Re: error starting samba

2006-02-07 Thread Jason Williams
. When we move to our production server I plan on installing FreeBSD 6.0 Release instead of Stable so maybe it's not an issue. Or is it a problem on 6.0 Release as well? Thanks, Jason Williams University of New Haven ___ freebsd-questions

Re: KDE and PAM

2005-11-29 Thread Jason Williams
/pam_smb_auth.so The required for pam_smb_auth.so will stop login from authenticating without a password. Jason Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Odd Messages showing up in /var/log/messages

2005-05-20 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. Just recently, some very odd messages started showing up in my /var/log/messages on a FreeBSD 4.9 MailGateway box.This box serves as our primary email scrubber, removing viruses and quarnatining spam. It has worked flawlessly for over a year. This messages started popping up

Question on cvsup of ports and refuse file

2004-04-19 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. I've been able to get cvsup working the way I want as far as ports are concerned. I've setup my refuse file the way I like it and it has been working perfectly. I dont get the ports for games, audio and such on my mail server now. :) Anyway, a question on cvsup and refuse file

SMP on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-03-26 Thread Jason Williams
Good morning everyone. I has a couple of quick questions regarding taking advantage of dual processors on a server that I have for our company. Now, i've never setup a FreeBSD box on a system that has 2 CPU's so this is my first shot at it. Following the handbook, I recompiled my kernel with

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-03-26 Thread Jason Williams
You could run top and watch the C column, which shows which particular CPU is being used by a process. This is quite interesting. After rebuilding my kernel for SMP support, I noticed the load average went up slightly. Is that normal? Right now, the system is being tested as a mail gateway

Mounting a temporary filesystem

2004-03-22 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. I'm trying to mount a certain part of my filesystem as a temporary file system to improve performance. I'm running a Mail gateway server, with FreeBSD 4.9, Sendmail 8.12.11, MailScanner, ClamAV and spamassassin. I have a incoming mail queue directory that I wanted to mount as a

setting up network virtual hosts (ifconfig)

2004-03-08 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone, Just was wondering about setting up virtual hosts on NIC cards on my FreeBSD box. I read the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-virtual-hosts.html Seems simple enough, but I seemed to be having a bit of a problem. For instance, I

Re: setting up network virtual hosts (ifconfig)

2004-03-08 Thread Jason Williams
e.g. something like this works fine here : # /etc/rc.local : ifconfig fxp0 alias 192.168.2.222 netmask 0x That seemed to have done the trick, manually. Im guessing, I could put the same thing in my rc.conf file, but with proper syntax: ifconfig_fxp0_alias0=inet 192.168.2.222 netmask

Re: setting up network virtual hosts (ifconfig)

2004-03-08 Thread Jason Williams
Well that depends on what it is, but if you want to just go through everything you can do this: # shutdown now This will put you in single-user mode. Hit enter for the default shell, then just log out (Ctrl-D) and that will fire up init and run through the rc system again. What if you are doing

Questions regarding Sendmail on FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. I've been playing with Sendmail for a couple of weeks now and I feel pretty comfortable with it. Lately, what i've done is just download the source code for sendmail and build and compile as needed. It still works fine. However, I have some questions about how Sendmail comes

Re: BSD on machines with RAID

2004-03-01 Thread Jason Williams
I would like to know if its possible to run Free BSD on IBM machines with a RAID controller (SCSI hard drives are used). I have tried installing it but the system keeps on freezing continuously during setup, the same system works perfectly with other OS's. What type of IBM machines

Questions regarding BIND

2004-03-01 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. I had a couple questions regarding BIND and setting up a BIND server. I need to quickly setup a BIND server on our company network. The sole purpose for this is going to be basically used as a caching name server for all of my clients on the LAN, but I also want to setup a

CVSUP and the refuse file

2004-02-27 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. I have a simple question regarding cvsup and using the refuse file. Basically, just as the handbook states, I dont want to download certain parts of the ports tree. I followed the directions in the handbook, but I seem to be downloading the specified ports still. Here is my

FreeBSD and sendmail...

2004-02-11 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone, I've been hacking away at Sendmail for the past couple days, trying to learn it and set it up. Now, im using FreeBSD 4.9 and it comes with 8.12.9p2 by default. I've been reading through the Bat Book and i've been able to figure out a few things , like generating a updated

Sendmail questions

2004-02-09 Thread Jason Williams
Morning everyone. I have a few questions in general about Sendmail and a few in regards to sendmail on FreeBSD. (NOTE: I do use postfix for a lot of my mail servers, but for one particular instance, I need to use Sendmail.) My first question is about resources for learning Sendmail. I

Question in regards to software verification...

2004-02-05 Thread Jason Williams
This is going to sound incredibly new, but i've never understood how to completely verify software that you download. For instance, a new Security Advisory was released today regarding the shmat reference counting bug One thing that I thought of when I was looking at this is the option to d/l

Installing Apache and mod_ssl

2004-01-23 Thread Jason Williams
Evening everyone... Im just getting started with apache and mod_ssl. I was reading through the docs on the mod_ssl web site and it recommended downloading the source code for apache, mod_ssl and openssl. My question is that I already have openssl installed on my test server. It is currently

Help figuring out port install...(custom install)

2004-01-23 Thread Jason Williams
I was going to test installing Horde's IMP3 through the FreeBSD ports tree. I wanted to test it out to see if it was a viable option for our company. Before I go on, I should mention that I installed apache and mod_ssl by hand before hand (For a lot of reasons really :) ). Anyway, I navigated

Proper way to upgrade OpenSSH on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-01-20 Thread Jason Williams
Good morning everyone. I just had a couple of questions about upgrading OpenSSH on a FreeBSD 4.9 box. Being that 4.9 ships with: OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030924, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090703f I wanted to upgrade my version of OpenSSH to a more recent version. My question is, what is

How to find the reverse on a IP address?

2004-01-16 Thread Jason Williams
Morning everyone. I'm having a major brain freeze this morning. I dont recall how to find the reverse for an IP address? I need to do some testing with a few IP addresses, to ensure they have valid reverse's set, but dont recall how to check them. If I remember, you could do it with both

Cyrus-IMAPD users...question

2004-01-16 Thread Jason Williams
I want to ask the current FreeBSD cyrus-imapd users a few questions. Was just curious for anyone out there, who is running cyrus on FreeBSD, did you install the software through the ports tree? What DB version are you running? Are you exepriencing any DB problems? I've been doing a lot of

Cyrus-imapd2 installed through ports question

2004-01-12 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. I was having a problem after I installed cyrus-imapd2 through the ports tree. Everything on the installation went well. However, im seeing a error pop up in my log that I cannot figure out. Thus, I thought i'd ask here, see if anyone had any similiar problems. Note, this is on a

Question on port usage

2004-01-07 Thread Jason Williams
Good morning everyone. I wanted to ask a question about ports, the makefile and customizing port installation. I was reading through 'Absolute BSD' last night and was reading up on the section on port's. I was unaware that with ports, you can actually edit the makefile to add certain options

Problems installing 4.9 on IBM Xseries server

2003-11-06 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. Running into a bit of a problem installing 4.9 on a IBM X series server. The server has 3 SCSI drives with a servRAID card. I have RAID 5 configured on it. 4.9 did not detect the drives, so im wondering if it even supports it or if there is a driver I can d/l to use and boot

Re: Problems installing 4.9 on IBM Xseries server

2003-11-06 Thread Jason Williams
It says for 4.9, under hardware: ServerWorks CSB5 ATA66/ATA100 Well, isn't that what I have? Jason At 01:04 PM 11/6/2003 -0800, you wrote: Hello everyone. Running into a bit of a problem installing 4.9 on a IBM X series server. The server has 3 SCSI drives with a servRAID card. I have RAID 5

Re: Problems installing 4.9 on IBM Xseries server

2003-11-06 Thread Jason Williams
Did some research and it appears that these IBM servers using ServRAID use the IPS Scsi host adaptor. Anyone know if 4.9 supports this or if there is a way to load the driver a different way? I do appreciate it. Jason At 01:04 PM 11/6/2003 -0800, you wrote: Hello everyone. Running into a

FreeBSD +Samba +OpenLDAP as a Primary Domain controller

2003-11-05 Thread Jason Williams
Good morning everyone. I'm trying to find some information about using FreeBSD as a PDC with OpenLDAP on the backend. I've setup a similar setup with Red Hat before, but with the recent changes with RH, i'd like to fully get away from Red Hat all together. With that in mind, i'd like to use

FreeBSD 5.1

2003-11-05 Thread Jason Williams
Just a quick question here. How stable is 5.1 for production servers? There are a lot of features I like offered in 5.1, but im not sure about the stability of it. Anyone care to comment on whether or not 5.1 is a good or bad idea for a production server? I appreciate it. Jason

Clarification on CVS Tags

2003-10-28 Thread Jason Williams
Good morning everyone. I was hoping to get some verification regarding CVS Tags. I'm pretty sure I understand, but just wanted to have my thoughts validated for me. In reading the CVS Tag page in the handbook, I understand the basics of what is going on. If I specify this in my cvsup file:

Re: Clarification on CVS Tags

2003-10-28 Thread Jason Williams
insight. Jason At 06:37 PM 10/28/2003 +, you wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:43:20AM -0800, Jason Williams wrote: Good morning everyone. I was hoping to get some verification regarding CVS Tags. I'm pretty sure I understand, but just wanted to have my thoughts validated for me

Re: Problems with 'make world' stuff

2003-10-28 Thread Jason Williams
at 16:57, Jason Williams wrote: Hello everyone. Im pretty new to building my own world here, but im excited to learn it. I followed the handbook as suggested on how to make world. I installed FreeBSD 4.8 on my workstation. I installed cvsup and configured my stable-supfile as well as my

IPFW: rc.firewall script doesn't load when loading rules from a file

2003-02-18 Thread Jason Williams
altogether and set up a rules file with everything needed in there? All the tutorials seem to suggest that ipfw reads rc.firewall first before moving onto custom rules files, but that has not been my experience here. Thanks for your help Jason Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail