ot :stuck in GRUB
Hi all, A Friend of mine has some version of either *nux or bsd installed (he does not even know for sure), turns out he clicked yes for some updates to install and upon restarting he now winds up at GRUB , I told him to type boot and it reports kernel must loaded prior to booting I really have no time to get out there, so he shipped me his hard drive which I should be receiving today or tomorrow. It *seems* to me the update may have corrupted some type of conf file, am I on the right track here? Does anyone have any suggestion, since its an old friend I can't charge him, but nor do I want to spend a significant amount of time on it. TIA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ot :stuck in GRUB
Hi all, A Friend of mine has some version of either *nux or bsd installed (he does not even know for sure), turns out he clicked yes for some updates to install and upon restarting he now winds up at GRUB , I told him to type boot and it reports kernel must loaded prior to booting I really have no time to get out there, so he shipped me his hard drive which I should be receiving today or tomorrow. It *seems* to me the update may have corrupted some type of conf file, am I on the right track here? Does anyone have any suggestion, since its an old friend I can't charge him, but nor do I want to spend a significant amount of time on it. TIA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Read/Dump Bios chip info
Is there any program that can read and or dump the info written in a BIOS chip? TIA, JP ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
iptables equivaelnt
I'm looking for FREEBSD's equivalent of iptables I'm particuclary trying to implement some type of rate control as we are getting hammered by spam. Any and all help would be graetly appreciated ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: xfce display
On 14/05/2010 21:56, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I installed Xorg and xfce when I start it (/usr/local/bin/startxfce) my screen just shows vertical lines of many different colors on the screen, The monitor (fairly old gateway 15 lcd) works fine in regular text mode, on windows os's as well. I do see this in the log (II) Module intel: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.6.5, module version = 2.7.1 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0 (II) LoadModule: i810 (WW) Warning, couldn't open module i810 (II) UnloadModule: i810 (EE) Failed to load module i810 (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: vesa (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so (II) Module vesa: vendor=X.Org Foundation Is the i810 chipset not supported? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org The i810 chip from intel is supported, just by another name... You want the xf86-video-intel port (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel/pkg-descr) presumably the intel module. Cheers, Mark - I installed the xf86-video-intel port and still the same result when attempting to start xfce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: xfce display
Did you configure Xorg to use the intel driver? Check the handbook chapter 5.4 especially 5.4.3.1 Configuration with Intel(r) i810 Graphics Chipsets. I have got it configured, now I'm a bit confused on which display section I'm supposed to add the mode there are many do I add the 10.24x768 to all of them? Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: user friendliest gui
You only need one of the last two things. You have to decide: a) Want X? Use Tcl/Tk. Install both tcl and tk ports. Examples in /usr/local/lib/tkversion/demos. b) Work in text mode? Use dialog. Comes with base system. Examples in /usr/share/examples/dialog. c) Work in text more, but make it more complicated? Use ncurses and curses development kit. Install cdk from ports. Examples in /usr/local/share/examples/cdk. Depending on your decision, the path follows. :-) Oh, CDK is not that bad or complicated, but I think you should go with dialog first. If you've got enough experience in implementing shell wrappers / extenders with dialog, it should be an easy task to do the same with Tcl/Tk. Keep in mind that using X limits the usability of your project (which is a very useful one per se). No experience at all implementing shell wrappers, I tried installing tcltutor and that's bombing out allover the place. this is getting too complex, I think I'll load just a desktop gui , and put a clamav icon on the desktop and just have them right click and scan drive ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
xfce display
Hi all, I installed Xorg and xfce when I start it (/usr/local/bin/startxfce) my screen just shows vertical lines of many different colors on the screen, The monitor (fairly old gateway 15 lcd) works fine in regular text mode, on windows os's as well. I do see this in the log (II) Module intel: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.6.5, module version = 2.7.1 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0 (II) LoadModule: i810 (WW) Warning, couldn't open module i810 (II) UnloadModule: i810 (EE) Failed to load module i810 (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: vesa (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so (II) Module vesa: vendor=X.Org Foundation Is the i810 chipset not supported? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: user friendliest gui
If one would really want to go with X, Tcl/Tk, as it has been mentioned by others (and me), is a good way to go. There are helpful examples installed when you install it on your system. It's a very easy to learn, but still powerful scripting language that very well interacts with command line processing. Just look at the examples, you'll find much inspiration there. For text mode and using dialog (as for example sysinstall does), it's another easy way to go, because you can entirely keep your scripting in /bin/sh syntax and don't need much dependencies. Furthermore, you have a portable solution. No special needs for a high-end GPU and an appropriate driver. Even a 100 MHz box with a 2 GB hard disk could then be used for this particular job. You could even attach a simple dotmatrix line printer for printing the receipt. :-) Ok so I have my new box setup and I have installed Clamav-devel Tcl86 Dialog First question is , I have only ever used clamav-clamd in the past which I start with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd start to run it, how do I run devel? Second question is , where to o go from here? I have tried to man tcl86 and man clamav-devel but I get no manual entry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
installing tcltutor
Hi all, I'm trying to install tcltutor on my bsd 7.3 box but its failing allover the place, I'm not really sure where to start looking, see the output below libtool: link: `libxml/libxml_rpl_la-xpointer.lo' is not a valid libtool object *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/gnulib-lib. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/gnulib-lib. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.17. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gettext. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libcheck. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/libxcb. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/libX11. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/tcltutor. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: user friendliest gui
As for directions: Use your choice of programming language to write a program that will call file(1) to determine filesystem, mount the device, virus scan, and unmount the device. Display prompts and results with dialog(1). Print results if desired. I do not know any language, other than DOS , which is why I asked Configure devd.conf(5) to detect USB mass storage device connect and run the program. This I know how to do References: file(1), dialog(1), devd.conf(5), mount_msdosfs(8), mount_ntfs(8), security/clamav[-devel] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: user friendliest gui
Anyway, a bit of DOS batch programming experience helps people intending to write a /bin/sh shell script, and if this task is done, a GUI wrapper, either using text mode with dialog, or using Tcl/Tk in X is quite easy. Don't mean to sound TOO ignorant, but which Tcl should I be installing? This one? /usr/ports/lang/p5-Tcl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
user friendliest gui
Hi all, I'm planning on setting up a workstation in our library for the SOLE purpose of scanning flash drives. My users are 100% windows users, and have never used anything else. In case you are curious, all usb ports are disabled on ALL windows machines. So the question is I want to make this is simple as possible for any user to put the flash drive into the bsd computer and scan the drive (if it can be automated that would be even greater but not required) TIA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: user friendliest gui
For virus/malware Sorry bout that -Original Message- From: Warren Block [mailto:wbl...@wonkity.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:49 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: user friendliest gui On Tue, 11 May 2010, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I'm planning on setting up a workstation in our library for the SOLE purpose of scanning flash drives. What do you mean by scanning flash drives? Scanning for files, viruses, images, what? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: user friendliest gui
My users here, no gui = machine is broken From: Eitan Adler [mailto:li...@eitanadler.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:48 PM To: Gary Gatten Cc: Jean-Paul Natola; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: user friendliest gui On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.commailto:ggat...@waddell.com wrote: If that's all your doing on that system, maybe some restricted shell with automagical scan script would be fine? Just a thought. Avoid GUI's if you can! Why? For most users GUIs are far easier to understand and use. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: user friendliest gui
Will it pop-up a message saying your drive is clean? If so then great -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Bonomi Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 3:07 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: user friendliest gui Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 18:51:44 + Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: user friendliest gui My users here, no gui = machine is broken From: Eitan Adler [mailto:li...@eitanadler.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:48 PM To: Gary Gatten Cc: Jean-Paul Natola; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: user friendliest gui On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: If that's all your doing on that system, maybe some restricted shell with automagical scan script would be fine? Just a thought. Avoid GUI's if you can! Why? For most users GUIs are far easier to understand and use. Why?? Because, In this case, the GUI is entirely -un-necessary-. The user doesn't have to do anything other than stick the flash drive in the USB port. The machine does everything else. *WITHOUT* any further user intervention required. Why bother with the GUI, when there is no inter-actiona required? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: user friendliest gui
These tasks may be trivial to all members on this list, but to a novice like myself, seems a bit overwhelming to be honest. As far as the touchscreen goes , thats a nice thought, but not in our budget. I'd prefer to spend ~300 dollars on the reciept style printer. Can someone point me in the direction to get this started? From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freevialbsd.org [owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] on behalf of Robert Bonomi [bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 7:39 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user friendliest gui From andrewlylego...@gmail.com Tue May 11 16:46:38 2010 Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 16:46:50 -0500 Subject: Re: user friendliest gui From: Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com To: Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org Cc: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions= @freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Bonomi Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 3:07 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: user friendliest gui Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 18:51:44 + Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: user friendliest gui My users here, =A0no gui =3D machine is broken From: Eitan Adler [mailto:li...@eitanadler.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:48 PM To: Gary Gatten Cc: Jean-Paul Natola; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: user friendliest gui On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote= : If that's all your doing on that system, maybe some restricted shell wit= h automagical scan script would be fine? =A0Just a thought. =A0Avoid GUI's= if you can! Why? For most users GUIs are far easier to understand and use. Why?? =A0Because, In this case, the GUI is entirely -un-necessary-. =A0Th= e user doesn't have to do anything other than stick the flash drive in the USB p= ort. The machine does everything else. =A0*WITHOUT* any further user intervent= ion required. Why bother with the GUI, when there is no inter-actiona required? Will it pop-up a message saying your drive is clean? If so then great TRIVIALLY easy to do. This is a =dedicated=, single-function, machine, one can have an app *already*running* that looks for syslog messages for a USB insertion, mounts the indicated device on, say '/mnt', initiates a virus-scan, *displays* the results, and unmounts the device. I'm going to advocate for a GUI here due to the possibility of a false positive during malware detection. The user should be given a choice as to whether the infected file is cleaned, deleted or left alone. If the user chooses to keep the file, the user should also be able to store the scan log onto the usb drive. (Users should also be able to decide that no log will be written to the drive.) These things will require interaction with the user. I favor a 'receipt' printer -- one of the little ones that uses adding-machine size paper, like ATM machines have. Print the USB device ID, a timestamp, the status (clean vs. infected), and if infected, a simple summary of how many infections of what type(s) were detected. _maybe_ list the first few infected files. OP _did_ 'spec' that this was to be a malware DETECTION 'scanning' system, not a removal/repair installation. Reading between the lines, I gatther that this is to be a choke-point/ validation service, and *only* devices that pass through it as 'uninfected' will be allowed to be used on other machines on thepremises. That the function of this box is to protect the other internal boxes, _not_ to disinfect infected USB devices. There is also the possibility that the OP will want to add related, optional services later. One example might be the option to choose whether the usb drive is scanned or completely erased by overwriting the drive with zeros. I wouldn't want the *LIABILITY* for doing =that=. Another good use for the GUI, as scanning an 8GB or 32GB usb drive may take some time, is to present a slideshow to the user about computer security or, perhaps, an introduction to the wonderful operating system that is running on the computer. One can do _all_ of that without any need for a GUI. All it takes is a little creativity in the programming. In many ways, the 'ideal' UI _hardware_ for this kind of an application is a _touch_screen_. *IF*and*when* you want to add additional features that require interactivity. The application itself needs use nothing more than color 'curses' (or equivalent) to provide a sufficiently 'user-friendly
RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-
On 5/6/2010 5:06 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: This is the company wide share everyone has access to it, It even fails if I use the domain and enterprise admin accounts- And as I'm typing this, could that be the reason, because im using domain accounts? ___ That was it , I was using a domain instead of an account on the local box Thanks everyone, At least now I am aware of all the options Where shall we send the bill? :) We are a non-profit, write it off as a donation :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Accessing file from windows or to windows
Hi all, I have a file I need in my bsd box, would it be easier, or is it possible, to mount an NTFS share , or should I try to map a directory from the windows box. TIA, I have Xp Win7 Win2003 Win2008 Freebsd 6.4 thanx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows
On 5/6/2010 3:47 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I have a file I need in my bsd box, would it be easier, or is it possible, to mount an NTFS share , or should I try to map a directory from the windows box. TIA, I have Xp Win7 Win2003 Win2008 Freebsd 6.4 thanx Same machine or two separate machines? Two separate machines is trivial - share a directory on the Win machine and use smbfs on FBSD to get to it. For same machine, boot FBSD, and do a mount with -t ntfs as an arg well, I don't recall if 6.4 supported this or not, now that I think about it. One-time or frequent transfer? There are tons of other options, especially if you're running separate machines. Not all of these are elegant, but they all will work and have their place for infrequent transfers: - Email the file to yourself from one OS and retrieve it from the other. - Copy the file to a thumbdrive - Copy the file to a private website which can then be subsequently retrieved by another machine/OS image. Well my book (absolute BSD) yes its old, says: writing to an NTFS partition may corrupt the partition - I'm guessing this is not the case anymore and to answer your question; 1. Its 2 separate machines 2. As a security standard I have disabled flash drives in the office 3. It will be a monthly taks 4. No web access on the bsd box ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Paul Natola Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 5:13 PM To: 'Tim Daneliuk'; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows On 5/6/2010 3:47 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I have a file I need in my bsd box, would it be easier, or is it possible, to mount an NTFS share , or should I try to map a directory from the windows box. TIA, I have Xp Win7 Win2003 Win2008 Freebsd 6.4 thanx Same machine or two separate machines? Two separate machines is trivial - share a directory on the Win machine and use smbfs on FBSD to get to it. For same machine, boot FBSD, and do a mount with -t ntfs as an arg well, I don't recall if 6.4 supported this or not, now that I think about it. One-time or frequent transfer? There are tons of other options, especially if you're running separate machines. Not all of these are elegant, but they all will work and have their place for infrequent transfers: - Email the file to yourself from one OS and retrieve it from the other. - Copy the file to a thumbdrive - Copy the file to a private website which can then be subsequently retrieved by another machine/OS image. Well my book (absolute BSD) yes its old, says: writing to an NTFS partition may corrupt the partition - I'm guessing this is not the case anymore and to answer your question; 1. Its 2 separate machines 2. As a security standard I have disabled flash drives in the office 3. It will be a monthly taks 4. No web access on the bsd box Forgot the main one, when I tried to mount I get the error mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Authentication error ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Tim Daneliuk Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 5:28 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows- On 5/6/2010 4:19 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: SNIP Well my book (absolute BSD) yes its old, says: writing to an NTFS partition may corrupt the partition - I'm guessing this is not the case anymore and to answer your question; 1. Its 2 separate machines 2. As a security standard I have disabled flash drives in the office 3. It will be a monthly taks 4. No web access on the bsd box Forgot the main one, when I tried to mount I get the error mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Authentication error This means Windows is looking for login credentials before it will allow you to access the share. Suppose you are user 'Jean' on your Windows machine,WINDOZE and you use a password of foo. You want to get to the Windows share called MYSHARE and mount it locally on your FBSD box on /mnt. Then the command is: mount_smbfs //j...@windoze/MYSHARE /mnt You'll get prompted for a password and, when you enter it, the mount will be established. Same error: milter# mount_smbfs //jnat...@fcisql01/DATA /mnt Password: mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Authentication error milter# ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-CORRECTION
I'd be curious to know if it is still the case that ntfs writes are not reliable in that situation. There are times when doing this can be handy on a dual-boot laptop, for example. 'Anyone out there care to comment on the state of ntfs rw access? Sorry I was reading so much I go the commands mixed up, it's the mount_ntfs command I was quoting The windows NT/2000/XP standard filesystem, NTFS, is tightly integrated with Microsoft's kernel. To write to an NTFS partition, you must have extensive knowledge of how the filesystem works. Unfortunately, since that information is not available from Microsoft, you can read NTFS partitions but writing may corrupt the partition. The mount command is mount_ntfs(8). Note: Since Microsoft holds its filesystem interface so dear, and changes it regularly, don't count on this for frequent use. Using mount_ntfs can damage the filesystem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-
will be established. Same error: milter# mount_smbfs //jnat...@fcisql01/DATA /mnt Password: mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Authentication error milter# This sounds like you have a permissions problem on the Windows share. In Windows Explorer, right click on the shared directory and look at Properties-Sharing-Permissions. Make sure that 'jnatola' has an account on that machine and that this account is permitted access to that share. If that's all waorking, my guess would be you have the wrong password. This is the company wide share everyone has access to it, It even fails if I use the domain and enterprise admin accounts- And as I'm typing this, could that be the reason, because im using domain accounts? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-
This is the company wide share everyone has access to it, It even fails if I use the domain and enterprise admin accounts- And as I'm typing this, could that be the reason, because im using domain accounts? ___ That was it , I was using a domain instead of an account on the local box Thanks everyone, At least now I am aware of all the options ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
alerts for stopped daemons
Hi all, I was wondering how I can configure bsd to send an email or sms when a daemons stops running- i.e. perl5.10.0 stops for whatever reason send alert. thx and happy holidays ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: hp 10-in mini?
Im still trying to locate the 200 HP Although bestbuy has the a gateway for 229 today -Original Message- From: Gary Kline [mailto:kl...@thought.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:12 PM To: Matt Szubrycht Cc: Jean-Paul Natola; Doug Poland; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: hp 10-in mini? On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:19:15AM -0800, Matt Szubrycht wrote: Gary, If you could shell out $30 or so for an external CD/DVD - see this link and revisit on Friday - they have great Black Friday sale every year: http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=420name=External-CD -DVD-Drives Ebay is always a good option as well. Cheers, Matt $30 ain't bad for black friday--or any other day, for that matter! The $200 notebooks were/are definitely what's known in retail as a lost leader, for obvious reasons. When I see the ASUS going for a couple hundred bux, man, I'm grabbing one! DAmn:-) gary PS: HO-HO-HO, a bit early... . -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: hp 10-in mini?
Target has the asus at 199 -Original Message- From: Gary Kline [mailto:kl...@thought.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 7:38 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: Matt Szubrycht; Doug Poland; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: hp 10-in mini? On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:26:46PM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Im still trying to locate the 200 HP Although bestbuy has the a gateway for 229 today $229 isn't that bad; Bestbuy may be just about breaking even. Still, I'm waiting for some store to soak up the loss and sell an ASUS at under-cost... -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: hp 10-in mini?
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 06:19:50PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: On Nov 23, 2009, at 16:54, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: gang, I rarely glance at any come-on advertisement, but I just got one by amazon that has a $380 HP Mini 10 computer for $200. I want to use something about this size for my type-and-speech computer. I'm thinking more of the ASUS 9 notebook. What are people's thoughts on this? (Yes, this is still an attempt to drive sales in a bad downturn. etc. Still, altho these tiny computers many be manufactured in the same plant by the same corporation, it may not make any difference.) anybody on-list who cares to share? gary My wife has one of these running XP. I've booted and run both 7.1- RELEASE and 8.0-RC2 from external USB. It's a nice little piece of hardware. Unfortunately, the wireless chipset was not recognized. I did not pursue it any further. thanks muchly; this helps a lot. additional question or two: one, could you tell which chipset hp used. [i admit my pro-hp bias given my server bias, going into its 12th year]. also, are mice and cd/dvd drives available? --or would i be stuck with a swine in a poke?? tx agn. We have been purchasing the Lenovo s-10's lately (ideapad) specs *seem* the same; As most of these netbooks are, But we are a windows shop and being an NGO 299.00 was quite appealing as was the 2.3lbs. Ive sent them out to Africa and Latin America, I used one on a trip down there used it for 16 hours a day without a hiccup. But as you mentioned they do not come with optical drive bays, but with with 4/8/16 gig flash drives no one really cares- I have also purchased those mini-mice with retractable cords http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MRQVCW for some users- I mainly used it to connect to my servers via citrix and thought it was good Processor Intel Atom Processor N270 1.6G 10.1 LED Glossy,1024*600 1 x 1, GB DDR2 SDRAM 1066MHz SODIMM Memory 160 GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm Integrated WiFi wireless LAN adapter Broadcom BCM4312 M 802.11G WLAN S10-2 series 3 cell 2600 Ah Black battery 1Year Warranty Mind sending me the link to those 200.00 HP's TIA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: hp 10-in mini?
Yes the thumb drive and remember you have 160gb hard drive you can hold at least 100 movies http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_0_3?url=search-alias%3Dapsfield-keywords=u sb+flash+drivesprefix=usb and yes very light 2.3 lb. 1kg -Original Message From: Gary Kline [mailto:kl...@thought.org] Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 9:43 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: Doug Poland; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: hp 10-in mini? On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 07:58:35PM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 06:19:50PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: [[ ... ]] We have been purchasing the Lenovo s-10's lately (ideapad) specs *seem* the same; As most of these netbooks are, But we are a windows shop and being an NGO 299.00 was quite appealing as was the 2.3lbs. Ive sent them out to Africa and Latin America, I used one on a trip down there used it for 16 hours a day without a hiccup. But as you mentioned they do not come with optical drive bays, but with with 4/8/16 gig flash drives no one really cares- do you mean what i know as thumb drives? stick-like thing you just plug in? i've never used these and am unfamiliar. one reason i want an optical drive is for when i watch a movie/dvd/cd on my tiny notebook. --yes, this will be a clear indication that i've gone completely 'round the bend. another reason for using the optical drive might be to save things from the notebook if everything else is down... altho raison d'etre [dont laugh at my spelling, please] for wanting such a small computer is to use it as a speech device, i might like it well enough to carry-with in general. rather than lugging my 700-pound thinkpad. thus, expendability is a consideration. weeks/months ago i saw a 4-unit (almost cube-like) device that held 256GB of RAM. plug all 4 into your ASUS and you have a nice round terabyte of SSD. there were links to new [and open] filesystems for the computer. I have also purchased those mini-mice with retractable cords http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MRQVCW for some users- the mouse with the ASUS was infrared; cordless! so, on one hand, some of these tiny computers seem more advanced than others. OTOH, I can imagine one huge factory somewhere churning out these thing by the million/day I mainly used it to connect to my servers via citrix and thought it was good Processor Intel Atom Processor N270 1.6G 10.1 LED Glossy,1024*600 1 x 1, GB DDR2 SDRAM 1066MHz SODIMM Memory 160 GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm Integrated WiFi wireless LAN adapter Broadcom BCM4312 M 802.11G WLAN S10-2 series 3 cell 2600 Ah Black battery 1Year Warranty Mind sending me the link to those 200.00 HP's damn. i checked just now; already sold out. amazon sent the following URL: http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=pe_btn/?node=384082011 oh well. at lesat we know what's going to be hot this xmas. (*) TIA -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
g4u option
Hi all, I'm trying to figure out ,if possible, how to get g4u to only clone data, i.e. I have an 80 gig drive but my OS and applications only come to about 6gigs that’s what I want to clone to the new drive. Is there a way to accomplish this? TIA J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: NIC
I don't think dell has their own brand of NIC's in my experience intel has always great quality and support (drivers) for their nic cards -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jos Chrispijn Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 3:47 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: NIC In order to speed up my LAN backups a little bit, I would like to replace my old 10/100 nic with a 10/100/1000 one. Should be placed in an ancient Dell of 5 years old. Can someone pls advise on the type nic I should buy (not necessarily a Dell brand)? thanks, Jos Chrispijn -- No one is listening until you make a mistake... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: utility that scans lan for client?
http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/ -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David Kelly Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:19 PM To: John Almberg Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: utility that scans lan for client? On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 02:59:36PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I've tried googling for this, but I guess I don't know the name of a utility such as this... What I'm looking for is a utility that can scan a LAN for attached clients... i.e., computers that are attached to the LAN. I have one box (an appliance that I have no access to), that is on the LAN but I don't know what IP address it's using. I'd like to complete my network map, and that is the one empty box on my chart. How about something as simple as arp -a? This lists the arp cache of machines recently heard by your machine. If you know the IP address of the machine in question and its not in your arp table, ping it. Then the MAC address will appear unless there is a router between here and there. No need to be root. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: desktop app/config
Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: Ok so I left the machine running over the weekend to install KDE, And when I got in this morning it said that my disk was out of space- I loaded nothing but the basic freebsd os and nothing other than kde (granted its only a 10 gig drive) but that should be enough for a kde desktop no? It may be that you need to clean-out the workspaces with rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work, and start again. BTW I'd go for KDE3 rather than KDE4. The latter still seems to be very fragile to me, and it needs a fairly up-to-date machine, with and a well supported 3-d graphics card if you want the effects. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org So I followed the instructions above, and after a few days I wount up again with my 6 gig slice filling up before kde3 could install- I must be doing something wrong if I cant install kde 3 on a 6 gig slice? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: desktop app/config
Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui Both KDE and Gnome should feel pretty familiar to an XP user. The handbook has some useful docs: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html See the section about the kde display manager for example. --- Ok so I left the machine running over the weekend to install KDE, And when I got in this morning it said that my disk was out of space- I loaded nothing but the basic freebsd os and nothing other than kde (granted its only a 10 gig drive) but that should be enough for a kde desktop no? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
desktop app/config
Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui thanx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: desktop app/config
I think we went off track a bit- I do know freebsd- my mail filter is a FreeBSD with clam exim and sa- but I NEVER use the gui's - I want to setup some recycled machines with bsd and a gui that will be easy for a user to grasp- I have mac users and pc users here- But thanks for all the tips- I currently use ee for editing -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerr...@msu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop app/config On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui The easiest way to get used to it is to just fully install the latest FreeBSD (that is 7.1 at the moment) RELEASE, update it to RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_1 so it has the latest patches. Install Xorg for Xwindows so you will have graphics. Then install a few handy ports from the /usr/ports tree. Some you will want are Firefox and Thunderbird and Openoffice, although you may want to install Openoffice from a binary package rather than from ports. Openoffice is very big and building it can be daunting for a newbie. Some other good candidates might be Apache and Perl and maybe a couple of games for fun. Then, just start using it. Learn to find things you need on the system. and configure the network securely. There is lots of documentation in the FreeBSD Handbook and other places online. The more you do it, the more they make sense. One thing to learn is using the vi(1) text editor. There are many other editors, but for system management, vi is the omnipresent, ubiquitious one. It is sometimes the only one available in times when bad things are happening.It feels rather clunky when you first start to use it but it quickly becomes second nature. The FreeBSD man page is pretty good on it. I have a web page that simplifies it a little at: http://z2.cl.msu.edu/~jerrymc/project/editvi/ There are a number of books available that help learning FreeBSD. FreeBSD Unleashed and Absolute BSD are a couple of them The FreeBSD Handbook which is online at the FreeBSD web site and is installed if you want it when FreeBSD is installed is quite good. The FreeBSD site also has other documents and links listed. At first, it will seem a little strange. Generally FreeBSD is command oriented, not pointy/clicky oriented. That is a much more powerful way to administer a system, but it takes more initial learning. Ask questions. People on the list have already heard all the common complaints and gripes that FreeBSD is not like MS-Win dozens of times. The usual response is Thank God or something similar. Anyway, they are not interested in hearing whines again. But, if you have a real question about 'how to do' something or even 'why is it done this way' and not just grousing, people on the list are usually very good about giving answers. List people are very interested in helping people learn, but not interested in people complaining. If it is a bug, post a pr. If it is a feature request, remember that FreeBSD is created and maintained by volunteers - very smart ones - but they have limits on time and resources so your request may take a very long time to get attention. You may well learn how to do it yourself and then submit it as an improvement before then. Good luck and have fun. jerry thanx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: desktop app/config
That's sounds like what I'm looking for, however, when you say login with no user or password- I'm not sure if I like that because our fileserver is going to have to authenticate them at some point as will access to the printers so somewhere somehow I need a login no? -Original Message- From: Sean Cavanaugh [mailto:millenia2...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:17 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; jerr...@msu.edu Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config I think we went off track a bit- I do know freebsd- my mail filter is a FreeBSD with clam exim and sa- but I NEVER use the gui's - I want to setup some recycled machines with bsd and a gui that will be easy for a user to grasp- I have mac users and pc users here- But thanks for all the tips- I currently use ee for editing I think what you are looking for overall would prob be a baseline install with either Gnome or KDE installed. Personally I prefer Gnome but KDE is more MSWindows like in its interface. You can go as far as to skin either of them to look like MSWindows. setup a basic user with no system control and no password for users to log in with and change /etc/ttys so that ttyv8 is turned on and set to GDM or KDM (depending on which you want to use). Definitely configure what additional software you need installed per your needs. -Sean -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerr...@msu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop app/config On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui The easiest way to get used to it is to just fully install the latest FreeBSD (that is 7.1 at the moment) RELEASE, update it to RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_1 so it has the latest patches. Install Xorg for Xwindows so you will have graphics. Then install a few handy ports from the /usr/ports tree. Some you will want are Firefox and Thunderbird and Openoffice, although you may want to install Openoffice from a binary package rather than from ports. Openoffice is very big and building it can be daunting for a newbie. Some other good candidates might be Apache and Perl and maybe a couple of games for fun. Then, just start using it. Learn to find things you need on the system. and configure the network securely. There is lots of documentation in the FreeBSD Handbook and other places online. The more you do it, the more they make sense. One thing to learn is using the vi(1) text editor. There are many other editors, but for system management, vi is the omnipresent, ubiquitious one. It is sometimes the only one available in times when bad things are happening. It feels rather clunky when you first start to use it but it quickly becomes second nature. The FreeBSD man page is pretty good on it. I have a web page that simplifies it a little at: http://z2.cl.msu.edu/~jerrymc/project/editvi/ There are a number of books available that help learning FreeBSD. FreeBSD Unleashed and Absolute BSD are a couple of them The FreeBSD Handbook which is online at the FreeBSD web site and is installed if you want it when FreeBSD is installed is quite good. The FreeBSD site also has other documents and links listed. At first, it will seem a little strange. Generally FreeBSD is command oriented, not pointy/clicky oriented. That is a much more powerful way to administer a system, but it takes more initial learning. Ask questions. People on the list have already heard all the common complaints and gripes that FreeBSD is not like MS-Win dozens of times. The usual response is Thank God or something similar. Anyway, they are not interested in hearing whines again. But, if you have a real question about 'how to do' something or even 'why is it done this way' and not just grousing, people on the list are usually very good about giving answers. List people are very interested in helping people learn, but not interested in people complaining. If it is a bug, post a pr. If it is a feature request, remember that FreeBSD is created and maintained by volunteers - very smart ones - but they have limits on time and resources so your request may take a very long time to get attention. You may well learn how to do it yourself and then submit it as an improvement before then. Good luck and have fun. jerry thanx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http
RE: desktop app/config
What is the terminology that I would need to search in the handbook to get a bsd machine to authenticate with AD I have Mac machines that authenticate to our network- but that's easy to configure -Original Message- From: Sean Cavanaugh [mailto:millenia2...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:36 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; jerr...@msu.edu Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:19:09 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: millenia2...@hotmail.com; jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config That's sounds like what I'm looking for, however, when you say login with no user or password- I'm not sure if I like that because our fileserver is going to have to authenticate them at some point as will access to the printers so somewhere somehow I need a login no? What i was refering to was having a basic user with no system authority such as deleting files and whatnot on the local machine. dont want inexperienced user screwing up a perfectly fine system. if you have a file/print server set up then you are correct and should prob use a password for the user account. i was assuming local access only. -Original Message- From: Sean Cavanaugh [mailto:millenia2...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:17 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; jerr...@msu.edu Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config I think we went off track a bit- I do know freebsd- my mail filter is a FreeBSD with clam exim and sa- but I NEVER use the gui's - I want to setup some recycled machines with bsd and a gui that will be easy for a user to grasp- I have mac users and pc users here- But thanks for all the tips- I currently use ee for editing I think what you are looking for overall would prob be a baseline install with either Gnome or KDE installed. Personally I prefer Gnome but KDE is more MSWindows like in its interface. You can go as far as to skin either of them to look like MSWindows. setup a basic user with no system control and no password for users to log in with and change /etc/ttys so that ttyv8 is turned on and set to GDM or KDM (depending on which you want to use). Definitely configure what additional software you need installed per your needs. -Sean -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerr...@msu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop app/config On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui The easiest way to get used to it is to just fully install the latest FreeBSD (that is 7.1 at the moment) RELEASE, update it to RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_1 so it has the latest patches. Install Xorg for Xwindows so you will have graphics. Then install a few handy ports from the /usr/ports tree. Some you will want are Firefox and Thunderbird and Openoffice, although you may want to install Openoffice from a binary package rather than from ports. Openoffice is very big and building it can be daunting for a newbie. Some other good candidates might be Apache and Perl and maybe a couple of games for fun. Then, just start using it. Learn to find things you need on the system. and configure the network securely. There is lots of documentation in the FreeBSD Handbook and other places online. The more you do it, the more they make sense. One thing to learn is using the vi(1) text editor. There are many other editors, but for system management, vi is the omnipresent, ubiquitious one. It is sometimes the only one available in times when bad things are happening. It feels rather clunky when you first start to use it but it quickly becomes second nature. The FreeBSD man page is pretty good on it. I have a web page that simplifies it a little at: http://z2.cl.msu.edu/~jerrymc/project/editvi/ There are a number of books available that help learning FreeBSD. FreeBSD Unleashed and Absolute BSD are a couple of them The FreeBSD Handbook which is online at the FreeBSD web site and is installed if you want it when FreeBSD is installed is quite good. The FreeBSD site also has other documents and links listed. At first, it will seem a little strange. Generally FreeBSD is command oriented, not pointy/clicky oriented. That is a much more powerful way to administer a system, but it takes more
RE: desktop app/config
Wish I would have seen that before I started this KDE install 2 hours ago Thx will look into it too -Original Message- From: Kevin Kinsey [mailto:k...@daleco.biz] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:12 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: Sean Cavanaugh; jerr...@msu.edu; questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop app/config Jean-Paul Natola wrote: What is the terminology that I would need to search in the handbook to get a bsd machine to authenticate with AD I have Mac machines that authenticate to our network- but that's easy to configure AD==Active Directory? BSD doesn't do that by default. AFAIK, you'll need to install and configure SAMBA (which is in ports). As for the original question, I saw a config by a guy named Horen (I think, from NW Europe someplace) for FVWM which looked almost exactly like Windows XP, down to the icons. There's also FWVM95, which is supposed to look like Win95. And, I've not seen XFWM mentioned yet, which is pretty user friendly and a tad more lightweight than KDE or Gnome ... which could be important if you're talking about recycled hardware. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
newsletter APP NOT listserve
Can anyone recommend a newsletter application , preferably where I can just have an ordinary user login via a webpage , upload a file/message/ and click send? I was playing with mailman , but that seems to be a list serve app. tia ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: newsletter APP NOT listserve
-Original Message- From: Geoff Fritz [mailto:gfr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:26 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsletter APP NOT listserve On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:31:56AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Can anyone recommend a newsletter application , preferably where I can just have an ordinary user login via a webpage , upload a file/message/ and click send? I was playing with mailman , but that seems to be a list serve app. I've been using phplist for a couple of years on a client's site. It has click stats, a decent web interface, relatively easy to get up and running, and the performance is pretty good. It is a little top-heavy, though, since it requires apache/php/mysql. However, after enabling mysql query caching and adding eaccelerator into the mix, it runs fairly well. My last send clocked in at 47k messages per hour on a 2.8GHz dual-core Pentium-D, using postfix as the local MTA. I like the fact that it will automatically prune the list membership after a user-configurable number of bounces. Filter the bounce catcher account, though, as spam will make your DB grow to insane sizes and bog it down. It's not the best package in the world, but it's the only comperable open source package that I know of. I hope to hear of alternatives in this thread. _- Well the server I plan to run it a VPS server, so I REALLY DON'T know what the specs are on the box- and since it's not dedicated I have no clue what else or what other sites are on it- I do know it has exim installed which I am very familiar with and actually use- I know it has MySql on it as well it a red hat 9 os if im not mistaken and I've never used apache or php, what's the learning curve like to get that running? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: newsletter APP NOT listserve
The learning curve? That entirely depends on how comfortble you are with configuring applications on Unix/Linux servers in general. If you've never set up a web server, then it will take you some time to get things nailed down correctly. If you merely have not installed Apache before, as opposed to another web server, then it should not be difficult. All I can say is start from the bottom, and work your way up. Learn to configure mysql, next install and set up Apache, then get PHP installed. Last, read up on the rquirements for phplist, install the required PHP modules, and then finally phplist itself. The first time I set up phplist, I had a working setup in a couple of hours, which I then took a few days to test thoroughly. However, I did have several years of of apache/mysql/php setup and usage experience before that. All I can suggest is to jump in and start learning. All of these open source packages have great online docs, tutorials, and support communities to get you going. -- Geoff since this hosted server holds our website and database, my main concern is that i do not affect those existing configurations- a web developer created our site/shopping cart and cms and loaded it all on this VPS - i just don't want to someone to come to me and say hey our website is down or something to that affect ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: newsletter APP NOT listserve
Ideally, stats, subscribe, unsubscribe, and let the person in charge have the ability to be able to select the recipients for a particular letter based on a field or combination of two fields. i.e. send to all contacts that are doctors or send to all contacts that are doctors and are in the HIV prevention program- upload lists can be csv txt excel doesnt really matter- GUI would be great for managing contacts because if the the contacts address changes i want the user to be able to login and change his address or phone etc... Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: jnat...@familycareintl.org -Original Message- From: Vince Sabio [mailto:tastel...@mac.com] Sent: Thu 2/5/2009 20:20 To: Jean-Paul Natola Subject: Re: newsletter APP NOT listserve ** At 09:31 -0500 on 02/05/2009, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Can anyone recommend a newsletter application , preferably where I can just have an ordinary user login via a webpage , upload a file/message/ and click send? What are the requirements/characteristics of the newsletter app you're looking for? Does it need to have stats/campaign tracking? Is a web interface required, or can the user simply format and send his e-mail message via e-mail to the server? Does it need to provide the ability for users to subscribe and unsubscribe themselves? How will the newsletter owner upload his list? What format will (should?) the list be in when he uploads it? How large will the lists be? If they are small enough, then most mail clients should be able to provide the basic functionality of sending a newsletter to a list. I was playing with mailman , but that seems to be a list serve app. The proper term is list server, so as not to confuse with Listserv, which is a copyrighted product (developed by Eric Thomas and L-Soft). Vince SabioDon't blame me; I voted for Matthew.tastel...@mac.com Socialism: Government of the inept, by the inept, for the inept. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
G4U inquiry
Hi all, I have a bsd box with a 12 gig drive- I'm going to get a new drive (larger) to replace it as it is quite old and slow - My question is when I clone it with g4u where will the extra space go The drive is currently sliced like this Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a496M 76M381M17%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e496M 11M445M 3%/tmp /dev/ad0s1f9.0G1.4G6.8G17%/usr /dev/ad0s1d1.4G301M1.0G22%/var tia ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: file harvest
Since I cannot ssh into the snap, can I mount it to my BSD box and run some of those utilities? -Original Message- From: Polytropon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:29 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: file harvest On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:53:38 -0500, Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question is how can I, if it all possible, do a harvest of my own? Hah, you're asking the right one, man. :-) There are many good tools available from the ports, some of them can even be used for diagnostics and recovery on UFS file systems. The most famous one is The Sleuth Kit, another useful tool is magicrescue. Try and see if they are helpful to you. Good luck! -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
file harvest
Hi all, I have a SNAP 4100 appliance that lost 2 directories, no backup , I sent it out to a DR service and they have told me that all they can do is file harvest, where I would get a list of files such as file0001.xls file0002.xls etc... With no guarantee of what will come out, now we are a non-profit so 3k with no guarantees is kind of hard to swallow- Question is how can I, if it all possible, do a harvest of my own? I believe the snap uses UFS TIA j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
g4u and ftp
Hi all, I'm having an issue trying to write to my ftp server from linux- I just setup the ftp server with read and write access anonymous login From windows explorer no-problem from the mac's no problem- but when I try to upload an image using g4u (http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/) I get rejected by the MS ftp server Im not sure why it doesn't let me any thoughts? tia ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
network documentation
Hi all, I'm looking for an Open source application that will gather network data, and let me add info to it - e.g. nodes/mac address / ip address / os , which I will be able to add to; for example 192.168.10.4 freebsd mac address- then I will be able to add: mail filter server, running bsd/ exim /clam- PIV box mirrored 80 gig drives-root password and so fourth tia Jean-Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Clamd error
Hi all, Sorry for cross-posting but it seams that the members from the other list went on vacation- and I'm in a jam I run exim 4.69 clamav .93 and spamassassin on a freebsd box - basically it gets my smtp traffic, checks for spam virus etc,, then forwards it to my mailserver- Suddenly last night it stopped working , I check the paniclog and all I see is 2008-08-21 09:44:26 1KWASY-EF-PB malware acl condition: clamd: unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd (No such file or directory) 2008-08-21 09:44:34 1KWASh-EZ-Pq malware acl condition: clamd: unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd (No such file or directory) 2008-08-21 09:45:09 1KWARf-EG-En malware acl condition: clamd: unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd (No such file or directory) 2008-08-21 09:45:38 1KWATZ-EG-9e malware acl condition: clamd: unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd (No such file or directory) I unistalled clamav make deinstall Then make clean Then make install clean And I still get the same errors- the weird part is that when I do top clamd IS running- 22089 clamav 1 40 62132K 61616K accept 0:00 0.00% clamd Any help would be greatly appreciated as im rerouting my mail now- and getting bombarded with spam Thx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OT: Clamd error
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, Sorry for cross-posting but it seams that the members from the other list went on vacation- and I'm in a jam I run exim 4.69 clamav .93 and spamassassin on a freebsd box - basically it gets my smtp traffic, checks for spam virus etc,, then forwards it to my mailserver- Suddenly last night it stopped working , I check the paniclog and all I see is 2008-08-21 09:44:26 1KWASY-EF-PB malware acl condition: clamd: unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd (No such file or directory) 2008-08-21 09:44:34 1KWASh-EZ-Pq malware acl condition: clamd: unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd (No such file or directory) 2008-08-21 09:45:09 1KWARf-EG-En malware acl condition: clamd: unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd (No such file or directory) 2008-08-21 09:45:38 1KWATZ-EG-9e malware acl condition: clamd: unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd (No such file or directory) its now /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock you may wish to update your exim config file. - That was it - thank you- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Custmoize VNC
I know there are two apps (open source) that will allow you to customize vnc but I just cant remember, in essence I want the remote users (outside the lan) to be able to download the file click run and it will automatically, upon launch connect to the viewer here at HQ (ip add encryption port # etc..) I was looking at this a few weeks ago and like a fool I didn't bookmark the page, any help would be appreciated TIA JP ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OT: Customize VNC
One of the apps is opensource application that allows you to create/customize an application - It was not specific to vnc I know everyone here has probably heard of it- I just cant remember what it was -Original Message- From: Zyumbilev, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:55 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: OT: Custmoize VNC I guess this is what you look for: http://www.uvnc.com/pchelpware/download/index.html Kind regards, Peter Zyumbilev IT Manager for Convergent Media Pty Ltd t +61-290-374-211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] w www.convergentmedia.com.au Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I know there are two apps (open source) that will allow you to customize vnc but I just cant remember, in essence I want the remote users (outside the lan) to be able to download the file click run and it will automatically, upon launch connect to the viewer here at HQ (ip add encryption port # etc..) I was looking at this a few weeks ago and like a fool I didn't bookmark the page, any help would be appreciated TIA JP ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Data recovery
Hi all, I'm throwing this out to this list because our SNAP drive has a *nix kernel- One of the folders mysteriously lost a large portion of its data today, I immediately powered down the unit as to prevent further writing to the disks (raid 5)- Is there any tool or utlity you can recommend to try to get this data back? If memory server *nix does not erase the data , it merely marks as empty space that can be written to , I think I remember that from school Any and all help is GREATLY appreciated thanks jp ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: g4u
Ghost for unix http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ The drives i'm working with are windows From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 6/20/2008 3:57 To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: g4u can I use G4U to clone a 40 gig drive to a 30 gig drive, if the source drive only has 20 gigs of data? what is G4U? simply make partitions, newfs, copy files, install boot sector ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
g4u
can I use G4U to clone a 40 gig drive to a 30 gig drive, if the source drive only has 20 gigs of data? Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
canned dist option
Which option does one choose during install for use as a server- Don't need games, X, or anything of the sort. I just want to have ssh access Then install my usual CLAM EXIM SA I know this is a lame question but its been over year since I did this TIA j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: canned dist option
I'm at a gui that has 5 options to choose from , average user- Developer x-developer etc.. __ Hello, Jean-Paul Natola set WHITOUT_X11=YES in /etc/make.conf for example. just see man make.conf and man src.conf You wrote: Which option does one choose during install for use as a server- Don't need games, X, or anything of the sort. I just want to have ssh access Then install my usual CLAM EXIM SA I know this is a lame question but its been over year since I did this TIA j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
swapping hardware
I'm currently running FreeBSD 6.2 on a PIII 550 with 384 of ram and 10 gig drive- I got my hands a new box it's a PIV 1.8 with 1 gig of ram- I was wondering if it were possible to take the hard drive out from the older machine ( it's a dell dimension) and put it in the new tower- dell optiplex I know with older windows OS's 9x it would work fine just maybe have to update some drivers, where as with NT 2k XP etc.. it would not. Will this work in the BSD world? Or am I asking for more trouble than its worth? TIA J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: swapping hardware
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I'm currently running FreeBSD 6.2 on a PIII 550 with 384 of ram and 10 gig drive- I got my hands a new box it's a PIV 1.8 with 1 gig of ram- I was wondering if it were possible to take the hard drive out from the older machine ( it's a dell dimension) and put it in the new tower- dell optiplex I know with older windows OS's 9x it would work fine just maybe have to update some drivers, where as with NT 2k XP etc.. it would not. Will this work in the BSD world? Or am I asking for more trouble than its worth? TIA J Unless you've done something really *weird* with the kernel, it should work just fine. The Windows (2K/NT/XP) problem of booting in new hardware is caused by not having the specific IDE / ATA drivers installed. The FreeBSD ATA driver is in the kernel and can handle a long list of different PATA/SATA controllers. One thing that may change (and may cause you some trouble) is the device name (eg from ad0 to ad2), depending on the controller / channel you connect the new disk but this can easily be fixed in /etc/fstab You will of course have to reconfigure other changed devices, like sound cards, X -if the video card is different -, and network. -- Believe me , I wish I knew how to do something weird with the kernel- I'm still wet behind the ears in BSD land. This machine , believe it or not , I use a mail filter server- BSD/CLAM/SA and EXIM- and I only putty into it- no X no video nada- but it should* recognize and install the drivers for the video and nic? that is my main concern ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: disk clone app
Hi everyone, sorry for the off-topic, but im ready to pull the last hairs off my head- a few months I downloaded an open source disk clone program for a friend of mine but it was like 3 am, it worked great booted from floppy and cloned the drive- Now that I really need I can find it for the life of me- I've been scouring through sourceforge and can seem to find it- Anyone out there can shed some light for me? thx Jean-Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WEBEX type app
Hi all Is there any open source app that is similar to webex? Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
install app without ports
Hi all, I was just old today that SpamAssassin 3.2.3 has the fix I need to run it on FreeBSD- The problem is that it has not yet been updated in the ports tree, so I downloaded it from the apache website- But I do not know how to install it, as I have always installed the applications from the ports ( make install) How do I go about installing it on FreeBSD 6.2 ? Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: www.freebsd.org down?
Working perfectly here -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gaye Abdoulaye Walsimou Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:03 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org down? Heiko Wundram (Beenic) a écrit : Is anybody else experiencing www.freebsd.org to be down? I just wanted to have a look at the online handbook, but couldn't get at it... Yes it is I think regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: www.freebsd.org down?
NYC here Try it by IP http://69.147.83.33/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hakan K Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:10 AM To: Arend P. van der Veen Cc: Heiko Wundram (Beenic); FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org down? Locations.. ? I am located in Miami.. The site works ok ... Try to play with your DNS www.opendns.com Hakan http://primoris.com On 8/7/07, Arend P. van der Veen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Is anybody else experiencing www.freebsd.org to be down? I just wanted to have a look at the online handbook, but couldn't get at it... I have not been able to access www.freebsd.org all morning also. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
daily report
Hi everyone, Before rebuilding my 5.5 server to the 6.2 I used to get daily reports emailed from the machine to me security run output daily run output and on Saturday's a weekly run output Cleaning up kernel database files: Rebuilding locate database: Rebuilding whatis database: -- End of weekly output -- What / where do I need to enable to get this again? Thanks Jean-Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portdowngrade CVS error
I've read the docs and it *seems* I'm doing this correctly ,however , I getting this error Step 1: Checking out port from CVS repository CVS root directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs Cannot access /home/ncvs/CVSROOT No such file or directory Is the server just offline? Jean-Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: portdowngrade CVS error
I've read the docs and it *seems* I'm doing this correctly ,however , I getting this error Step 1: Checking out port from CVS repository CVS root directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs Cannot access /home/ncvs/CVSROOT No such file or directory Is the server just offline? It was the server I was using ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
external drive
Hi all, After yesterdays fiasco trying to upgrade 5.5 to 6.2 - I just grabbed a new drive and did a clean install of 6.2 Its working great, no errors I'm happy- There are some files (basically some custom config and cf files) that I would like to copy from the 5.5 drive - So I put it in an external enclosure and needless to say windows wouldn't recognize it - and the MAC OSX though it sees it , it wont let me mount it (despite the fact that I clicked mount drive ) 2 questions; 1. Is there anything out there that would let me read a BSD drive from a windows or mac machine? 2. If I do just plug the drive into the BSD USB port will it cause any conflicts as there will be duplicates of the main slices /var /usr etc.. Or am I safe just plugging it in and mounting it? PS: Thanks to everyone for the feedback yesterday - I learned A LOT in the last 24 hours Jean-Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
reboot in single user
Hi all, I'm curious to know if there is a command to reboot into single user mode- * more importantly* if I do reboot in single user mode can I still SSH in? My box is not physically near me and I'm upgrading 5.5 to 6.2 - so it this possible- or do I need to go get the box and attach a keyboard monitor and mouse to it? Thanks Jean-Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: reboot in single user
I'm curious to know if there is a command to reboot into single user mode- * more importantly* if I do reboot in single user mode can I still SSH in? My box is not physically near me and I'm upgrading 5.5 to 6.2 - so it this possible- or do I need to go get the box and attach a keyboard monitor and mouse to it? Thanks Shutdown now goes into single user mode, but it will close SSH ! Better is to manually shutdown al daemons through /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d to only have sshd running. If you using natd do not stop it either, because it will disconnect you. Then you can finnish the make world cycles. That is the way I do it from a remote shell, it it only failed me once. Else try on a spare machine install 5.5 and update it to 6.2 through a ssh version, then you know what to expect. Also install the main ports you have running on your remote 5.5 box and try if they still work. How long will this take- as stopping the daemons (spamd/clamd etcc..) will cause a halt in my incoming mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: reboot in single user
How long will this take- as stopping the daemons (spamd/clamd etcc..) will cause a halt in my incoming mail? Only a temporary halt. SMTP was designed for intermittent / flaky connections. The sending servers will just try again, for a few days typically, if it fails on the initial attempt(s). I'm aware of SMTP retries- just trying to gauge how long it will take - as I have certain users that become very unhappy when they see a massage arrive more than an hour after it was originally sent. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mergemaster not found
I've restart in SUM and when I attempt* to run mergemaster it returns; Where should I run this from? Jean-Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: mergemaster not found
-Original Message- From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 2:26 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mergemaster not found At 01:15 PM 7/9/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I've restart in SUM and when I attempt* to run mergemaster it returns; Where should I run this from? You may need to be sure all your mounts are mounted, not just / try: mount -a I tried that - it worked- sort of I ran the mergemaster -p - then when it completed I tried make installword and I STILL get the audit group is missing- which I was under the impression that mergemaster -p was suppose to address that - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
password failure- after mergmaster
OOOPSS- I got mergemaster to run- but now that the system restarted the root password and my password are invalid- I can ONLY start in single user mode- I still do have level 0 dump of 5.4 on my network is this my only option ? Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: password failure- after mergmaster
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:29:44PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Peter Boosten wrote: Having read this I must admit that it's a complete mystery to me why mergemaster would touch your password file at all... Because sometimes new versions of the OS come with new built-in user accounts, which need to be added to the existing passwd or groups databases somehow? Yes, exactly. Have to *merge* the changes into /etc/master.passwd rather than brute force overwrite. Notice the difference from my first post in this thread, the file which was clobbered is /etc/master.passwd, not just /etc/passwd which is a dummy I'M DONE now- now I cant even boot into safe or single user mode It keeps asking me to enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh I hit enter and I see the same message again , and again , and again and again ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: password failure- after mergmaster
On 09/07/07, Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:29:44PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Peter Boosten wrote: Having read this I must admit that it's a complete mystery to me why mergemaster would touch your password file at all... Because sometimes new versions of the OS come with new built-in user accounts, which need to be added to the existing passwd or groups databases somehow? Yes, exactly. Have to *merge* the changes into /etc/master.passwd rather than brute force overwrite. Notice the difference from my first post in this thread, the file which was clobbered is /etc/master.passwd, not just /etc/passwd which is a dummy I'M DONE now- now I cant even boot into safe or single user mode It keeps asking me to enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh I hit enter and I see the same message again , and again , and again and again Try typing /rescue/sh -- -- I'll try that in the am- I am just about finished configuring a new server ( well a replacement drive in the box)- since I have all my important info; Config files cf files etc.. saved, I should be done pretty soon. But I will definitely try your method just to satisfy my curiosity ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
buildworld inquiry
Hi all, After failing to upgrade to 6.2 , I'm taking a members advice and going to buildworld- I have two questions- How long will it take- And do I need to stop the other programs from running - The reason I ask is because I use the bsd box as a mail filter Running Exim SA and ClamAv so I need to know how long it would take if I have to take it off line- My box is a PIII 500mhz with 512 ram FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 248M 90M138M40%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e 248M4.9M223M 2%/tmp /dev/ad0s1f 4.9G1.7G2.8G38%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 248M128M100M56%/var Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: buildworld inquiry-Failing
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, Hello, After failing to upgrade to 6.2 , I'm taking a members advice and going to buildworld- I have two questions- How long will it take- Hard to guess.. I have a PIII w/ 128M of ram and it takes around an hour or so... And do I need to stop the other programs from running - No. You just have to reboot for the installworld step. Consult /usr/src/UPDATING (around line 390) for the right procedure. The reason I ask is because I use the bsd box as a mail filter Running Exim SA and ClamAv so I need to know how long it would take if I have to take it off line- As said, just the time it takes to installworld, which is much less than it takes to buildworld, let's say a dozen of minutes... Ok this has run 2 times with the same result- is this a sign that my box is doomed for disaster- sysinstall upgrade failed - the CD upgrade failed - and now CVS upgrade is failing- Is there anywhere that would tell me WHY its failing? arsing supfile standard-supfile Connecting to cvsup7.FreeBSD.org Connected to cvsup7.FreeBSD.org Server software version: SNAP_16_1g Negotiating file attribute support Exchanging collection information Establishing multiplexed-mode data connection Running Updating collection src-all/cvs Cleaning up ... Inactivity timeout Will retry at 12:06:25 Retrying Connecting to cvsup7.FreeBSD.org Connected to cvsup7.FreeBSD.org Server software version: SNAP_16_1g Negotiating file attribute support Exchanging collection information Establishing multiplexed-mode data connection Running Updating collection src-all/cvs Cleaning up ... Inactivity timeout Will retry at 13:05:15 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrade Failure-
Hi all, I'm once again trying to upgrade from 5.5 to 6.2 So in sysinstall I went to options - changed the release to 6.2-RELEASE Started the upgrade and I keep getting this error │Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) │ ├──(100%)─ I've tried about 12 times using different FTP servers- What am I missing ? Jean-Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrade from 5.5 to 5.5
Hi all, I just finished ( what I thought was an upgrade) to 6.0 Only to find after I rebooted that I was still at 5.5 I did it via sysinstall- it said upgrade successful reboot - And when I did I was back at 5.5 Obviously , I missed something just not sure what/where Any help would be greatly appreciated Jean-Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Upgrade from 5.5 to 5.5
On Thursday 21 June 2007 03:18:32 pm Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I just finished ( what I thought was an upgrade) to 6.0 Only to find after I rebooted that I was still at 5.5 I did it via sysinstall- it said upgrade successful reboot - And when I did I was back at 5.5 Obviously , I missed something just not sure what/where Any help would be greatly appreciated Since you mention sysinstall I'm assuming you were attempting a binary upgrade. Please provide more details, including (but not limited to): Did you boot from an install CD (or other media) or did you run sysinstall directly from the running system? What media did you select from sysinstall? (FTP, CDROM, etc) Did you go in to the sysinstall options screen and change the version string (or notice what it was)? If you did use a CD, where did it come from and what version is it? (followup: are you sure?) JN I upgraded from the running system, I used passive ftp , I selected minimal install, and just chose a an ftp server to download from ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HARDWARE compatability
Hi everyone, I'm looking to retire my PIII freebsd box for something a little more of age- being that I'm at a non-profit I do not have the largest of budgets- On that note I have never used and AMD before for a server so I was looking at this box http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=17 40107CatId=1206 it seems pretty good in terms of hardware-cpu speed/ram/raid etc.. and for approx 600 bucks I cant really complain- I'm womdnering if there if there are any compatibility issues I need to watch out for , here are the specs; Form Factor2U Rackmounted Processor ClassAthlon64 Processor Number3500+ Processor Speed2.20GHz Processor InterfaceSocket AM2 Processors Supported1 Additional TechnologiesHyperTransport Memory TypeDDR2 Total Memory1 GB Memory SpeedDDR2 667 (PC2-5400) Compatible RAID Levels0+1 0,1,5 Number Of Hard Drives2 Hard Drive Size160 GB Hard Drive InterfaceSATA-II Spindle Speed (RPM)7200 Buffer Memory8 MB Optical Drive Type52x CD-ROM Communications DescriptionIntegrated LAN Data Transfer Rate10 Mbps 100 Mbps 1000 Mbps Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: HARDWARE compatability
Hash: SHA256 Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, I'm looking to retire my PIII freebsd box for something a little more of age- being that I'm at a non-profit I do not have the largest of budgets- On that note I have never used and AMD before for a server so I was looking at this box http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=17 40107CatId=1206 it seems pretty good in terms of hardware-cpu speed/ram/raid etc.. and for approx 600 bucks I cant really complain- I'm womdnering if there if there are any compatibility issues I need to watch out for , here are the specs; Form Factor2U Rackmounted Processor ClassAthlon64 Processor Number3500+ Processor Speed2.20GHz Processor InterfaceSocket AM2 Processors Supported1 Additional TechnologiesHyperTransport Memory TypeDDR2 Total Memory1 GB Memory SpeedDDR2 667 (PC2-5400) Compatible RAID Levels0+1 0,1,5 Number Of Hard Drives2 Hard Drive Size160 GB Hard Drive InterfaceSATA-II Spindle Speed (RPM)7200 Buffer Memory8 MB Optical Drive Type52x CD-ROM Communications DescriptionIntegrated LAN Data Transfer Rate10 Mbps 100 Mbps 1000 Mbps Hmmm... unfortunately that site doesn't tell you exactly what you need to know. For this class of machine, there are really two fundamental parts of the system where you may run into trouble: the on-board network interfaces and the SATA controller. Server class machines like this tend to have lowest common denominator graphics which will just work in VESA mode, and who cares about sound if the box is in a machine room... In order to have a chance of predicting whether the system will support FreeBSD you're going to need to know the Motherboard manufacturer and model number -- or equivalently the chipsets used on the board. Then it's a case of hunting through documentation and mailing list archives to see what other people's experience has been. There's also this page on the FreeBSD site: Gigabyte GA-M61PM-S2 MotherboardNVIDIA(r) GeForce 6100 / nForce 430 Super I/O chip: ITE IT8716 Integrated Peripherals T.I. IEEE1394 controller Realtek RTL8211 Gigabit Ethernet controller Realtek ALC883 Audio Codec AMD Athlon(tm)64/ Sempron(tm) Socket AM2 platform Supports high performance Dual-Channel DDR2 800 memory Integrated NVIDIA(r) CineFX 3.0 Graphics Engine Features NVIDIA(r) SATA 3Gb/s with RAID function Optimized Gigabit LAN and IEEE1394 connection Enhances security with NVIDIA(r) TCP/IP Acceleration technology Features 8 channel High Definition Audio RoHS compliant motherboard for green computing ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
port updates
Hi everyone, If this question is not for this list , I'm apologizing in advance I just ran cvsup because I wanted to install the latest version of SpamAssassin- 3.2 After doing portupgrade I see that its still at 3.1.8 When do the ports get updated- ? Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld
Hi everyone, I'm think I really need to upgrade from 5.4 as I'm having a slew of issues with my programs- specifically exim-sa-clamav- My concern is that this was the only BSD install I had ever done with assistance from a colleague from across the border- So all I have been doing for the past year is cvsup-ing and portupgrading- however as mentioned earlier I'm running into issues that are consuming too much time for me to resolve as I am a one man IT department here. The first thing I'd like to know is if my box can indeed handle the upgrade to 6.2 - I have the following hardware- PIII 500mhz 256 ram 8 gig hard-drive The ONLY thing I use this box for is to filter mail that then gets passed to my exchange server- Are there any gotcha's I need to lookout for before attempting this upgrade, since this filters my e-mail if I screw up- I will have no incoming mail- lest I choose to redirect my SMTP directly to my mail server- NOT A GOOD IDEA. So I see there are two methods of upgrading - sysinstall or makeworld- what would be the optimal choice for someone with limited experience in the BSD world- Thanks Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld
I do not have /usr/src/UPDATING I have # locate UPDATING /usr/local/share/doc/exim/README.UPDATING /usr/ports/UPDATING /usr/ports/mail/dspam/files/UPDATING /usr/ports/mail/dspam-devel/files/UPDATING From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:02 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld The difference is a binary upgrade using sysinstall booting a later version CD or using cvsup and a source install. Both should work fine for your setup. If you want to go to 6.X you should go to 5.5 first. Read /usr/src/UPDATING in all cases. -Derek At 09:44 AM 4/2/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, I'm think I really need to upgrade from 5.4 as I'm having a slew of issues with my programs- specifically exim-sa-clamav- My concern is that this was the only BSD install I had ever done with assistance from a colleague from across the border- So all I have been doing for the past year is cvsup-ing and portupgrading- however as mentioned earlier I'm running into issues that are consuming too much time for me to resolve as I am a one man IT department here. The first thing I'd like to know is if my box can indeed handle the upgrade to 6.2 - I have the following hardware- PIII 500mhz 256 ram 8 gig hard-drive The ONLY thing I use this box for is to filter mail that then gets passed to my exchange server- Are there any gotcha's I need to lookout for before attempting this upgrade, since this filters my e-mail if I screw up- I will have no incoming mail- lest I choose to redirect my SMTP directly to my mail server- NOT A GOOD IDEA. So I see there are two methods of upgrading - sysinstall or makeworld- what would be the optimal choice for someone with limited experience in the BSD world- Thanks Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner http://www.mailscanner.info/ , and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers http://www.transtec.co.uk/ for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Hard Drive problems
Each BIOS maps beep codes into a diagnostic message. Also, are you getting video signal/BIOS on your monitor? ~BAS http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Uptime
It was that obvious, huh? :-) Thanks, Stan Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Type uptime at the prompt. Hi; How do I determine the uptime of my server? Thanks, Stan2 Top will also show it ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DST
Hi everyone, I'm still having an issue with the new daylight saving- I ran tzsetup entered the appropriate zone- but when I reboot the machine it still in the old time zone- Is there a patch for freebsd 5.4 Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: DST
Hi everyone, I'm still having an issue with the new daylight saving- I ran tzsetup entered the appropriate zone- but when I reboot the machine it still in the old time zone- Is there a patch for freebsd 5.4 Paste the results of: zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 date /etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 /etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime Sun Oct 28 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime Sun Oct 28 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 Fri Mar 16 13:26:27 EST 2007 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
directory permission error
Hi everyone, I'm not sure if I should ask on this list- because the issue is related to SA- but since its in error in a directory I thought maybe it would apply- I'm trying to get SA to use the directory, /var/spool/spamd/spamassassin for its temp files- So I added the this to my rc.conf spamd_flags=-c -u spamd -H /var/spool/spamd/spamassassin but I keep seeing this error in my log spamd[39465]: bayes: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /var/spool/spamd/spamassassin/bayes.lock.milter.fci.39465 for /var/spool/spamd/spamassassin/bayes.lock: Permission denied do I need to add the spamd user to another group, or do I need to change the permissions on the directory? Or am I way off here ? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spamstats incomplete
Hi everyone, First and foremost, excuse the cross post for those that are on the both lists- but I'm not sure if this is an SA issue or a BSD issue Due to disk space issues I recently created a symlink for /var/log/exim in /usr/var2 Could the creation of the symlink be related to what my spamstats.pl is now producing? As you can see its still reading from /var/log/maillog but data is not complete. File /var/log/maillog : from Dec 5 00:00:00 to Dec 5 11:33:44 Total number of emails processed by the spam filter : 0 Number of spams : n/a Number of clean messages: n/a Average message analysis time : 7.03 seconds Average spam analysis time : 5.83 seconds Average clean message analysis time : 10.06 seconds Average message score : 10.01 Average spam score : 20.42 Average clean message score :-16.28 Total spam volume : 6 Mbytes Total clean volume :38 Mbytes Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: spamstats incomplete
As you can see its still reading from /var/log/maillog but data is not complete. File /var/log/maillog : from Dec 5 00:00:00 to Dec 5 11:33:44 Total number of emails processed by the spam filter : 0 Number of spams : n/a Number of clean messages: n/a Average message analysis time : 7.03 seconds Average spam analysis time : 5.83 seconds Average clean message analysis time : 10.06 seconds Average message score : 10.01 Average spam score : 20.42 Average clean message score :-16.28 Total spam volume : 6 Mbytes Total clean volume :38 Mbytes Never mind , I got it - sorry to waste a thread ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SYMLINK
Please excuse my ignorance but I believe my symlink is not working, how can I verify a symlink? And Yes I am a newbie in the BSD / open source world. Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: SYMLINK
Additionally, find filenamecan tell you if a symbolic link is broken: % ln -s ./linksource ./linkdest % file linkdest linkdest: broken symbolic link to `./linksource' (In this case linksource simply doesn't exist...) Uh-oh too much data - not processing- Maybe if I explain what I was doing- My /var is only 248 mb , /usr is 4 gigs I wanted to have the /var/spool/exim/ subdirecotries (scan , input db, msglog) run in the /usr slice (as it has ample space) So I MOVED exim to /usr/var2 and ran ln -s /var/spool/exim /usr/var2/exim but I don't think that's right as my var/spool/exim dorectory started filling up today ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: SYMLINK
Make sure that your exim data really resides in /usr/var2/exim. Afterwards, remove /var/spool/exim. The ln command won't remove any existing files and directories, but it doesn't complain in this case. And then you have to take care where you specify source and destination: The source is an existing file or directory, while the destination is the directory that should contain the link. Source is first, destination follows. In your case, the command should be: ln -s /usr/var2/exim /var/spool/exim HTH Christian Thanks everyone, that did it ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: SYMLINK
You create this link (presuming all dirs exist). 'ln -s /some/other/dir/goodstuff /stuff' Then do 'cd /stuff' ...textfile You can use any text editor you like if vi is not to your taste (though you should at least learn how to use vi since it is so omnipresent in the UNIX world) And Yes I am a newbie in the BSD / open source world. Welcome to FreeBSD. It will take some learning, but be worth it, even in the short run. jerry I'm pretty comfortable with ee , it *seems* easier to me- But I will dabble with vi, I do however, remember when I took a free elective back in '99 (unix system V) we played with vi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
process stopped
Hi everyone, I'm trying to pinpoint what made my clamav process crap out last night, I see in the paniclog that when it failed. My two questions are Why did it fail , and can I be alerted to such a failure, we did not receive outside mail from last night till this morning when I came in (needless to say people were less than thrilled) Here's the entry from the panic log; 2006-10-23 18:15:53 getsockname() failed: Connection reset by peer 2006-10-23 18:15:53 daemon: fclose(smtp_out) failed: Broken pipe 2006-10-23 18:49:15 1Gc8V1-8X-Oe spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Operation timed out 2006-10-23 18:51:16 1Gc8V1-8X-Oe spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Operation timed out 2006-10-23 18:53:17 1Gc8V1-8X-Oe spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Operation timed out 2006-10-23 18:55:18 1Gc8V1-8X-Oe spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Operation timed out 2006-10-23 20:05:12 1Gc9gF-FN-Tw spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Operation timed out 2006-10-23 20:07:13 1Gc9gF-FN-Tw spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Operation timed out 2006-10-23 20:09:14 1Gc9gF-FN-Tw spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Operation timed out 2006-10-23 20:11:14 1Gc9gF-FN-Tw spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Operation timed out 2006-10-23 21:28:22 1GcB2U-Mk-R3 malware acl condition: clamd: unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd (Connection refused) 2006-10-23 21:28:43 1GcB5v-Mv-80 malware acl condition: clamd: unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd (Connection refused) Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samba install failing
Hi all I've been trying to install samba for 3 days no success, Freebsd 5.4 This is the error I get === Building for samba-3.0.23c_2,1 Using FLAGS = -O -pipe -D_SAMBA_BUILD_ -I/usr/ports/net/samba3/work/samba-3.0.23c/source/iniparser/src -Iinclude -I/usr/ports/net/samba3/work/samba-3.0.23c/source/include -I/usr/ports/net/samba3/work/samba-3.0.23c/source/tdb -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/ports/net/samba3/work/samba-3.0.23c/source -D_SAMBA_BUILD_ LIBS = -lcrypt -liconv LDSHFLAGS = -shared -L/usr/local/lib LDFLAGS = -L/usr/local/lib PIE_CFLAGS = -fPIE PIE_LDFLAGS = -pie Compiling sam/idmap_ad.c with -fPIC -DPIC sam/idmap_ad.c: In function `ad_idmap_check_attr_mapping': sam/idmap_ad.c:62: error: `LDAP_NO_MEMORY' undeclared (first use in this function) sam/idmap_ad.c:62: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once sam/idmap_ad.c:62: error: for each function it appears in.) *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net/samba3/work/samba-3.0.23c/source. *** Error code 1 And when I try to install it from sysinstall this is the error I get; │Add of package libiconv-1.9.2_1 aborted, error code 1 - │ │Please check the debug screen for more info. │ Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
