... That's the nice thing with the

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-09 Thread Howard Jones
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Right, and the bad thing is if yu alias another IP on that device, the hash totally changes, so we see that one host now as being two different ones :) That's why we disqualified using ifconfig right at the beginning ... But didn't you say that you effectively wipe

Re: [freebsd-questions] awk quickie.

2006-08-06 Thread Howard Jones
Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Can aanybody spot what I'm doing wrong in this tiny awk scripy:: Using awk is what you are doing wrong ;-) Assuming that this is all you are doing with the list, anyway... From the grep manpage: -l, --files-with-matches Suppress

Re: [freebsd-questions] How big a flashrom for a minimal freebsd install?

2006-07-28 Thread Howard Jones
Chris T. wrote: Im toying with the idea of setting up a mini-itx server so I can move the dns and firewall daemons off of the fileserver so I can turn it off. I'm thinking I want to get a flashrom ide adaptor so that I can swap setups on the thing by swapping cards. I don't see myself using

Re: Monitoring Server Health

2006-06-25 Thread Howard Jones
Jerlique Bahn wrote: Actually mrtg is used to graph the results of the program that I am looking for. So to clarify my initial request, what I am seeking recommendations for is the program that collects the information, such as server load, temperature, open tcp connections etc of the

Change detection order for firewire vs SCSI?

2006-06-22 Thread Howard Jones
I have an old dual-P3 server with an internal SCSI backplane. I also have an external firewire drive attached to it as cheap, 'disposable' storage. It all works swimmingly apart from one thing: When the system boots, it loads the kernel from the SCSI drive OK, then at some stage it changes

Re: [freebsd-questions] Scanning MP3 files for skips

2006-06-13 Thread Howard Jones
Chuck Swiger wrote: Kyrre Nygard wrote: I'm curious whether there's a tool out there that will scan through audio files looking for patterns that resemble skips and other nonos in the world of music. I have MD5 checksums for all my MP3 files, but that doesn't guarantee that they were fine

Im new to FreeBSD

2006-06-12 Thread JASON HOWARD
Im very new to this and have some questions,Im looking for an operationg system to replace windows Xp on my computer.My computer has a celeron processor and 512 megabytes of memory.Is this enought to run freeBSD ?.And also,I have many applications,will they be compatible with freeBSD or will

Re: [freebsd-questions] Deny large number of IPs via ipfw

2006-06-11 Thread Howard Jones
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, I've got a file that I just synced from a major RBL, and I'd like to just use it to globally deny access to my system. Is there an easy way to do this within ipfw -- the file is about 3 *million* lines, and is from cbl.abuseat.org. I do similar

Re: [freebsd-questions] What is the maximum file size on a dvd+r ?

2006-05-29 Thread Howard Jones
Fabian Keil wrote: While I didn't read the spec, I heard that explanation before and I think it's entirely correct to assume that the file size value is unsigned. This has nothing to do with embracing standards. Just for another datapoint, Nero Burning ROM (onWindows) also limits files on an

Re: [freebsd-questions] what does this mean

2006-05-21 Thread Howard Jones
Imran Imtiaz wrote: i've seen the following log in my messages can any body tell me what does it mean? May 21 02:50:29 darkstar sm-mta[55021]: k4KLoTeq055021: localhost [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MSA Do you run something like Nagios or BigBrother on

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